Abstract: For the entirety of their existence, the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia attempted to prevent entirely Indigenous peoples’ access to alcohol. Almost all historians who have worked in this period touch on the liquor issue, but none have set out to fully explain the means by which this control was enacted, and […]

Abstract: This paper examines how an Asian American family engages with waste through walking on Indigenous land in the Midwest United States. Drawing on six months of autoethnographic inquiry using the Learning in Places curriculum, I trace how a Chinese American mother and child encounter waste across Minnesota suburban wetlands, urban parkways, a Dakota sacred […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the history of a small colonization reserve to ask how prairie land becomes known and accepted primarily as settler agricultural space even if vaguely understood, at some level, as Indigenous land. The land in question – designated for Mennonite migrants to Manitoba from Imperial Russia in 1875 and often referred to […]

Abstract: Native American people occupy a unique sociohistorical context within the United States that can render invisible in the modern cultural sphere. This project attempts to investigate the ways that the invisibility of contemporary Native American people contributes to the continuation of the settler colonial project of Indigenous elimination. It is argued that the lack […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism is a power structure that relies on reinforcement through schooling. Because middle school is where most students learn the bulk of their K-12 instruction in U.S. history, middle school history classes serve as a powerful site for disrupting harmful settler colonial narratives. But many non-Indigenous teachers, who represent the demographic majority of […]

Abstract: Democracy is a fraught concept in the realm of Indigenous politics. In its western, statecentric forms, it is used to justify colonial and imperialist violence across the globe. While in some of its earliest Indigenous forms, it constitutes a way of being that rejects constitutions of violence and fosters care-centric world-building. Oppression of children […]

Abstract: Current trusteeship-style proposals for Gaza and accelerated annexation-by-regulation in the West Bank demand an integrated analysis of Palestine. Drawing on Palestinian settler-colonial scholarship and 44 interviews, this article develops the spatial–temporal ‘fold’ as a decolonial geographical heuristic for reading Gaza and the West Bank together. It argues that Gaza’s near-total enclosure and the West […]

Abstract: This paper examines the construction of the figure of the “indigenous woman” in Mexico and its instrumentalization in the consolidation of colonialism. Arguments are offered to support the thesis that both colonialism and certain feminist discourses have used the categorical construct of the “indigenous woman” to justify a civilizing process that perpetuates historical power […]

Abstract: The concept of the Japanese nation, the “identity” of the Japanese people, and the external and internal political, ethnic, and historical relationships Japan has fostered have often been precariously feeble. These concepts, I argue, are especially prevalent regarding Japan’s relationship with the Ainu, the peoples Indigenous to Japan’s northernmost island, in Hokkaido. From the […]

Abstract: This article takes up settler colonialism in Canada as operating within a ‘bionecropolitical’ structure, the main aim of which is the possession of land. The structure excludes-yet-retains Indigenous peoples toward that aim, absorbing into state-sanctioned institutional processes what can reify its legitimacy, and rejecting whatever threatens it. One method for achieving this is moralizing […]