Transcript ICIPN presentation,

ICIPN
International Council on
Indigenous Place Names
WHO ARE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES?
FACTSHEET:
http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/docum
ents/5session_factsheet1.pdf
First Founding Meeting of the
International Council on Indigenous
Place Names:
6 September 2010 at Sámi University
College, Guovdageaidnu, Norway
• The aims of ICIPN are the advancement,
representation, and co-ordination of
Indigenous place names on an
international level and in an
interdisciplinary context, and the
promotion of International conferences at
reasonable intervals.
• Whereas place names are an integral part
of Indigenous peoples’ cultural heritages,
the purpose for which the Council is
hereby established is to promote an
association of Indigenous communities
and scholars, both Indigenous and nonIndigenous, working with place names in
order to:
1. Promote recognition of Indigenous place names on the homelands of the
Indigenous communities;
2. Promote cooperation among Indigenous communities and State agencies that
have some degree of responsibility in maintaining data bases of names for
geographic features and/or cultural entities;
3. Make available Indigenous place names information to State agencies and
public and private enterprises (foreign and domestic), and the general public;
4. Provide a professional and educational forum at which members of the Council
and interested citizens may present research papers and/or workshops to learn
about the governing processes concerning geographic names and the naming
processes within their State;
5. Co-sponsor an Conference at which members of the Council may take
appropriate actions or make recommendations regarding purposes 1, 2, 3, and
4.
Membership of ICIPN
Membership of the organization shall
comprise people working with or for
Indigenous communities in regard to place
names who have paid the annual
membership fee. Both personal and
institutional members will be admitted.
Language challenges for ICIPN
• How many official languages?
• How to include indigenous languages?
• - in the 1. ICIPN conference Sámi
language as an official language
> Simultaneous interpretation
1. International Conference on
Indigenous Place Names
Exploring ways to reclaim cultural identity
through place names.
• Sámi allaskuvla / Sámi University College,
an Indigenous higher education institution
in Norway, hosted the first International
Conference on Indigenous Place Names
(ICIPN).
• first time Indigenous place names and
place naming was discussed from
multidisciplinary perspectives and with
presentations from various Indigenous
societies.
• The aim of the conference was to provide
a place for an emerging international
network of scholars and researchers
working to further the political recognition
of Indigenous place names to exchange
experiences with each other.
> Strengthening the network of scholars and
researchers will enhance the quality and
rigor of research on Indigenous place
names both culturally and politically.
Scientific program
divided
geographically,
not thematically:
Sámi
Arctic
Americas
Australia&Pacific
Africa
ICIPN 2010 delegates
• 85 delegates from
– Norway, Finland, Sweden, England, France,
Greenland, Russia, Canada, USA (Hawaii),
Guatemala, Peru, Zimbabwe, Tanzania,
South Africa, New Zealand, Australia
– Asia: 5 delegates from Bangladesh, Thailand
and India did not get Visa to Norway to
participate the conference
• delegates who could not participate
because of the financial reasons
• Organizers of the 1. ICIPN conference
searched financial support from many
sources to be able to invite scholars from
different indigenous areas
Including the local society to the ICIPN
conference
- School classes from the secondary school and
upper secondary school followed parts of the
ICIPN conference
- Journalist students of Sámi University College
made a bilingual conference newspaper after
the conference as their newspaper exercise
during the course of Indigenous journalism
> For local Sámi communitites,and also to ICIPN
participants, sponsors and to others with
interest of ICIPN
• Proceedings will be published in English,
and presentations held in Sámi language
can be published both in Sámi and
English.
• Publishing plans with RMIT Publishing,
based at RMIT University, Australia.
Next ICIPN conference
• 2013 in Canada
in the area of Haida Gwaii –people
in Skidegate, British Columbia
ICIPN 2013
Skidegate
British Columbia
Canada
North Pacific Ocean
Co-operation with UNGEGN
10. Working Group on the Promotion of
Recording and Use of Indigenous, Minority and
Regional Language Group Geographical Names
- mutual advance