Peter Fortna
@peterfortna.bsky.social
A #ymmfire survivor, #kidneydonor and member histotiwn, living and working in Treaty 7/8 Territory. He/Him
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Peter Fortna
@peterfortna.bsky.social
· May 22
Active History
History Matters
ActiveHistory.ca
Here is the @activehist.bsky.social link to @theseangraham.bsky.social's "What is Old is News" pod where I'm interviewed about Fort McKay #Métis Nation: A Community History. Purchase or download (#openaccess) the book from @ucalgarypress.bsky.social to learn more about #oilsands #tarsands #ymm
Hey #CochraneAB! We've got a #houseconcert coming up next Friday with Quote the Raven from Newfoundland! If you're interested in the details check out the link below or send me a DM.
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
November 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Hey #CochraneAB! We've got a #houseconcert coming up next Friday with Quote the Raven from Newfoundland! If you're interested in the details check out the link below or send me a DM.
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
#livemusic #houseconcert #yyc #yycmusic
A cool project I've had the pleasure of assisting with near the #Métis community of Conklin, Alberta in the heart of the #oilsands. share.google/e5zSO93rvG26...
#ymm
#ymm
Researchers, hunters study how oilsands noise might impact moose hunting | CBC News
Hunters in northern Alberta are helping scientists test how industrial noise from the oilsands affects moose hunting — a food source and a connection to cultural traditions for many rural and Indigeno...
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November 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
A cool project I've had the pleasure of assisting with near the #Métis community of Conklin, Alberta in the heart of the #oilsands. share.google/e5zSO93rvG26...
#ymm
#ymm
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job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
The Researcher will work closely with owners and staff to coordinate research on a number of projects with Indigenous clients.
DL: Oct 31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
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Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
October 28, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Where's the premier while MLAs rush through an all-night debate on stripping Albertans of their Charter rights?
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
An airport lounge, waiting for a flight to Saudi Arabia. She didn't even bother to show up for the vote.
I remember when conservatives turfed premiers for this level of hubris.
When is our #ableg Premier going to start talking about protecting Canadian #oilsands workers and less about pie in the sky pipelines "North, South, East and West" that will only benefit shareholders, not workers. #ymm #yyc boereport.com/2025/10/23/c...
October 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
When is our #ableg Premier going to start talking about protecting Canadian #oilsands workers and less about pie in the sky pipelines "North, South, East and West" that will only benefit shareholders, not workers. #ymm #yyc boereport.com/2025/10/23/c...
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job-Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 12:24 PM
job-Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in AB & elsewhere in Canada
DL 10/31
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
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job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
job
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
Researcher – Willow Springs Strategic Solutions
Deadline for applications is October 31, 2025.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
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job - Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
October 7, 2025 at 5:28 PM
job - Researcher
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
Willow Springs Strategic Solutions is seeking a candidate to fill a challenging position within a social science & environmental research company that works with & for Indigenous communities in Alberta and elsewhere in Canada.
csn-rec.ca/job-postings...
@peterfortna.bsky.social
rivileged to be able to attend Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's Decolonizing Land and Water Summit, facilitating conversation with ACFN Knowledge Holders Alice Rigney and Jimmy Deranger about the book: Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park.
September 16, 2025 at 11:09 PM
rivileged to be able to attend Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation's Decolonizing Land and Water Summit, facilitating conversation with ACFN Knowledge Holders Alice Rigney and Jimmy Deranger about the book: Remembering Our Relations: Dënesųłıné Oral Histories of Wood Buffalo National Park.
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Part 2 of my #cdnhist thread on why it's bad history (and otherwise problematic) to say "“In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved.”
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
"In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved."
As a Cdn tax historian, I find this popular idea irritating. Equality of sacrifice? Sure! Abundant public revenue? Yay! But how?
A 🧵 w/sources #cdnhist
As a Cdn tax historian, I find this popular idea irritating. Equality of sacrifice? Sure! Abundant public revenue? Yay! But how?
A 🧵 w/sources #cdnhist
September 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Part 2 of my #cdnhist thread on why it's bad history (and otherwise problematic) to say "“In the 1950s, high incomes were taxed at 90%, and government had abundant revenue. Our top rates are too low now. Raise them. Problem solved.”
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
Here's a link to part 1 bsky.app/profile/stil...
#cdnhist
I guess it's a good thing that Canada's billionaires are racing to buy the HBC Charter to share with the great unwashed. Perhaps, with their newfound love of #cdnhist, they can now donate $ to provincial and national archives to make our history available to all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Billionaire David Thomson wants to buy Hudson's Bay charter, donate it to Manitoba Archives | CBC News
Two of Canada's richest families appear poised for a battle over one of the country's most famed documents.
www.cbc.ca
August 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I guess it's a good thing that Canada's billionaires are racing to buy the HBC Charter to share with the great unwashed. Perhaps, with their newfound love of #cdnhist, they can now donate $ to provincial and national archives to make our history available to all.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Excited to be with our friends the Fort McKay #Métis Nation at their Metis Days celebration. Sharing copies of the recently completed book. If you can't make it down, remember you can buy or download your own copy from the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social here: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist
August 15, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Excited to be with our friends the Fort McKay #Métis Nation at their Metis Days celebration. Sharing copies of the recently completed book. If you can't make it down, remember you can buy or download your own copy from the @ucalgarypress.bsky.social here: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978177... #cdnhist
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Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani...
Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins - Alberta Politics
Alberta’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing began yesterday with the appearance of a website where Albertans can register to be considered for COVID-19 immunization sometime in the...
albertapolitics.ca
August 12, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Danielle Smith’s bizarre and dangerous experiment in vaccine rationing begins. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/dani...
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It was MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE week in my Canadian #envhist seminar today. Below is a short thread about what we read and watched ⛏️⚖️🧵
July 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It was MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE week in my Canadian #envhist seminar today. Below is a short thread about what we read and watched ⛏️⚖️🧵
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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
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
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
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
Find convos w/ Crystal Gail Fraser, @jdunkin.bsky.social, @ramya.bsky.social, Parineeta Dandekar, @peterfortna.bsky.social, & @arnkeeling.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/08/01/n...
Pleased to have provided evidence in the Wayne Cunningham v Sucker Creek First Nation 150A, 2025 FC 1174 which upheld the First Nation's Customary Election Regulation. decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi...
Cunningham v. Sucker Creek First Nation 150A - Federal Court
decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca
July 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Pleased to have provided evidence in the Wayne Cunningham v Sucker Creek First Nation 150A, 2025 FC 1174 which upheld the First Nation's Customary Election Regulation. decisions.fct-cf.gc.ca/fc-cf/decisi...
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Our NiCHE Conversation with @peterfortna.bsky.social is now available on YouTube!
Fortna joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the oil sand industry on the Athabasca River, forcing downstream communities to adapt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7S...
#envhist #cdnhist #oilsands
Fortna joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the oil sand industry on the Athabasca River, forcing downstream communities to adapt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7S...
#envhist #cdnhist #oilsands
NiCHE Conversations 5.15: Athabasca River, Indigenous Knowledge & Adapting to Danger w/ Peter Fortna
YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE
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July 19, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Our NiCHE Conversation with @peterfortna.bsky.social is now available on YouTube!
Fortna joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the oil sand industry on the Athabasca River, forcing downstream communities to adapt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7S...
#envhist #cdnhist #oilsands
Fortna joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the impact of the oil sand industry on the Athabasca River, forcing downstream communities to adapt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx7S...
#envhist #cdnhist #oilsands
Isn't it funny how #oilsands corporations are rewarded by the investing class. The #ableg really needs to reconsider their benefit as they nationalize and defer billions of dollars of environmental, social, and Indigenous liabilities. share.google/KwC6gRKDYWVo...
July 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Isn't it funny how #oilsands corporations are rewarded by the investing class. The #ableg really needs to reconsider their benefit as they nationalize and defer billions of dollars of environmental, social, and Indigenous liabilities. share.google/KwC6gRKDYWVo...
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MA student Maegan Ellis's book review of "The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History" was published in @activehist.bsky.social today:
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/07...
#cdnhist
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/07...
#cdnhist
A Review of Peter Fortna’s The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History
Ultimately, The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History makes a vital contribution to Métis historiography and to the growing body of scholarship that centers Indigenous voices in historical r…
activehistory.ca
July 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
MA student Maegan Ellis's book review of "The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History" was published in @activehist.bsky.social today:
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/07...
#cdnhist
activehistory.ca/blog/2025/07...
#cdnhist
A kind review of #FortMcKay #Metis Nation: A Community History by Maegan Ellis on @ActiveHist.
Join Maegan Ellis as she reviews Peter Fortna’s The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History.
A Review of Peter Fortna’s The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History
Ultimately, The Fort McKay Métis Nation: A Community History makes a vital contribution to Métis historiography and to the growing body of scholarship that centers Indigenous voices in historical r…
activehistory.ca
July 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
A kind review of #FortMcKay #Metis Nation: A Community History by Maegan Ellis on @ActiveHist.
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is hosting a summit on Decolonizing Land and Water next fall. Check it out! acfn.com/decolonizing... #landback #decolonization #landback #decolonization
Decolonizing Land and Water Summit | Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation
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July 3, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is hosting a summit on Decolonizing Land and Water next fall. Check it out! acfn.com/decolonizing... #landback #decolonization #landback #decolonization
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is hosting a summit on Decolonizing Land and Water next fall. Check it out! acfn.com/decolonizing... #landback #decolonization
July 3, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation is hosting a summit on Decolonizing Land and Water next fall. Check it out! acfn.com/decolonizing... #landback #decolonization
Live today over on Instagram! Hope to chat with you there!
Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Thursday, June 19th, at 1:30pm on Instagram Live.
@peterfortna.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the adaptation of Indigenous communities downstream from the oil sands industry.
Follow NiCHE on Insta: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
@peterfortna.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss the adaptation of Indigenous communities downstream from the oil sands industry.
Follow NiCHE on Insta: www.instagram.com/niche.canada
June 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Live today over on Instagram! Hope to chat with you there!
Question for the #cdnhist universe. I've got a manuscript that's an awkward length (25,000-30,000 words). I know the practical thing would be to either lengthen or shorten the ms, but I'm curious if anyone has experience publishing a short book? And if so where? Feel free to respond or send me a DM
June 17, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Question for the #cdnhist universe. I've got a manuscript that's an awkward length (25,000-30,000 words). I know the practical thing would be to either lengthen or shorten the ms, but I'm curious if anyone has experience publishing a short book? And if so where? Feel free to respond or send me a DM