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Realizing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Triumph, Hope, and Action is a collection of eleven essays on the United Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Contributors include Indigenous leaders, legal scholars and practitioners, state representatives, and representatives from NGOs, with extensive knowledge of and experience in Indigenous peoples' human rights law, policy, and practice. Of particular interest is the presentation by Kenneth Deer, Reflections on the Development, Adoption, and Implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. His history of the work on the Declaration is traced to the 1970s as he recounts his work as a participant in the process. Grand Chief Edward John comments on the importance of the Declaration to the First Nations in British Columbia in his paper, Survival, Dignity, and Well-Being: Implementing the Declaration in British Columbia. Wilton Littlechild offers his perspective on treaties in Consistent Advocacy: Treaty Rights and the UN Declaration. Lawyer Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond addresses the rights of Indigenous children in More than Words: Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Indigenous Children with International Human Rights Instruments. Romeo Saganash and Paul Joffe comment on the James Bay Cree Nation in The Significance of the UN Declaration to a Treaty Nation: A James Bay Cree Perspective. Phil Fontaine offers the foreword to this timely collection. The book contains detailed notes and an index.