Unsettling Fairy Creek: Forestry, Eco-Colonialism, and Indigenous Self-Determination in British Columbia

Please join us in the Stanford Humanities Center Board Room or on Zoom for the third Property, Territory, and Sovereignty on Indigenous Land workshop meeting of 2024–25. 

Clifford Atleo, a Tsimshian (Kitsumkalum/Kitselas) and Nuu-chah-nulth (Ahousaht) scholar will share a paper titled “Unsettling Fairy Creek: Forestry, Eco-Colonialism, and Indigenous Self-Determination" which explores one of the largest and most documented act of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Clifford Atleo, Jr. (he/him) is Ts’msyen from Kitselas/Kitsumkalum and Nuu-chah-nulth from Ahousaht. He is an Associate Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University and Grad Program Chair for the 2024-2025 academic year. He is interested in how Indigenous communities navigate/adopt/resist neoliberal capitalism while working to sustain their unique cultural identities, worldviews, and ways of living. Cliff is particularly interested in how Indigenous leaders continue to assert agency within the confines of settler colonial politics and economics and work tirelessly to lead their communities in more sustainable directions. He has recently published on Indigenous water and land relations, Indigenous community responses to the Trans Mountain pipeline and is working on several exciting research projects on cleaner marine transport and Indigenous community responses to crises such as COVID-19 and climate change.