A draft programme of the International Conference on Policy towards Indigenous Peoples: Lessons to be learned

2-4 December 2017, Sapporo, Japan Organized by  the Organizing Committee: – Hiroshi Maruyama, Director, Centre for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies, Sapporo, Honorary Doctor and Guest Professor, The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden, Professor Emeritus, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan – Ryoko Tahara, Representative, Ainu Women’s Association, Sapporo, Japan  – Tomas Colbengtson, Artist, Lecturer, University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) , Stockholm, Sweden, Art Director of the Corresponding Workshop/Art Exhibition  – Leena Huss, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University, Sweden – Satu Gröndahl, Associate Professor, The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden – Kamrul Hossain, Director, The Northern Institute of Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland – Maile Taualii, PhD, MPH   Assistant Professor, Native Hawaiian & Indigenous Health   Office of Public Health Studies, Myron P Thompson School of Social Work   Hawaiinuiakea, School of Hawaiian Knowledge,    University of Hawai’i, Manoa, USA – Kunihiko Yoshida, Professor, Faculty of Law, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan – Anna Petrétei, Ph. D candidate, The Northern Institute of Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Rovaniemi, Finland – Andrew Schirmer, Researcher, Centre for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies – Masumi Tanaka, Researcher, Centre for Environmental and Minority Policy Studies Supported by

  Marie Persson Njajta, Human Rights Defender, Sami Parliament in Sweden           The Damming of A People: Indigenous Struggle against Past and Present Colonial Behavior, Mining and Exploitation; Striving for a Healthy Future