Masì to Hotıì ts'eeda and ICHR for inviting Crystal Fraser and me to talk about the How I Survived project and podcast this Friday, January 23, as part of their lunchtime learning series. Click on this link below to register for this free event: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-i-surv...

"A Perfect Square: Environmental Control and Settler Vision at Brandon Industrial School" by Taryn Goff is the latest article in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser. niche-canada.org/2025/12/02/a...

A Perfect Square: Environmental Control and Settler Vision at Brandon Industrial School

Brandon Industrial School exemplified settler-colonial control, using landscaped grounds, forced labour, and distant relocation to erase Indigenous land relationships.

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Thirty years after North of 60 first aired, Melaw Nakehk’o and Brie O’Keefe are rewatching every episode of the CBC show in a new podcast: Lynx River Revisited.

Listen: New podcast rewatches classic CBC TV show North of 60

Thirty years after North of 60 first aired, Melaw Nakehk’o and Brie O’Keefe are rewatching every episode of the CBC show in a new podcast: Lynx River Revisited.

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"Our Stories Are Science: Taylor Galvin on Land, Memory, and Indigenous Futures" is the latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/25/o... #indigenous

Our Stories Are Science: Taylor Galvin on Land, Memory, and Indigenous Futures

Taylor Galvin champions Indigenous-led science, water protection, cultural revitalization, and relationship-based environmental stewardship grounded in ancestral knowledge.

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For #NationalChildDay, catch up on our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social, to learn about the violence inflicted on Indigenous children in the residential school system niche-canada.org/tag/trc10env...

"Seasonality at the Bear Island Indian Day School" by @tweedwoodcabin.bsky.social is the latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/18/s... #envhist #cdnhist

Seasonality at the Bear Island Indian Day School

The Bear Island Indian Day School balanced Anishnabeg seasonality and colonial schooling until Ontario’s environmental policies dismantled land-based life and autonomy.

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It's Tuesday, which means another installment in the Land, Memory, Schooling series that Crystal Fraser and I are editing for @nichecanada.bsky.social.

Seasonality at the Bear Island Indian Day School

The Bear Island Indian Day School balanced Anishnabeg seasonality and colonial schooling until Ontario’s environmental policies dismantled land-based life and autonomy.

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NEW: You can now freely access the *full* introduction of our new book, The Price of Gold, on the refreshed website for @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social: www.mqup.ca/Books/T/The-...

The Price of Gold

Fifty years of gold mining at Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories spurred northern settlement and produced millions of dollars in profits. But mineral processing also had catastrophic environment...

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"These stories are part of the environmental history of Indian residential schools: a history of energy, Land, and exploitation. Remembering them means acknowledging the children who were harmed and refusing to let their labour remain invisible."

Jess Dunkin@jdunkin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.

"Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group" by Stephanie Pyne, Caléa Turner, @andrewwiebe.bsky.social, & Andrew Woolford is latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series. niche-canada.org/2025/11/11/m... #envhist #cdnhist

Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group

Collaborative mapping projects with Assiniboia Residential School Survivors use digital story maps to reclaim space, document experiences, and advance decolonization and reconciliation.

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In this week's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series on @nichecanada.bsky.social, we learn about how the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group is using a variety of innovative and collaborative map-based approaches to document, archive, and present Survivor experiences.

Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group

Collaborative mapping projects with Assiniboia Residential School Survivors use digital story maps to reclaim space, document experiences, and advance decolonization and reconciliation.

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“The U.S. military built bases and installations across Unalaska and throughout the Aleutians during WWII, then abandoned structures and equipment when forces left — including insulation with asbestos, drums of brake fluid & antifreeze, & transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs”

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · 9mo ago

Old WWII military sites still affect daily life in Unalaska — residents are changing what they hunt, fish and eat due to lingering contamination.

It's good to see attention being drawn to the social, cultural, and environmental legacies of contamination, in this case, related to WWII, but it parallels much of what the Petroleum Histories Project team is hearing from Dene and Métis about oil and gas exploration and development in the Sahtú.

Alaska Public Media@alaskapublic.org · 9mo ago

Old WWII military sites still affect daily life in Unalaska — residents are changing what they hunt, fish and eat due to lingering contamination.

"'Too Dangerous a Job': Forced Child Labour & Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School" by Blake Butler is the latest in the Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & C. Fraser niche-canada.org/2025/11/04/t...

“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School

At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.

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"Forced wood cutting and hauling at Chooutla was not a benign lesson in self-reliance. It was a system that endangered children, stole their classroom time, and transferred institutional heating costs onto their bodies."

Jess Dunkin@jdunkin.bsky.social · 9mo ago

In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.

In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.

“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School

At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.

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"Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of 'Indian Education'" by Jack Hoggarth is the latest post in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/10/28/s... #envhist #cdnhist

Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of “Indian Education”

Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.

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In the next installment in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Anishinaabe-Dinjii Zhuh scholar and intergenerational Survivor Jack Hoggarth reflects on the legacies of the residential and day school system and the persistence of Indigenous Peoples and cultures.

Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of “Indian Education”

Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.

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William Elvis Thomas, Eva Linklater, Laura Golebiowski & Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation's "So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School" The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series niche-canada.org/2025/10/21/s...

So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School

Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

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There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.

So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School

Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

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"The Williams Treaties & Indian Day Schools: Law & Schooling as Tools of Dispossession" by Jackson Pind is the latest article in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser niche-canada.org/2025/10/14/t...

The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

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"For the people of Curve Lake and other Williams Treaties First Nations, the combined impact of the treaty and the day school system was suffocating. One removed them from the Land legally. The other worked to remove them from the Land ideologically." - Jackson Pind

The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

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The second post in the series that Crystal Fraser and I are editing for @nichecanada.bsky.social is live. In this post, Anishinaabe historian Jackson Pind illustrates how the Williams Treaties and Indian day schools were tools of dispossession.

The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession

Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.

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Our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser continued this week with "A Deeper Cultural Divide" by Antoine Mountain. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a... #indigenous #envhist #cdnhist #residentialschools

A Deeper Cultural Divide

Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.

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In the first contributor post in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Antoine Mountain reflects on how residential school disconnected K’áhsho Got’ı̨nę children from the Land and important seasonally-specific cultural knowledge. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a...

A Deeper Cultural Divide

Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.

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This is going to be a phenomenal series and crucial resource for historical research and teaching edited by Crystal Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social on @nichecanada.bsky.social. The intro is now live - keep tuned in for the next several weeks to follow the series! niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."

Today we are privileged to share Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new series, Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions. niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e... #envhist

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.

Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation

This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.

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