Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination

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Sovereignty Matters investigates the multiple perspectives that existwithin indigenous communities regarding the significance of sovereigntyas a category of intellectual, political, and cultural work. Muchscholarship to date has treated sovereignty in geographical and politicalmatters solely in terms of relationships between indigenous groups andtheir colonial states or with a bias toward American contexts. Thisgroundbreaking anthology of essays by indigenous peoples from theAmericas and the Pacific offers multiple perspectives on thesignificance of sovereignty. The noted Mohawk scholar Taiaiake Alfredprovides a landmark essay on the philosophical foundations ofsovereignty and the need for the decolonization of indigenous thinkingabout governance.