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<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" >'''Indigenous sovereignty halts capitalist resource extraction'''</span> | <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''Indigenous sovereignty halts capitalist resource extraction'''</span> | ||
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*The violation of Treaty Relationships by settlers has enabled for the continuation of capitalist extraction, one of the major systems driving climate change (see [[anti-capitalism]]). These agreements, meant to facilitate peace and coexistence, have continued to be violated by settler states like so-called Canada, while disregarding Indigenous sovereignty and the role it has in safeguarding 80% of global biodiversity <ref>Alook, Angele, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker. 2023. <em>The End of This World: Climate Justice in so-Called Canada</em>. Between the Lines.</ref> | *The violation of Treaty Relationships by settlers has enabled for the continuation of capitalist extraction, one of the major systems driving climate change (see [[anti-capitalism]]). These agreements, meant to facilitate peace and coexistence, have continued to be violated by settler states like so-called Canada, while disregarding Indigenous sovereignty and the role it has in safeguarding 80% of global biodiversity <ref>Alook, Angele, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker. 2023. <em>The End of This World: Climate Justice in so-Called Canada</em>. Between the Lines.</ref> | ||
*By asserting their sovereign land rights, Indigenous communities pose a significant threat to the settler state and have the potential to halt destructive resource extraction (e.g. Standing rock and the TMX resistance) | *By asserting their sovereign land rights, Indigenous communities pose a significant threat to the settler state and have the potential to halt destructive resource extraction (e.g. Standing rock and the TMX resistance) <ref>Alook, Angele, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker. 2023. <em>The End of This World: Climate Justice in so-Called Canada</em>. Between the Lines.</ref> | ||
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<span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" >'''Indigenous-led resistance movements have historically been the most effective against the climate crisis'''</span> | <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">'''Indigenous-led resistance movements have historically been the most effective against the climate crisis'''</span> | ||
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*We describe several successful intersectional climate justice campaigns on our wiki page: [[How we Win! Summary of findings on successful climate justice campaigns in North America]]. In the last 20 years, you'll notice that a good number of the campaigns/resistance movements we covered were Indigenous-led! | *We describe several successful intersectional climate justice campaigns on our wiki page: [[How we Win! Summary of findings on successful climate justice campaigns in North America]]. In the last 20 years, you'll notice that a good number of the campaigns/resistance movements we covered were Indigenous-led! | ||
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Revision as of 22:19, 22 January 2024
Indigenous sovereignty "consists of spiritual ways, culture, language, social and legal systems, political structures, and inherent relationships with lands and waters" that "exist through Indigenous peoples regardless of what a colonial state does or does not do and "arises from each community's Indigenous Traditional Knowledge." -Indigenous Environmental Network [1]
Indigenous sovereignty is recognized by the Canadian government; that both Canada and Indigenous Peoples maintain their own sovereign states. "Sovereign states indicate that they are two separate governing states residing on the same land." [2]
Idle No More is an Indigenous-led movement that calls on all people to join in a peaceful revolution which honours and fulfills Indigenous sovereignty and protects the land, water, and sky; it is the resistance of Indigenous peoples in response to ongoing settler colonialism. - Idle No More [3]
What does sovereignty mean to Indigenous Peoples? [4]
Non-interference |
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Land back |
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Asserting Indigenous ways of life |
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Understanding why Indigenous sovereignty is necessary for climate justice
Indigenous sovereignty halts capitalist resource extraction |
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Indigenous-led resistance movements have historically been the most effective against the climate crisis |
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- ↑ https://www.ienearth.org/what-is-indigenous-sovereignty-and-tribal-sovereignty/
- ↑ https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/indigenous-sovereignty#:~:text=This%20has%20mainly%20been%20motivated,on%20our%20website%20and%20Instagram
- ↑ https://idlenomore.ca/
- ↑ https://idlenomore.ca/sovereignty-do-first-nations-need-it-idle-no-more-2/
- ↑ Alook, Angele, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker. 2023. The End of This World: Climate Justice in so-Called Canada. Between the Lines.
- ↑ Alook, Angele, Emily Eaton, David Gray-Donald, Joël Laforest, Crystal Lameman, and Bronwen Tucker. 2023. The End of This World: Climate Justice in so-Called Canada. Between the Lines.