%0 Journal Article
%T The Turtle Lodge: sustainable self
%A Dave Courchene
%A Ian Mauro
%A Laura Cameron
%A Sabina Ijaz
%J AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
%@ 1174-1740
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1177180119828075
%X The Turtle Lodge International Centre for Indigenous Education and Wellness in Sagkeeng First Nation, Manitoba, is leading the way in exemplifying and cultivating sustainable self-determination. This is a holistic concept and process that recognizes the central role that land and culture play in self-determination, and the responsibility to pass these teachings on to future generations. This article links theory and practice in the emerging scholarship on sustainable self-determination and examines how Turtle Lodge embodies sustainable self-determination through traditional governance and laws, respectful and reciprocal relationships, cultivation of cultural revitalization and community well-being, and efforts to inspire earth guardianship. Turtle Lodge¡¯s experience underscores the importance of understanding sustainable self-determination as a flexible, community-based process. This case study fits within recent calls in the literature for a shift from a rights-based to responsibility-based self-determination discourse and demonstrates some of the challenges and lessons learned that might support other communities pursuing similar actions
%K sustainable self-determination
%K Indigenous
%K Anishinaabeg
%K sovereignty
%K Indigenous governance
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1177180119828075