Abstract: This article introduces the Third Space of Indian child welfare to theorize how Indigenous nations simultaneously engage and disrupt settler legal systems while building sovereign, care-based alternatives. Drawing from legal analysis, Indigenous political thought, and sociohistorical synthesis, I trace the historical continuity from boarding schools to today’s foster care removals, showing how child welfare […]

Abstract: The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assumed that the model required no significant modification to be applied in this new context and built local groups and conducted protests in ways that were […]

Abstract: This commentary responds to Van Sant and Fairbairn’s invitation to consider the meanings, potentials, and pitfalls of land access struggles in settler colonial contexts. Drawing on teachings from the field of critical Indigenous studies, I suggest that the developing idea of a right to the rural may be incommensurable with movements for Indigenous sovereignty, […]

Description: Growing up, Rebecca Clarren only knew the major plot points of her tenacious immigrant family’s origins. Her great-great-grandparents, the Sinykins, and their six children fled antisemitism in Russia and arrived in the United States at the turn of the 20th century, ultimately settling on a 160-acre homestead in South Dakota. Over the next few […]

Excerpt: Celebration of the Ordinance—the original organic law of the states that would be carved out of the new nation’s northern borderlands—was overshadowed by simultaneous celebration of the drafting of the federal Constitution. Historically, local patriots took pride in the coincidence of national and regional beginnings. In the free land north and west of the […]

Excerpt: But let me first indicate that my discussion rests on the premise that, despitethe talk of the demons of the place and ghost of dead Indians, the book presentsa cogent historical narrative tracing the history of the United States since thecolonial days. For all its idiosyncratic language, Lawrence’s approach seemsessentially in line with that […]

Abstract: Background: Indigenous Peoples have been reported to experience higher rates of stroke, poorer access to high-quality acute and rehabilitation stroke services, and worse post- stroke outcomes compared to dominant cultures residing in the same countries. The aim of this statement is to summarise available evidence on access barriers contributing to these inequities, effective solutions that […]

Abstract: This article examines the political impact of two rounds of arbitrary expulsions of white and Asian British citizens by the Kenyan government—first in 1964, and then in 1967. It analyses the consolidation of the relationship between the British and Kenyan states after the latter’s independence in 1963, and the evolving position of the white […]

Abstract: The author of this article contends that current digital research methodologies tend to extract and commodify knowledge in ways that can replicate social, cultural, racial, economic, and global inequities. This article presents an Indigenous approach to digital methodology, including examples of posts to Facebook, Instagram, and Bluesky, as well as algorithmic search results. Finally, […]

Abstract: This dissertation argues that Indigenous peoples use national parks both spatially andimaginatively to maintain a continuum of place-based community and innovate tribal expression.It thus restores the national park as a site crucial for exploring the intersections betweenIndigenous and modernist studies. The Indigenous studies aspect inheres in how the parks wereterritorialized by the U.S. government […]