Abstract: In this paper, I engage with Tuck and Yang’s (2012) work on settler moves to innocence in the case of racialized immigrants in settler colonial societies. Drawing on interviews and sharing circles with immigrants to a mid-sized Canadian city, I develop the concept racialized settler moves to worthiness, wherein immigrants and refugees attempt to […]

Abstract: This article examines Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) as an understudied 1990s revisionist Western. It argues that the film marks a critical moment in Hollywood’s evolving portrayal of the “Indian Wars.” It demonstrates how the film reveals the structural violence of U.S. expansion through a historically grounded depiction of Apache resistance and how the film […]

Abstract: In the 1890s a small group of Japanese men settled in a Pacific Island group of Truk (today called Chuuk, located within the federated states of Micronesia). The settlers, who found home in several of the islets surrounded by one of the world’s largest coral reef lagoons, arrived a few decades before the islands […]

Abstract: This article traces Indigenous land disputes in nineteenth-century Brazil, centering on a claim from a small village in northern Brazil in the 1820s and the 1830s. It analyzes how a local Indigenous community fought in court to annul an aforamento, a practice similar to land leasing, conceded to the settler Mateus Severino de Avelar. […]

Description: The 1870s was a time of rapid transformation for the province of Manitoba. Though reeling from the aftermath of the Red River Resistance and ongoing oppression of the Métis community, at the onset of the decade the province was still an Indigenous space. However, by the decade’s close, settler hands firmly grasped power structures […]

Excerpt: Settler, it might seem, is easy to define. It is someone who takes up residence in someone else’s home. When settler is tied to an economic intention to exploit, occupy, or otherwise encroach upon other people’s land we find ourselves in the terrain of settler colonialism.

Abstract: In 1885, Sweden introduced a new Conscription Act that explicitly exempted nomadic Sámi from compulsory military training. This article investigates the governmental rationalities and discursive constructions underpinning this exemption, situating it within broader processes of nation-state formation, racialization, and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Sweden. Drawing on official documents and archival material from 1872–1901, the […]

Abstract: The emerging field of urban Indigenous heritage seeks to correct the omission of Indigenous cultural antecedents in urban historical narratives. This paper examines the 2023 City of Lethbridge/Sikóóhkotok Heritage Management Plan – the first in the city’s history to incorporate Indigenous heritage. While heritage management plans commonly focus on processes and protocols for designating […]

Abstract: A long tumultuous history between Indigenous Peoples and police continues to negatively impact Indigenous Peoples in the criminal justice system to this day. In collaboration with the Portland Committee on Community-Engaged Policing, the current research explored how Indigenous-police interactions are represented in news, social media and scholarly literature. A content analysis was conducted on […]

Abstract: This chapter considers the relationship between international law (IL) and race from the perspective of settler colonialism. Drawing on Marxist theory, the discussion frames race as a process of abstraction. From this perspective, IL can be understood as a ‘raced discourse’ insofar as it elaborates juridical categories which are premised on a set of […]