Sovereignty

Comments on Ola's life and activist work to preserve a sacred place.

Study traces the symbols, perceptions, and experiences that guided the tribe in its attempt to maintain cultural identity from 1855 to the present.

Looks at the occupation of Wounded Knee and the struggle of the Oglala Lakota people.

Discusses cases from Calder to Sparrow, but suggests that Van der Peet is a step backwards in the fight for the right to self government.

Examines the issues and argues that Indigenous peoples must reclaim indigenous legal traditions from the State.

[History and American Indian Studies] Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 2012.

Discusses the Ndé creation story as it relates to current human rights and defence and protection of territory.

Author combines academic theory and personal experience at the Oceti Sakowin, Standing Rock water protectors' camp to discuss the phenomenon of protest camps and their social, political and educational characteristics.

Film about Conferences on the Constitutional Rights of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada. Duration: 57:18

Film about the 1980s Canadian constitutional negotiations and self-government. Duration: 50:08.

Discusses the ways in which data collected about criminal justice and legal services interacts with the Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA) and how that affects notions of tribal sovereignty.

Discussion on the performance-based budgeting process for tribal administration and program service delivery that focuses on strategic planning. Duration: 23:19. Includes textual transcript. Requires creation of a free account to access materials.

Discusses issues surrounding the establishment of sovereignty beginning at First Nation community level.

Discussion of the controversy surrounding the identity of artist Jimmie Durham and the exhibition Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World. Durham's claims to having Cherokee ancestry are denied by the Cherokee Nation. Author argues that by displaying Durham's works the art establishment may be seen to be substantiating his claims and invalidating tribes' sovereignty over citizenship.

Describes the land-based university program and its role in resisting settler colonial capitalism, particularly the oil-based extractive resource economy that has defined the relationship between the Dene and the Canadian nation state.

Overview of the movement and the historical background to the Crown-First Nation relationship.

Editorial introduction to issue focusing on Palestine and decolonization.

Analyzes proposals regarding self-government in the Charlottetown Accord, and asses the impact of the defeat of the accord on future relations between aboriginal peoples and the Canadian state.

Explores the question of multinational forms of citizenship using two perspectives, one of shared identity and one of getting on with business.

Article highlights trends in Australian archaeology, focusing on how language is used to disempower Indigenous Australians, Indigenous cultural sovereignty and the results of treating research as shared property.

Author questions whether tribal government should prosecute crimes committed against Native American women and girls rather than a foreign government.

Analysis of the Choctaw, who live in the southeastern Oklahoma timber region, and how they survive in the face of land alienation and economic challenges to their traditional strategies, in order to maintain a livelihood.

Forestry Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of British Columbia, 2014.

Looks at the intellectual, structural and political attributes of the British Columbia Treaty Commission (BCTC) process in order to see why it failed. Provides recommendations for future collaboration between governments and Indigenous Nations. Paper from Indigenous Peoples in the International Sphere.

Explore Vizenor’s use of devices such as humour, code-switching, and subversion of the English language to undermine Eurocentric narratives and create agency for the characters in his writing.

Book review of: Defending the Land by Ronald Niezen.

Book review of: Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe's Struggle for Sovereignty in Three Centuries by Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg.

Concern that pipeline could affect "ownership, jurisdiction, and sovereignty" over land and resources.

Law and Justice Thesis (LL.D.)--Southern Cross University, 2009.

Sociology and Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--Simon Fraser University, 1994.

Discusses the meaning of the terms "sovereignty" and "self-determination", and the history of government/aboriginal interactions.

General discussion of consultation and consent, and analysis of recent legal cases which illustrate how Indigenous peoples in Alberta have been excluded from decision-making involving the oil industry.

Analyzes Bill C-92 and its relationship between Indigenous self-determination regarding labour relations in Indigenous-run workplaces.

Compares and contrasts two attitudes toward Aboriginal rights: those of the Supreme Court of Canada and those expressed by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. Text in French with English abstract.

Discusses a framework for capacity building including principles and recommendations relating to human resource development, data management, accountability, and institutional development.

Outlines the five articles in this issue written by scholars working on the implementation of UNDRIP.

Article discusses the Carnegie English literacy program, the figures involved, its assimilative goals, and the way that the project interacted with the socio-political climate of the time.

Radio, Television, and Film Thesis (Ph.D.)--Northwestern University, 1985.

Sociology Thesis (M.A.)--Vanderbilt University, 2006.

Looks at Ngarrindjerri Nation history and their relationship with the Australian government for control.

Article follows up on a small ethnographic survey conducted in 2011-2012; examines the ideas of cultural citizenship and social mobility as they are expressed by students from Greenland who are studying in Denmark.

Focuses on two approaches to Aboriginal property rights and governance rights; conclusions are similar in relation to property and diverge regarding governance.

Argues that Indigenous people have not benefited from prosperity in Australia although they are considered "citizens".

Discussion of international legal principle created and justified by ideas of European superiority; doctrine provided newly arrived Europeans with automatic property rights and entitled them to exercise governmental, political, and commercial power over the original inhabitants. Panel discussion at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's closing events. Duration: 1:03:21.

Looks to identify potential problems to Taiwan's implementation of Aboriginal self-government agreements based on the Canadian example, as well as to propose policy recommendations on what direction relevant legislation should take.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan, 2007.

Introduction and two documents related to the signing of the Agreement-In-Principal between the Déne and Métis of the North West Territories and Government of Canada resolving a land claim of the Native people.