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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Indigenous sovereignty"”.
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Indigenous Sovereignty in State-Native Conflicts: A Comparative Study of Process and Outcomes
… the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, this study was designed to understand how indigenous groups assert their sovereign rights in conflict situations, and how they can be most successful in doing so.</p> <p>Two instances of indigenous-state conflict were analyzed …
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From Religious Freedom to Indigenous Sovereignty: The Case of Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988)
… Two I suggest reading this case as one about Indigenous sovereignty. I read the dissenting opinion in the case against the background of the evidence and testimony in the trial as well as scholarship on sovereignty and on indigeneity. But sovereignty – just like religion – is a Western …
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What makes the red woman red: Cultural surveillance and the reassertion of indigenous sovereignty and identity through indigenous futurisms and decolonial practices
… negative stereotypes, but their work emphasizes Indigenous futurisms. I chose these two artists because Red Star responds to the historical legacies of Edward S. Curtis and his colleagues, and Roanhorse pays homage to John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) while elevating Indigenous traditions and …
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What makes the red woman red: Cultural surveillance and the reassertion of indigenous sovereignty and identity through indigenous futurisms and decolonial practices
… negative stereotypes, but their work emphasizes Indigenous futurisms. I chose these two artists because Red Star responds to the historical legacies of Edward S. Curtis and his colleagues, and Roanhorse pays homage to John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) while elevating Indigenous traditions and …
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Landscape as indigenous space: sovereignty and indigeneity in urban environments
… to everyone, the level of displacement for many Indigenous peoples goes beyond that experienced by non-Indigenous peoples, in part because some Indigenous individuals are in fact locals made foreign through urbanization. This thesis explores how displaced Indigenous peoples have begun to …
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Reconciling the Constitutional Order: Positing a New Approach to the Development of Indigenous Self-Government and Indigenous Law
In light of the recognition of continuing Indigenous sovereignty by the Supreme Court of Canada and the requirement that that sovereignty and de facto Crown sovereignty be reconciled within a shared constitutional order, Canada needs a new approach to negotiating the exercise of Indigenous …
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Seeding Sovereignty: Sensory Politics and Biodiversity in the Karen Diaspora
… It also tentatively explores understandings of sovereignty beyond the frame of the Westphalian nation-state through engagements with seed and food sovereignty in three locations that complicate understandings of territorial sovereignty. In this dissertation I explore what I call "agricultural …
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Islamic Reformism on the Periphery of the Muslim World: Rezaeddin Fakhreddin (1895-1936)
… hegemony and influence, the latter facilitated indigenous sovereignty and self-determination. Religion, naturally, played a central role in opposition to colonialism and the galvanization of indigenous nationalism. Consequently, the shape of religion was also influenced, and ultimately redefined …
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Unsettling Revitalization in Toronto: The Fantasy and Apology of the Settler City
At a time when social movements for Indigenous resurgence in Canada are as powerful as ever, and are coupled with state-sponsored reconciliation and recognition efforts (focused primarily on residential schools), it is crucial to examine the ongoing systemic processes unique to the settler colony …
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Healing Bodies: Micro-sites of Sovereignty as Places for Refuge, Regeneration, and World-building
… the significant themes of Black Liberation, Indigenous Sovereignty, social and environmental justice; the communities that I engage with explore the vital need for healing, dreaming, and knowledge sharing that is derived from being in spaces activated by political resistance. These spaces …
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Indigenous Engagement in Canadian Organizations: Building a Culture of Inclusion and Belonging for Indigenous Employees
… explores how Canadian for-profit, non-Indigenous organizations may promote cultures of inclusion and belonging for First Nations, Inuit, and Métis employees. Grounded in social constructionism, the study followed an action-oriented, qualitative approach, engaging Indigenous employees …
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Kwayeskastasowin ᒃᐗᔦᔅᑲᔅᑕᓱᐎᓐ (Setting Things Right): Cree Pathways to Modernizing Treaty 9
… Ontario’s Ring of Fire, collide with unresolved Indigenous sovereignty and governance. While signatories understood the treaty as a covenant of coexistence and shared stewardship, Canada imposed a land-surrender narrative, entrenching jurisdictional ambiguity, ecological degradation, and Indian …
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Wise Practices in Indigenous Program Evaluation
… of program evaluation in the context of Indigenous programs that are operated by or funded by non-Indigenous organizations. It asks two research questions: a) What constitutes Indigenous program evaluation? and b) How can program evaluation successfully represent an Indigenous program …
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'They Were Known Accordingly’: The Journey of the Land Otter Pole and Memorial Pole at the Denver Art Museum
… rights to cultural patrimony, and assertions of Indigenous sovereignty in Southeast Alaska. Through interviews with Lee Wallace, as well as DAM employees, this thesis situates the pole-raising ceremony within the larger and ongoing journey of the poles, as well as within pushes to decolonize or …
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(Re)Framing Resistance: The Role of Indigenous Comic Books in the Past, Present, and Future
… perpetrated through the ways knowledge about Indigenous peoples was collected, classified and then represented in various ways back to the West, and then, through the eyes of the West back to those who have been colonized.” This research project will therefore take an interdisciplinary …
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“Soon it will be a concrete jungle”: Perceptions and Projected Impacts of ‘El Proyecto Techos de Esperanza’ in Bastimentos, Panamá
… Panamá’s Bocas del Toro region, where Black and Indigenous families from the nearby coastal town are projected to be relocated. Made in the absence of local representation, destructive land use practices have incited terraforming and hydrological alterations which this study projects will expose …
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The Cross Border Food Security of Vuntut Gwitchin Food Security
… the issue of food security relate directly to indigenous sovereignty and the rights of the Gwitchin to define their own policies and strategies for the production, distribution, and consumption of sustainable and healthy food sources.
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On Indigenous Tax Consciousness: The Socio-Legal History of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, 1938-1987
… explores the relationship between taxation, Indigenous sovereignty, and settler colonialism. Specifically, it chronicles the socio-legal history of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government, a Gwich’in tribe from the Alaska interior region. The tribe gained national attention when it …
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#Explore: Outdoor Retailers, Indigenous Activists, and the Digital Battle for Public Land in the United States
“#Explore: Outdoor Retailers, Indigenous Activists, and the Digital Battle over Public Land in the United States,” uses digital marketing, activism, and representations of public land to analyze the impacts of the outdoor retail industry on Indigenous sovereignty and Indigenous response to and …
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Towards Decolonial Climate Justice: An Analysis of Green New Deal and Indigenous Perspectives
… that is in fact centered on decolonization and indigenous sovereignty is available and must be supported.
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