Jess Dunkin
@jdunkin.bsky.social
settler, feminist, paddler, writer, historian | grad of TWSO | @utpress author, CANOE AND CANVAS | producer, HOW I SURVIVED PODCAST | research associate @AuroraCollegeNT | adjunct @UAlberta | principal, Dunkin Creative
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"Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group" by Stephanie Pyne, Caléa Turner, @andrewwiebe.bsky.social, & Andrew Woolford is latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series.
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Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group
Collaborative mapping projects with Assiniboia Residential School Survivors use digital story maps to reclaim space, document experiences, and advance decolonization and reconciliation.
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November 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
"Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group" by Stephanie Pyne, Caléa Turner, @andrewwiebe.bsky.social, & Andrew Woolford is latest article in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series.
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#envhist #cdnhist
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In this week's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series on @nichecanada.bsky.social, we learn about how the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group is using a variety of innovative and collaborative map-based approaches to document, archive, and present Survivor experiences.
Mapping with the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group
Collaborative mapping projects with Assiniboia Residential School Survivors use digital story maps to reclaim space, document experiences, and advance decolonization and reconciliation.
niche-canada.org
November 12, 2025 at 4:27 PM
In this week's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series on @nichecanada.bsky.social, we learn about how the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group is using a variety of innovative and collaborative map-based approaches to document, archive, and present Survivor experiences.
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“The U.S. military built bases and installations across Unalaska and throughout the Aleutians during WWII, then abandoned structures and equipment when forces left — including insulation with asbestos, drums of brake fluid & antifreeze, & transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs”
Old WWII military sites still affect daily life in Unalaska — residents are changing what they hunt, fish and eat due to lingering contamination.
Unalaskans are changing their subsistence practices due to WWII contamination
Residents reported changing where they pick berries and plants, and where they hunt birds and fish. Some have stopped harvesting salmon and marine invertebrates entirely.
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November 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
“The U.S. military built bases and installations across Unalaska and throughout the Aleutians during WWII, then abandoned structures and equipment when forces left — including insulation with asbestos, drums of brake fluid & antifreeze, & transformers containing polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs”
It's good to see attention being drawn to the social, cultural, and environmental legacies of contamination, in this case, related to WWII, but it parallels much of what the Petroleum Histories Project team is hearing from Dene and Métis about oil and gas exploration and development in the Sahtú.
Old WWII military sites still affect daily life in Unalaska — residents are changing what they hunt, fish and eat due to lingering contamination.
Unalaskans are changing their subsistence practices due to WWII contamination
Residents reported changing where they pick berries and plants, and where they hunt birds and fish. Some have stopped harvesting salmon and marine invertebrates entirely.
akpub.io
November 12, 2025 at 4:21 PM
It's good to see attention being drawn to the social, cultural, and environmental legacies of contamination, in this case, related to WWII, but it parallels much of what the Petroleum Histories Project team is hearing from Dene and Métis about oil and gas exploration and development in the Sahtú.
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"'Too Dangerous a Job': Forced Child Labour & Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School" by Blake Butler is the latest in the Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & C. Fraser
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“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School
At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:11 PM
"'Too Dangerous a Job': Forced Child Labour & Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School" by Blake Butler is the latest in the Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & C. Fraser
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"Forced wood cutting and hauling at Chooutla was not a benign lesson in self-reliance. It was a system that endangered children, stole their classroom time, and transferred institutional heating costs onto their bodies."
In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School
At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"Forced wood cutting and hauling at Chooutla was not a benign lesson in self-reliance. It was a system that endangered children, stole their classroom time, and transferred institutional heating costs onto their bodies."
In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
“Too Dangerous a Job”: Forced Child Labour and Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School
At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.
niche-canada.org
November 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
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"Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of 'Indian Education'" by Jack Hoggarth is the latest post in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
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Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of “Indian Education”
Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of 'Indian Education'" by Jack Hoggarth is the latest post in our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
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In the next installment in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Anishinaabe-Dinjii Zhuh scholar and intergenerational Survivor Jack Hoggarth reflects on the legacies of the residential and day school system and the persistence of Indigenous Peoples and cultures.
Still Here: Land, Memory, and the Failure of “Indian Education”
Jack Hoggarth, a survivor of colonial Catholic schooling, reclaims identity through Anishinaabe teachings, ceremony, and Land, proving assimilation failed—resilience endures.
niche-canada.org
October 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In the next installment in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Anishinaabe-Dinjii Zhuh scholar and intergenerational Survivor Jack Hoggarth reflects on the legacies of the residential and day school system and the persistence of Indigenous Peoples and cultures.
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William Elvis Thomas, Eva Linklater, Laura Golebiowski & Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation's "So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School"
The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series
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The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series
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So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.
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October 23, 2025 at 3:55 PM
William Elvis Thomas, Eva Linklater, Laura Golebiowski & Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation's "So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School"
The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series
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The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series
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There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School
Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.
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October 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
There is a new post in the “Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education” series on @nichecanada.bsky.social.
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"The Williams Treaties & Indian Day Schools: Law & Schooling as Tools of Dispossession" by Jackson Pind is the latest article in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser
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The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession
Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"The Williams Treaties & Indian Day Schools: Law & Schooling as Tools of Dispossession" by Jackson Pind is the latest article in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser
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"For the people of Curve Lake and other Williams Treaties First Nations, the combined impact of the treaty and the day school system was suffocating. One removed them from the Land legally. The other worked to remove them from the Land ideologically." - Jackson Pind
The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession
Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"For the people of Curve Lake and other Williams Treaties First Nations, the combined impact of the treaty and the day school system was suffocating. One removed them from the Land legally. The other worked to remove them from the Land ideologically." - Jackson Pind
The second post in the series that Crystal Fraser and I are editing for @nichecanada.bsky.social is live.
In this post, Anishinaabe historian Jackson Pind illustrates how the Williams Treaties and Indian day schools were tools of dispossession.
In this post, Anishinaabe historian Jackson Pind illustrates how the Williams Treaties and Indian day schools were tools of dispossession.
The Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools: Law and Schooling as Tools of Dispossession
Williams Treaties and Indian Day Schools dispossessed Anishinaabe from Land and identity, yet cultural resilience, language, and Land-based resurgencies endure.
niche-canada.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:39 AM
The second post in the series that Crystal Fraser and I are editing for @nichecanada.bsky.social is live.
In this post, Anishinaabe historian Jackson Pind illustrates how the Williams Treaties and Indian day schools were tools of dispossession.
In this post, Anishinaabe historian Jackson Pind illustrates how the Williams Treaties and Indian day schools were tools of dispossession.
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October 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser continued this week with "A Deeper Cultural Divide" by Antoine Mountain.
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A Deeper Cultural Divide
Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.
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October 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Our Land, Memory, and Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series, edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & Crystal Gail Fraser continued this week with "A Deeper Cultural Divide" by Antoine Mountain.
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#indigenous #envhist #cdnhist #residentialschools
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In the first contributor post in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Antoine Mountain reflects on how residential school disconnected K’áhsho Got’ı̨nę children from the Land and important seasonally-specific cultural knowledge. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a...
A Deeper Cultural Divide
Residential schools disrupted cultural education, severed family ties, suppressed traditions, and created lasting identity loss, causing deep generational harm and cultural genocide.
niche-canada.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
In the first contributor post in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Antoine Mountain reflects on how residential school disconnected K’áhsho Got’ı̨nę children from the Land and important seasonally-specific cultural knowledge. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a...
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This is going to be a phenomenal series and crucial resource for historical research and teaching edited by Crystal Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social on @nichecanada.bsky.social. The intro is now live - keep tuned in for the next several weeks to follow the series!
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Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation
This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.
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October 1, 2025 at 9:02 PM
This is going to be a phenomenal series and crucial resource for historical research and teaching edited by Crystal Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social on @nichecanada.bsky.social. The intro is now live - keep tuned in for the next several weeks to follow the series!
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An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."
September 30, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An important new blog series starts today, Orange Shirt Day, on the @nichecanada.bsky.social blog. According to series editors Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin, contributions will demonstrate "that residential and day school histories cannot be separated from histories of Land and environment."
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Today we are privileged to share Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new series, Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
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The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation
This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.
niche-canada.org
September 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Today we are privileged to share Crystal Gail Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social's intro to their new series, Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
The series will run for at least 12 weeks & is still accepting submissions.
niche-canada.org/2025/09/30/e...
#envhist
Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.
Environmental History and the Work of Truth and Reconciliation
This series links residential and day school histories with environment, amplifying Survivors’ voices, countering denialism, and fostering reconciliation.
niche-canada.org
September 30, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a series on environmental histories of Indian residential and day schools for @nichecanada.bsky.social. We chose to launch the series on Orange Shirt Day, in part, to remind historians of their responsibilities to Survivors and intergenerational Survivors.
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Acting with one mind: Gwich’in lessons for truth and reconciliation
Acting with one mind: Gwich’in lessons for truth and reconciliation
Strength is not just survival. It is how Indigenous Peoples have always transformed oppression into collective action — and how we will face residential schools denialism today.
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September 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Acting with one mind: Gwich’in lessons for truth and reconciliation
This series launches next Tuesday, September 30, Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Based on the positive response to the call, we've decided to have an open submission process. Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the series.
Inspired by conversations that we had in response to our January post about Land and northern histories of residential and day schooling, Crystal Fraser and I are co-editing a @nichecanada.bsky.social series on environmental histories of residential and day school. niche-canada.org/2025/07/22/c...
Call for Submissions - Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools
Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This series launches next Tuesday, September 30, Orange Shirt Day and the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Based on the positive response to the call, we've decided to have an open submission process. Please get in touch if you are interested in contributing to the series.
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You have until MONDAY, AUGUST 25th to get your proposals in for our upcoming Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools series.
Editors: Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
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#cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous #TRC #envhist
Editors: Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
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#cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous #TRC #envhist
Call for Submissions - Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools
Although Land and environment are central to residential and day school histories, they remain underexamined in environmental history.
niche-canada.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:52 PM
You have until MONDAY, AUGUST 25th to get your proposals in for our upcoming Environmental Histories of Indian Residential and Day Schools series.
Editors: Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/07/22/c...
#cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous #TRC #envhist
Editors: Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social
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#cdnhist #indigenoushistory #indigenous #TRC #envhist
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We have a roundup of the last 4 conversations of Season 5 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
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Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
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NiCHE Conversations Roundup #21
Find conversations about land, water, and Indigenous knowledge in the final four convos of Season Five of NiCHE Conversations with Jessica DeWitt
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August 1, 2025 at 4:27 PM
We have a roundup of the last 4 conversations of Season 5 of NiCHE Conversations w/ @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
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Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
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