Description: Wardship and the Welfare State examines the ideological dimensions and practical intersections of public policy and Native American citizenship, Indian wardship, and social welfare rights after World War II. By examining Native wardship’s intersections with three pieces of mid-twentieth-century welfare legislation—the 1935 Social Security Act, the 1942 Servicemen’s Dependents Allowance Act, and the 1944 GI […]

Abstract: This paper reveals the discursive mechanisms through which generative AI reinforces societal hegemony and denies scope for Indigenous Data Sovereignty (IDS). We interrogate the implicit positionality of text-based generative AI Large Language Models (LLMs) through responses to a single ontological question: What is life’s purpose? The first answer to this question was then modified […]

Abstract: This article explores the complex relationship between Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Indigenous peoples, framing AI as an extension of colonial systems that continue to extract, distort, and commodify Indigenous knowledges, lands, and bodies. We introduce Uncle Chatty Gee and Aunty Lexi as playful yet critical personifications of ChatGPT and Perplexity AI to explore how Indigenous communities engage with […]

Excerpt: The rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) has generated debate and discussion about knowledge practices in social, political, and institutional spaces. Although the development of new data systems raises important ethical and professional practice issues, these developments also take place in a digital context informed by older colonial knowledges and systems. Technologies such as […]

Abstract: This paper offers a critical examination of how Israel employs artificial intelligence (AI) technologies under the pretext of counterterrorism to intensify the Zionist settler-colonial project and capitalist accumulation in Palestine. It focuses particularly on how AI has become integral to Israel’s settler-colonial regime, serving ideological, geopolitical, and commercial objectives while presenting these aims as […]

Abstract: In this article, we examine how settler colonization and gendered violence against Indigenous women are remembered and recorded in two archival registers: 18th-century records from the Massachusetts Archives Collection (MAC) and a 21st-century corpus of posts using the hashtag MMIW (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women) on X (formerly Twitter). These archives are shaped by […]

Description: Oktoberfest in Brazil: Domestic Tourism, Sensescapes, and German Brazilian Identity is one of the first ethnographies to analyze the tourism industry based on German cultural heritage in southern Brazil. Southern Brazil’s booming domestic tourism industry draws more than 500,000 people to events such as the Oktoberfest in Blumenau. Ricke investigates domestic tourism as sensescapes, focusing […]

Abstract: This article draws on Native feminist theories and critical settler colonial studies to analyze the role of heteropatriarchy and settler colonialism in local histories of the East Texas Pineywoods, occupied Caddo lands. Taking up accounts from the early modern colonial period alongside more contemporary examples, I conduct a feminist genealogical analysis of a Caddo […]

Abstract: This article examines Indigenous representative bodies in Australian politics from 1973 to 2005 with a particular focus on the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee, the National Aboriginal Conference, the Council for Aboriginal Development and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. The examples of these Indigenous representative bodies illustrate the pervasive settler colonialism that has […]

Excerpt: Nazi Germany’s eastern expansion has meant the Nazi goal of Lebensraum (living space) is often solely associated with Eastern Europe. However, the justifications for claiming overseas colonies by colonial enthusiasts during the Third Reich were often strikingly similar to the narratives of those who supported eastern expansion. Although Nazi Germany is heavily associated with […]