Sovereignty

Argues that First Nations' sovereignty is based on two principles: reserve land and treaties.

Research project sought to comprehend the Ardoch Algonquin First Nation's (AAFN) traditional spiritual ecology and compare it to Ontario government resource development strategy.

Presents a forward looking analysis of governmental structures of Nunavut, the motivation behind its establishment, and the challenges and dilemmas expected to emerge.

Author explores the meanings that are made by the La Paz Run, an annual commemoration of the hundreds of Hualapais who, in 1875, broke out of an internment camp in Southern Arizona and followed the Colorado River for almost 200 miles back to their reservation at the edge of the Grand Canyon.

Looks at the level of "civilization" the Cherokee nation had acheived compared to that of other native American societies including the Lakota.

Delivers a background on the Zapatista uprising in Mexico and the political initiatives introduced to solve the situation. To access this article scroll down to page 60.

Book review of, Awakening Siberia. From Marginalization to Self-Determination: The Small Indigenous Nations of Northern Russia on the Eve of the Millennuim by Lennard Sillanpää.

History of American Civilization Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2004.

Shift in the pursuit of Treaty rights from constitutional to legislative.

Sums up the liquidation of reservation resources and argues that, for the Colville Confederated Tribes, sovereignty is the only path to follow.

Website includes resources, information, publications and reports on issues that are integral to modern treaty making in British Columbia. Includes Aboriginal rights, self government, land and resources, fishing, forestry and financial.

Discusses Aboriginal self-government, the most controversial issue in the proposals.

Book review of: Becoming Visible edited by Terje Brantenberg, Janne Hansen and Henry Minde.

Keynote address on struggles for self determination from an Indigenous perspective.

Author offers a critical perspective on the perspectives in discussion papers being released by municipal government agencies in response to reserves being created within and adjacent to urban centers; argues that many of the perspective within these documents reinforce settler colonialism and ignore Indigenous sovereignty.

Author explores the consequences of imaging the nation in a fantasy way by reading the formative Australian cases through which Native jurisprudence developed in Australia.

Developed to address practices which result in omission, misclassification and inconsistencies in collection methods used by agencies and levels of government.

Practices based on experiences shared by First Nations leaders and managers, lawyers specializing in Indigenous law, and previous reports. Primary focus is British Columbia, but information generally applies across Canada. Updated version of Best Practices for Consultation and Accommodation by MNP.

Discusses the connection between the Chickasaw people's relationship with water and efforts at resource management and themes in the novels Mean Spirit, Power, Solar Storms, and People of the Whale.

Discusses complicated and shifting relationships between museums and Indigenous peoples, highlights the contradictory roles museums play, and looks at exhibitions in public galleries of Royal British Columbia Museum, Museum of Anthropology, Museum of Vancouver which show the changing nature of the relationship.

Interview with a political activist who was behind the barricades at Kanesatake.

Book review of: Beyond Red Power edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler.

Discusses the establishment of a Northern Cheyenne Reservation and the tribe's adaptation that enhanced their security and self government.

Tanya Talaga, prize-winning journalist and author of Seven Fallen Feathers delivers the the second of the 2018 Massey Lectures in Halifax. Talaga's second lecture focuses on the effects for Indigenous peoples of displacement from their traditional territories and of ongoing contemporary extractive resource economies. Duration: 53:59

Tells part of the story of the landmark Supreme Court case United States, as Guardian of the Hualapai Indians of Arizona v. Santa Fe Pacific Railroad Co. (1941) and looks closely at a brief period in Mahone’s life, one in which he went from student to soldier to activist.

Discusses the Bradley Bill as it relates to the Black Hills land dispute between the United States government and the Sioux Nation.

Uses content analysis of more than a thousand articles focused on environmental issues from four tribal newspapers in Wisconsin, interviews with Native American journalists, and discussions with focus group to analyze the themes and values attached to sovereignty.

Looks at the newspaper The Indian Chieftain's role in the formation of Native American identity.

Delves into the protest by Elijah Harper to block the progress of the Meech Lake accord in the Manitoba legislature and the protest by the Mohawk Warrior Society at Oka, Quebec to stop development of a golf course.

Book review of: Blockades or Breakthroughs? Aboriginal Peoples Confront the Canadian State edited by Yale D. Belanger and P. Whitney Lackenbauer. Entire book review section on one pdf. To access this review scroll to p. 165.

Book review of: Studying Native America: Problems and Prospects edited by Russell Thornton.

Book review of: Aboriginal Societies and the Common Law: A History of Sovereignty, Status and Self-Determination by Paul G. McHugh.

Book review of: High Stakes by Jessica R. Cattlino.

Book review of: Indigenous Peoples edited by Henry Minde in collaboration with Harald Gaski, Svein Jentoft, and Georges Midre.

Book reviews of: The Erotics of Sovereignty: Queer Native Writing in the Era of Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin. Spaces between Us: Queer Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Decolonization by Scott Morgensen. Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Literature and Queer Reading by Martin Joseph Ponce.

Book reviews of: Red Ink: Native Americans Picking up the Pen in the Colonial Period by Drew Lopenzina. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism by Jodi A. Byrd. On Records: Delaware Indians, Colonists, and the Media of History and Memory Andrew Newman. Trans-Indigenous: Methodologies for Global Native Literary Studies by Chadwick Allen.

Book review of 10 books: Indians Are Us: Culture and Genocide in Native North America by Ward Churchill. Thresholds of Differences: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberly. Nation to Nation: Aboriginal Sovereignty and the Future of Canada edited by Diane Englestad and John Bird. Arctic Dreams and Nightmares by Alootook Ipellie. The Porcupine Hunter and Other Stories: The Original Tsimshian Texts of Henry Tate by Ralph Maud. Ethnophilosophical and Ethnolinguistic Perspectives on the Huron Soul by Michael Pomedli.

Review of: Never Without Consent: James Bay Cree's Stand Against Forcible Inclusion Into an Independent Quebec by the Grand Council of Crees (Eeyou Astchee).

Looks at the problem of free movement over international borders for Indigenous nations of North America.

Examines the genocidal mentality of the settler population and argues that if the current status quo remains we will continue down a deadly course.

Provides the historical background and impact of the Constitution Express. The author was an organizer and key strategist in the movement

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Northern British Columbia, 2010.

Discusses a unique governance system and challenges facing tribal governments and communities. Duration: 41:32. Includes textual transcript. Requires creation of a free account to access materials.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Tromsø, 2008. Sami.

Applied Cultural Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--University of Alaska Anchorage, 2005.

Discusses U.S.Government draft policies during World War II and the response of Commissioner Indian Affairs, John Collier, and Native American tribes. Issues included wardship versus citizenship and tribal sovereignty.

Discusses the student-curated exhibition Nuxalk Radio: One Nation, Many Voices and the role that the Indigenous-led, non-commercial radio station plays in promoting language, culture and sovereignty.

Looks at conflicts over land owned by the Haudenosaunee and the backgrounds of John Brant and Robert Johnson Keer as negotiators for the Grand River Six Nations.