Excerpt: ‘Well, as you know, it has been a lifelong or career-long preoccupation of mine as a citizen of a Native nation located in what we currently call the United States to do academic and political work in what we now refer to as Latin America. I have long been frustrated by the lack of […]

Abstract: In 2019, the province of Manitoba started a process of reforming the education system, however it is important to question the role of white settler colonialism in this process. This critical discourse analysis examined how white settler colonialism is normalized and advanced through the discourses found in selected Manitoba education reform documents. Contrasting discourses […]

Abstract: This paper embarks on a comparative analysis of land alienation in three settler colonies namely Kenya, Zimbabwe and South Africa. This article is a five-part work. The first part of this work highlights the definitions and importance of land studies in Africa. Land as a factor of production is the mother of all crises […]

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Abstract: This article explores the postwar racialization of socionatural metabolisms as Michigan consolidated its capacities to regulate water pollution in the St. Clair–Detroit River corridor. These unceded waters flow through the traditional territories of the Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi, Mississauga, and Wyandot nations, as well as the heavily industrialized, urbanized, and racially segregated geographies of southeast […]

Abstract: After the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision in 2020, Oklahoma’s statehood became the subject of intense legal scrutiny regarding the supposed “disestablishment” of American Indian reservations. The State’s position follows a playbook all too familiar to citizens of Indian Country, resurfacing antiquated beliefs about what it means to be a tribal citizen and misrepresenting the […]

Abstract: The main argument of this article is that the attacks on the gender and sexuality structures of Indigenous populations can be a form of settler colonial genocide. By highlighting gender’s cultural embeddedness, historicity, and relation to colonization, I provide evidence of the potential of challenging the assumptions around the term. By destabilizing gender and […]

Abstract: At the beginning of Saskatchewan’s homesteading period, from 1880 to 1910, theHomesteading Hero Myth – a narrative that celebrates the courageous white farmer who enteredan unknown landscape and faced numerous hardships, only to succeed in breaking the land andcreating home – took shape. The Homesteading Hero Myth presents agricultural development ofSaskatchewan land as an […]

Abstract: In this article, I theorize an Indigenous media framework drawn from conversations with journalists and Indigenous activists in Guåhan (Guam). I refer to this framework as I Fanhigaiyan, a Fino’CHamoru (CHamoru language) term which can mean a thing which weaves or a place for weaving. This term captures the essence of CHamoru (the Indigenous people of the […]

Abstract: TikTok, an app which allows users to create, share, and consume short-video content, is largely considered to be a “cultural aspect” of the ongoing 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. With its skyrocketing popularity, TikTok is quickly surpassing other forms of social media to become the dominant digital platform for those under 30. Accordingly, physical and online […]