Sovereignty

Native American Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Montana State University, 2009.

Discusses the changing power relationships between Indian tribes from before European contact to the present. Scroll down to access article.

History Thesis (M.A.)--California State University Dominguez Hills, 1989.

Book review of: The Power of Promises edited by Alexandra Harmon. Scroll down to page 133 to read review.

Geography Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia,1992.

Environmental Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2018.

Describes report by Federation of Saskatchewan Indian's on Indian government.

Report delves into the specific issues that need to be addressed before a complete assumption of self-government is undertaken.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--McGill University, 1997.

"This article shows that Ridge's Socrates articles provided a public venue in which to define relationships among the Cherokees, the states, and the federal government".

An experimental video/art poem and accompanying text that examines issues including land rights, resource extraction, environmentalism, the Occupy Movement and the activism of Indigenous peoples.

Introduction to the special issue on federal recognition for California Indigenous groups.

Introduction to articles in special edition.

Overview of the autonomous system in Nicaragua after twenty-five years.

Some of issues discussed are women's rights and circumstances, resource extraction, lack of legal-political structures for self-determination and Sweden's Race Biology and eugenics programs.

Transcripts of conference keynote addresses, workshops and panel discussions.

Native Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

Study involved 6,657 children from 238 First Nations in Canada.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alberta, 1999.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--The University of British Columbia, 2006.

Discusses the doctrine of cultural continuity in relation to rights, the framework of residual sovereignty, and the application of a more generous application of the reconciliation doctrine.

Focuses on how anthropologists can best represent First Nations given the experience of the Delgamuukw court case.

Discusses how expert testimony influenced litigation in the outcome of the Benoit v. R. case about Treaty rights and taxation.

Focuses on the areas of education and child protection services, questioning whether or not self-administration is a step towards self-government.

Discusses regional participation in mainland Arctic Norway .

Discusses food sovereignty and Indigenous ways of knowing with an eye to the conflict between promoting knowledge for the sake of resurgence and running the risk of subjecting knowledges, resources and communities to exploitation, criminalization and over-harvesting.

Author examines and advocates for the inclusion of Indigenous values and Indigenous Ecological Knowledge (IEK), as part of the consultation process when governments, and communities are considering development and co-management projects

Law Thesis (LL.M)--The University of British Columbia, 1997.

Article from 1993 Conference proceedings, discussing constitutional division of powers in justice and the potential for reforming justice in relation to Aboriginal Peoples, the Provincial position on Aboriginal justice reform and self-government. Excerpt from Continuing Poundmaker & Riel's Quest: Presentations Made at a Conference on Aboriginal Peoples and Justice compiled by Richard Gosse, James Youngblood Henderson, Roger Carter.

Article discusses the actions and policies of the United States government during the Bush presidency. Argues that actions like renaming the "Custer Battlefield National Monument" the “Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument,” and policies that supported the resolution of land claims and increased sovereignty of Native Americans indicate a more moderate policy than previous administrations.

Paper given at the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists 30th Congress held in Cairns, Queensland, May 1994. Discusses the issue of dispossession,

Draft document released at the 2011 Assembly of First Nations (AFN) General Assembly. The goal is for First Nations to drive the change for self-determination, by working towards a methodical and clear plan away from the Indian Act.

Looks at the Greenland Self-Government Act which is an extension of the Home Rule Act

Authors articulate the relationship between Indigenous resistance to state appropriation of lands and anti-Indigenous violence enacted by the public.

Looks at the sermon delivered at the execution of Moses Paul. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 26.

Discusses implications for contemporary agreements and relationships between First Nations and federal/provincial governments, should Quebec separate from Canada.

Book review of: Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century by Fay A. Yarbrough.

Uses Herbert Blumer's interactionist perspective to analyze contemporary race relations.

Studies links between racial discrimination and substance abuse finding that over 80% of Canadian Aboriginal adults had experienced recent racial discrimination.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2009.

Examines the applicability of the term "internal colonialism" to Canada's northern territories.

Discusses various Indigenizing approaches to research including concepts of actualizing, regeneration of cultures and communities, and sustainable self-determination.

Book review of: Re-creating the Circle edited by LaDonna Harris, Stephen M. Sachs, and Barbara Morris.

Focuses on Canada's and First Nations' claims to territory in British Columbia.

An examination of the short story written in 1925 and how the author uses the medium to shine light on sexual violence perpetrated against Cherokee women and to advocate sovereignty by challenging the U.S. allotment process.

Uses the writings of historical Hawaiian leaders to analyze how they embraced their blackness to challenge settler-colonial ideology that their perceived blackness made them unfit for sovereignty. Maoli literature used includes: Prince Alexander Liholiho, Samuel Kamakau, King Kalakaua, and Queen Lili‘uokalani.

American Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2010.

Examines the historical events of the 1920s, the League of Nations and the development of the international society of states as it relates to the Indigenous peoples of North America.

Describes historical evolution of aboriginal title via provincial and federal policies and the impacts on current political environments. Indigenous Governance Project towards (M.A.)--University of Victoria, 2008?.