Description: Offers models for legally structuring the repatriation of indigenous heritage Extensively incorporates human rights standards into repatriation frameworks Builds on the extensive repatriation experience gathered in US and Canadian law, including NAGPRA.

Abstract: This article traces the origins of Alberta political culture to an unlikely source: the federal government’s immigration marketing posters from the early-twentieth century. Through a qualitative document analysis of the “Last Best West” campaign, the findings reveal how the Government of Canada helped cultivate values of settler colonialism, populism, individualism, frontier masculinity, and moral […]

Abstract: Situating the endeavors of Asa Shinn Mercer and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento within the broader settler colonial histories of the US and Argentina, this study provides two cases in which men representing prominent settler groups in the Americas attempted to regulate via internal educational colonialism populations they considered divergent from the nations’ ideals. Both projects […]

Abstract: This article examines the spatial history of U.S. food production through the evolution of two carceral spaces: rural penitentiaries and Indian reservations. These sites have long provided opportunities to spatially fix surplus labor and capital in U.S. agriculture: from the confinement of Indians during settler colonialism, through the regulation of labor surpluses after Reconstruction, […]

Abstract: This paper addresses the question of what it means to be human from a Native American (specifically, Ojibwe) perspective by interrogating the human-animal relationships in The Birchbark House series by Louise Erdrich (1999–2016). The article begins by considering the human-nature ontology shared by Native American tribes, before developing the idea of a kinship ecology within an Ojibwe context. The […]

Excerpt: The strong relationship between space—its representations, uses, control—and forms of political or economic domination has been well demonstrated (Lefebvre 1974; Soja 2013). In the case of settler colonialism, which “describes a form of colonialism wherein non Indigenous or ‘settler populations’ implant themselves in new lands” (Barnd 2017, 9), it is not only a matter […]

See especially: Chapter 1: Michael Clarke, ‘Framing the Xinjiang emergency: colonialism and settler colonialism as pathways to cultural genocide?’; and Chapter 4: Sean R. Roberts, ‘Settler colonialism in the name of counterterrorism: of “savages” and “terrorists”‘.

Excerpt: For several decades after its 1946 premiere, John Antill’s Corroboree was widely regarded as the work that defined Australian music and “Australianness” in music. As a government publication put it in 1969, “Antill … had to bear the distinction and notoriety of being hailed as the creator of Australian music.”1 James Murdoch opened his 1972 book Australia’s Contemporary […]

Abstract: During U.S. colonization of the mid-nineteenth-century coastal Pacific Northwest, Native peoples and white American settlers used canoes and steamboats to imagine and sustain multiple overlapping mobilities within the same territory. Native peoples’ persistent mobility disrupted and delayed American colonization. Analyzing historical descriptions of mobility enables us to recover how Natives and non-Natives (primarily American […]

Abstract: In Canada, Indigenous activists and scholars critique municipalization as a threefold process that subverts Indigenous authority to the state, then delegates forms of state authority to Indigenous peoples, and concludes by asserting that delegated authority satisfies the terms of Indigenous self determination. This article centers municipalization in two steps that connect it to how […]