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Reflections on “Rupture”: Mark Carney’s New World Order & an Indigenous Response

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Prime Minister Mark Carney’s speech in Davos earlier this month received a rare standing ovation from the World Economic Forum. But in his comments to build an alternative system, insulated from great powers, he inadvertently described the Crown-Indigenous relationship, echoing the long-standing dynamics of power and exclusion that shape that relationship. In this Brief, Janna Wale and Michaela M. McGuire (Jaad Gudgihljiwah) expose this connection and ask what this means for Indigenous Peoples (who have long demanded a seat at the table – as opposed to being on the menu) to create a different kind of rupture in our own relationships, within and among Indigenous nations.

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Is Kalaallit Nunaat for Its People? Inuit Reflections on American (and Danish) Colonization

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Kalaalliit Nunaat (so-called Greenland) is once again at the centre of global geopolitics — amid renewed American imperialism and fraying international alliances. But as states debate power, territory, and security, Inuit voices are once again pushed to the margins.
In this Brief, Vivi Vold and Kunku Inutiq ask an urgent question – where are the voices of Kalaallit?

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Renegotiating Sovereignty? Māori Resistance in the Face of Colonial Erasure

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Last week, on November 14th, Māori Member of Parliament Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke rose in the Aotearoa (New Zealand) Parliament to vote on a proposed Treaty Principles Bill. Opposing the proposed law, she tore the bill in half and led a haka alongside members of her party, Te Pāti Māori. The haka, a traditional Māori expression of

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Nibi onje biimaadiiziiwin is not a metaphor: The relationship between suicide and water insecurity in First Nations in Ontario

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Jeffrey Ansloos presents compelling evidence surrounding the link between water insecurity and suicide in First Nations in Ontario, illustrating that “water is life” is not a metaphor, but is a struggle for life itself. 

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