Sovereignty

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

Looks at the steps in the process of revitalizing peacemaking.

An analysis of the implementation of US federal aid policies and how their distribution created a larger economic divide for Indigenous citizens against non-Indigenous ones. Very little funds make it to the Indigenous people or were used to promote private-sector activities.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--University of British Columbia, 1991.

Author describes some negotiation and conflict that was, for the Southern Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples, a part of the transition from traditional hereditary leadership and governance systems to Western, elected systems of governance.

English Thesis (M.A.)--McGill University, 1984.

History Thesis (M.A.)--The University of Manitoba, 2000.

Identifies three dimensions of Indigenous political economies (polity size, polity structure, landscape management practices) as important elements in colonial research.

Author challenges the idea that the colonial link between Indigenous peoples and the Canadian state can be changed through politics of recognition. Uses Frantz Fanon's analysis of Hegel's master-slave discussion.

Political Science Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Victoria, 2009.

Provides an Aboriginal perspective on citizenship in the context of Treaty in Canada.

Purpose was to align findings found in report to the framework document First Nations Control over First Nations Education.

Study examines the potential for using opt-in internet surveys as means to study the political attitudes and behaviors of Indigenous people in the United States.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Ottawa, 1995.

Book review of Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story edited by Lisa King, Rose Gubele, and Joyce Rain.

Matika Wilbur explores contemporary Native identity through her photographs and stories from Project 562 documenting Native America. Duration: 18:10.

Compares the apologies made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Prime Minister Stephen Harper to the "stolen generation" of Indigenous children.

Study looked at the experiences and attitudes of six non-Indigenous South Australian Government employees responsible for natural resource management.

Book review of: Take My Land, Take My Life: The Story of Congress's Historic Settlement of Alaska Native Land Claims, 1960-1971 by Donald Craig Mitchell

Discussion of the balance between governing and constitutional acceptance of self-government rights.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Michigan, 2011.

Article presents the background, content and findings of the digital history project, Chicana/o Activism in the Southern Plains through Time and Space, revealing the Chicana/o Movement to be a decentralized patchwork of local movements that included the Southern Plains, and that emerged in multiple regions across the USA forming a national social justice movement.

Discusses getting constitutional changes by using indirect approaches.

Explains the art of negotiating.

Author examines the way that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) managed the clean-up of mining pollution on Quapaw land at the Tar Creek mine site; outlines frameworks of historic case law and contemporary sovereignty agreements, critically analyses the EPA’s process and its failure to recognize Quapaw sovereignty and self-determination within these contexts.

Uses the Sleeping Buffalo and Medicine Rock site as an example to talk about Assiniboine peoples’ ongoing relationship to sacred places and how ongoing connection to spaces has helped Indigenous peoples retain Indigenous knowledges and way of knowing despite colonization, settlement, national borders, residential schools, and reservation systems.

Comments on the conflicts arising from State and Tribal government's encroachment on each others jurisdiction.

Article describes a Māori-led, four-year research project which focused on identifying and addressing iwi (tribal) data needs of the Rangitīkei Iwi Collective, and on establishing a framework for iwi data sovereignty.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--The University of British Columbia, 1988.

Looks at three projects which were designed to build capacity with students enrolled in Native American and Indigenous Studies courses and to promote tribal sovereignty.

[Social Transformation?] Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 2015.

English & Cultural Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2010.

Contends that media uses a culturally specific framework when discussing issues of indigenous rights, limiting their ability to provide balanced, informative coverage.

First person account of journalist's time in prison observing torture against other prisoners. To access this article scroll down to page 26.

An examination of opposition to the Nixon administration's creation of councils as a means to decentralize government support. Most tribal governments and national organizations resisted the use of these councils because they were implemented without consultation, the possibility that states would have control over decision-making and fears about termination of tribal status.

Law Thesis (D.Jur.)--York University, 1981.

Authors deconstruct the language and concepts of sovereignty and territory, and re-examine the relationship between the two. They advocate shifting away from contemporary models of “sovereignty over a territory” and towards an approach in which the practice of sovereignty is rooted in a particular territory, its peoples and communities.

Looks at the interpretation of territoriality, state assimilation of the Sami, and the increase of state regulation in herding.

English Thesis (D.A.)--St. John's University at New York, 2002.

Uses writings of Alfred to explore the idea of Aboriginal literature in relation to Aboriginal nationalism.

Book review of: That Dream Shall Have a Name by David L. Moore.

Author reflects on the aftermath of events in Kanehsatà:ke (Oka crisis) and the reasons why Mohawak people took action.

Contends that two theorists either "devalue Aboriginal claims to sovereignty or title as claims to cultural difference or misread the crucial judicial pronouncements on which they rely", thereby undermining the difference theory. Scroll down to page 35 to read article.

Discusses concepts of citizenship in the context of colonization and Indigenous peoples and proposes a unique framework at both local and global levels is required.

Viewpoint of the author regarding Treaty Rights. Article located by scrolling to page 5.

Discusses how patron-client relations over rations and governance were used as vehicles for Aboriginal power.

Book review of: The Third Space of Sovereignty: The Postcolonial Politics of U.S.-Indigenous Relations by Kevin Bruyneel. Entire issue on one pdf. To access review, scroll to page 111.

Book review of: This Indian Country by Frederick Hoxie. Review located by scrolling to page 242.

Philosophy Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University, 1997.