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The 62 pages that link to Indigenous sovereignty, each with the reason it gives.

• Indigenous peoples of the AmericasRelated: Many peoples of the Americas assert sovereignty alongside or against states formed through colonization.

• Indigenous land rightsRelated: Land claims often include authority to make decisions, not just ownership.

• Indigenous peoplesRelated: Sovereignty expresses political identity beyond recognition by a dominant state.

• Settler colonialismCompared with: Its persistence challenges the exclusive authority settler governments claim over Indigenous territories.

• Cultural identityRelated: Claims to sovereignty connect cultural continuity with land, self-government, and collective rights.

• Indigenous knowledgeRelated: Authority over knowledge is connected to broader rights of self-determination and governance.

• Australian literatureRelated: Indigenous writing can challenge national stories that treat colonization as settled history.

• RepatriationRelated: Repatriation can recognize Indigenous authority over ancestors and cultural heritage.

• Indian Removal ActNarrower topic: The act's land exchanges and federal enforcement tested the sovereignty of Native nations.

• Terra nulliusRelated: Terra nullius denied or discounted this authority when legitimizing colonial claims.

• Fur tradeRelated: Trade alliances could strengthen Indigenous diplomacy, while colonial expansion increasingly threatened territorial authority.

• PolynesiaRelated: Sovereignty movements shape debates over land, self-determination, and colonial rule across Polynesia.

• Dawes ActRelated: Breaking communal landholdings weakened the territorial basis of many nations’ self-government.

• Indian RemovalNarrower topic: Removal directly violated nations’ claims to govern their homelands.

• Pacific IslandsRelated: Indigenous claims and self-determination complicate the region's colonial and territorial boundaries.

• HaudenosauneeNarrower topic: Haudenosaunee governance asserts sovereignty within and beyond state borders.

• Tribal confederationRelated: Sovereignty helps distinguish a confederation of self-governing peoples from an alliance imposed by an outside state.

• Doctrine of discoveryRelated: Discovery doctrine challenged this authority by assigning ultimate sovereignty to colonial states.

• Indian Reorganization ActRelated: The act recognized limited self-government while leaving substantial federal control intact.

• Westward expansionCompared with: U.S. territorial growth repeatedly challenged Indigenous political authority and land rights.

• Anti-colonialismRelated: It connects resistance to colonial domination with present claims to land and political authority.

• PotlatchRelated: Potlatches enact community authority through laws, titles, and public protocols.

• Indigenous archaeologyNarrower topic: Sovereignty grounds claims to control research and heritage decisions.

• Pedro Álvares CabralCompared with: It contrasts with Portugal’s imperial claim to Brazil without Indigenous consent.

• Treaty of GreenvilleRelated: The treaty recognized Indigenous land holdings while sharply restricting them through imposed terms.

• CherokeeNarrower topic: Cherokee nations exercise sovereignty through their own governments and laws.

• Great Sioux ReservationNarrower topic: The treaty and its violations remain part of Sioux assertions of political authority.

• Indian reservationRelated: Explains why tribal governments exercise powers within reservation boundaries.

• Osage NationNarrower topic: Osage governmental powers are an expression of this broader principle.

• Coast Salish peoplesRelated: It clarifies why shared cultural ties do not make Coast Salish nations a single government.

• Indigenous identityRelated: Recognition of Indigenous nations’ authority shapes who decides membership and collective representation.

• Indigenous peoples of the AmazonRelated: Amazonian communities assert authority over decisions affecting their territories and collective life.

• TecumsehNarrower topic: Tecumseh’s confederacy defended collective sovereignty against unilateral U.S. land claims.

• Vine Deloria Jr.Narrower topic: Deloria treated tribal nationhood as a living political reality, not a historical relic.

• Founding mythRelated: Indigenous accounts challenge state origins that erase prior sovereignty or continuing claims.

• Indian WarsNarrower topic: Military conquest restricted sovereignty but did not erase Indigenous political identity or claims.

• American WestCompared with: Sovereignty challenges narratives that treat western lands as empty or solely U.S.-controlled.

• Indigenous peoples of South AmericaRelated: Sovereignty emphasizes political status rather than treating Indigenous peoples only as cultural groups.

• Manson familyRelated: It frames questions of Indigenous authority in decisions affecting ancestral river places.

• Wilma MankillerNarrower topic: Mankiller’s political work pressed for Cherokee control over community priorities and services.

• American Indian WarsNarrower topic: Disputes over sovereignty underlay conflicts and persist in their legal and political aftermath.

• Legal anthropologyRelated: Legal anthropology documents how claims to authority confront state jurisdiction.

• TruganiniRelated: Her history raises questions about Palawa authority obscured by colonial claims of disappearance.

• LacrosseRelated: Haudenosaunee participation in international lacrosse raises questions of nationhood and representation.

• Sarah WinnemuccaRelated: Her defense of Paiute rights addressed control over land, community life, and government decisions.

• Badlands National ParkRelated: Co-management and decisions affecting the South Unit involve the sovereignty of the Oglala Lakota.

• BioregionalismRelated: Bioregional governance must reckon with Indigenous jurisdiction and enduring relationships to land.

• Native Americans in the United StatesRelated: It explains why tribes are political nations rather than merely cultural groups.

• Genocide of Indigenous peoplesRelated: Questions of sovereignty shape accountability, jurisdiction, and remedies for historical violence.

• Great SpiritRelated: Respecting each nation's authority also means avoiding pan-Indigenous claims about spiritual belief.