Cody Groat, the professor spotlighting Indigenous resistance Professor Cody Groat’s upcoming book, “Always A Part of the Land,” shows that Indigenous peoples have always pushed back, challenging the idea that Indigenous history is synonymous with Canadian histo...

Professor Cody Groat’s upcoming book, “Always A Part of the Land,” shows that Indigenous peoples have always pushed back, challenging the idea that Indigenous history is synonymous with Canadian history.

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Selfie of millennial Alaska Native historian in front of the Elmer Rasmuson Library at UAF in negative 20 F smiling and holding a peace sign before heading to the archives

As a Native historian I am tasked with combing through archives, published news & Native news, oral histories & testimonies & putting together not only a narrative depicting the 20th century but also showing colonial/imperial events that Native people encountered, shaped &halted #TalkAboutHumanities

Indian Act 150: An Introduction By Katie Carson, Sarah Kittilsen, and Sean Carleton Canada 150—the sesquicentennial celebration of the country’s confederation—was marked with pomp and circumstance, as the Federal Government encou…

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Indian Act. Over on @activehist.bsky.social, we’re running a year-long series examining its controversial history. Here’s the series introduction I contributed to: activehistory.ca/blog/2026/01...

We must protect the @archive.org on every front.
Knowledge is power & Internet Archive puts that power in the palm of your hand every day.

Honestly still in shock by its placement, but my article (and job talk paper), “Indigenous Constitutionalism,” is officially out in the Harvard Law Review. A brief thread on this project🧵

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Front cover of The Northern Review 59 featuring the beautiful "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)" by Copper Caribou: photo of a collage of colourful beadwork, nàagàii (beads), and Vadzaih ch’ijì (caribou antler) on hometan vadzaih dhòh (caribou hide)

#NewIssue No. 59 is a special issue: New Frontiers in Northern Economic Development, with partial support from #CanNor #CanadianNorthernEconomicDevelopmentAgency
Thanks to Yukon artists Copper Caribou for the gorgeous cover, "Nàagàii Ddhah (Bead Mountain)"
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From Project Gutenberg:

In to the Yukon

by William Seymour Edwards


Get it at: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42611

Indian Act 150: Call for Submissions NiCHE has partnered with Active History to provide some environmental focused histories of the Indian Act and its widespread implications to their Indian Act 150 series.

ONE WEEK to get your proposals in to @drheathergreen.bsky.social on the environmental dimensions of the Indian Act at 150 for our collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social!

niche-canada.org/2026/03/11/i...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

Only two weeks away! Make sure to register to receive the lecture link so you don't miss what will be an important and insightful discussion from Crystal and Jess about their work on IRS in northern Canada and the How I Survived Podcast.

NEAR-EH, Halifax, July 10 and 11th. Be there. niche-canada.org/2026/03/03/c...

This is a really thoughtful and thorough review of *A Cold Colonialism.* Many thanks to Heather, and to Daniella for commissioning it! #cdnhist @ubcpress.bsky.social

2026 David Neufeld Memorial Lecture: Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin 27 March 2026 - Virtual - The 2026 lecture will feature Drs. Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin speaking about the How I Survived podcast in partnership with the NWT Recreation and Parks Association.

The 2026 Neufeld Memorial Lecture features Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin talking about the How I Survived Podcast and IRS in the Canadian North. March 27th, register in the link below! Thanks to SMU History and UNBSJ History for financial support.
niche-canada.org/2026/02/19/2...

Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811–1815 This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sover...

Available open access, Gareth Knapman's 'Sovereignty and Treaties as Colonial Instruments: The British Occupation of Java 1811-1815', Jnl of Imp & Commonwealth Hist. #Skystorians

‘Rugged spots and quaint havens and all the unmatched scenery of the sea’: constructing landscapes of tourism along the South Shore of Nova Scotia, 1928–1941 During the early twentieth century, tourism flourished along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Much of the industry’s success can be attributed to the social and physical constructions of the region’s lan...

Excited that @erinspinney.bsky.social and my article on Nova Scotia’s South Shore tourism has been published in the Journal of Tourism History. www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GXBTT... First 50 downloads are free! #cdnhist #envhist

Give it ten years and you’ll be grateful that you saw that ad.

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Assistant Professor in Politics

University of New Brunswick, Saint John

...The successful candidate should have experience teaching in such areas such areas as the Canadian Politics and Comparative Politics or International Relations...

csn-rec.ca/job-postings...

@cpsa-acsp.bsky.social

Unfortunately, it is only a contract position, but we are a great place to work with great colleagues! I am happy to answer any questions people might have about this job or our campus.

I use this as part of my research all the time

Governor General’s History Award 2025 Recipients - Canada's History Canada’s most prestigious history prize celebrates the achievements of history teachers, scholars, authors, community groups, and museums.

A huge congratulations to Dr. Crystal Gail Fraser and Dr. Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, recipients of the Governor General’s History Award! Dr. Fraser and Dr. Lüsebrink were the 2025 winners of the CHA’s Best Scholarly Book Prizes. #cdnhist @canadashistory.bsky.social

Remember that one time in 1916 when the U.S. signed a treaty with Denmark in which they sold us some islands in the Caribbean and we agreed to not oppose their controlling Greenland? Ah…good times, good memories.

history.state.gov/historicaldo...

so happy this is finally out: Petra Dolata, "History of Energy Transitions," In Bloomsbury History: Theory & Method (Bloomsbury, 2025); reach out if you want to read it

www.bloomsburyhistorytheorymethod.com/article?doci...

"We want to say loud and clear that there's no such thing as a better colonizer.'

- Sara Olsvig, chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Council, regarding a US takeover of Greenland.

New book review:
Iceton on Cherry, Jessica; Soos, Frank, eds.: _Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska_. University of Nebraska Press, 2022. Published by H-Environment.
Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20050488...

We are well over a decade into the prominence of academic blogging in knowledge dissemination and democratization, and yet our institutions continue to not recognize this labour financially or in regards to promotion and hiring practices, leading these important publications to serve as symbols of academic precarity and inflexibility.

"Reimagining Academic Publishing: Community, Knowledge, and the Future Beyond Academia."

I have a short new article out in the Practitioner's Forum of the Sustainable Publishing special issue of Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, "Reimagining Academic Publishing: Community, Knowledge, & the Future Beyond Academia"

Find it here: imaginationsjournal.ca/index.php/im...

Honoured and surprised to be in this list, alongside some other great northern content! #envhist

Top Five Posts of 2025 Wow! 2025 was another record year on our site for traffic. We published nearly every week day, sometimes publishing on Saturdays and more than once a day! We are so grateful to the environmental histo...

As is tradition, we begin this year with a look back at our top five most-read articles of the past year.

2025's list includes pieces by Nolan Reynolds, @glenniceton.bsky.social, @lootina.bsky.social, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & Jackson Pind

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#envhist #cdnhist

Ready to teach 1970s Canada. First day of teaching on the TT!

The Atlantic has updated their article to correct some of Frum's mistakes. However they didn't correct his denialist stuff. I work 50 meters from a lab where they recently identified a body recovered from a GPR search. A child who died at residential school, and was finally returned to their family.

"Knowledge becomes data; teaching becomes delivery. What disappears are precious human capacities—curiosity, discernment, presence. The result isn’t augmented intelligence but simulated learning: a paint-by-numbers approach to thought."

Residents complain of excessive smoke from Whitehorse fuel break work | CBC News Yukon wildfire officials says they're installing more air quality monitors in areas south of downtown Whitehorse, as some local residents complain about excessive smoke in the area.

Ah, a tale as old as time. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...