Replacing Exclusive Sovereignty with a Relational Sovereignty
Notes from the field
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22225830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Matthew Wildcat (University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 172-184 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Borderlands Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2652-6743 • E-ISSN: 2652-6743 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.21307/borderlands-2020-014 |
| OpenAlex | W3153212771 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
The following is a presentation delivered as introductory remarks for my PhD defense of the dissertation, “Weaving our authority together: transforming the prairie Indigenous political order” held in February 2020. The remarks presented a rare opportunity to strike a tone that needed to speak to my dissertation committee, six family members and four community members from Maskwacîs. These community members travelled on behalf of the Board of Maskwacîs Education Schools Commission, my research partner, and the Ermineskin Education Trust Fund, that administered the funding for almost the entirety of my post-secondary education and helped me to access my treaty right to education. My main motivation was to draw a clear picture of how exclusive sovereignty is a legacy of settler colonization that has impacted Maskwacîs and how we confronted that legacy through the articulation and implementation of a relational sovereignty
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |