Cassidy Acheson

 I am interested in contested histories and would like to explore research that actively engages with challenging questions and difficult pasts. My research integrates questions and analysis that reflects all four research strands: (Re)claiming/disputing the past, Representing the past, Documenting the past, and Reconciling past
and present.

My research integrates Indigenous Studies and History in order to understand patterns of settler colonialism alongside Indigenous and settler women's histories. Specifically, I examine settler acts of claiming land and memory at Nk’maplqs (the Head of the Lake, near Vernon, BC), while highlighting Sqilxw women’s histories of resistance. I am interested in processes of erasure that attempt to eliminate Indigenous women from historical memory and from the land as a tool of settler power, and how Indigenous women refuse this erasure.