Sovereignty

Comments on a collection of essays that address topics from general economic development to labour and tax law.

Book review of: From Far and Wide by Peter Pigott.

Describes the mechanisms employed by the United States Government to gradually subdue Native tribes and nations.

Analyzes a selection of images for messages about the sovereignty of Indian people and interactions with European American culture.

Looks closely at the word land and the multiple social and geopolitical meanings that go with it.

Reports on the historical evolution of the "sovereignty" process in North America. To access this article scroll down to page 21.

Argues that Canada needs to adopt an understanding that legitimacy flows out of resolving issues with First Nations in a just manner.

Examines the influence of four Native American women academics on the authors personal journey as an indigenous feminist.

Examines how the media perpetuates stereotypes and inaccurate generalizations about Indigenous peoples such as the misrepresentation of racist sports mascots and related imagery; and looks at the discourses of Savagism with regard to news coverage of anticolonial direct action and the reclamation of land by sovereign Indigenous peoples and nations.

Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2004.

Explains the First Nation Land Management Act and the benefits and drawbacks.

Gambling, gaming, and economic development on First Nations reserves.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Riverside, 2003.

Educational Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of British Columbia, 2017.

Discusses the housing needs of urban Aboriginal peoples and how this issue relates to unemployment, poverty, and child-rearing challenges, often faced by single parent households.

Examines changes in 1983 and 1985 constituencies and legislative amendments reversing the consolidated Indian Act of 1876.

Signed agreement between Pacific island nation of Samoa and the University of California, will split equally revenues from potential prostratin-based drugs, extracted from the mamala tree bark. Samoan healers were the first to recognize the trees medicinal potential.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Toronto, 1991. "The inherent and unextinguished nature of self government among the Nawash Band is demonstrated through examining the events of the author's ancestors and community in their interactions with foreign settlers."

Discusses Cheyenne cooperation with the United States Military following the Battle of Little Big Horn.

Article provides a comparative analysis of guidelines from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States for research involving Indigenous peoples. Identifies areas that need attention, support Indigenous-led governance, and advocates for research policy framework for genomic research and health care that has international relevance for Indigenous peoples.

Geography and Regional Development Thesis (M.A.)--University of Arizona, 1993.

Looks at the role space related issues play in land claims and sovereignty. Suggests topics for future research. Scroll down to page 262 to read article.

Book review of: George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843-1920 by Mary Jane Warde.

George Erasmus, President of the Dêne Nation, stresses the importance of having a proud and sovereign native society. Duration: 9:48.

Looks at the life of Indigenous reformer Gertrude Bonnin and her fight to move Indigenous Americans away from a tribal orientation towards a more pan-Indian culture through education.

Discusses the process of developing and implementing a justice programme tailored to Stó:lō communities and culture.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2017.

Author's opinion on the Aboriginal treaty model in British Columbia.

Highlights the programming developed in the 1990s. Created for the 25th Anniversary of the Aboriginal Film and Video Art Alliance. Duration: 15:46.

Discusses violence against Indigenous women resulting from global economic restructuring based on two cases: missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada, and the death of Private Piestewa, a Hopi woman.

Looks at the colonial history of New Zealand and compares it with what happened in the United States.

Sets out context for Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS) movements, and gives survey of networks and their foundational principles, such OCAP and the Māori principles of rangatiratanga, manaakitanga, and kaitiakitanga. Chapter two of Good Data edited by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann. Scroll to p. 26 to read paper.

Environment Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Manitoba, 2015.

Summarizes issues most problematic with territories of the Amazonian Indigenous peoples in the Andean area. To access this article, scroll to page 8.

Examines the narrow interpretation in this jurisdiction of "reserve lands" under the Indian Act and how this has stymied self-government.

Looks at the attempts by Six Nations' leader Deskahed to establish international recognition for his nation and its connection to the Grand River Cayuga treaty case.

Looks at the movement that began in opposition to federal Canadian policies. Senior Honors Thesis towards International Studies (B.A.)--University of Utah, 2014.

Using the Ojibway Grassy Narrows reservation in Ontario to analyze the negative socioeconomic impact of a lack of Indigenous autonomy and control over their own land and resources.

Examines the trial transcripts, not for guilt or innocence, but within the context of Métis sovereignty.

Suggests that the situation in the province, where both Quebecers and the First Nations/Inuit were declaring the right to self-determination, has parallels to other ethnic nationalisms.

Explores different ways that Indigenous relationships to land and place have been disrupted by settler-colonialism; offers suggestions for disrupting and unsettling neocolonial and neoliberal frameworks surrounding land and place.

Discussion about band Gyibaaw’s song "Gyitwaalkt", which expresses “warrior-ness” through traditional language, instrumention and heavy reverb, and the ‘audiopolitics’ of the genres of metal and black metal. Audio File.

Historical review of the Iroquois and the continuing dispute over inherent sovereign rights from the signing, in 1784, up to the appeal at the United Nations in 1945.

Hauptman responds to the article "Progressive-Era Bureaucrats and the Unity of Twentieth-Century Indian Policy" offering a critical perspective on the article and arguing that it creates a new framework for considering the policies of Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 20th century.

Looks at the different ways the Conservative Government and First Nations' plan to reform the Indian Act and the possible effects on the status of First Nations.

Using a legal perspective to discuss whether the constitutionalization of Indigenous and treaty rights has made a difference.