Discusses priorities and challenges of tribal, state and local governments including exercising effective sovereignty and achieving nation-building goals.
Duration: 39:00.
Nine indicators used: recognition of land/title, self-government rights, cultural rights, and customary law, upholding historic treaties and/or signing new treaties, guarantees of representation/consultation in central government, affirmation of distinct status, support/ratification for international instruments, and affirmative action.
2nd edition.
Canadian Journal of Law and Society, vol. 25, no. 1, 2010, pp. 21-49
Description
Looks at various socially and culturally constructed categories of discrimination and demonstrates the need for courts to employ multidimensionality theory in cases of complex oppression.
Australasian Canadian Studies, vol. 27, no. 1-2, Globalising Indigeneity: New Research Directions, 2009, pp. 95-115
Description
Argues that one should view the genesis of the Plains Métis as part of a wider pattern of native ethnogeneses on the North American Great Plains.
Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 95.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, 2003, pp. 77-91
Description
Examines the fundamental role played by the Iroquois in the evolution of democracy in the USA and illustrates use of that knowledge by other countries.
Kansas Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 4, no. 2, Winter, 1994-1995, pp. 61-69
Description
Examines how the First Amendment of the United States Constitution has not been granted to Native religions in the U.S. and specifically looks at the Haskell Medicine Wheel in Kansas.
American Indian Law Review, vol. 12, no. 1, 1984, pp. 39-96
Description
Discusses the legal source and theoretical basis of the right of autonomy and whether this autonomy can be reconciled with the laws and institutions of the larger state.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 2, 1998, pp. 1-69
Description
Historical overview of sovereignty, self-determination and rights issues and suggests engaging in processes that will force acknowledgement by states of Indigenous rights.
Discusses how federal Indian law has developed in the United States from the arrival of Columbus through to the self-determination era of today, and looks at the future of the Indian tribes.