Keith Thor Carlson . The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism . Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2010. Pp. xix, 375. $32.95.

Harmon, Alexandra

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“…This system of property was incompatible with certain concepts of property held by First Nations. Sumas First Nations understood, as Keith Thor Carlson (2010) explains, that the sturgeon in Sumas Lake were the collective property of the tribe, and neither the lake nor the sturgeon could be owned by an individual. Unsurprisingly, First Nations were de facto excluded from pre-emption rights.…”

Section: Dikes As a Technology Of Settler Colonialism In The Fraser V...mentioning

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Infrastructure of Vulnerability, or, How the Fraser Valley Flooded Twice

Gandolfo‐Lucia

2024

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In November and December of 2021, the Fraser Valley in southwest British Columbia suffered extreme flooding due to an atmospheric river. Although the event was attributed to climate change, I suggest that the recent floods must be understood through the historical geography of flood control infrastructure in the valley, particularly dikes. In this article, I trace the development of these infrastructures from the beginning of colonisation to the completion of the first state‐managed diking system in the early 20th century. I argue that at the same time as dikes secured land for settler farmers, they exposed Indigenous peoples to new hazards—ironically including floods—and multiplied the damage of future flood events. Building on geographic literature demonstrating the participation of dike infrastructure in racialised capital accumulation and settler colonialism, I highlight the way that dikes have abetted these projects through the uneven spatial production of vulnerability.

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Section: Dikes As a Technology Of Settler Colonialism In The Fraser V...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Infrastructure of Vulnerability, or, How the Fraser Valley Flooded Twice

Gandolfo‐Lucia

2024

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“…1). The interconnections between land and Indigenous ways of knowing and being are absolutely foundational to Indigenous identity [28,29,57,58,[65][66][67] (see also Chapter 6) and are reflected within Indigenous knowledge(s), language(s), pedagogy, art, culture(s), and spirituality [52,53,60,62,68]. In many Indigenous creation stories, land and physical geographies are animate and powerful forces that have given existence to people [69].…”

Section: Beyond Social: Determinants Of Mental Health and Their Dista...mentioning

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“…Colonialism-both in its historical and contemporary forms-is often considered to be the most foundational determinant of ill mental health and related inequities for Indigenous populations [13,17,46]. Colonisation imposed complex systems of control over Indigenous societies through legitimated or "legal" processes of dispossession, displacement, and confinement, which disconnected Indigenous people from their ancestral territories, kinship, cultures, and knowledge systems, undermining their ability to pursue healthy and fulfilling lives [28,29,57,58,[65][66][67]86]. The historic and land-based trauma associated with the imposition of the reserve system and, in particular, residential schools-the assimilationist agenda behind which was to "kill the Indian in the child" [35] (p. 130)-has had lasting and damaging effects on Indigenous identities and mental health and wellbeing.…”

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Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

Josewski

Leeuw

Greenwood

2023

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Authored by a small team of settler and Indigenous researchers, all of whom are deeply involved in scholarship and activism interrogating ongoing processes of coloniality in lands now known to many as Canada, this paper critically examines “social” and grounded determinants of Indigenous mental health and wellness. After placing ourselves on the grounds from which we write, we begin by providing an overview of the social determinants of health (SDOH), a conceptual framework with deep roots in colonial Canada. Though important in pushing against biomedical framings of Indigenous health and wellness, we argue that the SDOH framework nevertheless risks re-entrenching deeply colonial ways of thinking about and providing health services for Indigenous people: SDOH, we suggest, do not ultimately reckon with ecological, environmental, place-based, or geographic determinants of health in colonial states that continue to occupy stolen land. These theoretical interrogations of SDOH provide an entry point to, first, an overview of Indigenous ways of understanding mental wellness as tethered to ecology and physical geography, and second, a collection of narrative articulations from across British Columbia: these sets of knowledge offer clear and unequivocal evidence, in the form of Indigenous voices and perspectives, about the direct link between land, place, and mental wellness (or a lack thereof). We conclude with suggestions for future research, policy, and health practice actions that move beyond the current SDOH model of Indigenous health to account for and address the grounded, land-based, and ecologically self-determining nature of Indigenous mental health and wellness.

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“…A constellation of factors contributes to this pattern, including sampling biases in not dating late period archaeological sites and historic sites, impact of modern development on later sites, and the demographic collapse following the indirect and direct contact with Euroamericans [62,63,94,95]. Although there are fewer dates, the historic period has a well-documented dynamic social landscape [96][97][98].…”

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Assessing population dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

Rorabaugh

2023

PLoS ONE

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Recent developments in radiocarbon dating have enabled archaeologists to re-examine the question of population dynamism in the Salish Sea. This study expands on Taylor and colleagues (2011) using Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and an expanded data set of 538 radiocarbon dates from academic and cultural resource management literature. The expanded sample suggests a pattern of population growth from 3200–2800 cal BP in coastal Northwestern Washington, with population growth in the San Juan islands during 2600–2200 cal BP. A subsequent decrease in radiocarbon frequencies and large sites suggests shifts in use of the San Juan Islands, followed by peak large-scale occupation from 650–300 cal BP. This pattern is robust whether marine or terrestrial dates are considered. However, marine dates are less sensitive to questions at smaller temporal scales. The broad scale radiocarbon frequency patterns observed are also consistent with those observed in southwest coastal British Columbia (Ritchie et al., 2016; Morin et al., 2018).

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Keith Thor Carlson . The Power of Place, the Problem of Time: Aboriginal Identity and Historical Consciousness in the Cauldron of Colonialism . Buffalo, N.Y.: University of Toronto Press. 2010. Pp. xix, 375. $32.95.

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Infrastructure of Vulnerability, or, How the Fraser Valley Flooded Twice

Infrastructure of Vulnerability, or, How the Fraser Valley Flooded Twice

Grounding Wellness: Coloniality, Placeism, Land, and a Critique of “Social” Determinants of Indigenous Mental Health in the Canadian Context

Assessing population dynamics in the Central Salish Sea, Pacific Northwest Coast of North America

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