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Law & Governance

Adams, Howard. Prison of Grass: Canada From the Native Point of View. Toronto: General Publishing, 1975.

Adese, Jennifer, and Chris Andersen, eds. A People and a Nation: New Directions in Contemporary Métis Studies. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021.

Andersen, Chris. Métis: Race, Recognition, and the Struggle for Indigenous Peoplehood. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2014.

Andersen, Chris. "Residual Tensions of Empire: Contemporary Métis Communities and the Canadian Judicial Imagination." In Reconfiguring Aboriginal State Relations, 2005.

Andersen, Chris. "Mixed Ancestry or Metis?" In Indigenous Identity and Resistance: Researching the Diversity of Knowledge, Dunedin, NZ: Otago University Press, 2010.

Barsh, Russell Lawrence, and James Youngblood Henderson. The Road: Indian Tribes and Political Liberty. Berkeley: Univ of California Press, 2022.

Bastien, Betty. Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2004.

Cardinal, Harold. "Nation-Building as Process: Reflections of a Nehiyow (Cree)." In Natives and Settlers Now and Then: Historical Issues and Current Perspectives on Treaties and Land Claims in Canada, edited by Paul W. DePasquale. Vancouver: University of Alberta Press, 2007.

Cardinal, Harold, and Walter Hildebrandt. Treaty Elders of Saskatchewan: Our Dream Is That Our Peoples Will One Day Be Clearly Recognized as Nations. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2000.

Cardinal, Harold. The Unjust Society. Vancouver, BC: Douglas and McIntyre, 1999.

Crosschild, Ryan, Gina Starblanket, Daniel Voth, Tasha Hubbard, and Leroy Little Bear. "Awakening Buffalo Consciousness: Lessons, Theory, and Practice from the Buffalo Treaty." Wicazo Sa Review 36, no. 1 (2021): 5-30.

Deloria Jr, Vine. God is Red: A Native View of Religion. Fulcrum Publishing, 2023.

Dhillon, Jaskiran K. Prairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization, and the Politics of Intervention. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017.

Dorries, Heather, Robert Henry, David Hugill, Tyler McCreary, and Julie Tomiak, eds. Settler City Limits: Indigenous Resurgence and Colonial Violence in the Urban Prairie West. Winnipeg: Univ. of Manitoba Press, 2019.

Eastman, Charles Alexander. From the Deep Woods to Civilization: Chapters in the Autobiography of an Indian. Vol. 651. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 1977.

Episkenew, Jo-Ann. Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 2009.

Estes, Nick, and Jaskiran Dhillon, eds. Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 2019.

Estes, Nick. Our History is the Future: Standing Rock versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance. New York: Verso, 2019.

Fabris, M. "Articulating Indigenous Law as ‘Environmental Protection’? The Piikani Nation and the Oldman River Dam Environmental Assessment Review Process." Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 2022.

Fumoleau, Rene. As Long As This Land Shall Last: A History of Treaty 8 and Treaty 11, 1870-1939. Calgary, AB: University of Calgary Press, 2004.

Gareau, P. L., & Leblanc, J. "Pilgrimage as Peoplehood: Indigenous Relations and Self Determination at Places of Catholic Pilgrimage in Mi’kma’ki and the Métis Homeland." Material Religion 18, no. 1 (2022): 32–45.

Germain, Jill St. Broken Treaties: United States and Canadian Relations with the Lakotas and the Plains Cree, 1868-1885. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press, 2009.

Hubbard, Tasha. "The Call of the Buffalo: Exploring Kinship with the Buffalo in Indigenous Creative Expression." Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Calgary, 2016.

Hubbard, Tasha et al. "Tools for Indigenous Family Survivors of Violence." Publication series. https://www.wewillstandupfilm.com/resources

Knafla, L. A., & Swainger, J., eds. Laws and Societies in the Canadian Prairie West, 1670-1940. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006.

Lindberg, Darcy. "Miyo Nehiyawiwin (Beautiful Creeness): Ceremonial Aesthetics and Nehiyaw Legal Pedagogy." Indigenous LJ 17 (2018): 51.

Indian Association of Alberta. Citizens Plus (The Red Paper). Aboriginal Policy Studies 1, no. 2 (1970): pp. 188-281.

Innes, Robert. Elder Brother and the Law of the People: Contemporary Kinship and Cowessess First Nation. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba, 2013.

Jobin, Shalene Wuttunee. Upholding Indigenous Economic Relationships: Nehiyawak Narratives. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2023.

Jobin, Shalene. "Cree Economic Relationships, Governance, and Critical Indigenous Political Economy in Resistance to Settler-Colonial Logics." MA Thesis, University of Victoria, 2005.

Jobin, Shalene, and Emily Riddle. The Rise of the First Nations Land Management Regime in Canada: A Critical Analysis. Yellowhead Institute, 2019.

Johnson, Harold. Peace and Good Order: The Case for Indigenous Justice in Canada. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2019.

Johnson, Harold. Two Families: Treaties and Government. Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2019.

Johnson, Harold. Firewater: How Alcohol Is Killing My People (and Yours). Regina, SK: University of Regina Press, 2016.

Ladner, Kiera. "Governing Within an Ecological Context: Creating an AlterNative Understanding of Blackfoot Governance." Studies In Political Economy: A Socialist Review 70 (2003): 125.

McAdam (Seysewahum), Sylvia. Nationhood Interrupted: Revitalizing Nêhiyaw Legal Systems. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2015.

Morris, Alexander. The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories: Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto. Winnipeg: Willing & Williamson, 1880.

Treaty 7 Tribal Council, Walter Hildebrandt, Sarah Carter, and Dorothy First Rider. True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7. Montreal, QC: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996.

Peterson, Jacqueline and Brown, Jennifer, eds. The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Métis. Winnipeg, MB: University of Manitoba Press, 1985.

Price, Richard. The Spirit of the Alberta Indian Treaties. Edmonton, AB: University of Alberta Press, 2014.

Snelgrove, Corey. "Treaty as De-Fetishizing Critique: A Social Theory of Treaty Interpretation." Polity 56, no. 1 (2024): 65-90.

Snelgrove, Corey. "Treaty and the Problem of Colonial Reification." Theory & Event 25, no. 1 (2022): 98–123.

Snelgrove, Corey. "Bound by Reconciliation? Social Criticism, Treaty, and Decolonization." PhD diss., University of British Columbia, 2021.

Starblanket, Gina. "The Numbered Treaties and the Politics of Incoherency." Canadian Journal of Political Science 52, no. 3 (2019): 443–459.

Starblanket, Gina. “Constituting (In)Justice: Treaty Interpretation and the Containment of Indigenous Governance.” Constitutional Forum 28, no. 2 (2019): 13–24.

Starblanket, Gina & Coburn, Elaine. “This Country Has Another Story”: Colonial Crisis, Treaty Relationships and Indigenous Women’s Futurities" in Heather Whiteside (ed.) Canadian Political Economy. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020.

Starblanket, Gina, & Hunt, D. Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial. Winnipeg: ARP Books, 2020.

Starblanket, Gina, & Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. "Towards a Relational Paradigm − Four Points for Consideration: Knowledge, Gender, Land, and Modernity." In Resurgence and Reconciliation: Indigenous-Settler Relations and Earth Teachings. University of Toronto Press, 2018.

Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. "Criminal Empire: The Making of the Savage in a Lawless Land." Theory & Event 19, no. 4 (2016).

Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. "Marked by Fire: Anishinaabe Articulations of Nationhood in Treaty Making with the United States and Canada." American Indian Quarterly 36, no. 2 (2012): 119-149.

Stark, Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik. "Respect, Responsibility, and Renewal: The Foundations of Anishinaabe Treaty Making with the United States and Canada." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 34, no. 2 (2010).

Tootoosis, Jade et al. "That's Where the Medicine Comes From: Aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in Canada." Journal of Canadian Studies 56, no. 2 (2022): 193–213.

Voth, Daniel. "Descendants of the Original Lords of the Soil: Indignation, Disobedience, and Women Who Jig on Sundays." Native American and Indigenous Studies 7, no. 2 (2020): 87-113.

Voth, Daniel, and Jessie Loyer. "Why Calgary Isn't Métis Territory: Jigging Towards an Ethic of Reciprocal Visiting." Oxford University Press, 2019.

Voth, Daniel. "The Choices We Make and the World They Create: Métis Conflicts with Treaty One Peoples in MMF v Canada." University of Toronto Law Journal 68, no. 3 (2018): 358-404.

Voth, Daniel. "Her Majesty's Justice Be Done: Métis Legal Mobilization and the Pitfalls to Indigenous Political Movement Building." Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue Canadienne de Science Politique 49, no. 2 (2016): 243-266.

Wildcat, Matthew. "Wahkohtowin in Action." Constitutional Forum 27 (2018): 13–24.

Wildcat, Matthew. "Weaving Our Authority Together: Transforming the Prairie Indigenous Political Order." Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of British Columbia, 2020.

Wildcat, Matthew. "Replacing Exclusive Sovereignty with a Relational Sovereignty." Borderlands Journal 19, no. 2 (2020): 172–184.

Wildcat, Matthew, and Justin DeLeon. "Creative Sovereignty: The In-Between Space: Indigenous Sovereignties in Creative and Comparative Perspective." Borderlands Journal 19, no. 2 (2020): 1–28.

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