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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The Ponca Lands of Swift Running Water & Standing Bear’s Struggle against the United States Government" by Jack Love is part of a NiCHE series that investigates if rivers can be heritage, edited by @ramya.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/09/09/t... #envhist #rivers #indigenoushistory

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The Ponca Lands of Swift Running Water and Standing Bear’s Struggle against the United States Government

Following forced removal, Ponca Chief Standing Bear legally challenged the U.S. government, winning recognition as a person with rights.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"Disappeared Into Law: California’s Kern River and What Heritage Cannot See" by @veeelcee.bsky.social is part of a NiCHE series that investigates if rivers can be heritage, a companion series to our Canadian Heritage Rivers series, edited by @ramya.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/09/04/d...

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Disappeared Into Law: California’s Kern River and What Heritage Cannot See

Though engineering and water contracts legally dried up California's Kern River, its rare returns highlight enduring cultural heritage.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

"The Indian Act as Wendigo" by Jenni Makahnouk is part of our series exploring the environmental dimensions of the Indian Act, in collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2026/07/28/t... #envhist #indigenous #cdnhist #indianact

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The Indian Act as Wendigo

Framing Canada's Indian Act as the insatiable Wendigo exposes its predatory nature, shifting the focus from policy reform to starvation-based refusal.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Genuinely grateful to work on this. This whole series is ❤️like all of @nichecanada.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Someday soon I hope to hold a physical copy. Please consider reading it. H should be for Hilsa. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #makeHilsarunontheKaveriagain

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

A late night conversation about this river might be one of the best things to do at the time. So grateful to have been included in the conversation over zoom and this glossary. Thank you!!! This trilingual glossary is a delight to read apart from being beautiful.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I have dragged my family including my then two-year old niece at the height of summer for river/Mettur/Hilsa things many times. But traveling to India was impossible so I was graciously offered the opportunity to present and engage via zoom instead.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

In another life, I would have jumped at the opportunity to be a part of a conversation about this perennial (and understandably) sometimes petulant river that’s been on my mind for my entire adult life as far as I can remember…

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Dr. Blair Stein @blairstein.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Damn, that line-up is STACKED with brilliant friends: @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social @ramya.bsky.social @clairecampbell.bsky.social @maryeb.bsky.social a veritable who’s who of Canada-US-border #envhist

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage? A NiCHE Series Abstract deadline: May 1, 2026 Edited by @ramya.bsky.social NiCHE invites submissions for a blog series asking if rivers can be heritage and if so, what kind of heritage. niche-canada.org/2026/04/08/c... #rivers #envhist #envhum #heritage

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Call for Proposals- Are Rivers Heritage?

Can rivers be heritage? What is the place of rivers in our sense of place and/or self? What is the future of rivers? What lessons or parallels do rivers across the world have for Canada?

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Shared a cab to the airport with a fellow @aseh.bsky.social presenter and MSU alum, who actually reviewed a book I had a chapter in! The world can be small in good ways sometimes, and this was one of the few times it worked.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

If you haven’t yet, you should really elevate your Sunday (or any other day tbh) by reading this essay by Camden Burd in @envirohistory.bsky.social

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

REMINDER - Get your proposals in to @ramya.bsky.social by February 15th for our Canadian Heritage Rivers series. What does it mean to be a heritage river in 2026? What does a designation mean/bring with it? niche-canada.org/2026/01/16/c... #envhist #rivers #cdnhist #cdnheritage

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Call for Proposals- Canadian Heritage Rivers

What does it mean to be a heritage river in 2026? What does a designation mean/bring with it? How do these designations honour First Peoples? How are heritage rivers portrayed in Canadian media and pu...

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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Working with @ehameeteman.bsky.social on this was one of the high points of 2025. I am immensely grateful and proud of this! Thank you! @ehameeteman.bsky.social

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Dr. Jessica M. DeWitt @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

This episode of CBC's The Current reminded me of my discussion of fear in this @nichecanada.bsky.social blog post from 2019. "Humans and Dogs and Bears, Oh My! – A Summer Podcast Reflection" - niche-canada.org/2019/08/08/h... #envhist #animalhistory #bears #humananimalrelations

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Humans and Dogs and Bears, Oh My! - A Summer Podcast Reflection

The path forward requires humans to make an effort to cultivate interspecies empathy built on education.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

If you're working on new preps for the upcoming semester, consider assigning Contingent! In addition to our mailbag and How I Do History series, we've sorted our pieces by theme to make it easier to find something that fits. contingentmagazine.org/for-educators/

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For Educators

Contingent publishes accessible, engaging, well-researched pieces on history, the work of doing history, and the community of people involved in that work.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Thank YOU, Elizabeth!! So happy to have your work in our inaugural issue! Not to get too salty of course 🙊🙊🙊

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

ICYMI: Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social began in October. Catch up on the first four conversations of the series in our latest roundup. niche-canada.org/2025/11/29/n... #envhist #cdnhist #envhum

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NiCHE Conversations Roundup #22

Find conversations about podcasting, arctic visual culture, and baby teeth collection in this roundup of NiCHE Conversations with Jessica DeWitt.

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Daniel Macfarlane @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

And the poster for my talk at Queen's on December 11

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Happy #AntarcticaDay! In honor of the day beginning on a Monday, all of H-Environment's book reviews this week address #polar or otherwise icy history! Thank you to the reviewers for making it possible! #envhist #envhum

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I am happy to create one and send you the trophy. Because let’s face it, you more than deserve it. [I mean I was thinking a cool pen?]

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Season Six of NiCHE Conversations with @jessicamdewitt.bsky.social kicked off with a conversation with @rmbryant.bsky.social and Gina Brooks! The conversation is now available on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ake4... #envhist #envhum #indigenous #treaty

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NiCHE Conversations 6.1: A 19th Century Waponahki Basket & Env. Memory w/ G. Brooks & R. Bryant

YouTube video by Network in Canadian History & Environment - NiCHE

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Today we have "Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819" by Oliver Aas This is the sixth post in Part V of the Visual Cultures of the Circumpolar North series edited by @issygapp.bsky.social and guest edited by @sarahmpicks.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2025/11/10/t... #envhist #arctic #envhum

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Translating the Arctic, ca. 1819

Henry Aston Barker's 1819 Arctic panorama introduced immersive Arctic imagery to Britain, blending exploration, art, and translation to shape public understanding and imagination.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

"Despite some early dockets focused on transborder pollution, such as in the Detroit River, it wasn’t until after World War II that the American & Canadian governments really got serious about Great Lakes water pollution..." - @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social niche-canada.org/2020/02/26/t... #envhist

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The First Century of the International Joint Commission

Daniel Macfarlane's book explores the International Joint Commission’s century-long role in Canada-U.S. water governance, environmental policy, Great Lakes protection, and evolving challenges.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Today we are highlighting an excerpt from the latest book in our Canadian History & Environment series with @ucalgarypress.bsky.social, Mountain Voices, in collaboration with the Alpine Club of Canada "Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan" by Alison Criscitiello niche-canada.org/2025/11/06/p...

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Prospector’s-Russell Col, Mount Logan

Facing frostbite or storm entrapment, Alison Criscitiello chose frostbite, later returning to Mount Logan for ice-core research revealing past climate secrets.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Many thanks to @pkhardy.bsky.social for her patience and grace as I meandered (bad pun I know)! Cracker of a book and channel! Thank you for the opportunity! @danielmacfarlane.bsky.social

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

@nichecanada.bsky.social is the best! Please consider sending some money and love their way!

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Call for Applicants – ASEH 2026 Travel Grants - @aseh.bsky.social Deadline to apply is November 20, 2025 Applicants from Global South encouraged to apply. niche-canada.org/2025/10/31/c... #envhist #envhum

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Call for Applicants - ASEH 2026 Travel Grants

ASEH is accepting applications for Travel Grants to the 2026 Conference in Kansas City.

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

You will be rightfully inundated! Yay! And the only incentive for me to come to the conference. 🤭🤭

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

"One is almost history-bound to form a mental picture of the North as constituting a volley of missionaries, fur traders, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, all freely discharged upon a timid race of natives." - Dakota Erutse - @miskoaki.bsky.social yellowheadinstitute.org/2025/reflect...

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Reflections on “Northern Squalor” and Sovereignty

As Canada returns its gaze to the North in a bid to assert sovereignty and promote resource development -- both in the face of percieved threats from the U.S. -- familiar narratives are emerging about...

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Katie McDonough @kmcdono.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Registration now open for the Lancaster-Manchester Environmental Digital Humanities seminar on 12 Nov at 12pm (UK time) with @ehameeteman.bsky.social! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimaginin... #envhist #envhum #skystorians #histstm

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Reimagining Desalination through Digital Archives

Join us for a discussion with Elizabeth Hameetman (TU Berlin)

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

William Elvis Thomas, Eva Linklater, Laura Golebiowski & Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation's "So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School" The latest in our Land, Memory, & Schooling: Environmental Histories of Colonial Education series niche-canada.org/2025/10/21/s...

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So Far from Home: Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and Red Deer Industrial School

Eight Nisichawayasihk Cree children were taken from their homeland to Red Deer Industrial School; most died, yet their Nation endures.

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Daniella M. @farsouthhistory.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Please join the Consortium for the History of Science, Technology, & Medicine's #oceanhist #maritime group today at 1-2:30 CT as we discuss @scotterich.bsky.social's chapter draft "The Subterranean Sea" #envhist #histsci #STS #histSTM www.chstm.org/group/histor...

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History of Ocean Science, Technology and Medicine | Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Probably another CHESS I will miss … BUT it will be epic with or without me (or rather despite me 🤭) GO @nichecanada.bsky.social ❤️❤️❤️

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Ramya Swayamprakash @ramya.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Do IT! 💯 do it. We need good suits.

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

"Blessed is the Spot" by Julian Aguon for @placesjournal.bsky.social "It’d be years before the federal government would come clean about how the sand and water were heavily contaminated with industrial chemicals linked to cancer." placesjournal.org/article/bles... #envhist

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Grief and Empire on the Island of Guam

In a militarized territory like Guam, everything is political, even cancer.

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I'm pretty sure I broke some basic "best practice" of podcasting by spending 5 minutes gushing about someone else's show (hey @brendanomeara.bsky.social), but it's my show, I do what I want. And @tracyslater.bsky.social was so great! Listen now.

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