Abstract: Did local taxes levied by the Upper Canadian parliament from 1793 apply to Indigenous communities in the colony? Only in 1850 did colonial legislation give an answer by exempting Indigenous peoples from taxes on real and personal property and from statute labour, provided they resided on “Indian” lands. Yet Indigenous leaders had always denied […]

Abstract: This article considers what role and responsibility historians may have when faced with settler society’s tendency to be freshly shocked each time it learns (again) about a colonial horror from its past that was, in fact, already long well known by many. Following an introduction, my argument unfolds in five sections. First, I engage […]

Abstract: We examine how the settlement of Europeans in the Americas was shaped by colonial processes. We specifically discuss the role of Swedish migrants in relation to processes of settlement in the border regions between Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia during the beginning of the twentieth century. We focus on migrants who settled in different parts […]

Excerpt: Canada’s most enduring violence against Indigenous women and their descendants is currently written into Canada’s federal legislation: policies that have long targeted Indigenous women and their descendants with discrimination and erasure. My engagement with this work is rooted in personal experience, and I begin with a brief positionality statement to explain how my own […]

Abstract: While scientists have sounded the alarm regarding anthropocentrically-fueled climate change for decades, global governmental and even smaller-scale responses to slow or halt this process have sometimes been sluggish or wholly ineffective. Yet Indigenous Peoples whose homes are on lands claimed by the United States, particularly coastal Peoples, have been engaging with climate change’s effects […]

Excerpt: Inuit have an interconnected and inter-reliant relationship with the land, waters, and ice across their homelands which include Kalaallit Nunaat/ Greenland, Canada, Alaska (United States), and Chukotka (Russia). Drastic changes in the Arctic place Inuit on the frontlines of climate change. Thawing permafrost and eroding coastlines undermine built infrastructure and entire Inuit communities face […]

Abstract: In 1755–63, the British empire expelled Acadians from Nova Scotia and other regions where they lived. Ronnie-Gilles LeBlanc argues that understanding this tragic period of 1755–63 requires the consideration of the period of 1749–55 as part of the process toward the Acadian expulsion. This paper goes further back in time and argues that understanding […]

Abstract: This article explores the history of colonial urban planning and the control policies over “indigenous” populations implemented by the French authorities in the nineteenth-century Algeria. Focusing on the case of the city of Sidi Bel Abbès and its indigenous village, this work offers a detailed analysis of colonial territorial management practices, examining their stakes, […]

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Abstract: As climate change’s impacts are felt more acutely by Indigenous communities across the planet, settler environmentalists are beginning to acknowledge colonial land theft as a major contributor to the climate crisis. In response, some settlers have begun supporting Indigenous demands for Land Back. Because we reproduce the dominant worldview that perpetuates and reflects Canada’s […]