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Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Sponsored Session
2009 Annual Meeting
Association of American Geographers
Las Vegas, Nevada; March 22-27, 2009

Title:

Spatiality of Indigenous Sovereignty

Description:

For many Indigenous groups in settler states, a bounded territory corresponding to the limits of their (newly limited) sovereignty has been imposed on them as a spatial structure of control. For other groups, the narrative of spatiality and sovereignty played out differently in historic times; in some instances groups were deprived of both territory and sovereignty; in some a group was forced to relocate into another group's territory, with subsequent loss of sovereignty; other variations have also occurred across time and space. Today, some Indigenous groups are challenging such imposed spatial structures of sovereignty. Papers in this session will address issues involved in the spatiality of Indigenous sovereignty, in historical, contemporary, and/or projected future times.

Anticipated Attendance:

100

Organizers:

G. Rebecca Dobbs

RDK Herman

Chairs:

Brian J. Murton

Participants:

Presenter:

Jen McCormack, Jagehnagenon is Online: Cyber Legislature and other Governance Spaces of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation

Presenter:

G. Rebecca Dobbs, The Delaware Tribe within the Cherokee Nation: allotment, historic communities, and the argument for sovereignty

Presenter:

Henry Sivak, Framing Colonial Nature: Territory, Forests, and the Colonial State in Algeria.

Presenter:

Michael D Smith, Securing the late settler state: sovereignty, territory and colonial power in contemporary Canada

Presenter:

Jon Corbett & Mike Evans, Nation 2.0: the role of Geoweb applications in building the notion of nation in dispersed Aboriginal communities.

 

Sponsorships:

Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group, Historical Geography Specialty Group

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