The knowledge shared throughout this zine was co-created through bi-weekly sessions between May and June 2025, in which comrades of Yellowhead’s Misko Aki Exchange (MAKE) program with diverse native tongues engaged in relational language learning. This project was co-led by Maisaloon Al-Ashkar and Ja’miil Millar, two alumni of Yellowhead’s inaugural MAKE program. The zine visual […]
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Indigenous Studies, as a discipline, has rapidly grown in the past few decades. Yet a troubling trend has more recently emerged: the rise of “pretendians” — individuals fraudulently claiming Indigenous identity and misrepresenting Indigenous research, threatening the integrity of Indigenous Studies broadly. Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research examines how academic
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Pinasunniq: Reflections on a Northern Indigenous Economy offers a vision of Inuit economic self-determination. It challenges the “common sense” Northern economic models that have historically excluded Inuit voices and continue to erase Inuit economic activity. Through economic analysis, narrative, and advocacy, the report asks critical questions about the benefits of government-led policy and approaches of industry.
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Pinasunniq: Reflections on a Northern Indigenous Economy is an expression of a vision of Inuit economic self-determination. Through twelve articles, featuring nine Inuit authors, the report weaves diverse perspectives on the Northern economy grounding Indigenous, and specifically Inuit, values. The report challenges the accepted approaches to developing an economy in the North and proposes alternatives
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What is the current state of the northern economy, with specific attention to Inuit in Nunavut? This chapter attempts to answer this question. The first part of this chapter focuses on the nature of the so-called “mixed economy,” where governments support mining and resource development but offer very little space for Inuit-led economic activity, and
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Twenty-Five Years of Gladue: Indigenous ‘Over-Incarceration’ & the Failure of the Criminal Justice System on the Grand River, a collaboration between the Brantford Regional Indigenous Support Centre (BRISC) and Yellowhead Institute, examines the emergence of the Gladue Principle and its application in Canada, with specific attention to Gladue on the Grand River. We find that