Stevens, Scott Manning. "Indigenous sovereignty." Throughlines. www.throughlines.org/suite-content/indigenous-sovereignty. [Date accessed].
Indigenous sovereignty
The language of Native peoples' self-determination across North America.
What is sovereignty within a world-view that has historically never recognized a “sovereign”? In a settler-colonial state, it is imperative to recognize how even liberatory language is steeped in hierarchical epistemologies. Scott Manning Stevens dives deep into the history of sovereignty and indigeneity, defining the relationship these concepts have to the past, present, and future of Native peoples' self-determination across North America.
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