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Deadly Entanglements: Resource Extraction, Cowboy Culture, and Sexualized Colonial Violence in Alberta Ghosts and Their Analysts: Writing and Reading Toward Something Like Justice for Murdered or Missing Indigenous Women Notes Towards a Methodology of Haunting

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Settler Colonial Place-making in Alberta: Sexualized Violence, Extractivism, and Cowboy Culture is a research project funded by an Insight Development Grant awarded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (2018-2024).

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One of the ways that settler colonialism might ally itself with innocence is by impelling settlers (ourselves included) to offer land acknowledgements. The logic, of course, is that if settlers acknowledge Indigenous land and sovereignty, then we must be ‘on their team,’ and if we are on their team, then we must not be so bad: we must, in other words, be innocent. Read more