Seeking panelists and chair for a panel on Native American and Indigenous labor

[Chantal]

I am interested in putting together a panel that explores new directions in Native American and Indigenous labor history.

I am an independent scholar based in Vancouver, BC and am working on a project that addresses the intersections between indigenous activism and industrial unionism in North America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Currently, I'm exploring how indigenous workers in the fishing industry in British Columbia were innovators in union organizing – establishing their own organizations, such as the Native Brotherhood of BC, representing indigenous economic and political concerns or joining and in some cases leading local unions representing both indigenous and non-indigenous workers. These contexts involved migration within the province, as well as the exchange in ideas between indigenous communities on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border. 

Papers exploring the intersections between indigenous history/studies and labor (geographical area and time period open) would be welcome.