Abstract: Building on the idea of religion and science as conceptual maps of intellectual territory, I use a settler colonial analysis as a framework for thinking about decolonizing religion and science in a way that moves away from abstraction and towards action; addressing not just the ideas, but the tools of control—the fences—that impose ideas […]

Abstract: Within the broader project of studying early Indigenous literatures in Canada, this dissertation attends to Anishinaabe and Nêhiyaw discourse in government reports, missionary letters and diaries, newspapers, and other forms written between 1815 and 1874 to trace the range of ways Indigenous people responded to changing exigencies in their environments from mihkwâkamîw-sîpiy, miskwaagaamiwi-ziibi (Red […]

Abstract: In this dissertation, I propose the Settler Doctrine to position federal Indian law as profoundly determined by and organized around the legal, historical, and mythical entanglements between land, religion, and indigeneity. Neither land, religion, nor indigeneity are given natural categories. They emerged as anthropological concepts, pop culture fantasies, colonial myths, racist categories, and legal […]

Abstract: This thesis uses the concept of the settler imaginary to conduct a critical discourse analysis of113 news articles covering the Wet’suwet’en-CGL conflict. Specifically, I engage with 3 researchquestions: 1) What are the narratives that frame Wet’suwet’en dispossession as legal or “just”? 2)How does mainstream media express understandings of territory and resource rights in thecontext […]

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Abstract: There has been a marked rise in the discourse of recognition in global state politics in the last four decades. In many ways, recognition has ‘become a key word of our time’. Indigenous scholars on Turtle Island note that the Canadian state has a history of using recognition as a strategy to appear to […]

Abstract: This article explores how indigenous Sakha intellectuals responded to Russian colonialism during a period of transformation in the Sakha (Yakut) region. It examines the impact of penal and resource colonialism in the late nineteenth century, the response of local intellectuals to potential settler colonialism in the early twentieth century, and their efforts to transition […]

Description: The history of Russian Germans (Russlanddeutsche) is one of intensive mobility across space and time. Today, the descendants of eighteenth-century German-speaking settlers in the Russian Empire live on four continents: Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In this volume, authors from the fields of history, sociology, cultural studies, and sociolinguistics analyze key issues […]

Abstract: What does the production of public leisure space tell us about the 20th century mechanics of settler colonial dispossession? In the second half of the twentieth century, the nascent State of Hawaii expanded and developed its state parks system in an effort to enhance public leisure and natural resource conservation. In turn, several sites […]

Abstract: This article demonstrates how Indigenous comic creators disrupt or reclaim the conventions of comics in four works: The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book by Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw), 7 Generations: A Plains Cree Saga by David Alexander Robertson (Cree), Deer Woman: A Vignette by Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis), and Dakwäkãda Warriors by Cole Pauls (Tahltan). These comics use innovative paneling to expose […]