Abstract: The aim of this study is to explore the complex interaction between land and indigenous identity in the literatures of Native Americans and Palestinians and to provide insights into the experiences of the two peoples in their struggle against colonial oppression. Within a post/decolonial framework and adopting an interdisciplinary approach that combines the paradigms […]

Description: In Indigenous Activism in the Midwest: Refusal, Resurgence, and Resisting Settler Colonialism, Margret McCue-Enser examines how Minnesota Indigenous activists use public memory sites to interrupt and challenge the dominant narrative of place. She explores how Indigenous activism reveals and disrupts material, discursive, and performative rhetorics of settler colonialism. This work cultivates the ground between rhetorical […]

Description: In 1963—a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide—the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Naku Dharuk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement was born. Naku Dharuk is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the trailblazers who made it. It is also a pulsating picture of the ancient […]

Excerpt: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), established by the Canadian federal government in 2007, was tasked with investigating Indigenous peoples’ experiences with the Indian residential school system. Residential schools, run by the state and churches, removed Indigenous children from their homes and communities with the aim of assimilating Indigenous peoples into Canadian society. The […]

Abstract: This conceptual paper examines the tensions that emerge in debates about decolonisation in education, particularly those that position decolonisation as incommensurable with social justice projects. Scholars have identified pitfalls in the incommensurability thesis, including the risk of reifying colonial binaries – such as the settler-Indigenous dichotomy – and fragmenting alliances between decolonisation, anti-racism, and […]

Abstract: In the last decade, Big 10 environmental movement organization (EMO) rhetoric in the U.S. has noticeably shifted to include topics pertaining to social justice. For Indigenous studies scholars, Indigenous peoples, and Tribal governments and organizations, this raises questions about how Big 10 organizations grapple with Tribal sovereignty and with ongoing legacies of settler colonialism. […]

Abstract: Driven by a United Nations 2017 recommendation to assess New Zealand’s progress to eliminate racial discrimination and the 2019 terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques, the Ministry of Justice along with National Iwi (Indigenous) Chairs forum (NICF) launched the National Action Plan Against Racism (NAPAR) Joint Steering Committee in April 2022. In April 2024, the […]

Abstract: In contexts of collective victimization such as settler colonialism in Canada, recognizing bothhistorical and ongoing victimization, as well as supporting reparations measures, is crucial for healingthe relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and for propelling reconciliationefforts forward. While most non-Indigenous Canadians recognize the historical victimization ofIndigenous peoples, fewer acknowledge ongoing victimization of Indigenous communities […]

Description: The remarkable story of Edward McCabe, a Black man who tried to establish a Black state within the United States. In this paradigm-shattering work of American history, Caleb Gayle recounts the extraordinary tale of Edward McCabe, a Black man who championed the audacious idea to create a state within the Union governed by and for […]

Abstract: Property (in its currently most powerful form) is made through the violence of dispossession. Property-making requires the transformation of landscape; prior residents, both human and nonhuman, are no longer welcome. This process is particularly clear in ‘frontiers’, that is, places where property is in formation through the displacement of Indigenous peoples and ecologies. This […]