Abstract: Although emergent literature has begun articulating the effects of settler-colonialism on Indigenous Australians’ gender and sexuality, little remains known about how contemporary colonial processes are being counteracted by Indigenous queer communities. Drawing on the qualitative responses within a larger survey with Indigenous gender and/or sexuality diverse people, we explore how strategies of hope and […]

Abstract: At the start of Tommy Orange’s There There, Cheyenne child Tony Loneman peers into his television screen and considers a playground taunt: “Why’s your face look like that?” Confronted with his reflection, he discovers the “Drome”—the way fetal alcohol syndrome has contoured his body, “the way history lands on a face.” The novel ends with […]

Abstract: The chapter examines how settler-colonial narratives ignore the multiple meanings of placed-based Indigenous identities’ connection to the process of climate change adaptation in environmental governance and how the erasure of Indigenous women in the field of geography is socially, politically, and legally constructed categories of colonialism. When I think of the multiple meanings of […]

Excerpt: This is a map of sites where violence occurred on the Australian frontier. This site was updated Wednesday 16 March 2022 with new information. This site does not contain images of people who have died. However, the historical records reproduced here use archaic terms that are racist and offensive, and the themes and content within will […]

Description: In January 2020, US President Donald Trump announced his ‘deal of the century’. Supposedly intended to ‘resolve’ the Palestine-Israel conflict, it accepted Israeli occupation as a fait accompli. Azmi Bishara places this normalisation of occupation in its historical context, examining Palestine as an unresolved case of settler colonialism, now evolved into an apartheid regime. […]

Description: Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton […]

Abstract: In 1956 the Indian Relocation Act transformed the makeup of American cities. Initially meant to assimilate Native Americans into the mainstream population by providing them with an education that would facilitate their employment and further integration into the city proper, Relocation provided migrating Indians with fertile soil for cultivating a panIndian identity. Urban spaces […]

Abstract: The meaning of the word ‘decolonization’ is rapidly changing in Canada. Today, the word has re-penetrated the psychology of mainstream Canadians. And, with mainstream society now finding the term effective and useful for advertising products the synonymity of the term with ‘anti-colonial’ is becoming a problem. Decolonization appears to be a decolonial term, but […]

Abstract: The Red Deal by The Red Nation and Red Media is a short but powerful political manifesto which offers readers a choice: climate extinction, or true, meaningful, and complete decolonization. With less than thirty years to reduce the earth’s carbon emissions to net zero, The Red Deal emphasizes that we cannot expect current oppressive […]

Abstract: In the 1850s goldrush, new communities emerged in Victoria with members from diverse origins of place, faith and ethnicity. Settlers usually migrated to pursue wealth; however, the social cohesion these young towns required often came from beyond logics of economy. As the goldrush waned from the 1860s, communal searches for children lost in the […]