Rights and Resistance: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty was a four-part webinar series with Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren. Each week, Roo presented and discussed different aspects of the ongoing fight for indigenous sovereignty.
Webinar I:
[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]An overview of the United States’ relationship with indigenous peoples told from the perspective of a Catawba person.[/perfectpullquote]
The webinar on March 25th at 12pm EST focused on a few significant historical events and help develop models and language for understanding a variety of different colonial contexts and events.
Webinar II:
[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]About the history of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) as a continuation of indigenous resistance and as a challenge to individualistic notions of Human Rights.[/perfectpullquote]
The webinar on April 1st at 12pm EST focused on the UNDRIP, on specific articles of the Declaration, and on how applicable they are to specific moments in indigenous histories.
Webinar III:
[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]Food Sovereignty movements in Indian Country have implications for Environmental Justice globally. [/perfectpullquote]
Through this discussion on April 8th at 12pm EST, we unsettled “food security” as a goal and think through colonial assumptions about the relationship between humans and the rest of the world.
Webinar IV:
[perfectpullquote align=”left” bordertop=”false” cite=”” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]A limited case study: The current standoff that is rapidly unfolding on Wet’suwet’en Territory between Wet’suwet’en people, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and Coastal GasLink.[/perfectpullquote]
The discussion on April 15th at 12pm EST placed this struggle in the context of other contemporary examples of indigenous resistance and land protection.
Explore the webinars
An Indigenous Person's History of the United States
In the first installment of the webinar series "Rights and Resistance: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty," host and Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren discusses the history of the United States from their perspective as a Catawba native.
Unsettling Human Rights: UNDRIP and the Responsibilities of State to Indigenous Communities
In the second installment of the webinar series "Rights and Resistance: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty," host and Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren discusses the fraught history of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Environmental Justice and Food Sovereignty: Indigenous Leadership in Healing the Land
In the third installment of the webinar series "Rights and Resistance: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty," host and Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren discusses the long history of indigenous peoples stewarding the land and how we can learn from them.
Case Study: Wet'suwet'en
In the final installment of the "Rights and Resistance: The Ongoing Fight for Indigenous Sovereignty" series, host and Senior Fellow Roo George-Warren takes a closer look at the contemporary protests against pipelines by the Wet'suwet'en using lessons learned from the first three webinars to analyze an example of current indigenous resistance.
