Public History Contributions

2021 Radio interview with Chris de la Torre of CBC Radio Afternoon Drive (Southwestern Ontario) on Indian Residential Schools, June 25, 2021

2021 Print media interview for Globe and Mail article “UBC mulls rescinding degree given to principal of Kamloops residential school,” May 31, 2021

2021 Contributor to article in Winnipeg Free PressIndigenous communities remember lost children” May 30, 2021

2020 CBC Unreserved radio episode and article “Names erased: How Indigenous people are reclaiming what was lost,” Oct. 23, 2020, featuring my article “Reclaiming Indigenous Place Names” Yellowhead Institute policy brief (co-written with Christina Gray) and “How the erasure of their place names can have ‘real-life effects’ on Indigenous people

2020 Workshop co-facilitator, “What Makes Home? Mapping Our Relationships”, Soaring: an Indigenous Youth Empowerment Gathering (Indspire, uOttawa), Mar 5, 2020

2020 Radio Interview on #WetsuwetenSolidarity and rail blockades, Scott Thompson Show, 900CHML, Hamilton, ON, Feb 25, 2020

2020 TV Interview on #WetsuwetenSolidarity and rail blockades, CTV Ottawa, Morning Live, Feb 25, 2020

2020 Radio Interview on Wet’suwet’en and #ShutDownCanada, The Natasha Hall Show, CJAD 800 AM, Montreal, Feb 21, 2020

2020 TV Interview, CBC Ottawa News, “Wet’suwet’en Protests” Feb 13, 2020

2019 Panelist for a discussion on Treaty Relationships, Treaties Recognition Week, University of Ottawa, Nov 5, 2019

2016 Panelist for discussion of the book The Colonial Problem: An Indigenous perspective on crime and injustice in Canada (University of Toronto Press, 2016) by Lisa Monchalin, University of Ottawa, Dec 5, 2016

2016 “Telling Stories about the Past with GIS”, Research presentation for GIS Day, University of Ottawa, Nov. 16, 2016

2016 Review of the book Indigenous Writes: A Guide to First Nations, Métis & Inuit Issues in Canada (Winnipeg: Highwater Press) by Chelsea Vowel in the Montreal Review of Books.

2016 News article on SSRHC-funded research project “Indian Affairs and Confederation, 1860-1876, U of T News, Oct 25, 2016.

2016 Guest Speaker on settler colonialism and research methodologies, Academic Seminar of the Parliamentary Internship Programme, Ottawa, Sep 14, 2016

2016 Interview for radio documentary, “No Place to Call Home”, CKUT Radio, Montréal, July 5, 2016

2015 Interview on Russian public radio, “Colonialism Never Ended”, Brave New World, Sputnik International, Dec. 11, 2015

2015 Citizenship and Eviction in Nineteenth Century Kahnawá:ke. Invited public research presentation organized by C.O.R.E. Carrying Our Roots to Empowerment Kahnawá:ke Women’s Group, Kahnawá:ke, 14 July 2015. Video

2015 Appearance as a commentator in two episodes of Kahnawá:ke Revisited documentary video series on Kahnawá:ke environmental history, Mohawk Council of Kahnawá:ke. http://kahnawakeclaims.com/

2015 Kahnawá:ke Timeline: Some Key Events Related to Land and Resources. 19-page document produced for Mohawk Council of Kahnawá:ke, 2012. Published online 2015. http://kahnawakeclaims.com/research/

2003-2016 Founding executive board member and organizer, Quelques arpents de neige environmental history workshops. 25 colloquia and conferences in nine locations since 2003

2013-2014 Initiator and organizer, York Indigenous Peoples and Environments Seminar Series, York University. Monthly interdisciplinary workshop sponsored by the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, Jan. 2013 to Apr. 2014

2013 Featured guest on the weekly television show Life Is with Peter Handley, TV Cogeco, North Bay, Ontario. Aired Dec. 14-18, 2013

2013 Interviewed for article by C. Curtis. “South Shore fights land return to Mohawks,” The Montreal Gazette, June 27, 2013

2012 Interviewed for Nature’s Past podcast on the book Metropolitan Natures: Environmental Histories of Montreal

2012 Interviewed for article by C. Curtis. “First nations property proposal could mean sea change,” The Montreal Gazette, Aug. 8, 2012

2012 Radio interview on my research, Partyline Talkshow, K103.7 Kahnawá:ke, June 7, 2012

2012 “Who Owns the Trees: Kahnawá:ke land before the Seaway.” Public presentation of my dissertation research. Skawenniio Tsi Iewennahnotahkhwa Library, Kahnawá:ke Mohawk Territory, June 7, 2012

2012 Article on my public presentation: C. Curtis. “Mapping Kahnawake history without an agenda,” The Eastern Door newspaper, Kahnawá:ke, June 15, 2012, pg. 12

2010 Guest Contributor to article “Blast from the Past: Kahnawake’s Connection to the Big City,” The Eastern Door newspaper, Kahnawá:ke Mohawk Territory, Nov. 19, 2010