Heritage Matters  contributor

Philip Abbott is a settler educator and researcher who teaches courses at Trent University on settler colonial history, the history of early settlement in Treat 20 territory and introductory Indigenous studies courses. Abbott's research interests include treaty history, historical commemoration, historical consciousness, settler colonialism and resistance.

Jackson Pind is a mixed settler-Anishinaabe historian of Indigenous education who focuses on the history of Indian Day Schools in Ontario. He is currently an assistant professor of Indigenous Methodologies at the Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies at Trent University.