Jackson Pind is a mixed Settler-Anishinaabe historian with family ties to Alderville First Nation. He is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Methodologies in Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario. Prior to this appointment, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous Education at the Faculty of Education, Queen’s University. His research focuses on the history of Indigenous education, particularly Indian Day Schools in Ontario, land/place-based learning, oral history, and Indigenous-settler relations in relation to climate change.
His dissertation, “Indian Day Schools in Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg Territory, 1899-1978,” examined the history of Curve Lake Indian Day School and was awarded the 2022 Canadian History of Education Dissertation Prize. His co-authored paper with Benjamin Farmer Lacombe, called “Digitally Mapping the Indian Day Schools and the RG10 School Files Series in Canada” (published in 2023), provides an overview of the creation of the https://www.indiandayschools.org/ website, which includes an interactive map of Indian Day Schools and integrates files from the Library and Archives Canada RG10 School File Series. Pind and Lacombe discuss the process and challenges of producing this digital learning tool and consider the possibilities of digital history resources as tools for reconciliation.
Pind is a founding member of the Social Studies and History Education in the Anthropocene Network. This project worked to reimagine history and social studies education to address the ecological, social, and political challenges of climate change. Currently, he’s collaborating with Jennifer MacDonald on a project which examines the possibilities of counter-mapping within Truth and Reconciliation education.
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Co-authored with Jack Hoggarth. “Revisiting the Williams Treaties of 1923: Anishinaabeg perspectives after a century.” The Conversation, 23 November 2023. https://theconversation.com/revisiting-the-williams-treaties-of-1923-anishinaabeg-perspectives-after-a-century-217764
“Ancient pictograph vandalism at Bon Echo Provincial Park reveals an ongoing disregard for Indigenous history and presence.” The Conversation, 9 October, 2023. https://theconversation.com/ancient-pictograph-vandalism-at-bon-echo-provincial-park-reveals-an-ongoing-disregard-for-indigenous-history-and-presence-213746
Co-authored with Benjamin Farmer Lacombe. “Digitally Mapping the Indian Day Schools and the RG10 School Files Series in Canada.” Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 35, no. 2 (Fall 2023): 55-68.
Co-authored with Kiera Brant-Birioukov, Sara Karn, and Heather E. McGregor. “Towards Indigenous Place-Based Metaphors for Environmental History Education.” In Land as Relation: Teaching and Learning through Place, People, and Practices, edited by Margaret Kress and Kahente Horn-Miller, 259-269. Toronto and Vancouver: Canadian Scholars, 2023.
“Canada’s $2.8 billion settlement with Indigenous Day Scholars is a long time coming.” The Conversation, updated 1 February 2023. https://theconversation.com/canadas-2-8-billion-settlement-with-indigenous-day-scholars-is-a-long-time-coming-198491
Co-authored with Heather E. McGregor, Sara Karn, and Rebecca S. Evans. “Piloting Historical Thinking Lessons to Address Climate Change.” Canadian Social Studies 53, no. 1 (2022): 1-16.
Co-authored with Sean Carleton. “Raising Awareness about Canada’s Indian Day Schools with Digital History.” Active History, 29 November 2022. https://activehistory.ca/blog/2022/11/29/raising-awareness-about-canadas-indian-day-schools-with-digital-history-and-gis-mapping/
“Pope Francis visit to Canada, apologies to indigenous peoples.” France24, 26 July 2022. https://www.france24.com/en/video/20220726-pope-francis-visit-to-canada-apologies-to-indigenous-peoples
Co-authroed with Heather E.McGregor and Sara Karn. “A ‘wicked problem’: rethinking history education in the Anthropocene.” Rethinking History 25, no. 4 (2021): 483-507. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13642529.2021.1992159
“Indian Day Schools in Michi Saagiig Anishinaabeg Territory, 1899-1978.” PhD diss., Queen’s University, 2021.
Co-editor with Raymond Mayson and Theodore Michael Christou. Spirit of the Grassroots People: Seeking Justice for Indigenous Survivors of Canada’s Colonial Education System. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 2020.