Contested Frontiers: Indigenous Power, Settler Rights and the Re-Constitution of Federal Territories

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Analysis reveals how rights-challenges reshape indigenous power in territories, suggesting potential settler dominance.

Settler rights challenges provoke significant contests over indigenous power within federal territories, shaping governance.
Rights-challenges are now the primary method for settlers to exert control, moving away from historical force-based methods.
This analysis examines the unique vulnerability of territories in the context of settler-colonial structures and rights issues.
Findings indicate that the dynamics of indigenous power are essential to understand settler approaches in contemporary contexts.

Aaron John Spitzer (2025) studied this question.

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