Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp : Arcadia: Explorations in Environmental History, Summer 2020, no. 25: Problematic Postage: Canada’s Claim to the Arctic through a Postage Stamp

• Main Author: Dumas, Daniel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany 2020
• Subjects: environmental history; environmental humanities; settler colonialism; Canada; indigenous people; stamps; Arctic; Cornwallis; eskimo*; inuit
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9064; http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/9064/

Settler societies have simultaneously attempted to extinguish Indigenous claims to lands while appropriating aspects of Indigenous cultures to differentiate themselves on the global stage. They have done this through a variety of methods, including the issuance of stamps as symbols of a greater nati...