Political Process

Coverage includes historical and contemporary leaders, governance, and political activism in Canada, the United States, Circumpolar region, Australia and New Zealand.

Discusses political conditions inherited by Indigenous people and the interpretive gap by Euro-Canadian society in their history.

Editors of the special issue, Native American Narratives in a Global Context, introduce the issue and discuss the movement towards international Indigenous solidarity.

Examines the interactions between coastal Aboriginal nations in British Columbia, Canada and the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) around the West Coast herring fishery as a site cultural resurgence, nationhood, solidarity, and Indigenous sovereignty.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--Queen's University, 2012.

Geography Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Nebraska - Lincoln, 1997.

International Relations Thesis (Masters)--University of Tampere, 2014.

Analyzes Swedish policy and concludes that right to self-government is necessary to break away from the legacy of colonialism.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2013.

Book review of, Indigenous Peoples: Self-Determination, Knowledge, Indigeneity edited by Henry Minde in collaboration with Harald Gaski, Svien Jentoft and Georges Midre.

Contends there were unequal communication opportunities for Sami voters depending on language and geography.

Discussion of the protests in Québec City, at the second Peoples Summit, against the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA).

Modern Languages for Communication and International Cooperation Thesis (M.A.)--Università degli Studi di Padova, [2018]

Argues that Indigenous participation and consent are proceedures and objectives that promote human development.

Describes why indigenous self-determination, now accepted at both the national and international level, are hard rights to exercise due to the fact that they are not expressed in any specific institutional arrangement. *Research paper from Comparative Research in Law & Political Economy.

Discusses process of establishing the United Nations forum, with particular emphasis on the role of Indigenous peoples.

Looks at urbanization as a strategy to create a more self-determined Greenland with fewer ties to Denmark. To access this article, scroll down to page 26.

Discusses start of forestry reform process and the successful lobbying by Indigenous groups, civil society organizations and international partners.

Explores the terms of individualism and collectivism as they relate to First Nations people.

Reports on the fact that Indigenous political participation is territorially defined in Canada but is not in Norway, therefore representation can be diluted.

Discusses a Canadian case study that looks at the importance of judicial factors to the Indigenous land claims policy process and the uncertainty of government negotiating behaviour.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Ottawa, 1963.

Historical background, submissions and recommendations from Indian Claims Commission (ICC) hearing to determine if surrender was valid, complied with the provisions of the Indian Act and whether Canada's fiduciary obligations were met. ICC found that although the surrender was valid and unconditional, Canada had breached its pre-surrender fiduciary obligations in allowing it to take place. Commissioners include: P.E. James Prentice and Roger J. Augustine.

Historical background and submissions to Indian Claims Commission (ICC) regarding whether the surrender was valid; whether Canada breached its fiduciary obligations. ICC found the surrender valid; that Canada breached its fiduciary duties; and the claim be negotiated under the Specific Claims Policy. Commissioners include: Roger J. Austine and Daniel J. Bellegarde. [This file has been saved and made available online with permission from the Indian Claims Commission website before it closed down in March 2009.]

Historical background, submissions and recommendations from the Indian Claims Commission hearing to decide three issues: was lawful obligation breached in the allotment process for Aupe Indian Reserve 6 and 6A, did Canada have an obligation to obtain land requested by the Band in 1907 and did the Crown fail to protect settlement lands from a pre-emption claim. ICC found a loss to the Band of 9.62 acres and recommended that Aupe IR6 and IR6A claim be accepted under the Specific Claims Policy.

Discusses the impact of various legislation including the Jay Treaty of 1794, which assured border crossing rights, the 1891 Immigration Act deeming them neither USA nor Canadian citizens, and the Alien Registration Act of 1940 that classified First Nations as aliens.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Ottawa, 2009.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1997.

Excerpt of the declaration issued at the 5th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference which took place in Cancun, Mexico in September 2003. To access this article scroll down to page 39.

Authors examine disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies and agreements which include Indigenous peoples and communities in their planning processes. Article advocates for respecting Indigenous approaches, knowledges, and land use practices; accurate, appropriate, and ethical data collection.

Abbott interviews film producer and director Sandra Sunrising Osawa about her work and how it relates to her family's history, her identity and her sense of place, and the larger cultural survivance and resurgence movements.

Interview with former Prefect under the Carlos Mesa government. To access article, scroll down to page 70.

Interview with Dr. Nina Pacari Vega Conejo, first Indigenous woman Foreign Secretary of the Republic of Ecuador. To access this article, scroll down to page 32.

Introduction to this volume of the Native Studies Review, which focuses on research strategies that support Native rights and claims.

Article recounts the forced removal and executions of the Dakota Sioux following the “Sioux Uprising of 1862” and describes how those events are being commemorated through a memorial walk from the Lower Sioux Reservation on Minnesota to Fort Snelling in St. Paul, MN.

Short Introductory piece to the special issue which describes the editor’s experience following the release of the Call for Papers for an AIQ issue dedicated to the experience of Indigenous students, staff and faculty within the academic intuition.

Introduction to the articles in this specially themed issue.

Introduces this issue of the journal; stresses the issue’s focus on settler colonial discourses which racialize, regulate and dismiss Indigenous cultures, ontologies, social/spiritual practices, and bodies. Notes the resulting effect of dispossession and depoliticization of Indigenous peoples.

Introduction and document on meetings with the federal, provincial and territorial governments as well as representatives of Aboriginal peoples, to recognize and identify First Nations’ powers of self-government and to reach consensus on a set of constitutional amendments.

Introduction and document concerning a conference of Métis people to address deplorable conditions found in most Native communities.

Introduction and document concerning the draft declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples.

Introduction and five archival documents chronicle Chief Levi General's attempts to have his petition regarding Iroquois nationalism heard at the Assembly of the League of Nations, the predecessor to the United Nations.

Lengthy introductory editorial provides some preamble to the special issue on the activist work of Indigenous women in urban centers, and a lead-in for each of the articles contained therein.