Tag: Colonialism

Official laws and social norms are wielded as tools of control to preserve urban parks as spaces for middle-class white settlers. Jessica DeWitt reviews On this Patch of Grass: City Parks on Occupied Land by Matt Hern, Selena Couture, Daisy Couture, and Sadie Couture.

In Ontario’s Indigenous child welfare agencies, the superficial trappings of culture take the place of policies that would grant jurisdiction over Indigenous children to Indigenous families, individuals, and communities.

Josephine Pelletier was shot to death by Calgary police in May. Her life and death shed light on the complicated interplay between colonialism, incarceration, and police brutality. This is her story.

Thirty years after the Morgentaler decision, reproductive rights fall short of full reproductive justice – including the freedom to have and raise children in safe and healthy communities.

In her new book, Seven Fallen Feathers, journalist Tanya Talaga delves into the stories of seven Indigenous students in Thunder Bay whose lives were cut short.

Harm reduction workers are building the infrastructure to respond to the opioid crisis.

Indigenous peoples have been battling Windigo – a haunting, cannibalistic beast – for far longer than 150 years. Windigo is at the core of the Canadian government and society, and the best defence against it is Indigenous resurgence.

Idle No More–Kingston/Katarokwi is building momentum against the celebrations around John A. Macdonald and Canada 150.

Out of a history of colonial food weaponization emerges a thriving movement of Indigenous food sovereignty.

How does the settler state use the legal apparatus of inquests to justify colonialism?

The National Energy Board is the regulatory body that determines whether (and which) pipelines will pump bitumen across Canada. As an extension of a colonial project that violates Indigenous land and consent, the NEB is up against Indigenous women and their allies leading the fight against pipelines.

Winner of the 2016 Writing in the Margins Contest for creative non-fiction.

Excerpt from Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism and History, published by Verso in 1992, 2015.

With the support of a new government program, trappers are reviving the traditional economy in the Northwest Territories.

A call to action from Feeding My Family.

Students from the Okanagan Valley mobilize for Ayotzinapa

Is Indigenous land reclamation a form of environmentalism? How does Indigenous resurgence relate to left-wing political traditions?