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Reports of barriers facing Indigenous people with disability in remote communities are not new. Let’s stop relying on old excuses.
Challenging Indigenous identity fraud in academia must name and focus explicitly on structures of whiteness, white entitlement and settler colonialism so we don’t recreate the harms of past policies.
Beyond revamping misleading terminology, some library science scholars and Indigenous knowledge holders are looking at how to index library materials in ways that reflect Indigenous knowledge.
The Pope’s apology could mark a new way forward if the Catholic Church makes genuine reparations for the evils it perpetrated.
Visiting Indigenous people on their land was a step in the right direction, but the pope’s visit was full of tensions over both what was said and what wasn’t.
Apologizing for people versus the establishment that upheld not only the Indian Residential Schools system but protected – and continues to protect — the people who committed the crimes is horrifying.
Whether this apology has truly advanced the goal of healing may become evident only in years and decades to come.
Residential schools and the papal bulls justifying the doctrine of discovery call out for concrete acts of atonement and reparation on the part of the church.
Pope Francis’ visit concerns all Canadians. It’s about our relationship to history and the construction of a state that marginalized Indigenous people and tried to assimilate them.
It is reasonable to expect that any apology from the Pope will be met with mixed responses.
The investigations of the deaths of three young Indigenous people in northern British Columbia had been inadequate. Justice demands fair and supportive death investigation procedures for all.
As a women’s rights activist, Nina Otero-Warren fought for the right for women to vote in New Mexico. Now, her image is featured on the US quarter.
Pope Francis and the Catholic Church must make a plan with Indigenous Peoples, not for us, in order to walk the path of reconciliation. Some initial suggestions of what a plan might include.
People must learn more about the history and legacies of residential schools and day schools and understand their relationship to Canada’s colonial project.
The fundamental issue at stake in abortion debates is personhood, which is viewed differently around the world, an anthropologist writes.
Two-eared listening is based on the idea of learning and understanding, a willingness to be suspend judgement and the desire to communicate respectfully.
Watch 30 years since Mabo, a live-streamed event hosted by State Library of Queensland and The Conversation honouring the activism of Eddie Mabo.
In the 19th century, British colonial practices of using land to fund universities was a fragmented, but far-reaching, pattern of institutional development.
What does it mean to be a settler of colour in Canada? Has the symbolism of the Canadian flag changed since the Ottawa convoy?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Law, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Indigenous Methodologies, Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies, Trent University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor, Departments of History and Indigenous Studies, University of Manitoba
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Professor of Political Science, University of Guelph
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Associate professor, McGill University
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Associate Professor, UNSW
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Executive Co-Director, UNU Hub on Empowering Communities to Adapt to Environmental Change, United Nations University; University of Calgary
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor, Critical Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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Associate Professor, Faculty of Law & Justice, UNSW
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Professor of Gender, Religion and Critical Studies, University of Regina