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Fire Back: Rematriating Indigenous Cultural Fire and Sovereignty

Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

We are living in an era of Indigenous rematriation where Indigenous peoples’ ontologies, epistemologies, diverse cultures, languages, curation, and arts all around the globe are working to restore balance and return the sacred toward our self-determination and political sovereignty. As a collective led mostly by Indigenous women representing a broad span of what is currently known as the United States and Canada, we each are working with and alongside Indigenous communities to reclaim the cultural, spiritual, relational, and ecological protection of future uses of cultural fire.

Cultural fire includes Indigenous-led fire practices such as cultural burning, fire medicine, ceremonial fire, and ancestral land-based stewardship responsibilities. Outlawed by settlers and state-led agencies, Indigenous peoples understood our relationship with fire was not solely ecological—it was and continues to be cultural, spiritual, relational, and political. With increased extreme weather,...

Indigenous Resurgence: Global Connection and Kinship and an Introduction to the Special Issue

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The world has seen in recent years what can only be described as an “Indigenous Resurgence” to which even governments are taking notice. There is a rise in popular culture regarding Indigenous peoples’ epistemologies, culture, languages, curation, and arts everywhere from New Zealand, the America’s, Africa, Australia, and other parts of the world. Historical fascinations with those systems have often been by and for the perspective of non-natives who exploited and romanticized Indigenous cultures to form their own national identities, write popular books, or make popular movies about their brief time with a tribe. The appropriation of Indigenous cultural and aesthetic motifs extended to Europe, with philosophers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke and literary figures such as Karl May to Dylan Thomas. But now, many aspects of the resurgence arise directly from and for Indigenous peoples around the world expressing their own cultural values. Like any cultural resurgence,...

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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Global Information Resurgence: Transforming Indigenous Archival Sovereignty through International Indigenous Relationality

Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This article examines the development of global and transnational alliances built over the past twenty years in the fight to protect Indigenous information and knowledge, particularly in the context of the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) passed in 2007. It focuses specifically on the foundational history, radical resurgence, and survivance of activists’ groups enacting change within spaces where Indigenous information is held in archives, libraries and museums, especially in non-Indigenous repositories, agencies and institutions. Examined through the lens of Indigenous Archival and Data Sovereignty, this article highlights the major challenges, as well as advances, made by transnational alliances of Indigenous activist groups, professional organizations and individual activists within the United States, Canada, and Australia, focused specifically on how they persevered during the foundational stages of information policy development in...

Front Matter

Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Front Matter

Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow

Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Republic of Indians: Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Against Extraction: Indigenous Modernism in the Twin Cities

Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Policing Not Protecting Families: The Child Welfare System as Poverty Governance

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Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

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The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the US-Mexico Border

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the US-Mexico Border

Border Securitization as Settler Colonialism

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The international border that simultaneously separates and joins Canada and the US divides numerous Indigenous nations, ostensibly placing these nations solely under the jurisdiction of either state. While the unique political situations of Indigenous nations remain undertheorized in much of the border studies literature, this paper suggests that exploring post-9/11 security changes at the Canada/US border as a form of settler colonialism connects critical Indigenous scholarship with border studies. I theorize the processes of securitization to highlight the surreptitious ways settler colonialism is perpetuated by removing “the Indigenous” as a geopolitical entity. This article focuses primarily on the Coast Salish of Washington and British Columbia and their ongoing attempts to assert a transnational identity that spans the Canada/US border. Examining security changes at the international border demonstrates that securitization of the Canada/US border perpetuates the settler...

Layers

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This bilingual poem references the Māori concept of whakapapa which explains the layers of connections between everything in the natural world. Whakapapa is the lens through which we look to both the past and the future. Understanding our whakapapa means we understand our relationship with the land and with each other. It is also in our whakapapa that we find our resurgence as a people touched by colonialism.

A 100-Year Bloom of Indigenous Limnology and Reconnection to Land through Field Stations

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The impact and importance of place-based teaching and research with Indigenous communities globally is making a resurgence, and dominant Western institutions commit to but struggle with implementing these practices. This article outlines an Anishinaabe-based initiative to reoccupy space and create a network for Indigenous peoples interested in or participating in water research in the Great Lakes region by reimagining relationships around a university field station. The University of Wisconsin-Madison owns Trout Lake Station, a field station about 220 miles north of the main campus that is world-renowned for its work in limnology. The (Ph)enological Initiatives for (IN)digenous Peoples in Limnology is a project housed at Trout Lake Station aimed at reconnecting Tribal citizens to their homelands and with fellow Indigenous peoples to assess and strengthen relationships with freshwater. The project, a collaboration between the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians...

Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Acoustic Colonialism: Acts of Mapuche Interference

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Producing Sovereignty: The Rise of Indigenous Media in Canada

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land

Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Settling the Boom: The Sites and Subjects of Bakken Oil

Tribal Seed Sovereignty and Rematriation: Fulfilling Our Responsibilities through Relational Work with Traditional Seeds of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This document aims to serve as a foundational resource on seed rematriation for the Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara (MHA). We are revitalizing our history and culture surrounding traditional seed varities. The following is a case study in methodology on seed rematriation. In particular, we share the process when it is co-developed between an Indigenous institution and a Federal Research Agency with the same intention to support Indigenous Food and Seed Sovereignty. Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish (NHS) College and USDA-Agricultural Research Service Northern Great Plains Research Laboratory are conducting Indigenous research utilizing participatory action research methods deeply rooted in relationality and respect to support Indigenous Seed Sovereignty through seed multiplication and rematriation. The collaboration aims to support the health of the Traditional Seed Cache located at NHS College by increasing the quantity and quality of seeds available to MHA Tribal members. Through a sharing...

What Side Are You On?

Sat, 4 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

What Side Are You On?

Introduction • Pyroepistomology: Reclaiming Knowledge, Histories, Lands, Relations.