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Abstract: This Special Issue presents articles that empirically and theoretically explores the central arguments of Catherine Dauvergne’s 2016 book The New Politics and the End of Settler Societies. This multidisciplinary issue comprises five research articles and a closing commentary from Catherine Dauvergne, exploring migration‐related events that have taken place since 2015. As a whole, these articles […]

Abstract: Violence against Indigenous individuals and the land is exacerbated by the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Such violence stems from and is sustained by structures of settler colonialism. Analyzing RISE (2017), a documentary television series which followed the Standing Rock occupation, I argue the Water Protectors enacted their inherent sovereignty through strategies of survivance that delinked from […]

Abstract: This article examines the pitfalls and potentialities of the recent inclusion of indigenous nations in the strategic videogame series Europa Universalis and Civilization. By making protagonists of dynamic indigenous nations—and putting them on the same plane as the nations of Europe and Asia—newer entries in these series encourage players to think of indigenous polities […]

Abstract: The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) is an influential organization that has opposed Indigenous peoples’ treaty harvesting rights and land claims for allegedly threatening conservation and egalitarian values. Using data from twenty semi-structured interviews and the OFAH’s official documents, this paper analyses and compares the views on treaty rights between the OFAH […]

Description: This book explores the history of public land tenure records, which first began in colonial Massachusetts as English settlers and Native Americans tried to resolve differing ideas about rights to land in the seventeenth century. In South Australia, a similar method of state certification of land ownership arose in the nineteenth century, through Torrens system […]

Abstract: African American families participated in frontier settlement of the American West …

Abstract: This article addresses employment/unemployment engagement experiences of Indigenous peoples living in a region of present-day southwestern Ontario, as well as the wider socioeconomic, cultural, and historical contexts of those experiences. The qualitative research study that informs this paper was conducted with and at the request of an Indigenous organization in southwestern Ontario with the […]

Excerpt: Settler colonialism is a form of imperialism wherein colonizers occupy and remain on stolen colonized land, recreating the social structures, economic systems and political power within that region. Colonialism creates power structures, and colonizers’ intent is to control, dominate and overtake land for the purposes of securing greater wealth and power. The goal of […]

Abstract: Nation state building, competing sovereign claims, the capitalist drive for land and resources fuelled by international market forces and prevalent racial ideologies can be identified as major structural factors that leads to the dispossession of indigenous lands and in many cases to the physical destruction of indigenous peoples. In this context settler colonial studies […]