Abstract: Any attempt to set rigid boundaries around assimilative education is likely to misrepresent the varied experiences within Indigenous boarding schools, the relations between Indigenous communities and the school and the specific interactions of staff and students, among other factors. While for many a term like genocide captures the destructive ends sought through these schools, […]

Abstract: In 1879, the U.S. government embarked upon a program to assimilate thousands of Native American children who were taken from their homes and sent to off-reservation boarding schools managed by federal officials. These schools were designed to destroy the connections between Native children and their lands, isolate them from their families, and divorce them […]

Abstract: This thesis discusses settler colonialism in Hawaiʻi, paying particular attention to the inclusion of Pacific Islanders as settlers within the discourse. In particular, I concentrate on Tongans in Hawaiʻi, whilst situating this work within a broader Oceanic literature couched within Pacific Islands Studies. By examining literature on indigeneity, settler colonialism, empire, and Indigenous politics, […]

Abstract: This article examines the primary means by which Israeli settler colonialism has appropriated and reconfigured Jerusalem since 1948—discursively no less than physically. It analyzes how the Jewish state, building on the colonial suppositions and discourses of the pre-1948 Zionist movement, has sought to efface Palestinian attachments to and histories in this contested urban realm. […]

Abstract: This study explores the disparity between psychiatric interventions and the lived experience of problematic drinking, which is a critical global mental health issue, including in an indigenous area in Northern Taiwan. This strategically situated three-year ethnographic study on a hospital’s jiejiu project highlights the dilemma of current health interventions that target indigenous people who drink under settler-colonial […]

Abstract: The chapter describes a genealogy of Marxist approaches to continental colonialism in North America. Colonialism is understood in political-economic terms as long-term, ongoing process of the incorporation of indigenous societies into the capitalist market. Such incorporation happened not only through the enforcement of colonial economic structures from the outside but also through the internal conscious […]

Abstract: The relationship between Indigenous people and the Canadian state has long been framed by the logic of settler colonialism. The current Canadian government has made verbal and some political commitments to decolonize this relationship. While decolonization in a settler state is particularly challenging, both government and Indigenous representatives agree that historic and contemporary treaties […]

Abstract: This article explores the intersectional identities of Indigenous peoples who may walk the path “in-between” Indigenous and settler nationhood, and the implications that reside in that ethically ambiguous space. Employing the use of personal narrative, poetry,1 and decolonizing perspectives, this work positions identity as a politicized construct that continues to surveil Indigenous bodies, marking them […]

Conclusion: Childhood racial discrimination may have a biological toll on adult health through altered activation of the stress response system which could, over time, exacerbate health inequities in this population. High Indigenous cultural continuity served as a resilience factor that buffered the adverse impacts of childhood discrimination on adult AL score.

Excerpt: As I become more informed about Wabanaki ancestral knowledges, I do my best to incorporate them into my communitybased, action-oriented research endeavours. This has made it clear to me that Wabanaki concepts of health and wellness are directly linked to land and water. Thus, it is vitally important to me that my research includes […]