Institute for Humanities Research and Indigenous Studies of the North

Review of Timothy Bowers Vasko, Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026)

Steven T. Newcomb reviews Timothy Bowers Vasko's Making All the World America: Native Information and the Doctrine of Discovery (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2026). Vasko argues that the Doctrine of Discovery worked not through the suppression of Indigenous peoples but throu...

Where is the evidence? Mapping the fire–biodiversity knowledge base of northern Australian savannas

Fire shapes the biodiversity of tropical savannas, yet challenges exist in accessing and interpreting the breadth of fire-ecology evidence to support appropriate management. We compiled a comprehensive fire–biodiversity database for Australian tropical savannas to improve knowled...