Sovereignty

Explores past and present history of post-secondary education from the second world war to the 1980s and influence of southern Canadian universities.

Culture and Media Studies Thesis (Ph.D.)--Umeå University, 2017.

Article examines the history of on-reserve housing evaluation, government policies and interventions and contrasts that framework with First Nations cultural understandings of housing and self-determination. Authors interrogate the assimilationist roots of policy that continues to implement Western housing models First Nations.

"This article demonstrates that Canada's political claims to ownership over the North-West lay in problematic claims of sovereignty made by British and Canadian explorers, politicians, and businessmen, using language of discovery and sovereignty to obscure Indigenous governance already in practice".

Author highlights the ways that the United States’ Legal System has been used by the colonial state government to remove the land and rights of Indigenous peoples.

Geography and Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--Louisiana State University and Agriculture and Mechanical College, 2003.

Author outlines a new approach which he calls Federal Constitutionalism, which he thinks will open up avenues for resolution of many legal issues.

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

Discusses how the issue of First Nations and Aboriginal self-government, in Canada, can be resolved in a just and peaceful manner.

Looks at the Supreme Court of Canada's tendency to characterize Aboriginal rights as arising from the Crown's fiduciary responsibilities, rather than being inherent.

Law Thesis (LL.M.)--University of Saskatchewan, 1990.

Book review of: Polar Imperative: A History of Arctiv Sovereignty in North America by Shelagh D. Grant.

Essay situates the #NoDAPL movement to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), within the historical context and the longer histories of Oceti Sakowin resistance against the trespass of settlers, dams, and pipelines across the Mni Sose, the Missouri River, and into Sioux territory.

Analysis of the Indian Self-Determination Act (1975) concludes that achieving self-determination is seriously compromised by declining levels of funding in real terms.

"A Family and Consumer Sciences unit with suggestions for collaborative teaching in History, Government, and Life Sciences - Grades 10-12."

Analyzes traditional system of the People of the Longhouse of Kahnawake Mohawk Nation through the lens of Hobsbawm's theory of invention of tradition.

Agreement concerning Aboriginal rights and title and settlement lands.

Discusses Federal land claim policy and Indian title.

National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations discusses Saskatchewan's current resource-based boom, necessity for collaboration, and impact and benefit agreements with governments and companies. Duration: 2:00:34.

Law Thesis (LL.M)--University of British Columbia, 2000.

Assess the claims made by others regarding human-animal relations in context of northern Indigenous people.

Reports results of document search and interviews with representatives from regional First nations data governance centres. Focus of environment scan and research included: state and history of initiatives, regional considerations around the government-First Nation relationship, and regional data sovereignty, Nation building and intergovernmental relationships.

Looks at the creation of the OCAP prinicples to help researchers appropriately collect data collaboratively with Indigenous communities.

Purpose of project was to examine how Indigenous peoples envision governance within an UNDRIP-defined Nation-to-Nation relationship with Canada, and begin formulating questions about how Nations would interact with other governments in the country.

Recommendations for framework, strategies and processes developed as a result of 11 regional sessions with participants from First Nations.

Concerns raised by Canada's First Nations in the use of electronic health records and the principles of Ownership, Control, Access and Possession (OCAP)

Argues that we have to change our concepts of property, contract, sovereignty and constitutional right to allow for growth of First Nations' self government.

Political Studies Thesis (M.A.)--University of Saskatchewan, 2012.

A discussion of community responses to the pandemic that asserted sovereignty and ensured the safety of their members by keeping infection rates low, and how this challenges the stereotype of Indigenous groups being helpless.

Viewpoints from a panel discussion on issues in American Indian Studies and the importance of decolonization of Native Americans.

Looks at issues raised with the Canadian political system and reviews two different concepts for Canadian citizenship. Scroll down to page 52 to read article.

Political Science Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1997.

History Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University, 2017.

Examines the reoccurring flooding in Kashechewan as a case study; finds that the repeated flooding and the corresponding damage to housing and community resources is a result of colonial practices, disregard for traditional knowledge, and forced relocations of First Nations people to flood zones.

Researchers look at food security in the North since the turn of the 21st century and identify four areas of focus.

Integrated Studies Project (M.A.)--Athabasca University, 2014.

Related Material: Summary and Recommendations Report.

Argues that the term "food sovereignty" invites contestation. Looks at the White Earth Anishnaabeg's experience with selling surpluses of wild rice harvested by the community.

Ethnic Studies Thesis (M.A.)--Colorado State University, 2014.

Beginning with the Guna understanding of “Abiayala” and the politics implicit in using the word to describe what is currently called South America, the author argues for a global Indigenous movement based in common experiences, worldview, and political standing.

A Copy of the Canada-Métis Nation Accord, 2017, the signing of which makes official a Nation-to-Nation relationship between Canada and the Métis Nation.

Builds on Linda Tuhiwai Smith's short essay "Twenty-Five Indigenous Projects," and in acknowledgement of the essay and its 20th anniversary offers four more projects specific to Native American Humanities: • Continuing • Reknowing • Sociologizing • Valuing

Discusses an interview session with George Manuel on his vision of international solidarity towards human rights promotion where social, cultural, economic, civil and political justice prevail and people live with respect and dignity. Access through table of contents.

Comparison of historical setting, policy, aboriginal rights, federal and provincial/state powers, and self-government.

Looks at the connection between the right to free, prior and informed consent and the work of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK).

Examination of French intrusion and colonization in the context of exploitation and occupation of Amerindians.

Looks at the Miskitu's demands for regional autonomy,.