Abstract: DNA analysis provides ranked probabilities of our kinship to specific ethnic, racial, and national groups, and with one another individually, without absolute reliability. By contrast, inherited ancestral stories remain a strong indicator of one’s identity, including cultural views and practices related to the so-called natural world. My family role is to remember cherished family […]

Description: Drawing on group position theory, settler colonial studies, critical race theory, and Indigenous theorizing, Canada at a Crossroads emphasizes the social psychological barriers to transforming white settler ideologies and practices and working towards decolonization. After tracing settlers’ sense of group superiority and entitlement to historical and ongoing colonial processes, Denis illustrates how contemporary Indigenous and settler […]

Description: Kris Manjapra weaves together the study of colonialism over the past 500 years, across the globe’s continents and seas. This captivating work vividly evokes living human histories, introducing the reader to manifestations of colonialism as expressed through war, militarization, extractive economies, migrations and diasporas, racialization, biopolitical management, and unruly and creative responses and resistances […]

Abstract:This article explores the complexities of settler relations within the context of an academic conference hosted by Indigenous hosts and inclusive of Indigenous ceremony and content. The authors explore a range of questions related to their settler identities as participants in the conference. How are we as settlers to engage in a conference entitled “CYC […]

Excerpt: People will often say hunting is the reason they own firearms, but the underlying structural reason, whether acknowledged or not, has more to do with white settler fears of racial rebellion. Indeed, the NRA—the most politically influential gun organization—isn’t powerful because it has a lot money to spend, but rather because it markets gun ownership as a means […]

Abstract: In August 2018, Ken Wilson completed Wood Mountain Walk, the first in a series of walking performances he intends to conduct—some solo, some with other people—in Treaty 4 territory in southern Saskatchewan over the next two years. “Wood Mountain Walk and the Possibilities of Decolonization through Relationships with People and Land in Solo Walking Performance” examines […]

Abstract: This article analyzes two 2018 performance events organized by the Labrador Land Protectors, a grassroots collective currently advocating against the construction of a massive hydroelectric generating facility at Muskrat Falls, Labrador, through a movement that has come to be known as Make Muskrat Right. The first event, In Loving Memory, staged a mock memorial […]

Excerpt: This environmental awareness arises from a community-based Chicana/o epistemology rather than from the “higher education of the Gringo value system.” In fact, this contrast in relationships to the natural world marks Chicana/o difference from white society. “The failings of the Gringo society,” says Vasquez, occur “because in all of its technology it does not […]

Abstract: Mōteatea are the orally sung literature and one of its most famous composers was Ngāti Tuwharetoa and Ngāti Maniapoto’s Puhiwahine. This paper will explore the political philosophy and theory contained within Puhiwahine’s waiata pakanga (war song) ‘Mā Wai Rā’ written for Ngāti Toa relations particularly their war leader, Te Rangihaeata. The observations from these […]

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