Between Land and Law: An Exploration of Tribal Identity and Sovereignty – Motif

Between Land and Law: An Exploration of Tribal Identity and Sovereignty – Motif

When I set out to curate this collection of writing on “sovereignty,” I knew it was a mammoth to explore. Among original peoples of the Northeast, the word – the idea  – is layered with centuries of entanglement between dispossession and self-determination, belonging and constraint. By its simplest meaning, sovereignty implies the authority or autonomy to govern oneself. But what does that really look like for Indigenous nations whose lands, econ