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 […]

Abstract: Drawing on settler colonial grammar of place, the colonial practice of naming and renaming Native land through mapmaking processes that historically deny, erase, and homogenize Indigenous communities, this essay argues that Indigenous Oaxacans disrupt settler colonial renaming of land by engaging in their community’s collective understanding of pertenencia mutua (mutual belonging)—an Indigenous Oaxacan relational consciousness of belonging […]

Abstract: In contrast to the utopian fantasies of the state, an insurgent utopia surges up from below rather than being imposed from above and is rooted in the urgency of immediate necessity, rather than in technocratic dreams of perfect social order. This chapter chronicles the emergence of an insurgent utopia in the oil-producing region of […]

Abstract: In the Winter 2020, Canada witnessed an extraordinary number of blockades and solidarityprotests in support of the Wet’suwet’en First Nation. The Wet’suwet’en had for years been fightingagainst the construction of an oil pipeline across their traditional territories. After a police raiddismantled their blockade, the traditional chiefs of the Wet’suwet’en issued a call for solidarity […]

Abstract: I offer this perspective as hope that miyo wîcêhtowin (translated as “good relations” in Plains Cree) can be established between the discipline of soil science and Indigenous Peoples in Canada. This perspective reflects on the difficult truths of why the relationship between Indigenous Peoples and soil science is primarily one of exploitation and neglect, […]

Abstract: The city of Sapporo, founded in 1869 by the Japanese government as a colonial headquarters in Hokkaido, developed as part of a global wave of settler-colonial urbanism. Like counterparts in North America and Australia, Sapporo facilitated economic, environmental and political transformations across Hokkaido that led to the displacement of Indigenous Ainu society by a […]