Abstract: The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) is an influential organization that has opposed Indigenous peoples’ treaty harvesting rights and land claims for allegedly threatening conservation and egalitarian values. Using data from twenty semi-structured interviews and the OFAH’s official documents, this paper analyses and compares the views on treaty rights between the OFAH […]

Description: This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century. In South Australia, a similar method of state certification of land ownership arose in the nineteenth century, through Torrens system […]

Abstract: African American families participated in frontier settlement of the American West …

Abstract: This article addresses employment/unemployment engagement experiences of Indigenous peoples living in a region of present-day southwestern Ontario, as well as the wider socioeconomic, cultural, and historical contexts of those experiences. The qualitative research study that informs this paper was conducted with and at the request of an Indigenous organization in southwestern Ontario with the […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism is a form of imperialism wherein colonizers occupy and remain on stolen colonized land, recreating the social structures, economic systems and political power within that region. Colonialism creates power structures, and colonizers’ intent is to control, dominate and overtake land for the purposes of securing greater wealth and power. The goal of […]

Abstract: Nation state building, competing sovereign claims, the capitalist drive for land and resources fuelled by international market forces and prevalent racial ideologies can be identified as major structural factors that leads to the dispossession of indigenous lands and in many cases to the physical destruction of indigenous peoples. In this context settler colonial studies […]

Abstract: From 1849 to 1851, Canada’s first international literary celebrity, the Mississauga writer Kahgegagahbowh, or George Copway, travelled the United States, Great Britain and Europe promoting his vision for the future of Indigenous peoples in the United States. Building on a theological critique of settler colonialism, he called for the creation of a new Indigenous […]

Abstract: This essay fleshes out some of the ways in which Western environmental phenomenology enhances settler claims to Native lands and relatives while eliminating Native people. Although neglected in most phenomenological writing, which tends to prefer topics such as place, earth, the elements, etc., the entry point for this analysis is land. Settler colonialism has […]

Abstract: The logics and worldviews of settler environmentalism perpetuate settler colonialismand white supremacy; settler environmentalism has consistently failed to work in relation toIndigenous peoples in a good way. This research engages with the efforts of settler antipipeline activists in Canada to solve these problems of environmentalism by turning tofrontline solidarity.

Description: This book addresses the ethical and practical issues at stake in the reconciliation of Indigenous and non-indigenous communities. An increasing number of researchers, educators, and social and environmental activists are eager to find ways to effectively support ongoing attempts to recognize, integrate and promote Indigenous perspectives and communities. Taking Canada as its focus, this […]