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Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty: Transboundary Governance and Indigenous Rights

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  • Alice Cohen
  • Emma S. Norman

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This article builds on regional environmental governance (REG) scholarship to explore alternatives to conventional transboundary agreements. Specifically, we use two narratives to tell the story of one river variously known as Wimahl, Nich’i-Wà na, or Swah’netk’qhu, and, more recently, the Columbia River. We suggest that the state-led narrative of the signing and implementation of the 1964 Columbia River Treaty has obscured Indigenous narratives of the river—a trend replicated in most scholarship on transboundary environmental agreements more broadly. In exploring these narratives, we: situate the silencing of Indigeneity in the 1964 Columbia River Treaty; highlight the reproduction and amplification of that silence in the relevant literature in the context of strengthened Indigenous rights; and explore what a multilateral—as opposed to binational—approach to environmental agreements might offer practitioners and scholars of REG.

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  • Alice Cohen & Emma S. Norman, 2018. "Renegotiating the Columbia River Treaty: Transboundary Governance and Indigenous Rights," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 18(4), pages 4-24, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:tpr:glenvp:v:18:y:2018:i:4:p:4-24
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    1. Emma S. Norman, 2019. "Finding Common Ground: Negotiating Downstream Rights to Harvest with Upstream Responsibilities to Protect—Dairies, Berries, and Shellfish in the Salish Sea," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 19(3), pages 77-97, August.
    2. Kate J. Neville & Glen Coulthard, 2019. "Transformative Water Relations: Indigenous Interventions in Global Political Economies," Global Environmental Politics, MIT Press, vol. 19(3), pages 1-15, August.

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