... 2011 governance under federal Indian law. Alaska Natives continue to fight these battles in court. At the same time, like other global Indigenous peoples, Alaska Natives look increasingly to international law and organizations such as the United Nations for support in their quest...

..., to what extent are Indigenous peoples understood to have economic rights—defined here as the governing authority to manage their lands and resources—and, how we can we analyze these rights to better understand the conjoined meanings of colonialism and capitalism as systems of power today? In this paper, I...

... the possibilities of a postcolonial relationship between criminal justice institutions and Indigenous communities. The essay argues that the recognition of Indigenous claims to governance offer the possibility of new ways of thinking about criminal justice responses to entrenched social problems like crime. ©...

...Sherry Pictou The “Recognition and Implementation of Indigenous Rights Framework,” announced in 2018 by the federal government was originally hailed as a process for decolonization. Though the framework was withdrawn in December 2018, several policy and legislative initiatives give every indication...

...Dayna Nadine Scott This article outlines the contemporary dynamics of “consent by contract,” argued to be a mode of governance that attempts to define the social, political, ecological, and economic relations regarding the use of Indigenous lands solely through confidential bargaining and agreement...

...Deborah Curran; Eugene Kung; Ǧáǧvi Marilyn Slett A discussion about Indigenous economies, governance, and laws begins with relationships. These relationships are centered in a place, a traditional territory, and include responsibilities towards that place. Such a relational approach to Indigenous...

..., due to colonization and oppressive policies designed to destroy Indigenous identity, culture, and history, Indigenous knowledge and governing systems have been put in jeopardy. Colonial policies intended to dispossess and oppress First Nations by depriving us from Indigenous lands, controlling all...

...Audra Simpson This article offers a brief history of “sovereignty,” unmooring it from Western governance and the right to kill, in order to trace the life of the term within the field of Native (Indigenous) politics and Studies. Within this field, the practice of “critique” is central, examining...

..., these corporations set themselves up as cultural guardians—experts in “cultural competency,” or whatever the government’s latest indicator of Indigenous identity may be—and therefore as worthy of funding. In their rush for vali- dation by the government and that slice of the resource pie, Indigenous economic...

... at the site of interpretation and methodology. By placing videogame studies into critical conversation with critiques of ongoing settler colonialism, this essay suggests that settler colonial governance and racial capitalism persist in the spaces between representation and play. By drawing upon recent...

... subject and indigenous values? Can attempts to rethink the boundary between human and nonhuman others allow indigenous theory to assert itself as an alternative form of governance? Agamben’s Anthropological Machine Giorgio Agamben’s recent work opens up some...

...Eben Kirksey Indigenous people from West Papua, a territory under Indonesian rule, are foraging for food in spaces by the side of the road, in the ruins of recently logged forests. Living on the margins of market economies and transportation infrastructures comes with opportunities as well as risks...

... of its history as a subterraneous process oriented toward self-government, not in an effort to romanticize indigenous and maroon communism, but to underline the tense relationship between the Venezuelan commune and nineteenth-century liberation struggles. Second, through the theories of former guerrilla...

... blockade movement in support of the Wet'suwet'en people's fight against the Coastal GasLink pipelines. Central to the text is Kanien'kehá:ka warriors’ suggestion that, beyond relations with settlers, the Two Row Wampum applies to relations between and among Indigenous nations, clans, genders, and even...

...Moshibudi Motimele The South African university, particularly the “bush college,” emerges as an apartheid government strategy to render black subjects docile adherents of the apartheid system. In addition to this distinct racist foundation, South African universities succumbed in the 1990s...

... and symbols of revolution taken from the movement led by Túpaj Katari in 1781, inter- pretations of the Federal War of 1899 inform con- temporary indigenous visions of democracy and self-­government. Different...

... sovereign and subject—as the basis of a new push toward decolonization and the construction of a different practice of power in which government commands by obeying. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Alvaro Reyes and Mara Kaufman Sovereignty, Indigeneity, Territory: Zapatista Autonomy...

...Alvaro Reyes Over the past quarter century, Latin America has witnessed an intense cycle of struggle signaled most prominently by events such as the Caracazo in Venezuela, the Zapatista uprising in Mexico, the Argentine rebellion, and the wave of indigenous uprisings and protests in Bolivia...

... to Argentina, Zibechi analyzes the role of organizational innovations in the antisystemic movements, the constant renovation of indigenous “ways of doing,” the continued validity and limitations of Marxist conceptions of revolution, the dangers and possibilities of progressive governments for the region's...

... a new legal concept of “self-government within the nation-state.” He jettisoned the political history of U.S.-Indian relations in order to maintain that “indigenous peoples generally are not entitled to independence nor any right of self-government within the nation-state.” At stake...