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The Orange Shirt Day Hangover: Municipalities, Denialism, and Residential School Histories

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on October 7, 2022October 10, 2022
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Mary Jane Logan McCallum London, Ontario[1] It’s October 1, 2022, and I wake up exhausted and tense, my jaw still clenched from the day before. My lungs are like raisins – there’s simply been no […]

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Indigenous History and Indigenous History Month

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 21, 2022June 21, 2022
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Mary Jane Logan McCallum Winnipeg 2022[1] Last month, a reporter from CBC Kids News emailed me with the question: What are the origins of National Indigenous History Month and National Indigenous Peoples Day?  I was somewhat […]

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“That All Came Out of Activism”[i]: Personal and Professional Activism in Indigenous History and History Departments in Canada 

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on April 15, 2022April 15, 2022
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Selected Recent (mostly English-language) Work Mary Jane Logan McCallum University of Winnipeg In the past two years, professional historians and university history departments in Canada have been engaging publicly with Indigenous history and advocating for […]

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Thank You For Your Patience: Mid-Pandemic Indigenous Academic Auto-Replies

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on February 12, 2022February 12, 2022
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Mary Jane Logan McCallum University of Winnipeg I opened my laptop over breakfast with my daughter and read a few updates by colleagues on leads for possible grave sites of missing First Nations and Inuit […]

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Open letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Public

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on August 13, 2021August 13, 2021
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To the Council of the Canadian Historical Association, the Canadian Public, and the Signatories of the “Open Letter to the Council of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Public [9 August 2020]. The undersigned […]

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Settler Forgetting in Saulnierville: The Sipekne’katik Mi’kmaw Fishery as Reminder

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on October 19, 2020October 19, 2020
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By Mercedes Peters One of the first things you’re taught when you’re training to be a historian in Canada is that Canadians have a memory problem. It can be a little jarring to some. This […]

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Shekon Neechie: An Indigenous History Podcast Episode 1: “Pandemics”

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on July 18, 2020June 21, 2022
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With host Robert Innes Guests: Dr. Winona Wheeler, University of Saskatchewan Dr. Mary Jane McCallum, University of Winnipeg

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Coming Soon: An Indigenous History Podcast

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on June 2, 2020June 2, 2020
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Indigenous Language Education and Online Video Conferencing: Initial Reflections

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020
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Photo of Ian McCallum’s Laptop showing Yoon Ha Da Yuleekhamuneen Huluniixsuwaakan / This Is the Way We Write our Language and students (from top to bottom) Ian McCallum, Sarah and Kyenna Saunders, Jamie Tucker, and […]

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CANCELLED – Pre-NAISA Gathering Short Histories Workshop

  • by shekonneechie
  • Posted on March 14, 2020
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We have decided to cancel the Pre-NAISA Gathering Short Histories Workshop on May 5 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This cancellation follows the NAISA council’s decision to cancel the annual meeting. We are saddened to […]

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