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Janice Forsyth, Reclaiming Tom Long Boat: Indigenous Self-Determination In Canadian Sport. With A Foreword By Willie Littlechild., Gwooyim Gyat Hawaaw
Janice Forsyth, Reclaiming Tom Long Boat: Indigenous Self-Determination In Canadian Sport. With A Foreword By Willie Littlechild., Gwooyim Gyat Hawaaw
Dalhousie Law Journal
Established in 1951, the Tom Longboat Awards seek to “recognize Aboriginal athletes for their outstanding contributions to sport in Canada.” In her meticulous work of cultural history, the Cree kinesiologist Janice Forsyth places this official discourse in settler-colonial context. “The history of sport and physical activity in Canada,” she clarifies for sports scholars and administrators, “is not a history of empowerment or inclusion, or even of opportunity, accommodation, or amalgamation. Rather, it is a history of containment, control, and elimination.” Forsyth’s incisive analysis consequently goes well beyond the fields of sociology and sport history. On my reading, her work makes …
Fiscal Decolonization-Indigenous Fiscal Autonomy And Tax Jurisdiction, Riad Kherallah
Fiscal Decolonization-Indigenous Fiscal Autonomy And Tax Jurisdiction, Riad Kherallah
LLM Theses
This thesis focuses on the relationship between Indigenous fiscal autonomy and self-determination. Indigenous nations’ ability to achieve self-determination is dependent upon their ability to autonomously finance self-government. Unfortunately, Canada’s colonial policies have weakened Indigenous economies and rendered them dependent upon the Crown. Due to Indigenous nations’ lack of fiscal autonomy, Crown policies designed to promote Indigenous self-government have proven inadequate. This thesis argues for using the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a blueprint for developing more equitable economic relations. While there are various elements to Crown-Indigenous economic relations, this thesis focuses on the distribution of …
Indigenous Peoples And Diplomacy On The World Stage, Kristen Carpenter, Alexey Tsykarev
Indigenous Peoples And Diplomacy On The World Stage, Kristen Carpenter, Alexey Tsykarev
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