This article deals with the negative effects that international trade agreements have on the rights of indigenous people. Canada is used as an example of how indigenous rights that were originally allocated on the national level are now undermined by international laws. The new legal framework has been set up to reduce all barriers tor international investors and therefore increases the leverage of multinational companies over national governments. Under such circumstances the inherent rights of indigenous people are swept aside especially their claim for a sustainable use of their traditional territories and ressources. It will take the unified struggle of indigenous people to reverse the tide of trade liberalization and stop the constant undermining of national regulations by international trade agreements.
