Jess Dunkin
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
- Masì to Hotıì ts'eeda and ICHR for inviting Crystal Fraser and me to talk about the How I Survived project and podcast this Friday, January 23, as part of their lunchtime learning series. Click on this link below to register for this free event: www.eventbrite.com/e/how-i-surv...
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- It's Tuesday, which means another installment in the Land, Memory, Schooling series that Crystal Fraser and I are editing for @nichecanada.bsky.social.
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- "These stories are part of the environmental history of Indian residential schools: a history of energy, Land, and exploitation. Remembering them means acknowledging the children who were harmed and refusing to let their labour remain invisible."
- In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
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- In this week's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series on @nichecanada.bsky.social, we learn about how the Assiniboia Residential School Legacy Group is using a variety of innovative and collaborative map-based approaches to document, archive, and present Survivor experiences.
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- It's good to see attention being drawn to the social, cultural, and environmental legacies of contamination, in this case, related to WWII, but it parallels much of what the Petroleum Histories Project team is hearing from Dene and Métis about oil and gas exploration and development in the Sahtú.
- Reposted by Jess Dunkin"'Too Dangerous a Job': Forced Child Labour & Wood Collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School" by Blake Butler is the latest in the Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series edited by @jdunkin.bsky.social & C. Fraser niche-canada.org/2025/11/04/t...
- "Forced wood cutting and hauling at Chooutla was not a benign lesson in self-reliance. It was a system that endangered children, stole their classroom time, and transferred institutional heating costs onto their bodies."
- In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
- In today's post in the Land, Memory, and Schooling series for @nichecanada.bsky.social, Blake Butler writes about child labour and wood collection at the Chooutla Indian Residential School in Carcross, Yukon.
- "Forced wood cutting and hauling at Chooutla was not a benign lesson in self-reliance. It was a system that endangered children, stole their classroom time, and transferred institutional heating costs onto their bodies."
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- In the next installment in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Anishinaabe-Dinjii Zhuh scholar and intergenerational Survivor Jack Hoggarth reflects on the legacies of the residential and day school system and the persistence of Indigenous Peoples and cultures.
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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.
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- "For the people of Curve Lake and other Williams Treaties First Nations, the combined impact of the treaty and the day school system was suffocating. One removed them from the Land legally. The other worked to remove them from the Land ideologically." - Jackson Pind
- The second post in the series that Crystal Fraser and I are editing for @nichecanada.bsky.social is live. In this post, Anishinaabe historian Jackson Pind illustrates how the Williams Treaties and Indian day schools were tools of dispossession.
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- In the first contributor post in the series about environmental histories of residential and day school, Antoine Mountain reflects on how residential school disconnected K’áhsho Got’ı̨nę children from the Land and important seasonally-specific cultural knowledge. niche-canada.org/2025/10/07/a...
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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.
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- 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.
- 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...
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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...
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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!
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- Reposted by Jess DunkinToday @nichecanada.bsky.social I introduce *A Cold Colonialism* — its origin story, its main characters and arguments, and its potential to shift how we think about exploration, the North, and colonialism’s relationships with both. Enjoy! #cdnhist #envhist #Arctic niche-canada.org/2025/06/03/n...
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- Crystal and I are looking forward to talking to Jessica tomorrow about the How I Survived project/podcast.
- 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
- We'd also love to hear if/how educators are using the podcast and how it has been received by students, etc.
- The advisory committee for How I Survived is meeting in mid-April. We want to hear from listeners. Why do you listen to the podcast? What do you like about it? What could we do better if we make a second season? The survey is short and there are prizes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- The advisory committee for How I Survived is meeting in mid-April. We want to hear from listeners. Why do you listen to the podcast? What do you like about it? What could we do better if we make a second season? The survey is short and there are prizes! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery.
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- The final episode of season one of the How I Survived Podcast is available. Dr. Sharon Anne Firth is Gwich'in, born and raised on a trapline near Akłarvik (Aklavik). Along with her twin Shirley, Sharon was a member of the Canadian national nordic ski team for an unprecedented 17 consecutive years.
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- On stitching as historical practice: “They were thinking time. Reflecting time. Teeth gnashing time. Body stiffening time. Through them, I’m trying to make sense of bodies and/as and/as cargo and/as work and/as worth and/as time. Through them, I am imagining. And through them, I am also writing.”
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- Episode six of the How I Survived Podcast, featuring Agnes Kuptana, is now available. Agnes was born in an iglu and raised in the land near Uluksaqtuuq (Uluhaktok), NWT. She was institutionalized at Coppermine Tent Hostel (Kugluktuk), Cambridge Bay Hostel, and Stringer Hall in Inuuvik (Inuvik).
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