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Blood Quantum and Sovereignty

Blood Quantum and Sovereignty
Blood Quantum and Sovereignty
"Blood Quantum and Sovereignty" is a beginner-level conversation focused on why blood quantum is controversial, as well as how it came to be used as an enrollment and citizenship criteria for Native nations. Produced and recorded by Native Governance Center on March 30, 2022. Featuring: Wayne...
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ANCSA A complete or incomplete story of sovereignty
ANCSA: A complete or incomplete story of sovereignty
Shortly after the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act passed into law in 1971, headlines started appearing in local newspapers that hinted at a growing confusion among Alaska Native communities: “Indian Country hard to define,” stated one Tundra Times edition. “ANCSA and tribalism?” asked another...
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Native Nation Building: It Helps Rural America Thrive
This second paper in the Aspen Institute's Thrive Rural Field Perspectives series shows that when tribes center sovereignty, Indigenous institutions and culture in their development processes they increase the probability of reaching their development goals and can build community wealth that is...
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Navigating the American Rescue Plan Act: A Series for Tribal Nations, Session One

Navigating the American Rescue Plan Act: A Series for Tribal Nations, Session One
Navigating the ARPA: A Series for Tribal Nations. Episode 1: How Tribal Governments Can and Can't use ARPA
The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) provides the largest single infusion of federal funding into Indian Country in the history of the United States. More than $32 billion is directed toward assisting American Indian nations and communities as they work to end and recover from the devastating COVID-...
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Navigating the American Rescue Plan Act: A Series for Tribal Nations, Session 3

Navigating the American Rescue Plan Act: A Series for Tribal Nations, Session 3
Navigating the ARPA: A Series for Tribal Nations. Episode 3: A Conversation with Bryan Newland - How Tribes Can Maximize their American Rescue Plan Opportunities
From setting tribal priorities, to building infrastructure, to managing and sustaining projects, the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) presents an unprecedented opportunity for the 574 federally recognized tribal nations to use their rights of sovereignty and self-government to strengthen their...
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THE RISE OF INDIGENOUS RECOGNITION:Implications for comparative politics

THE RISE OF INDIGENOUS RECOGNITION: Implications for comparative politics
The Rise of Indigenous Recognition: Implications for Comparative Politics
Recent decades have ushered in a new era for the recognition of Indigenous rights. Today, more than half of all United Nations member states recognize some form of Indigenous governance in their constitutions (Holzinger et al 2019), and dozens more have done so statutorily. This marks the...
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Operationalizing the CARE and FAIR Principles for Indigenous data futures
As big data, open data, and open science advance to increase access to complex and large datasets for innovation, discovery, and decision-making, Indigenous Peoples’ rights to control and access their data within these data environments remain limited. Operationalizing the FAIR Principles for...
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Breaching Barriers: The Fight for Indigenous Participation in Water Governance
Breaching Barriers: The Fight for Indigenous Participation in Water Governance
Indigenous peoples worldwide face barriers to participation in water governance, which includes planning and permitting of infrastructure that may affect water in their territories. In the United States, the extent to which Indigenous voices are heard—let alone incorporated into decision-making—...
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Invisible Borders of Reservations, Tribal Treaties, and Tribal Sovereignty

Invisible Borders of Reservations, Tribal Treaties, and Tribal Sovereignty
Invisible Borders of Reservations, Tribal Treaties, and Tribal Sovereignty
This 3-part discussion about the invisible borders of reservations, tribal treaties, and tribal sovereignty is led by Dr. Miriam Jorgensen, Research Director of both the University of Arizona Native Nations Institute and its sister organization, the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic...
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IGESE-SW Darrah Blackwater Indigenize the Internet

IGESE-SW Darrah Blackwater Indigenize the Internet
"Indigenize the Internet: How to close the digital divide by respecting tribal sovereignty" by Darrah Blackwater
Indigenous Graduate Education in Science and Engineering in the Southwest Presents “Indigenize the Internet: How to close the digital divide by respecting tribal sovereignty” by Darrah Blackwater Abstract: Broadband internet and the tools necessary to access it are critical for economic development...
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