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Recommendations to Address Red-Faced Research

Ashley Vols / April 1, 2025

The Yellowhead Institute Special report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research offers recommendations to provide a foundation for addressing pretendianism in academia, based on existing Indigenous identity veri cation policies at Canadian universities. While many institutions are still working through these issues, fewer than half have fully developed verification processes, highlighting […]

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By the Numbers: The Opioid Crisis in Indigenous Communities

Ashley Vols / October 3, 2024

What is fuelling the opioid crisis among First Nations and Indigenous communities in Canada and how is it being addressed? It is clear that the opioid and mental health crisis in First Nations is bad. But a new investigation by Indian Country Today and Yellowhead Institute reveals the depth of the challenge. Data obtained from

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Indigenous Alternatives to Colonial Climate Risk Narratives: From the Risk to Resilience Special Report

Dennis Pierre / September 4, 2024

Canada’s current provincial and national risk assessment frameworks focus predominantly on the built environment and infrastructure, neglecting the more extensive social-ecological system. This narrow focus fails to capture the full extent of climate risks or contexts, particularly those affecting Indigenous communities, and excludes the social and political structures that compound risk within Indigenous communities. While

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

Kelsi-Leigh Balaban / August 23, 2024

THERE ARE NO legal terms or language for many of the forms of violence inflicted by Israel on Palestine. There is no specific word for the mass killing of children, for the mass obliteration of an entire society, for the mass toxification of air or of water, for the mass annihilation of trees. Here, then,

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FAQ’s about the Pollution Notification Map and Data

Kelsi-Leigh Balaban / September 18, 2023

This factsheet provides a series of frequently asked questions about Pollution Notification Map, offering important contextual and explanatory information about notifications, pollution incidents, and the map data. The map is built out of industry-provided notifications about pollution incidents in Chemical Valley that were collected by Aamjiwnaang community members from 2013-2023. The map, developed by the Technoscience

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Recommendations from Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley

Kelsi-Leigh Balaban / September 18, 2023

This factsheet outlines three categories of recommendations: Harm-Reducing Recommendations for Industry; Recommendations for the Federal and Provincial Governments, and Recommendations for the Bluewater Association for Safety, Environment, and Sustainability (BASES). The factsheet is connected to the Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution

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Indigenous Alternatives to Colonial Climate Risk Narratives: From the Risk to Resilience Special Report

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

FAQ’s about the Pollution Notification Map and Data

Recommendations from Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley

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