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  • Factsheet | Abolition & Solidarity

A Dictionary of Unnameable Violences: From “Aerocide” to Zyogticide” in Palestine

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 23, 2024
  • Report | Abolition & Solidarity

Twenty-Five Years of Gladue: Indigenous ‘Over-Incarceration’ & the Failure of the Criminal Justice System on the Grand River

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • July 10, 2024
  • Report | Gender & Generational Justice

Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • December 20, 2023
  • Report | Climate Action

Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 18, 2023
  • Toolkit | Climate Action

Pollution Notification Map

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 18, 2023
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

FAQ’s about the Pollution Notification Map and Data

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 18, 2023
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

Recommendations from Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 18, 2023
  • Infographic | The Indian Department

2022 Calls to Action Completed Visualizer

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • June 19, 2023
  • Infographic | The Indian Department

Injunction Success Rates

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 12, 2023
  • Report | Indigenous Governance

Indigenous Food Sovereignty in Ontario: A Study of Exclusion at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 10, 2023
  • Infographic | Social Policy

How Do You Like Your Reconciliation?

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • March 13, 2023
  • Video | Gender & Generational Justice

Indigenous Girlhood: Narratives of Colonial Care in Law & Literature

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • March 8, 2023
  • Toolkit | Abolition & Solidarity

An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • February 21, 2023
  • Report | Indigenous Governance

Indigenous Land-Based Education in Theory & Practice

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • January 31, 2023
  • Report | The Indian Department

Calls to Action Accountability: A 2022 Status Update on Reconciliation

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • December 15, 2022
  • Toolkit | Indigenous Governance

The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD): A User Guide for Land Defenders

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • May 24, 2022
  • Video | Treaties, Rights and Title

The Ransom Economy Webinar

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 28, 2021
  • Factsheet | Social Policy

10 Ways to Get Cash Back

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 28, 2021
Cash Back Report Image
  • Infographic | Treaties, Rights and Title

A Brief History of Centralization

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 28, 2021
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

Service Devolution & Fiscal Federalism

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 28, 2021
  • Infographic | Social Policy

Colonial Extractions

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • September 28, 2021
  • Infographic | Social Policy

How Canada’s Self-Government Funding Policy is like Buying a Used Car

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 30, 2021
  • Audio | Social Policy

An Oral History of First Nations Education Funding

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 30, 2021
  • Video | Social Policy

Lily’s Story: The Feminization of Poverty

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 20, 2021
  • Report | Social Policy

How Canada Created First Nations Debt

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 20, 2021
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

Indian Moneys, Legislation, and the 1951 Indian Act Amendments

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 20, 2021
  • Video | The Indian Department

A History of the Indian Trust Fund

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 20, 2021
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

The Indian Trust Fund: Debunking Myths and Misconceptions

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 20, 2021
  • Infographic | The Indian Department

Canada the Company

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 20, 2021
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

Corporate Colonialism

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 19, 2021
  • Factsheet | Treaties, Rights and Title

Flow Chart: Do you have a right to catch and sell fish commercially?

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 12, 2021
Cash Back Part 3
  • Factsheet | Social Policy

So you want to map your cultural values?

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 12, 2021
  • Infographic | The Indian Department

Injunction Infographics

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 12, 2021
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

An Analysis of Coastal GasLink’s Notice of Application for Injunction

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 10, 2021
  • Factsheet | The Indian Department

Three Frameworks of Consent

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 10, 2021
  • Factsheet | Climate Action

A Jurisdictional Scan of Resource Revenue Sharing in Mining and Forestry

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 10, 2021
  • Toolkit | Treaties, Rights and Title

Mine Sweeper Map

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • August 10, 2021
  • Factsheet | Social Policy

A Scan of International Report Recommendations on COVID-19 and Indigenous Peoples

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 7, 2021
  • Video | Indigenous Governance

Land Back: Injunctions, Dispossession, Nationhood and Indigenous Sovereignty

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 7, 2021
  • Video | Treaties, Rights and Title

The Ransom Economy: What #ShutDownCanada Reveals About Indigenous Rights

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 7, 2021
  • Video | Treaties, Rights and Title

Weaponizing Injunctions: How Canada criminalizes Indigenous land defense

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 7, 2021
  • Video | Treaties, Rights and Title

#LandBack: What does it mean & how do you enact it?

by Kelsi-Leigh Balaban
  • April 7, 2021

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