Project Theme: 

Theorizing and Transforming Indigenous Governance Systems

Yi’eenoodài’ Yeendoo Gwizhit Gwitèe’ah (Long Ago Will Be in the Future): A History of Twentieth-Century Dinjii Zhuh Nationhood, Treaties, and Land Use

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University of Alberta

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Project Research Lead(s)

Crystal Gail Fraser

Project Community Partner(s)

None

Project Partner Organization(s)

Gwich'in Tribal Council

Project Description

This research aims to study the history of Dinjii Zhuh political knowledge systems and governance and will tend to the objectives of theorizing and transforming Indigenous governance systems, examining critical, local, and global approaches to Indigenous relationality, as well as honouring elders and training youth by analyzing land use patterns, governance, and treaty-making prior to contact and after contact, showing their path to self-government.

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‍CAIR is an initiative housed at the University of Alberta that aims to support research projects that look to understand how Indigenous relationality contributes to knowledges and societies.  

CAIR is supported in part by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
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Critical Approaches to Indigenous Relationality
‍c/o Faculty of Native Studies
2-31 Pembina Hall, University of Alberta
T6G 2H8
CANADA
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