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Ne kwin dist ggan (the light is lit again) : healing trauma in the Wet'suwet'en Nation with Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy

open access: yes, 2021
Contemporary Indigenous mental health research is beginning to address colonization, contextualizing Indigenous health within a history of colonial relationships and inadequate mental health responses.
Panofsky, Sarah
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Indigenous Futurities: Theorizing Futurity in the Past and Present

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 2, Page 330-338, June 2026.
ABSTRACT Over the past 20 years, a growing number of activists, scholars, writers, and visual artists have engaged with futurism as a framework for representing the lives of Indigenous peoples. Inspired by this hopeful reframing of the past‐present‐future, contributions to this special section of American Anthropologist address the question: How can ...
Lindsay Martel Montgomery   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laying Waste: Pre‐Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
ABSTRACT Pre‐emption, a legal instrument allowing settlers to acquire Indigenous land via occupation and improvement, is a vital means of colonial dispossession in North America, yet has received relatively little critical attention. Our analysis outlines its significance, shedding new light on the way in which private property power and state ...
Brenna Bhandar, Nicholas Blomley
wiley   +1 more source

Indigenous Environmental Activism and Media Depiction

open access: yesCanada and Beyond
Media bias is a reality of the infoglut we are bombarded with every day. However, we often consider bias to be consigned to the textual realm of information. I argue that anything human-mediated holds bias, including photographs.
Raphaela G O Pavlakos
doaj   +1 more source

The Managed Erosion of Conservation Priorities for Pacific Salmon

open access: yesConservation Letters, Volume 19, Issue 3, May/June 2026.
ABSTRACT Conservation policies worldwide promise to halt biodiversity loss, yet implementation frequently lags intent. We examine this disconnect through wild Pacific salmon (Oncorhynchus spp.) in Canada, where sustained declines have occurred despite the federal Wild Salmon Policy and legal protections available under the Species at Risk Act.
Michael H. H. Price   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Rite of Water: Other‐Than‐Human Refusals in the Bow Valley

open access: yesAntipode, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT In the summer of 2013, the Bow River in Southern Alberta, Canada, experienced a significant high‐water event caused by a large rainstorm, which had widespread impacts on infrastructure throughout its watershed. However, viewed through an other‐than‐human lens, these moments of infrastructural disruption caused by the high waters can be ...
Tiffany Kaewen Dang
wiley   +1 more source

Bake Sales to Save Nature: Why Wall Street Conservation Survives

open access: yesDevelopment and Change, Volume 57, Issue 1, Page 3-26, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Academics have spent decades analysing the harms and failures of market and finance‐led biodiversity policy. Yet, even though ‘selling nature to save it’ looks less like the promised green capitalism and more like a decades‐long bake sale in that its efforts are small, piecemeal and rely on copious amounts of cheap capital, the approach ...
Jessica Dempsey
wiley   +1 more source

Principled Experiments in Just Being: From Police Oversight to Community Intersight

open access: yesPoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, Volume 48, Issue 2, November 2025.
ABSTRACT This article compares ideals and practices of police oversight in two very different contexts—settler colonial North America and “post” colonial South Asia—to interrogate fundamental principles underlying police oversight globally and to imagine new ways of working toward transformation.
Beatrice Jauregui
wiley   +1 more source

Everything to Lose: Extraction, Racism, and Survival on Wet\u27suwet\u27en Land

open access: yes, 2022
This work critically analyzes the role of extractive industry in the continued colonization of Indigenous peoples and occupation of Indigenous lands, and examines how Indigenous resistance to oil and gas projects augments the damaging effects of fossil ...
Spice, Anne
core   +1 more source

Red Paint Resistance: A Spatial‐Temporal Case Study of Graffiti as Civil Resistance in Contemporary Settler‐Colonial Canada

open access: yesPeace &Change, Volume 50, Issue 4, Page 315-326, October 2025.
ABSTRACT Drawing from research conducted across 2021–2024, this article presents the case study of an often‐graffitied Queen Victoria statue in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. Through engaging red paint on this physical colonial monument, it is demonstrated that graffiti has the capacity to be an important method of civil resistance that can influencially ...
Eric Lepp
wiley   +1 more source

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