Alienation flows through the barrel of a gun: Despair, mass shootings, and suicide in an American settler colony

In what is now referred to by many as the United States, gun violence rages on. When one considers the country’s sheer number of annual gun deaths, the data is as overwhelming as it is distressing. Indeed, perhaps the only  thing outpacing the trauma and loss of life wrought by gun violence is the anguish […]

Reducing Indigenous suicide: Recognizing vital land and food systems for livelihoods

Colonial trauma poses a significant risk to the physical, intellectual, and mental health of Indigenous youth and young adults. Education and mental health scholars are increasingly concerned about the emotional wellbeing of young people, particularly as rates of suicide have increased across the United States. With interest in identifying the unique contextual dynamics involved in […]

How the Vatican encouraged the colonization of Indigenous lands and enabled the Crown to keep them

An abridged trip through 500 years of papal and legal history to understand why Pope Francis faces calls to renounce the Doctrine of Discovery, which underpins Europe’s heist of the Americas and a mass dispossession of Indigenous peoples that remains foundational to Canadian sovereignty