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Purpose: The purpose of this research is to analyze the conception of environmental sovereignty for the discovery of just law in the field of environment in Indonesia and analyze the Implementation of the Concept of Environmental Sovereignty in Legislation in the Field of Environment and Natural Resources. Theoretical reference: The theoretical framework for this research will draw upon concepts of environmental sovereignty, legal pluralism, socio-ecological systems theory, environmental justice, international environmental law, and indigenous rights. It will also integrate perspectives from scholars specializing in environmental law, policy studies, anthropology, and environmental ethics. Method: The method of approach used in the research is a normative approach in this case analyze, the level of legal synchronization both vertically and horizontally related to environmental sovereignty for the discovery of fair law in the field of environment. Results and Conclusion: The results of this research show that The conception of environmental sovereignty for the discovery of just law in the field of environment in Indonesia is to form a harmonious, just, democratic and sustainable environmental law, then the conception of environmental sovereignty in the sense of creating a balance of rights between humans and nature, with a legal pluralism approach to realizing environmental justice and the Implementation of the Concept of Environmental Sovereignty in Legislation in the Field of Environment and Natural Resources is to form norms in laws and regulations governing the management of natural resources and the environment. Implications of research: The research findings will have significant implications for policymakers, environmental organizations, indigenous communities, and scholars working in the field of environmental law and policy. It will provide insights into the strengths and weaknesses of current legal frameworks, offer recommendations for enhancing env

Although water rights have dominated a century of legal, environmental, economic, and political discourse on Native American dispossession, lesser-known Indigenous cultural relationships with water are far older and profound. This doctoral dissertation research analyzes the Blackfeet Water Compact (BWC) and its immediate effects on the Blackfeet Tribe through the socio-historical lens of water dispossession; individual and community solutions to conflicts generated by water dispossession from the perspective of cultural resilience; and the BWC’s potential for promoting cultural revitalization and environmental sovereignty. To evaluate the potential of the BWC for the present and future Blackfeet community, it is necessary to, first, understand how Blackfeet people coped with water dispossession and, second, to assess the immediate and expected effects of the BWC on water use and management. The BWC has the potential for cultural revitalization. This dissertation research investigates the correlation between cultural resilience, water repatriation, and environmental sovereignty as interpreted through Indian Water Rights Law. For the Blackfeet, water is a cultural resource: it is central to the group's identity and philosophy as it sustains notions of being in the world, forms of knowledge acquisition and transfer, and social ordering schemes. A century of water development on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation has created physical and spiritual barriers to traditional water use and veneration, shifting the materiality of water from natural bodies of holy water to dams and irrigation canals. This research applies concepts from Indigenous philosophy, cultural resilience theory, historical trauma theory, decolonization theory, and Indian water rights law to fully assess the impact of government-mandated resource extraction on Blackfeet water rights and cultural reproduction. Pickering pursued multidisciplinary archival research and ethnographic fieldwork with tribal exper