According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

Stories of Love and Loss: Recommitting to Each Other and the Land
By Tommy Akulukjuk, Nigora Erkaeva, Derek Rasmussen, & Rebecca A. Martusewicz

An OpEd written on Dec 7, the tenth anniversary of the Indonesian military’s US-backed invasion of East Timor on Dec 7 1975, killing approx 1/3 of the E.Timorese population.
Despite Canada being the largest western investor in Indonesia at the time, the Canadian government refused to intervene politically to stem Indonesian war crimes, and…[Read more]

A discussion contrasting ‘Remembrance Day’ when European-Americans recall and commemorate historical events vs ‘reconciliation’, when European-Americans and Canadians want ‘closure’, want to forget our historical oppression of Indigenous peoples or ‘put history behind us’.

Text based on an invited talk given at Harvard University’s Center for…[Read more]

Portions of a 1985 interview with historian Martin J. Sherwin (co-author of the Oppenheimer biography, source of the blockbuster 2023 film).
Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan didn’t shorten the war, they lengthened it.
Nuclear weapons are not primarily used to deter the Russians they are used to threaten non-nuclear Third World states that have…[Read more]

Canada’s Euro-descended ruling elite says to Inuit: ‘The land that used to root you we have taken; the human arrangements that used to connect you we have broken; the pattern-languaged face-to-face myths and stories that once flowed between you and your place we have frozen onto paper. Now we will ‘educate’ you to master alphanumeric symbols in…[Read more]

Euro-Canadians try and play it both ways when we use the word “education.” On the one hand we claim open-mindedness by asserting platitudes like ‘all societies have education’ — including Indigenous societies. And on the other hand, we then frequently refer to Indigenous people as “uneducated”–casually denigrating them because they weren’t admit…[Read more]

Este artículo se trata de experiencias concretas de
investigación y docencia de los autores, y en diálogo con la bibliografía internacional, por abordar los supuestos epistemológicos y metodológicos que subyacen a las
investigaciones sociológicas y los desafíos que desde allí se derivan para pensarlos en
diferentes tipos de contextos. El argum…[Read more]

There has never been a non-Indigenous civilization before in history.
What are the effects of peoples who move location on average every 5 or 6 years, with little or no knowledge of the local plants, animals, waterways and lands, and no loyalty to them?
When I’ve asked classrooms of university students: ‘Where do you want to be…[Read more]

Some thoughts about what makes non-Indigenous people so unusual–there has never been a non-Indigenous civilization before in history. What are the effects of peoples who move location on average every 5 or 6 years, with little or no knowledge of the local plants, animals, waterways and lands, and no loyalty to them? Given the worldwide impact of…[Read more]

En ese sentido, pretende contribuir para generar un espacio de reflexión relacionado a la multiplicidad de investigaciones que se producen en diferentes países e instituciones, buscando delinear cuáles son las definiciones y prácticas epistemológicas y metodológicas dominantes. En otras palabras, las tramas de sentido vertidas en este traba…[Read more]