I'm appending a list of some of the resources on the net relating to the Human Genome Diversity Project. Some of the resources are indigenous statements of various sorts, and others are statements by non-indigenous individuals and groups.

Some of the major statements I have seen (most of which are in the INDKNOW archives (http://www.twm.co.nz/indigen.html) and elsewhere on the Internet) are:

• Western Hemisphere Declaration
• Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women (signed by 118 indigenous groups from 27 countries)
• Mataatua Declaration (Treaty for a Lifeforms Patent-Free Pacific and Related Protocols)
• United Nations Development Programme Consultations on Traditional Knowledge in Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, Workshop Declarations
• World Council of Indigenous Peoples Resolution WCIP/VII/GUA/1993/2-A:
  Resolution on the Human Genome Diversity Project
• World Council of Indigenous Peoples Resolution WCIP/VII/GUA/1992/2-B:
  Resolution on the DNA Study

I believe there have been some other Southeast Asian indigenous resolutions, but I can't seem to find them.

The current issue (April 1996, No. 4) of the Utne Reader in the US has a section on "Bioprospecting or Biopiracy", with a con analysis of the HGDP and genetic patenting by Andrew Kimball (International Center for Technology Assessment, 310 D Street NE, Washington, DC 2002. Tel: (202) 547-9359. Fax: (202) 547-9429. Email: kay.icta@ix.netcom.com), and a pro defense by Henry Greely (Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5020. Tel: (650) 723-7518. Email: hgreely@leland.stanford.edu). There is also a review by Martin Khor of the Third World Network from Third World Resurgence #63: Bucking Biopiracy giving a thumbnail sketch of some of the international developments in the patenting of lifeforms and genes.

Some of the supporting statements and materials are:

• http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/41/024.html
  The Human Genome Diversity Project: Implications for Indigenous Peoples.
  By Debra Harry.

• http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/
  Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies
  371 Serra Mall (Gilbert 116), MC 5020, Stanford University
  Stanford, California, 94305-5020.
  Phone: (650) 723-7518
  Fax: (650) 725-8244
  Email: morrinst@stanford.edu

• http://www.stanford.edu/group/morrinst/hgdp/faq.html
  Frequently Asked Questions about the HGDP

• www.etcgroup.org/
  Action Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration
  (formerly RAFI, The Rural Advancement Fund International (RAFI))
  • The Gene Giants: Masters of the Universe? --
    The 1990s saw a swift and bold concentration of power in the life industry - a trend that accelerated in 1998 and shows no signs of abating in 1999, with the recent announcement that DuPont will pay $7.7 billion to acquire Pioneer Hi-Bred International, the world's largest seed company. A steadily shrinking number of corporate Gene Giants control expanding market share over agribusiness, food and pharmacy. These are the transnational enterprises that aim to manipulate, control, patent and profit from life. Market dominance combined with monopoly patents gives the Gene Giants unprecedented control over the products and processes of life -- the biological basis for commercial food, farming and health.
  • Patenting People -- Resources on the privatization of human genetic material, the Human Genome Diversity Project, and the U.S. government's role in patenting human cell lines.
  • Patents, Indigenous Peoples, and Human Genetic Diversity -- analysis of the draft proceedings of the second Human Genome Diversity Workshop (10/92) report and numerous concerns surrounding the Human Genome Diversity Project's plans to collect human DNA samples from indigenous communities around the world.

• http://www.organicconsumers.org/genome.html
  Patent Pending: THE RACE TO OWN DNA.
  Guaymi tribe was surprised to discover they were invented.
  By Philip L. Bereano.
  Washington Biotechnology Action Council (WASHBAC).
  This is Part II of in a series. Part I was titled, "Body and Soul: The Price of Biotech". Both are included at: cseserv.engr.scu.edu/NQuinn/ENGR019_301Winter2002/bereano1and2.pdf

• http://apollo.iwt.uni-bielefeld.de/~ml_robot/Scifraud-1996/1832.html
  Broad Coalition Challenges Patents on Life.
  MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
  (ethics.bsd.uchicago.edu/)

• http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/PG.html
  Bioethics and human population genetics research.
  Report of Subcommittee on Bioethics and Population Genetics,
  of the UNESCO International Bioethics Committee.
  Final version - 15 November, 1995. Eubio Ethics Institute
  (http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/index.html).

• http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/vol05/0512071e.html
  INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' CAUCUS: Earth Negotiations Bulletin
  5:12. Linkages, International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
  (http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/).

• South and Meso American Indian Rights Center (SAIIC)
  Box 28703, Oakland, CA 94604. Tel: (510) 834-4263. Fax: (510) 834-4264.
  Email: indian@igc.org;
  Home Page: saiic.nativeweb.org.

• http://www.ratical.org/co-globalize/WinonaLaDuke/Beijing95.html.html
  The Indigenous Women's Network
  Our Future, Our Responsibility
  Winona LaDuke

• http://www.ipcb.org/resolutions/htmls/dec_beijing.html
  Beijing Declaration of Indigenous Women

• UN Commission on Human Rights, Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Forty-fifth session, Agenda Item 14, Annex 1:
  E/CN.4/Sub.2/1993/29/Annex I, 23 August 1993. GE.93-85003
  (E). Discrimination Against Indigenous Peoples: Report of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations on its Eleventh Session. Draft Declaration as Agreed Upon by the Members of the Working Group at its Eleventh Session.
  Chairperson-Rapporteur: Ms. Erica-Irene A. Daes. See especially chapters 29 and 30.