Archive for the ‘Sovereignty’ Category
ngapuhi case begins
A while ago I got whisper of an excitingly unique Maori claim launched by the Ngapuhi. Today I learn the case is getting under way today, via NZHerald: The Te Paparahi o te Raki inquiry is unique in that iwi members will argue that their ancestors did not cede sovereignty when the Treaty was signed […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
Please enjoy these mp3 recordings of the papers delivered at the recent round table, ‘Settler Colonialism and the Colour Line’. Individual abstracts can be found here. Gaia Giuliani, Matching Colours Lorenzo Veracini, Decolonising Settler Colonialism Maria Giannacopoulos, Xenos, Nomos, Bia (temporarily unavailable) Kiran Grewal, The Native versus the Alien: Discourses of Belonging and the Reinforcement […]
Filed under: Australia, law, media, Political developments, postcolonialism, public lecture, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, Website | Closed
From maorinews: The Government is on the verge of offering the Tūhoe tribe a treaty settlement that could be as groundbreaking as it is controversial. Tūhoe is hoping it will mean total control of the Urewera National Park, and start the tribe on the way to self-rule and becoming a separate nation. But the Government […]
Filed under: law, New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
via Africa is a Country Promised Land Trailer from Yoruba Richen on Vimeo.
Filed under: law, media, Political developments, Southern Africa, Sovereignty | Closed
Gelya Frank and Carole Goldberg, Defying the Odds: The Tule River Tribe’s Struggle for Sovereignty, Yale University Press, 2010. via Turtletalk An anthropologist and a legal scholar combine expertise in this innovative book, deploying the history of one California tribe—the Tule River Tribe—in a definitive study of indigenous sovereignty from earliest contact through the current […]
Filed under: law, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
Among the thousands who cross the Plains, there are many who have never been refined by either mental or moral culture. The sum total of their religious and political faith consists in Squatter Sovereignty – the right to do as they choose, regardless of all but selfish interests. When such as these get beyond the […]
Filed under: Quote, Sovereignty | Closed
In a recent hour-long podcast, two presentations are reproduced from a recent seminar “`Ike: Historical Transformations: Reading Hawaii’s Past to Probe Its Future”. It can be downloaded from Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond. The first is by Keanu Sai, a man whose work I have only recently discovered, and the second is […]
Filed under: Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty | Closed
call for papers: anzlhs law and history conference: owning the past – whose past? whose present?
From their website: The use and study of the past is constantly being refashioned and reinterpreted to construct meaning in the present, imparting understandings of a common but chaotic humanity. Because everyone and no one ‘owns’ history, the ownership of historical events and the right to speak of them remains deeply contested. What are the […]
Filed under: Australia, Call for papers, Canada, Empire, law, New Zealand, Political developments, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
This month has seen the release of Lisa Ford’s long anticipated monograph, entitled Settler Sovereignty: Jurisdiction and Indigenous People in America and Australia, 1788-1836. When settlers assert sovereignty, argues Ford, the extension of their criminal jurisdiction to encompass the natives they colonised is just as important – perhaps more important – than any act of […]
Filed under: Australia, Scholarship and insights, Sovereignty, United States | Closed
From the NZ Herald: A Ngapuhi leader is warning that “outsiders” could derail the tribe’s progress to settlement while others accuse the organisation he leads of manipulating the settlement process. In Te Runanga a Iwi o Ngapuhi’s (Traion) annual report chairman Sonny Tau outlines the importance of moving from grievance to development. Delaying Treaty of […]
Filed under: New Zealand, Political developments, Sovereignty | Closed
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