Abstract: This dissertation challenges the long-standing historical narrative that the Lipan Apache disappeared in the late nineteenth century. Instead, it argues that the non-reservation Lipan Apache survived through strategic adaptation, mobility, kinship networks, and cultural continuity across the United States-Mexico borderlands. By examining the Lipan experience under Spanish colonial rule, Mexican governance, the Republic of […]

Abstract: This article examines Bill 96 (now Law 14; 2022), a language law enforcing French as the official language of Québec, in relation to language hierarchization and Indigenous dispossession. While this bill impacts all non-French speaking individuals in Québec, it carries especially important implications for the Indigenous Peoples residing on this territory whose languages are […]

Description: This open access book and examines how far-right dog whistles fuel real-world colonial violence in Settler America. Contemporary attacks like the El Paso Walmart and Buffalo Tops shootings are not isolated acts of extremism—they are direct extensions of an ongoing settler colonial logic, echoing historical massacres like Sand Creek in their targeting of Indigenous, Black, […]

Abstract: This dissertation develops a sociological account of colonial settlement by examining the historical formation and contemporary operation of the Israeli settler–state compact in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It asks how political projects that instrumentalize violence are carried out when the actors who advance them occupy disparate social and institutional locations, and how variable coordination […]

Abstract: This Article is the first work of legal scholarship to examine Turkish population transfers in northern Syria, which constitute perhaps the most aggressive movement of settler populations into occupied territory in current times. In particular, it examines the lawfulness of such movements under Article 49(6) of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which prohibits an occupying […]

Description: Do people have special rights in a place if they are one of the locals? The belief that they do is common worldwide. Yet, entitlement to place has little role in most accounts of migration politics. Instead, accounts of migration politics are a showdown between culture and economics, in-group identities and material incentives. Strangers and […]

Abstract: Feral, pest, savage, invaders: cats have long been painted as the villains in Australian histories, continuing to wreak havoc on biodiversity and the welfare of prized ‘native’ species. But where do these ideas come from? Could it be that selective ecological narratives have presented a simplistic account of feline pasts and presents, obfuscating the […]

Abstract: This article offers a critical Indigenous analysis of the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017, celebrated as an innovative fusion of Māori cosmology and Western law through the legal personhood of the river. While positioned as a hallmark of bicultural partnership, the Act exemplifies bicultural containment – a state strategy that symbolically […]

Abstract: In an age when social media is fully embedded within the human experience and identity, it also offers up opportunities for the re-enactment of dispossession and the development of stigma. In this article, I examine data from the remote Central Australian town of Alice Springs’ social media forums, describing a novel medium via which […]

Abstract: As part of the promotional literature for the Society of American Indians (SAI), Secretary Arthur C. Parker ended a recruitment letter with the salutation, “Yours for a united race.” On a draft of this letter, he crossed out the last three words and hand-wrote “progress.” This change calls into question the meaning of unity […]