Yellowhead Logo Red

Daniel Rück

Daniel Rück is Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Institute of Indigenous Research and Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. He is a settler scholar living and working on the unceded territory of the Algonquin nation along the Kichi Sībī (Ottawa River). He teaches and writes on the history of settler colonialism and settler-Indigenous relations in Canada, history of land surveying, law and treaty history, and global and local environmental history. He is co-founder and co-director of the newly-established Kichi Sībī Historical Research Project, a SSHRC-funded historical research collaboration between the University of Ottawa and the Algonquin communities of Timiskaming, Wolf Lake, and Barrière Lake.

Agriculture in the North: A New Strategy of Indigenous Land Dispossession?

/

Last week the Federal Government released the 2024-2025 budget, with new funding allocations for Indigenous communities. While these allocations are significant and there are even new policy approaches to be found in the budget, chronic shortfalls and the historically paternalistic Crown-Indigenous financial relationship remain.

Agriculture in the North: A New Strategy of Indigenous Land Dispossession? Read More »

Place Names Brief Image

Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names

/

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.

Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names Read More »

Yellowhead Institute generates critical Indigenous policy perspectives.

Get the latest updates.

Instagram Youtube Facebook F Icon Tiktok Soundcloud

About

Who We Are

Media Centre

The Yellowhead Brief

Research and Features

Red Papers

Submissions

Contact

Donate

Yellowhead Institute logo in white

Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.