Kris InwoodNow that most of Gaza has been destroyed, the NYT is finally saying something critical about Israel's genocidal campaign https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/world/middleeast/israel-idf-soldiers-war-social-media-video.html
Daniel Rück
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historian who believes we can do better, I study settler colonial history, Canada-Indigenous relations, environmental history, Kitchissippi (Ottawa River) history, settler, he/him
Reclaiming Indigenous place names is a powerful vehicle for narrating history & inscribing the landscape with meaning, just as colonial place names and naming practices have contributed to colonial stories about the land and its inhabitants. Still relevant in many colonized regions. See brief by @danrueck & Christina Gray https://yellowheadinstitute.org/2019/10/08/reclaiming-indigenous-place-names/
#Indigenous #landscape #naming #colonialism #GIS #econhist #maps #history
#Indigenous #landscape #naming #colonialism #GIS #econhist #maps #history
Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names - Yellowhead Institute
Indigenous peoples in Canada are working to restore their place names and revitalize their languages after colonial policies and law sought to eradicate them. This brief offers several examples of Indigenous nations who are actively reclaiming jurisdiction to their lands, and provide recommendations for how federal and provincial/territorial governments can help to undo some of these past harms and injustices.
@serial killed, wounded, and missing.
100,000 Gazans killed, wounded, or missing and presumed dead (of a total population of 2 million). 60% of buildings in Gaza damaged and destroyed. And rather than pressuring Israel to stop this slaughter, Canada is contributing to it. https://www.cjpme.org/landing_reverse_unrwa_cuts
Our faculty marketing folks put together a nice feature on my experience with Kaniehti:io Horn turning The Laws and the Land into an audiobook https://www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/professors-award-winning-book-has-opportunity-become-audio-book
Nos responsables de marketing ont écrit un article sur mon expérience avec Kaniehti:io Horn, transformant The Laws and the Land en un livre audio. https://www.uottawa.ca/fr/toutes-nouvelles/livre-prime-dun-professeur-possibilite-devenir-livre-audio
The title is "The continuity of settler colonial narratives: the diary of a nineteenth-century dominion land surveyor and the enduring language of harm"
I have a new article in the journal Settler Colonial Studies. Check it out! If you don't have access, let me know and I'll share. https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/MY4UJABI7HQFBP2XYUEQ/full?target=10.1080/2201473X.2023.2288789
Here's the website for Karihwanoron Mohawk Immersion https://www.karihwanoron.com/
The Laws and the Land audiobook is now available on Audible. All proceeds will be donated to Karihwanoron Kanienkeha Owenna Tsi Ionteriwaienstahkwa, a Kanienʼkéha immersion program for Kahnawà:ke kids. https://www.audible.com/pd/B0C63FVDLK/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-352060&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_352060_rh_us
The Laws and the Land
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. As the settler state of Canada expanded into Indigenous lands, settlers dispossessed Indigenous people and undermined their sovereignty as nations. One site of invasion was Kahnawà:ke, a Kanien’kehá:ka community and part of the Rotino...