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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.
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.
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.
Pacific IslandsRelated: Indigenous claims and self-determination complicate the region's colonial and territorial boundaries.
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.
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.
Treaty of GreenvilleRelated: The treaty recognized Indigenous land holdings while sharply restricting them through imposed terms.
Indian reservationRelated: Explains why tribal governments exercise powers within reservation boundaries.
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.
Founding mythRelated: Indigenous accounts challenge state origins that erase prior sovereignty or continuing claims.
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.
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.
North Sentinel IslandRelated: It frames the Sentinelese claim to control contact and access to their homeland.
Decolonisation of OceaniaRelated: It highlights claims that national independence did not resolve Indigenous self-determination.
Marcia LangtonRelated: It frames questions of self-determination that recur in Langton’s work on rights and recognition.
Pierre-Jean De SmetRelated: De Smet’s mediation took place amid continuing conflicts over Indigenous authority and U.S. expansion.
Raoni MetuktireRelated: Raoni’s campaigns seek more than conservation: they assert Indigenous authority over territory.
Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the AmericasRelated: Sovereignty shapes who controls cultural expression, heritage, and the terms of representation.
Wind River Indian ReservationRelated: It underlies tribal powers exercised on Wind River.