Since contact, attempts by institutions such as the British Crown and the Catholic Church to assimilate indigenous peoples have served to mark those people as -Other- than the settler majority. In Unsettling Mobility, Michelle A. Lelievre examines how mobility has complicated, disrupted, and--at times--served this contradiction at the core of the settler colonial project.

Drawing on archaeological, ethnographic, and archival fieldwork conducted with the Pictou Landing First Nation--one of thirteen Mi'kmaw communities in Nova Scotia--Lelievre argues that, for the British Crown...