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    Sovereignty and treaty : discussion guide

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    SOVEREIGNTY
    AND
    TREATY
    A brief discussion guide for Uniting Churc[...]
    [...]Peoples are sovereign Peoples. (Minute 15.08a)

    Sovereignty is about honouring those who were here first, and[...]a more open conversation.


    How is First Peoples' sovereignty possible?
    Surely sovereignty rests with states, and is about "the exercise of[...]termine who comes to this country".

    This view of sovereignty is less viable in a world of globalisation and th[...]example, for the state to represent the nation's sovereignty in relation to other
    states, but share sovereignty around other issues.

    We are being challenged to[...]While there is not one
    First Peoples' view about sovereignty, the common concern is to assert an inhere[...]and political
    project? In this case the claim to sovereignty has to do with the terms in which First Peoples
    e[...]nity.


    DISCUSSION:
    • Does this sense of what sovereignty means help you in this discussion?
    • What dif[...]ty as a nation
    The claim to continuing Indigenous sovereignty questions the stories we tell about oursel[...]
    [...]fore a superior culture.

    The claim to continuing sovereignty challenges the sense we have of ourselves, and ou[...]of the issues for you in this conversation about sovereignty?


    The church's narrative
    • The church[...]First Peoples to find a place in the same world. Sovereignty challenges our
    past and present practices[...]
    [...]on stolen land. We took the land without payment, treaty or negotiation. But we
    cannot go back 229 years.[...]In challenging our founding narratives, claims to sovereignty invite us to ask what remnants
    of racism still inhabit our lives.

    iv. Sovereignty challenges the church to revisit the story it tel[...]ts God reason - for being here.

    ix. Honouring sovereignty makes us reflect on the way we do mission. It mig[...]t means for the gospel. We might wonder how
    God's sovereignty was exercised in this place, and how that challen[...]might be compassionate and authentic responses to sovereignty that empower First Peoples,
    strengthen the[...]

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