Indigenous Studies & Political Science Mini-Conference: Contentions of Representation, Sovereignty, and Citizenship Across Contexts Name

Session Submission Type: Full Paper Panel

Part of Mini-Conference

• Indigenous Studies & Political Science: Nation, Representation, and Citizenship

Session Description

The third panel investigates the long-term effects of marginalization in an American political system defined by colonial ideals and influenced by outward local racism, that allows for neither full political sovereignty for tribes nor full political access. Protections for voting access that have become standard in other parts of the country continue to be frustrated by complicated and expensive barriers and a hostile environment in Indian Country. Years of failed promises to tribes by state and federal governments have bred mistrust. Voting reforms designed to increase access and representation for others often fail to produce the same results on reservations yet are still pressed. The effects of centuries of forced political marginalization of Native Americans continue to reverberate within the contemporary American political system. The papers presented as part of this panel address these conditions and collectively seek to find a path forward where the influences of the past cease to impact the future.

Sub Unit

• Theme Panel

Individual Presentations

• Towards an International Politics of Representation: Indigenous Peoples' Pursuits of Justice in Global Environmental Governance" - Kimberly R Marion Suiseeya, Northwestern University

• He Makana Ea: Maunakea and the Gifts of Sovereignty in Hawai'i - Uahikea Maile, University of Toronto

• Subverting Nature: Indigenous and Afro-Colombian Responses to Elite Republicanism in New Granada - Arturo Chang, University of Toronto

• Ando-bawachigeyan: Indigeneity and Indigenous Resurgence - Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark, University of Victoria

Chair

• Glen Sean Coulthard

Discussants

• David Temin University of Michigan

• Andrew A. Szarejko Naval Postgraduate School