Jess Dunkin
@jdunkin.bsky.social
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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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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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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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New posts will go live on the NiCHE site on Tuesdays. Thank you to the Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, community members, and scholars who have contributed to the series so far. Please reach out if you would like to submit something.
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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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
jdunkin.bsky.social
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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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.
niche-canada.org
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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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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
jdunkin.bsky.social
You can listen to the How I Survived Podcast on:
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‣ Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5raoLvn...
‣ Podcast website: www.howisurvived.ca
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Please send submissions care of Crystal ([email protected]) and me ([email protected]) and tell us a little about yourself and why this topic interests you by August 25, 2025. Reach out to me if you have questions or want to pre-submit a proposal before the deadline for feedback.
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We invite written reflections, personal accounts, essays, Q&As, narratives, and histories; visual projects (maps, photo essays, short videos, graphic histories); and sound pieces. Proposals from Survivors, intergenerational Survivors, and community members are encouraged.
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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.
niche-canada.org
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Alaska public radio stations are essential parts of community safety.
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I just pre-ordered Talk Treaty to Me by Crystal Fraser and @saritavk.bsky.social from Yellowknife Books. Publication date is November 4. Excited to read this important book by my two friend-colleagues!
Book cover of Talk Treaty to Me: Understanding the Basics of Treaties and Land in Canada.
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Our NiCHE Conversation with Crystal Fraser & @jdunkin.bsky.social is now on YouTube!

They joined @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss their How I Survived Podcast and land and recreation in histories of residential & day schooling in the north

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFxP...

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NiCHE Conversations 5.13: Recreation, Land, & Histories of Residential Schooling w/ Fraser & Dunkin
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Photo 1) Portrait of Dene leader Louis Norwegian, photographed by June Helm in 1952 at Jean Marie River, NWT. Under Norwegian’s leadership, the community said no to residential schools and built their own instead, on their own dime.
Photo 2) The first school at Jean Marie River with volunteer 1/2
A colour slide of Dene leader Louis Norwegian, wearing a cap, plaid jacket, and looking at the camera. An outdoor class for students at Jean Marie River in the NWT. Students and teacher are gathered near the banks of a river.
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In Canada, the greatest threat to freshwater fish is the application of western legal, ethical, and scientific logics towards fish, water, habitats, and ecosystems after brutally repressing Indigenous laws, science, and praxis that governed lands, waters, and relationships with fish for millennia.
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Global Patterns and Drivers of Freshwater Fish Extinctions: Can We Learn From Our Losses?

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This conversation will be partly based on Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social's post, "How I Survived: Land and Northern Histories of Residential and Day Schooling" - niche-canada.org/2025/01/09/h...

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Crystal and I are looking forward to talking to Jessica tomorrow about the How I Survived project/podcast.
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Our next NiCHE Conversation will be on Wed. May 21st, at 4pm EDT on Instagram Live.

Crystal Gail Fraser and @jdunkin.bsky.social will join @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social to discuss their podcast, How I Survived, & histories of recreation and land in northern residential & day schools.
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So wonderful to see my friend and collaborator Crystal Gail Fraser nominated. By Strength We Are Still Here makes such an important contribution to our understanding of the North, residential schooling, and Canada. #cdnhist