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Abstract: British Columbia (BC), Canada is repeatedly identified as ‘ground zero’ for climate injustices. These impacts are seen internationally and experienced locally through increased severity and intensity of wildfires. What international audiences do not see, however, is the role that insurance plays in the aftermath of wildfires—particularly the ways that insurance widens pre-existing social and […]
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Description: The second edition of Being Indigenous presents perspectives from 24 Indigenous scholars who share their knowledge on the interconnected fabric of activism, culture, language, and identity that defines Indigenous existence in the twenty-first century. The book explores personal narratives, cultural traditions, and resistance strategies of Indigenous peoples from 11 countries. This expanded edition features significant updates […]
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Abstract: This article advocates for Indigenous-led mobile experiences in teacher education as an effective strategy for preparing teachers to disrupt settler colonialism. Using qualitative methods, we analyze a summer institute that took 25 in-service teachers on a journey led by Indigenous educators along the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail. The teachers’ embodied movement across […]
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Description: In The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and enduring incubators of Marcus Garvey’s Black nationalist Universal Negro Improvement Association […]
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Abstract: Singular understandings of racialized experiences are insufficient to advance our understanding of mental health disparities. Perceived racial misclassification (PRM), a perceived discrepancy between one’s socially assigned and self-assigned racial identity, is one such emergent culturally relevant stressor with significant health implications. Evidence suggests that Native American and Alaska Native (NA/AN) individuals experience the highest […]
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Abstract: Background: Links between maternal exposure to child removal by child protective services and increased mortality have been identified in the general population. However, this association has not been examined in First Nations mothers, who are disproportionately intervened upon by this system. Our study aimed to quantify the relationship between child removal and mortality in […]
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Abstract: This essay returns to the persistent problem of fractionation—or extreme coownership—within Indigenous-owned trust allotments and argues that fractionation is a structural feature of the specialized federal trust property regime that applies uniquely in Indian country, not an administrative glitch. The Department of the Interior recently completed a ten-year land buyback program funded by its […]
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Abstract: The thesis examines how the destabilization of food security and the diminishment of food sovereignty occurred for the Blackfoot Peoples in Treaty 7 (the Blackfoot Treaty) territory between 1877 and 1913. Using an ethnographic archival approach, I analyze documents from Library and Archives Canada and the Galt Museum. The study focuses on three areas: […]
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Abstract: Transitions research commonly assumes the dominant Western paradigm of modern ontology and its ideological colonial and capitalist relations. Yet these assumptions, left uninterrogated, endanger the emancipatory and liberatory potential heralded by new energy futures within just transitions, eliding decolonial futurities that honour tenets of Indigenous resurgence as well as truth and reconciliation. In colonized […]
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