Abstract: In September 1967, the federal government transferred the Government of the Northwest Territories from Ottawa to Yellowknife. While the transfer brought the machinery of government closer to the governed, it also established settler institutions in the homelands of Dene, Métis, and Inuit peoples. Using the tools of administrative history and settler colonial theory, this […]

Description: The legacies of borders are far-reaching for Indigenous Peoples. This collection offers new ways of understanding borders by departing from statist approaches to territoriality. Bringing together the fields of border studies, human rights, international relations, and Indigenous studies, it features a wide range of voices from across academia, public policy, and civil society. The […]

Description: Against long odds, the Anishinaabeg resisted removal, retaining thousands of acres of their homeland in what is now Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Their success rested partly on their roles as sellers of natural resources and buyers of trade goods, which made them key players in the political economy of plunder that drove white settlement and U.S. […]

Abstract: One of the actors in the field of Paraguayan indigenism is the Catholic Church. The article focuses on relations between the Catholic Church and indigenous peoples in reference to the Declaration of Barbados I (1971). The Declaration, as well as the Document of Asunción (1972), had a game-changing impact on Paraguayan indigenism. Its “fruits” […]

Description: This book examines the connections between race, place, and space, and sheds light on how they contribute and maintain racial hierarchies. The author focuses on the White residents of Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, which, according to the Cooks Political Report Partisan Voting Index, is the most liberal district in the state and 15th in the […]

Abstract: There is a dearth of comprehensive literature relevant to the relationship between settler colonialism and health outcomes of Indigenous peoples residing in the United States (U.S.). Critical analysis of settler colonial determinants of Indigenous health will help to further shape discourse, research priorities, and policy relevant to Indigenous population health and disease distribution. This […]

Abstract: This thesis examines the Indigenous Iban and the New Fuzhou settlers of the Lower Rejang Valley in Sarawak, presently Malaysia, at the turn of the twentieth century through the lens of Silverstein’s theory of sovereignty production. Specifically, this thesis examines the ways in which sovereignty production methods changed from 1901 to 1935. The Iban […]

Abstract: The law does not possess the language that we desperately need to accurately capture the totality of the Palestinian condition. From occupation to apartheid and genocide, the most commonly applied legal concepts rely on abstraction and analogy to reveal particular facets of subordination. This Article introduces Nakba as a legal concept to resolve this […]

Excerpt: Cowboy takes up the entirety of this small museum and is divided into three sections, each on a full floor: on the main floor, “Mythmaking” prompts us to reflect on the cowboy as myth; on the second floor, “From Fantasy to Lived Experience” shifts the focus from the myth of the cowboy to the cowboy […]

Abstract: From the seventeenth century well into the twentieth violent stories depicting ancient conflicts between the Sámi and their neighbours circulated widely in and around Sápmi. Narratives about battles and raids were produced and consumed for different purposes by diverse narrators and audiences employing various media. This article investigates how these violent narratives became embedded […]