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Abstract: This project investigates the legacies of shifting land tenure and stewardship practices on what is now known as the Ottawa Valley watershed (referred to as the Kitchissippi by the Omamawinini or Algonquin people), and the effects that this central colonization project has had on issues of identity and Nationalism on Canadians, diversely identified as […]

Abstract: How did Norwegian immigrants imagine they belonged in and to America during the first thirty years of emigration? This study investigates expressions and perceptions of belonging among Norwegian immigrants in the American Midwest. Operationalizing belonging as an analytical concept for historical research, the study defines three main ways of how immigrants perceived they belonged […]

Excerpt: There is an empty space in the written history of Canada. In monographs, textbooks, and articles alike, narratives of Indigenous peoples fade out following the Indian Act (1876) and the Numbered Treaties (1871-1921). Coll Thrush expressed this as a phenomenon where Indigenous peoples “exit stage left after treaty or battle.” [1] With the exception […]

Imperial Expectations and Realities: El Dorados, Utopias and Dystopias, with a chapter on Welsh Patagonia (Trevor Harris, ‘A Place to Speak the “Language of Heaven”? Patagonia as a Land of Broken Welsh Promise’, pp. 125-144), a chapter on the German Templer colonies in Palestine (Matthew P. Fitzpatrick, Felicity Jensz, ‘Between Heaven and Earth: The German […]

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