Veldon Coburn

Biographic Data

ID1451701
NAMEVeldon Coburn
GIVEN NAMESVeldon
FAMILY NAMECoburn
SIGNATURECOBURN V
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Ottawa
ORCID0000-0002-7580-4439
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS9
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • From Turtle Island to Palestine

    Nadia Abu-Zahra, John Carlson et al.ARTICLEThird World Quarterly2025References: 13

  • The Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic

    W Gifford, Mohamad H Al‐chami et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of Care and…2025References: 4

    This article explores how the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation integrated Indigenous ways of knowing and doing into community and public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. We held six sharing circles and 20 individual interviews with community members and public health responders. Key findings reveal that caretaking involved three major themes: collective responsibility; harmony with culture and tradition; and culture as healing. D…

  • The Origins and Application of the "Core of Indianness" in Indigenous Labour Relations

    Adam D K King, Adam Dk King et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2023

    This article examines the history of, and legal precedent set by, Four B Manufacturing v. United Garment Workers of America, a 1980 Supreme Court of Canada case involving an Indigenous-owned manufacturing firm that resisted the efforts of its Indigenous and non-Indigenous workers to form a union on the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, a reserve in southeastern Ontario. The employer, Four B, contested the jurisdiction of the Ontario Labour Relations B…

  • Determining the “Core of Indianness

    Open AccessAdam King, Veldon Coburn et al.ARTICLEaboriginal policy studies2022

    In light of Bill C-92, which establishes a framework for delegating child and family service provision to Indigenous communities, this article addresses the contested regulation of employment and labour relations in Indigenous social service workplaces. It approaches this subject by looking back at NIL/TU,O Child and Family Services Society v. B.C. Government and Service Employees’ Union, a case in which employees at a First Nations child and fam…

  • Indigenous Access to Social Assistance and Identity

    Open AccessRebecca Hall, Rebecca Jane Hall et al.ARTICLESocial Politics International…2022Cited by: 1References: 6

    In Canada, the settler colonial state uses the regulation of the so-called Indian identity as a dispossessive strategy, a racialized and gendered means of controlling access to resources and attempting to contain Indigenous human, nonhuman, and land-based relations. This regulation is informed by Western patriarchal ideals and mechanisms. We examine settler accounts of “Indian” identity and their effects through a gendered reading of Shubenacadie…

  • Occupancy, Land Rights and the Algonquin Anishinaabeg

    Open AccessVeldon Coburn, Margaret MooreARTICLECanadian Journal of Political…2022Cited by: 8References: 21

    This article is about Indigenous territorial title and land rights, and specifically those of the Algonquin Anishinaabeg Nation. In 1983, the Algonquins of Pikwàkanagàn, residing in the province of Ontario, petitioned the Crown to recognize Algonquin territorial title and rights to 36,000 square kilometres of their natal homelands in the Ottawa River watershed. With negotiations beginning in the early 1990s, an Agreement-in-Principle was develope…