Sovereignty

Article uses the traditional Sámi practice of reindeer husbandry to examine the ways that digital tracking technologies can be used to provide irrefutable evidence of land use, and to assert Indigenous claims to sovereignty.

Illustrates, by use of a landmark court case, a parallel between 1492 and the present regarding First Nations in British Columbia and the recognition of Aborignal title.

Looks at barriers and impediments that female Native American women face in politics.

Author describes how words define her and cannot be separated from the Aboriginal oral traditions and world view.

Examines author Leslie Marmon Silko’s post-1990 works, Almanac of the Dead, Sacred Waters, Gardens in the Dunes, and Oceanstory in the context of a growing focus on water scarcity and sovereignty; highlights Aboriginal and Native American perspective on the privatization of water for profit, and neocolonial and imperial interests.

Focusing on the Mount Currie communities' protesting for Indigenous rights through the two Constitution Express movements.

Court of Appeal case involving claims of Aboriginal rights and title to lands within the Cariboo region of British Columbia.

In this commentary article, the author describes the conditions and events surrounding a Diné school’s founding and the internal conflicts which eventually led to a breakdown between staff and leadership; highlights the potential learning for other nations working towards educational sovereignty.

Film reports on the 1969 demonstration and confrontation on the St. Regis Reserve (Akwesasne) and the international bridge between Canada and the United States near Cornwall, Ontario. This film contains scenes of violence. Viewer discretion is advised. Duration: 36:48.

Agreements for the settlement of claim of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations, the First Nation of Nacho Nyak Dun, the Teslin Tlingit Council and the Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation.

Book review of: Zuni and the Courts edited by E. Richard Hart.

Discusses how declarations as a sovereign nation and using established rules of customary international law, will with help the tribe in the return of its cultural property