The strongest cases for group rights are advanced by indigenous peoples since
Political Citizenship 27 sisin02.qxd 7/15/02 12:24 PM Page 27 they often form fundamentally different countercultures with at least some geographical
closure – American Indians, New Zealand Maori, Canadian Inuit, Nordic Sami, and Australian Aborigines (Havemann, 1999; Isin and Wood, 1999: 47–70).