I’m not sure exactly how I found myself clicking through hundreds of pages of digitized Forest Service images late one night. All I know is that an initial search in the BC Archives database …

Environmental history remains vastly underrepresented on Canada's national register. Pitch your ideas for a new NiCHE series and help shape HSMBC designations.

Former NDP MP Charlie Angus is calling on the federal government to review the appointment of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to the advisory board of a Vancouver mining company, arguing ...

Amid a critical minerals push, mining laws dating back to the Klondike Gold Rush limit government profits and neglect Indigenous Rights

This chapter explores the harvest of whales by the Iñupiat of northern Alaska, contrasting Iñupiat values around rights to resources with values in Western

Professor Cody Groat’s upcoming book, “Always A Part of the Land,” shows that Indigenous peoples have always pushed back, challenging the idea that Indigenous history is synonymous with Canadian histo...

By Katie Carson, Sarah Kittilsen, and Sean Carleton Canada 150—the sesquicentennial celebration of the country’s confederation—was marked with pomp and circumstance, as the Federal Government encou…

By standard accounts, there are fifty-four constitutions across the federal, state, and territorial governments of the United States. But in fact, there are 230 other governmental constitutions that currently govern peoples and territories within the United States. These constitutions not only flow from a sovereignty that existed prior to the United States but also came out of a legal movement that asserted its independence from both the U.S. Constitution and state constitutions. This Article tells the story of these constitutions — the constitutions of Native nations.

NiCHE has partnered with Active History to provide some environmental focused histories of the Indian Act and its widespread implications to their Indian Act 150 series.

27 March 2026 - Virtual - The 2026 lecture will feature Drs. Crystal Gail Fraser and Jess Dunkin speaking about the How I Survived podcast in partnership with the NWT Recreation and Parks Association.

This article examines how sovereignty and treaties functioned as colonial instruments during the British occupation of Java (1811–1815). The British East India Company imposed the language of sover...

During the early twentieth century, tourism flourished along Nova Scotia’s South Shore. Much of the industry’s success can be attributed to the social and physical constructions of the region’s lan...

Canada’s most prestigious history prize celebrates the achievements of history teachers, scholars, authors, community groups, and museums.

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Introduction The history of energy and energy transitions is one of humankind. Energy is foundational to the human species, which cannot exist without it. In the modern world, energy provides heat, li...

Cherry, Jessica; Soos, Frank, eds.. Wheels on Ice: Stories of Cycling in Alaska. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2022. 275 pp. $24.95 (paper), ISBN 9781496232472. Reviewed by Glenn Iceton (University of New Brunswick Saint John) Published on H-Environment (November, 2024) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)

Wow! 2025 was another record year on our site for traffic. We published nearly every week day, sometimes publishing on Saturdays and more than once a day! We are so grateful to the environmental histo...

Yukon wildfire officials says they're installing more air quality monitors in areas south of downtown Whitehorse, as some local residents complain about excessive smoke in the area.

It's what Jordan's Principle funding is meant for, say Jesse and Amanda Johnston of Watson Lake A family in Watson Lake, Yukon, says the impact of losing the community's rural nutrition program goes m...

On the first day of hearings today before the British Columbia Court of Appeal, the Tŝilhqot’in Nation stands in solidarity with the Nuchatlaht Nation, and its Tyee Ha’wilth Jordan Michael, in the ong...

At Chooutla Residential School, Indigenous boys were forced to cut and haul wood for heating, enduring danger, injury, and exploitation under colonial systems.

Books Available for Review for H-Environment Below are the books currently available for review for H-Environment. Interested in reviewing one? Please email me at dmccahey@uci.edu. If we haven’t met,...

BC Studies Summer 2025 is coming soon! Meanwhile, here is a sneak peak at one of the featured pieces that will be included. This case comment by Richard Overstall, “Coastal Gaslink Pipeline Ltd. v. Hu...

Quw’utsun Nation is challenging comments made by B.C. politicians on a B.C. Supreme Court ruling that grants the nation Aboriginal title to part of Richmond B.C, calling the statements “at best, misle...

Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Consid...

The Joan Mitchell Travel Award supports researchers wishing to travel to Laurier Archives and Special Collections to conduct original, scholarly research using our archival and rare book collections.

We are pleased to invite applications to attend the 2026 Canadian History & Environment Summer School.

Bethel Friends of Canines is a non-profit dog rescue based in the rural Alaskan village of Bethel. Not only do we rescue dogs in Bethel, but we also rescue dogs all over the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta...

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