Dr. Charles Menzies’s article “Capitalism and Colonialism – Settler and First Nation: An Uneasy History” was recently published in the Labour/Le Travail (Spring 2024).
The article is an adaptation of an oral presentation originally prepared for the 2022 Canadian Labour History Conference in Calgary, and reflects on the work of academic and labour historian, Dr. Bryan D. Palmer.
“Assuming, as Palmer has, that social complexity and wealth among Indigenous communities is a by-product of natural abundance fundamentally misunderstands the decisive ways in which Indigenous economies intervened in the so-called natural world to enhance the productive capacity of these same systems.”
hagwil hayetsk / Dr. Charles Menzies (Member, Gitxaała Nation)
