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Abstract: For those who were not Indigenous to it, the Americas were once the ‘New World’, colonies, and distant and alien places. When it comes to imagining new worlds, there is no better new world than a literally brand new one. Mars is the closest, and humans recently hurled a few sophisticated objects at it. […]

Excerpt: When he took the stage at a conference for “start-up societies” in Amsterdam in October,27-year-old Dryden Brown cut a rumpled figure, moving stiffly in a gray hoodie with a T-shirt poking out at the bottom. He was there to tout his company, Praxis, which has an ambitious goal: to create a newcity on the […]

Description: Examines how settler colonial and sexist infrastructures and narratives order a resource boom. Settling the Boom studies how the disruptive forces of an oil boom in the northern Great Plains are contained through the extension of settler temporalities, reassertions of heteropatriarchy, and the tethering of life to the volatility of oil and its cruel optimisms. […]

Abstract:The turn from the nineteenth to the twentieth century marked a time of intensified data collection in the United States focused especially on childhood. This article explores how two children’s narratives, Francis La Flesche’s The Middle Five (1900) and Francis Rolt-Wheeler’s The Boy with the U.S. Census (1911), reflect and respond to this conjunction of boyhood, settler colonialism, and […]

Abstract: This chapter discusses two poetry books by Canada’s Indigenous writers, It Was Treaty/ It Was Me (2020) by D.n.sųłin.́ and M.tis Matthew James Weigel and Injun (2016) by Nisga’a Jordan Abel, as different examples of textual remix. Each of them, albeit in different ways, responds to and exploits the contemporary accessibility and materiality of […]

Abstract: Professor Patzer provides a current example in this chapter for understanding settler colonialism in practice, illustrated through what occurred during the recent crisis affecting the Wet’suwet’en land defenders in British Columbia. Here, he scrutinizes the mixture of law and politics that has dispossessed the Wet’suwet’en of much of their land and ability to fully […]

Abstract: In this chapter Professors Adam J. Barker and Emma Battell Lowman, well-known scholars of settler colonial theory, lay out a basis for understanding the criminalization of Indigenous people through the lens of settler colonialism. For them, settler colonialism in fact represents colonization that persists through the continual assertion of jurisdiction over land and the […]

Abstract: Rather than focus on how ballet can be more “inclusive,” this chapter takes a broader view of dance education and its complicity with settler colonialism. While scholars have brought attention to cultural appropriation in ballet, less prominence has been given to the erasure of Native artistry and peoples, and ballet’s imbrications with racial-settler capitalism. […]

Abstract: Since the early years of colonization, Native American people have engaged in continuous legal struggles for land and sovereignty, which have exposed the colonial underpinnings and white supremacist worldview that are the root cause of their ongoing subjugation. In modern times, that often takes the form of government-backed corporate control over natural resources. This […]