Sovereignty

See: Chapter A-2 "COVID-19 and First Nations' Responses" by Aimée Craft, Deborah McGregor, and Jeffery Hewit. Chapter D-6 "Systemic Discrimination in Government Services and Programs and Its Impact on First Nations Peoples During the COVID-19 Pandemic" by Anne Levesque and Sophie Theriault.

Looks at how Anishinabe photography taken between 1917 and 1969 has complimented Anishinabe stories about history and has aided in decolonization

Discusses the economic history of Aboriginal people exchanging labour for compensation and the confusion it causes for the resolution of claims.

Discusses the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg's push for recognition of their traditional lands and treaty rights following the First World War in Eastern Canada through collaborations with Chief Richard and the Tuscaroras of New York.

Examines the occupation of Wound Knee to discuss the connection between Indigenous masculinity and nation building.

Discusses Ortiz’s essay in the context of contemporary concerns surrounding water and environmental damage as forms of oppression of marginalized peoples. Calls for Indigenous led resistance to government and corporate control, and for dismantling systemic factors of oppression which sacrifice peoples and lands in favour of neocolonial and corporate interests.

Discusses some of the sociopolitical issues and topics addressed in special issue including #NoDAPL, the cuts to the American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), water sovereignty, regulation and distribution, and extractive practices.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.) University of Oklahoma, 2019.

Book review of: We Are an Indian Nation by Jeffrey Shepherd.

Investigates the Red Power era in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s, which promoted Native sovereignty.

Discusses discrepancies between what had been promised in the agreement and what was later published by the Canadian government, and the government's actions after it was signed. Focuses on education, fishing, hunting, mineral, forestry, and wild plant rights, assistance for agriculture, and self-government.

Literary criticism essay that uses Hogan’s novel Solar Storms and the incidents Standing Rock, ND to illustrate a connection between the violence enacted on Indigenous bodies and the social discourses surrounding extractive resource practices. Argues that conscious storytelling could help to reshape the discourse surrounding trauma, the more than human community and environmental/climate justice.

Looks at the implementation of an Indigenous education program that reflects the needs of the community by focusing on four areas: life and environment, history, languages and mathematics. To access this article, scroll down to page 16.

Focuses on Standing Rock Sioux Water Protectors' fight against construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, United States v. Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, and the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska’s defense of Blackbird Bend.

Discusses the spiritual significance and history attached to the Black Hills.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2007.

Explores the intersection of political, legal and economic aspects in the context on Aboriginal-Crown relations.

Reports on the casualties from pro-independence demonstrations. To access this article scroll down to page 66.

Article draws on author’s work with youth who are learning new ways to practice Indigenous Ainu culture in an urban center in Japan; focuses on cultural practice and revitalization, decolonization and self-determination.

Integrated Studies Project towards (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2013.

Argues that colonial powers need to compensate Indigenous peoples for the wrongdoings of colonialism; that gestures of compensation “should be authentic and meaningful by emanating from and operating within the determination of the aggrieved Indigenous communities, and not of the colonial power.”

Looks at the reintroduction of a Cowichan traditional fishing weir, how this reintroduction is complimentary to western fishery systems, and how it's symbolic of the continuing fight for Indigenous sovereignty.

Examines First Nations peoples unique methods to preserve an Indigenous heritage site.

Article presents the results of a study conducted among Indigenous Academics relating to the ethnic/racial labels they preferred to use when describing their Indigeneity.

Book review of: When Did Indians Become Straight? by Mark Rifkin.

Article identifies and examines the social and geopolitical factors and questions which contribute to the prominence of the idea of an international Arctic governance treaty over time; author traces the evolution of the Arctic treaty debate from 1970 to the current moment.

Explores sites of conflict between environmentalists and Indigenous peoples that are created by the United States government’s designation of wilderness protection areas in areas that interfere with the treaty-protected harvesting rights of Indigenous peoples.

Author examines the multiple factors at play in defining the term indigeneity. Considers the right of people to self-identify, the legal implications and complications that result based on the definition, and the gap between the legal definition and the sociocultural practice thereof. Discuss both United States contexts and global ones.

History Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska at Kearney, 2007.

Author focuses on The Constitution of the White Earth Nation as a piece of influential native writing that advocates for a contemporary treatment of Indigenous nationhood and sovereignty movements.

Looks at Aboriginal property rights, Australian law and the Mabo case.

Book review of: The White Possessive by Aileen Moreton-Robinson.

Explores evidence that suggests that the Teme-Augama Anishnabai did not sign the Robinson Huron Treaty of 1850 and discusses the legal implications .

Nationalism Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Central European University, 2014.

Book review of: Who Owns Native Culture? by Michael F. Brown.

Examines the use of apologies, and truth and reconciliation commissions in four countries with significant indigenous populations: Canada, Australia, Peru, and Guatemala.

Contributors discuss the machinery of colonization and resistance movements, and comment on the possibility of reconciliation.

Law Thesis (M.LL.)--University of Victoria, 2018

Article extends Lorraine Brooke’s 1995 study of the James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (JBNQA) and its effectiveness in creating a wildlife co-management regime; concludes that little progress has been made since 1995, and the power relationships between Inuit and non-Inuit Government agencies remains problematic.

Journalism Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.

Discusses the orator's use of the theory that Native Americans were descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel, in arguments for rights and sovereignty, as well as to counteract the popular attitude that they were a "vanishing race". Entire article on one pdf. To access article, scroll to page 1.

Brief description of William Barak's life and leadership at the Coranderrk settlement and his efforts to preserve aspects of Aboriginal tradition in his art.