The history of Indigenous Sovereignty regarding colonialism and governance is complex. I claim to be no expert in this field. I am an Indigenous Northen Native American from Diné and Jemez Pueblo. It is complicated for me to genuinely understand the overhead of Indigenous Sovereignty, and it differs from one region to another. 

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This Fluxus Performance is my general perspective on this subject. The El Museo Cultural Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico, held a conference among various South American Indigenous Peoples on Indigenous Sovereignty in North and South America. 
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The audience participated in tying me with rope. At the same time, I wore a black sheet around me to represent the veil of the impact of Colonial expansion and dispossession of Indigenous Lands. I lay under a plastic cover that represented a coffin. I asked participants to take the dull scissors I laid out and cut the rope, freeing me  — signifying that it takes a community to organize to fight for the restoration of their Indigenous Sovereignty Rights and recognize land dispossession, such as The Dawes Act (1887) to break up Tribal Lands into allotments. 

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I aim to examine the motives of economic exploitation and the Colonial movements that have led to legal and political changes in many Indigenous lands; as a result, organized land rights advocates are developing self-governing Indigenous nations and resistance to the challenges and injustices still present since the 15th-century European expansion.