This thesis focuses on the Sahtú land claim process. It unpacks the impact of the agreement twenty years after its signing, the role that the land claim is playing in self-government negotiations, and its utility for managing natural resource development. Most of the field research informing this thesis was conducted in Norman Wells. Interviewees saw community-level resource management as less bureaucratic than larger regional (or Dene Nation-wide) organizational structures. However, overlapping jurisdictions in Tulı́t’a and K’asho Gotine are now making self-government negotiations more complicated.

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Smart, Miles. A View into the Sahtú: Land Claims and Resource Development. Master’s Thesis, Concordia University, 2014.