- November 8, 2023
- 7:00pm – 8:30pm
- Online Event
Join authors Kristin Burnett and Travis Hay for a discussion on food insecurity in the North; the social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s; and the roles of state food policy. The launch will be hosted by Dr. Lana Ray, Indigenous Research Chair at Lakehead University.
Plundering the North
A History of Settler Colonialism, Corporate Welfare, and Food Insecurity
Plundering the North provides fresh insight into Canada’s colonial project, laying bare the processes behind the chronic food insecurity experienced by northern Indigenous communities by charting the social, economic, and political changes that have taken place in northern Ontario since the 1950s.
Presenters
Kristin Burnett is a professor in the Department of Indigenous Learning at Lakehead University. A settler scholar, Burnett has published broadly on topics related to Indigenous health and well-being, and much of her current research and policy work engages with systemic barriers to health care, social services and supports, and food.
Travis Hay is a historian of Canadian settler colonialism who was born and raised in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He is currently an assistant professor at Mount Royal University, the author of Inventing the Thrifty Gene, and the English Language Book Review Editor of Canadian Journal of Health History.
Lana Ray is a member of the muskellunge clan and her spirit name is "the light that shines." She is an associate professor in the Department of Indigenous Learning, Indigenous Research Chair in Decolonial Futures, and Director of the Anishinaabe Kendaasiwin Institute (AKI) at Lakehead University.
