From the Yellowhead Institute Special Report, Pretendians and Publications: The Problem and Solutions to Redface Research, this checklist serves as a guide to identifying dubious research practices — particularly false self-identification claims and organizations that do not accurately represent Indigenous communities.
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This Reading List reflects the shared struggle and desire for solidarity, making links between Palestine and other settler colonial contexts in order to understand and explain this relationship better. By no means is this reading list exhaustive or comprehensive, this offering curates some texts and media by Palestinian and Indigenous peoples from what is sometimes
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The Pollution Notification 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 is connected to Data Colonialism in Canada’s Chemical Valley: Aamjiwnaang First Nation and the Failure of the Pollution Notification System, a report co-created between the Yellowhead Institute and the
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IN MAY 2020, the Abolition Convergence had planned to host a pre-conference to the Native American Indigenous Studies Association gathering in Toronto called Imagining and Decolonizing Abolitionist Futures. It was canceled when the pandemic hit, but the work continued. Our organizing committee is a collaboration of artists, activists, academics, and people with direct experience with the carceral
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Canada always looks for ways to deny the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples. But, internationally, it’s a different story. Self- determination is a well-established principle of international law. That is why Indigenous nations and groups have used international human rights mechanisms like the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) for years
The Yellowhead Institute’s “Mine Sweeper Map” is only the publicly accessible and searchable map of mining claims linked to First Nations in Ontario and Quebec. This map tool graphically links hundreds of mining claims into connected blocks. The user can view the map and layer mining claims and First Nations to visualize up-to-date information that
Based in the Faculty of Arts at Toronto Metropolitan University.