Skip to content
  • Submissions
  • Donate
  • Contact
  • Submissions
  • Donate
  • Contact
Yellowhead Logo Red
  • About
    • About
    • Our Team
    • Relational Principles
    • Media Centre
    • Work With Us
  • Research
        • Special Reports & Features
          • Buried Burdens: The True Costs of Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) Ownership
          • Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research
          • Pinasunniq: Reflections on a Northern Indigenous Economy
          • From Risk to Resilience: Indigenous Alternatives to Climate Risk Assessment in Canada
          • Twenty-Five Years of Gladue: Indigenous ‘Over-Incarceration’ & the Failure of the Criminal Justice System on the Grand River
          • Calls to Action Accountability: A 2023 Status Update on Reconciliation
          • View all reports.
        • The Yellowhead Brief
          • Climate Action
          • Abolition & Solidarity
          • Gender & Generational Justice
          • Indigenous Governance
          • The Indian Department
          • Social Policy
          • Treaties, Rights & Title
          • View all briefs.
        • Red Papers
          • Land Back
          • Cash Back
          • Community Resource Library
  • Yellowhead School
        • Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange
          • 2025 Misko Aki Knowledge Exchange Recap
          • 2024 Radical Policy School Recap
        • Indigenous Governance Program
        • Resources
          • A Dictionary of Unnameable Violences – From “Aerocide” to “Zygoticide” in Palestine
          • From Askiy to the Sea: A Solidarity Reading List on Settler Colonial Contexts
          • An Indigenous Abolitionist Study Guide
        • Yellowhead Online
          • Land Back Online
        • Yellowhead Fire
          • About Yellowhead Fires
  • The Treaty Map
  • LIBRARY
  • Submissions
  • Donate
Picture of Shiri Pasternak

Shiri Pasternak

@shiripasternak Shiri is an Assistant Professor in Criminology at Ryerson University in Toronto, co-founder and Research Director (2018-2021) of the Yellowhead Institute. She is the author of the award-winning book Grounded Authority: the Algonquins of Barriere Lake Against the State. Her current research involves studying the risk of Indigenous rights in the natural resource extraction economy.
  • Policy Brief | Treaties, Rights and Title
A User Guide for Land Defenders: The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD)
by Shiri Pasternak, Anne Spice, and Emma Feltes
  • March 19, 2021
UN image
  • Policy Brief | The Indian Department
No such thing as natural disasters: Infrastructure and the First Nation fight against COVID-19
by Shiri Pasternak and Robert Houle
  • April 9, 2020
  • Policy Brief | Treaties, Rights and Title
Wet’suwet’en: Why are Indigenous rights being defined by an energy corporation?
by Shiri Pasternak
  • February 7, 2020
  • Policy Brief | The Indian Department
The Gaping Holes in Ottawa’s Indigenous Fiscal Policy
by Shiri Pasternak
  • July 13, 2018
Stan Williams Image 29 Scenery

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.