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Indigenous issues tends to have a far-reaching significance; justice for indigenous claims involves a
questioning of the very constitution of the nation state and the legitimacy of state institutions and
measures. Are these institutions and measures - like current state law - to be seen as developed and
legitimised through the development of the sovereignty of the nation state? Or are they to be seen as
the outcome of a process where a state power has invaded and colonised indigenous peoples
homelands and undermined or abolished their original self-determination, their traditional systems of
law and socio-political systems? To what extent can colonisation give state powers certain rights vis-avis other rights indigenous people may claim?