Sovereignty

Argues that common law could help First Nations prove their title by showing occupation of the land when the Crown asserted sovereignty.

A look at the struggles to give meaning to section 35 of the Constitution Act regarding the affirmation and recognition of Indigenous people and their treaty rights.

Discusses how imposition of the Act's prohibitions and lack of cooperation by the Wildlife Service, affected the Band's plans for economic development.

Book review of: Our Box Was Full: An Ethnography for the Delgamuukw Plaintiffs by Richard Daly.

English Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska, 2002.

Award-winning documentary about Aboriginal rights and the response to the Australian Federal Government's Northern Territory Intervention which exerts compulsory control over 73 communities. Duration: 1:13:42. Accompanied by Study Guide

To accompany to award-winning film about violations of Aboriginal rights in Australia.

Canadian Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1998.

eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics. Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.

eTextbook is a multi-media resource developed in collaboration with Indigenous peoples from across Canada. Covers both historical and contemporary topics. Can be downloaded as iBook, ePub, or PDF.

Author speaks to both commercial and food fishers from the Ahousaht and Namgis First Nations to learn about their experience of the effect of the salmon farming industry.

An exploration of Seneca's battle to their assert sovereignty over their lands in the face of challenges, historically by progressive conservatism and now by modern environmentalism.

Comments on the stand-off involving Mohawk peoples, Quebec police and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Examines Aboriginal self-government and negotiating of agreements with the federal and provincial governments.

Argues that treaties are a fourth-world text, both promoting and negating sovereignty. To gain in the courts means the American legal system is recognized and ultimately pronounces decisions that effect the reality of Native Americans.

Submitted at the 46th Session of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, May 2-20, 2011.

Comparative History of Ideas Thesis (M.A.)--University of Washington, 2005

Examines issues of economic development and sovereignty within Native American tribes.

Discusses the challenges and solutions of implementing Indigenous education policy at the personal, interpersonal, and organizational levels.

Looks at the Lenape philosophy of sovereignty and land ownership during the colonial period, and discusses the diversity of principles regarding European and Indigenous perceptions of land use and governance. Access through table of contents.

Book review of: A People's Dream: Aboriginal Self-Government in Canada by Dan Russell.

Overview of course which focuses on issues around revival of northern cultures and languages. Discusses concepts of identity, culture and self-determination. Developed for class delivered by the University of the Arctic.

Theory and Policy Studies in Education Thesis (M.A.)--Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, 2011

Book review of: The Winter We Danced: Voices From the Past, the Future and the Idle No More Movement edited by The Kino-nda-niimi Collective, lead editors Niigaanwewidam James Sinclair, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Tanya Kappo, Wanda Nanibush and Hayden King.

Book review of Philosophy and Aboriginal Rights edited by Sandra Tomsons and Lorraine Mayer.

Explores the administration of President Johnson's Community Action Program (CAP) and how its philosophy served as the sign of things to come in terms of band or tribal self-determination.

Arts and Sciences Graduate School Thesis (Ph.D.)---Columbia University, 2001. Presents analytical review of artistic works including those of James Lavadour, Kay WalkingStick and Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie.

Leadership Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Gonzaga University, 2008.

Article considers the online platform used in the game Kisima Inŋitchuŋa (Never Alone) as a “place” where people gather and examines the ways that Inuit culture, values and sovereignty are taught and engaged with in those spaces.

Literary criticism article in which the author examines the Silko’s novel and its relevance to Laguna narratives of land, territory, resistance, and cultural survivance.

Details the ways that Canadian and United States governments used boarder surveillance, extradition, and deprivation (of access to family and home communities; of intergenerational material wealth) to police interracial unions, adultery/non-marital cohabitation, bigamy, polygamy, divorce, illegitimate children, child stealing, and abortion, and other acts deemed sexually deviant.

Contends that the changing climate is impacting more than the natural environment, it is also effecting change in political relations.

International Affairs Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1999.

Article briefly discusses the policy of legal and geographical separatism in the evolution of cross-cultural relations in the United States.

Discusses Sami rights to land and water in Norway.

Book review of: Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples edited by Duncan Iveson, Paul Patton and Will Sanders.

Law Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Ottawa, 2015.

Presents two case studies illustrating identity politics in which Aboriginal Tasmanians are routinely immersed and then explains why and how the politics have developed. Excerpt from Disability Studies & Indigenous Studies. Entire book on one pdf. To access paper, scroll to p. 31.

Paper presented at the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Adelaide, September 29 - October 1, 2004.

Discusses the Agreement-in-Principle that the Quebec and Canadian governments have with four Innu communities in the Lac Saint-Jean and North Shore areas in 2003.

Looks at the connection between images and stories in the documentary and exposes the politics associated with American Indian filmmaking. Entire issue on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 49.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2006.

Political and Social Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--New School for Social Research, 2001.

Looks at political practice inside and outside the American context.

Art History Thesis (M.A.)--Concordia University, 2010.

Looks at a new political perspective on Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations and the impact of Inglehart's postmaterialist theory on attitudes towards Aboriginal people.