The usurping of traditional medicines and knowledge from indigenous peoples should be considered a crime against peoples. Material culture is being used by the non-Indigenous to gain access to our lands and resources, thus destroying our cultures. As creators and carriers of civilizations which have given and continue to share knowledge, experience, and values with humanity, we require that our right to intellectual and cultural properties be guaranteed and that the mechanism for each implementation be in favour of our peoples and studied in depth and implemented. [ This respect must include the right over genetic resources, gene banks, biotechnology, and knowledge of biodiversity programs.]***