Shannon Stunden Bower
@stundenbower.bsky.social
Environmental historian with a focus on the northern Great Plains/Canadian Prairies. Employed at the University of Alberta. Executive member and editor at @nichecanada.bsky.social. Settler living in Treaty Six Territory and Métis homelands. She/Her
Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."
Animating the Archive: The Geography of NiCHE Posts since 2004
While NiCHE began as a Canadian environmental history network, its subject matter has always been situated in an international context, fostering conversations and collaborations across borders.
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November 27, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Look at the scholarly field we made! (Also, the spectacular visualization Geoffrey Wallace assembled, in collaboration with others.) As Mica says, @nichecanada.bsky.social looks "forward to fostering even more conversations that cross boundaries — geographic, disciplinary, and methodological."
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
Opinion: Investing for ourselves, and those downstream
We have invested large sums of money in infrastructure before. You don’t often hear Winnipeggers complaining about the results: soft, clean drinking water thanks to the Shoal Lake aqueduct and flood p...
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November 24, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Important read by Jocelyn Thorpe and @adeleperry.bsky.social on the connections between water, infrastructure, and colonialism in Manitoba.
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❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
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#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
❄️NEW NICHE SERIES CFP❄️
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
Call for Submissions – The Winter Olympics & Their Environments
Series Editors: M. Blake Butler and @theliftline.bsky.social
Submission Deadline: December 12, 2025
Publication: January/February 2026
niche-canada.org/2025/11/21/c...
#envhist #sporthistory #olympics
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Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
Building Anew: Ephemerality and the Igluvigaq (Igloo)
Snow architecture enabled Inuit placemaking, memory, and renewal, while Europeans misread its ephemerality to erase Indigenous history and justify imperial claims.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Today we have "Building Anew: Ephemerality & the Igluvigaq (Igloo)" by Phoebe Springstubb
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
This is the seventh post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social & guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social
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#envhist
Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Yesterday I saw an amazing talk by @tinaadcock.bsky.social and today she's kindly visiting my Honors History class. My connection with Tina is exactly the sort of relationship that @nichecanada.bsky.social helps foster, and I'm so grateful for that. If you are too, please consider donating.
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Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
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#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Do you appreciate that we provide space for public history on topics underserved topics in Canadian and environmental history?
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
Consider sending us $20 so that we can continue to do this work.
fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...
#envhist #cdnhist #envhum #histgeog
@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!
Help NiCHE Write the Next Chapter of Environmental History: 2025 Campaign
The Network in Canadian History and Environment is a not-for-profit public history organization dedicated to the dissemination of environmental history research in Canada and building a network of res...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
@nichecanada.bsky.social is fundraising! The organization is powered by volunteer labour but requires some funds to continue making research accessible, sparking critical conversations, and building a community of researchers and readers in environmental history and adjacent fields. Please chip in!
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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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"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...
Iran's Water Crisis Is Its Greatest Threat
The collapse of water security in Iran has been decades in the making and is rooted in a mania for mega projects.
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October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
"My father and his scientist colleagues warned that dams and water-intensive farming were unsustainable in a warming climate. But their voices were drowned out." Must-read essay by @nikahang.bsky.social in @time.com time.com/7321571/iran...
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."
I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduce a new series in "Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories."
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#envhist #archives
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#envhist #archives
Archival Outliers, Invented Ephemerals in Constructing Environmental Histories
Archival outliers—flowers, notes, photos, letters—challenge environmental historians, revealing unruly fragments that resist narrative placement yet inspire future histories.
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September 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I'm so excited for this upcoming @nichecanada.bsky.social blog series, which is edited by @nulybranch.bsky.social
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Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
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#envhum
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
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#envhum
History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games
Historical board game Land Run: 1893 explores settler colonialism, Indigenous dispossession, and environmental degradation, balancing historical accuracy with player agency.
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September 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today we have "History on the Tabletop: A Brief Guide for Evaluating Historical Board Games" by @jacobleetom.bsky.social
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
This is the second article in the Playing Inside: Board Games, Video Games, and the Indoors series edited by @theliftline.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2025/09/25/h...
#envhum
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Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
September 17, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Can you keep us sustainable? EHN is volunteer-run, but we need to cover our costs for hosting the website. If you value what we do, chip in $6 or whatever you can below ko-fi.com/envhistnow
Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.
Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.
New Guidelines for Partnering with NiCHE
The SSHRC Insight Grant deadline is October 1st. Consider partnering with NiCHE on your application to enhance your knowledge mobilization.
niche-canada.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Circulating this again as we all buckle down for September! Please reach out to me if you'd like to chat about partnering with @nichecanada.bsky.social on your funding application.
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Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
September 2, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on a rolling basis - niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
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Call for Proposals – Cross-Pollinations
2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC)
16-20 June, University of Alberta
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025
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#envhum
2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC)
16-20 June, University of Alberta
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/08/27/c...
#envhum
Call for Proposals / Appel à propositions - Cross-Pollinations
We invite proposals for scholarly, creative-critical, and creative presentations or panels that examine or employ “cross-pollination."
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August 27, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Call for Proposals – Cross-Pollinations
2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC)
16-20 June, University of Alberta
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/08/27/c...
#envhum
2026 20th Anniversary Conference – Centre for Literatures in Canada (CLC) & the Association of Literature, Environment, & Culture in Canada (ALECC)
16-20 June, University of Alberta
Proposal Deadline: 1 December 2025
niche-canada.org/2025/08/27/c...
#envhum
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Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong
August 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Faculty locked out Aug 20. We have heard nothing from @dalhousieu.bsky.social - we WANT to BARGAIN, our members WANT to WORK! Where is the Board? Students start move in Aug 28. Time for the Board to take this seriously and work with us #KeepDalStrong
Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.
New Guidelines for Partnering with NiCHE
The SSHRC Insight Grant deadline is October 1st. Consider partnering with NiCHE on your application to enhance your knowledge mobilization.
niche-canada.org
August 22, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Part of my role with @nichecanada.bsky.social involves discussing potential research partnerships with interested scholars. Please reach out to me if you'd like to arrange a conversation about your Insight Grant application or any other funding application.
Exciting event planned for next June!
Call for Papers – (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 18-20 2026
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025
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#envhist #envhum #deindustrialization
@deindustrialpol.bsky.social Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada, June 18-20 2026
Proposal Deadline: October 1, 2025
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#envhist #envhum #deindustrialization
Call for Papers - (Un)just Transitions?: Deindustrialization and the Environment
The 2026 DePOT conference will explore intersections of deindustrialization and environment, focusing on transitions, justice, remediation, energy, heritage, and global perspectives.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Exciting event planned for next June!
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"In 1919, more than 6,500 Drumheller coal miners went on strike under the banner of the One Big Union to fight for better working and living conditions, and higher wages." - @daveberta.bsky.social
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#labour #mininghistory #envhist #cdnhist
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#labour #mininghistory #envhist #cdnhist
The Truth, the Coal Truth and nothing but the Truth
By Dave Cournoyer
Crossposted with Permission from Dave Cournoyer
The Government of Alberta Trade Branch once operated a COAL TRUTH OFFICE in Winnipeg in an apparent effort to market the sa...
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August 18, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"In 1919, more than 6,500 Drumheller coal miners went on strike under the banner of the One Big Union to fight for better working and living conditions, and higher wages." - @daveberta.bsky.social
niche-canada.org/2021/02/05/t...
#labour #mininghistory #envhist #cdnhist
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#labour #mininghistory #envhist #cdnhist
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Today on our site Cheryl Troupe introduces us to her new book, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community ( @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025)
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#envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist
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#envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist
New Book - Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community
Putting Down Roots explores Métis women’s land-based labour and resilience in Qu’Appelle road allowance communities amid colonial displacement.
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August 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Today on our site Cheryl Troupe introduces us to her new book, Putting Down Roots: Métis Agency, Land Use, and Women’s Food Labour in a Qu’Appelle Valley Road Allowance Community ( @umanitobapress.bsky.social 2025)
niche-canada.org/2025/08/08/m...
#envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist
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#envhist #metis #cdnhist #skhistory #wmnshist
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As of today, 3% of Manitoba’s land mass has burned this fire season.
The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres.
That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.
The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres.
That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.
August 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
As of today, 3% of Manitoba’s land mass has burned this fire season.
The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres.
That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.
The total burn this wildfire season in this province is 16,735 square kilometres.
That’s equivalent to three Prince Edward Islands.
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Trying to compile a playlist of songs relating to post-1885 #CdnHist but finding it hard to find actual good ones. Any suggestions? It’s gotta be more than the Hip, right? Here’s what I have so far open.spotify.com/playlist/2dU...
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Playlist · Jezza · 42 items
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August 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Trying to compile a playlist of songs relating to post-1885 #CdnHist but finding it hard to find actual good ones. Any suggestions? It’s gotta be more than the Hip, right? Here’s what I have so far open.spotify.com/playlist/2dU...
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If you want a space to write about changes to structures supporting climate change action in the US, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis.
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#uspoli
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#uspoli
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
If you want a space to write about changes to structures supporting climate change action in the US, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis.
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#uspoli
niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c...
#uspoli
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Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduces our Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series.
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#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis
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#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis
Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis
This series explores how humour helps environmental historians engage climate crisis narratives, bridging human-nonhuman relations and resisting despair.
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July 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Today @nulybranch.bsky.social introduces our Finding Humour in the Environmental History of the Climate Crisis series.
niche-canada.org/2025/07/25/f...
#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis
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#envhist #envhum #climatecrisis