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<p>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.</p>
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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.

Replacing Exclusive Sovereignty with a Relational Sovereignty

Borderlands Journal

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The following is a presentation delivered as introductory remarks for my PhD defense of the dissertation, “Weaving our authority together: transforming the...

Replacing Exclusive Sovereignty with a Relational Sovereignty

Publié en ligne: 11 mars 2021

Pages: 172 - 184

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2020-014

Mots clés
Indigenous governance, First Nation service delivery, relational sovereignty

© 2020 Matthew Wildcat published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Replacing Exclusive Sovereignty with a Relational Sovereignty

Publié en ligne: 11 mars 2021

Pages: 172 - 184

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/borderlands-2020-014

Mots clésIndigenous governance, First Nation service delivery, relational sovereignty

© 2020 Matthew Wildcat published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Indigenous governance, First Nation service delivery, relational sovereignty