How do Indigenous rights work as advocacy tools for advancing environmental justice? The rights of Indigenous peoples are powerful policy, legal, and movement-building instruments for enacting environmental justice in conservation, food security and food sovereignty, environmental protection, climate change adaptation and mitigation, and sustainable development. At the same time, Indigenous peoples struggle against the nations, institutions, and industries that willfully defy or strategically exploit Indigenous rights. Rights are among the major policy and legal instruments Indigenous peoples use in pursuit of environmental justice. Students of environmentalism, conservation, sustainable development, sustainable systems, and environmental justice ought to have practical knowledge of the history, current practices, and future innovations int he field of Indigenous rights. They must understand the contextual differences in rights law and policy in different places, and the institutions through which rights claims can be articulated and enforced. The course will be taught as a legal, policy, and movement-building primer, including in depth study of the history of Indigenous rights, key rights laws and policies in use in different parts of the world, including through the United Nations, and innovations in rights methodology by Indigenous peoples, such as the rights of non-human entities.