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Published and In-Press Refereed Publications (n=25)
Eronen, E., Chiblow, S., Smiles, D., Oberg, G. Forthcoming. Reckoning with the ways in which the dominant worldview is embedded in chemicals management and how Indigenous Knowledge Systems might help account for the complexities of chemical risk. Environment and Planning E.
Davis, B., Guhlincozzi, A., Smiles, D. 2026. Take me home country roads”: The Limits of Sanctuary on the American Road Trip. Western Geography. https://doi.org/10.18357/wg27202546
Patel, J, and Smiles, D. 2025. A Vision for Participatory Models of Animal Movement: A Case Study with Moose”. Proceedings of the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17686018.
Grimm, J.; Jarvis-Cross, M., Bailey, M., Ban, N., Bartlett, M., Cadman, R., Cannon, S., Cooke, S., Cyr, K., Dubos, V., Duncan, A., Gazing Wolf, J., Harrison, H., Iyer, A., Kirkwood, A., Lingrui Meng, R., Moore, N., Morphet, M., Sainsbury, N., Semeniuk, C., Sherwood, L., Smiles, D., Smith, E., Timmer, B., Vanderhoop, C., Wilson, K., Zurba, M., Bateman, A., Krkosek, M. 2025. Co-producing knowledge with Indigenous Peoples: challenges and solutions. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.10.012
Kinkaid, E., Bui, T.K., Danze, A., Eaves, L., Fritzsche, L., Hazard, C.W., Hicks, A.E., Kandlakunta, A.B., Koenig, N., Langill, J., Moore, D., Naylor, L., Nelson, I., Sharp, W., Strauss, K., Wagner, J., Smiles, D. 2025. Queering feminist geography IV: toward queer/trans-feminist coalition. Gender, Place and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2559903
Kinkaid, E., Bui, TK, Danze, A., Davis, H., Diamant, C., Eaves, L., Jakubchik-Paloheimo, M., Kandlakunta, A.B., Koenig, N., Langill, J., Myles-Baltzly, C., Naylor, L., Nelson, I., Ranjbar, A., Rush-Morgan, R., Sharp, W., Smiles, D. Queering feminist geography III: Allyship. Gender, Place and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2559901
McAllister, T., Walker, L., Smiles, D., Naepi, S., Kamai, B., Moggridge, B., Jennings, L., McClellan, K.M. 2025. “Towards a shared Indigenous agenda in science”. Nature 644, 331-334. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-02516-8
Smiles, D. 2025. “Space exploration should be more democratic and equitable to all potential actors.” Science X. https://phys.org/news/2025-07-space-exploration-democratic-equitable-potential.html
Kinkaid, E., Eaves, L., Fogel, S., Kandlakunta, A.B., Kirk, G., Koenig, N., Naylor, L., Nelson, I., Sharp, W., Smiles, D. 2025. Queering feminist geography II: Trans-exclusionary feminism. Gender, Place and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2516848
Kinkaid, E., Bui, TK., Chennault, C., Eaves, L., Fogel, S., Hicks, A.E., Kandlakunta, A.B., Koenig, N., Myles-Baltzly, C., Naylor, L., Nelson, I., Rush-Morgan, R., Silverman-Rodriguez, M., Smiles, D. 2025. Queering feminist geography I: queer/trans inclusion, exclusion, and belonging. Gender, Place and Culture. https://doi.org/10.1080/0966369X.2025.2513079
Aganaba, T., Fish A., Hamacher D., Harvey, A.., Joinbee, D., Milligan, A., Ojani, C., Smiles, D., Swanton, P., Neilson, H., Tucker, B. 2025. Why space exploration must not be left to a few powerful nations. Nature 641: 1098-1100. https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-01574-2
Smiles, D. 2025.Settler Colonialism in Donald Trump’s America. The Geographical Journal. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.70019
Smiles, D. 2025. “The (Non)Territoriality of the Mississippi River.” Open Rivers: Rethinking Water, Place & Community, no. 28. https://doi.org/10.24926/2471190X.12379.
Gazing Wolf, J., Simmons, E., Blanchard, P., Jennings, L. L., Ignace, D. D., David-Chavez, D. M., Smiles, D., Montgomery, M., Plenty Sweetgrass She-Kills, R., Nelson, M. K., Doan-Crider, D., Black Elk, Linda, Black Elk, Luke, Bridge, G., Chischilly, A. M., Deer, K., DeerinWater, K., Ecoffey, T., Vergun, J., Wildcat, D., & Rattling Leaf, J. 2025. A path to reconciliation between Indigenous and settler-colonial epistemologies. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Raihan, J., Smiles, D., Vincent, J. G., Banerjee, R., Marquis, S., Quinn, S., Robitaille, K., Stuart, M., McQuarrie, A., Spiridigliozzi, M., Eccles, S., & Gobby, J. 2025. Research-as-Solidarity, with Youth Leading the Way. Youth, 5(1), 21. https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5010021
Williams, S., Georgeson, J., Gowland, A., Patel, J., Weeks, M., Smiles, D, 2024. Progress Report: 2023 Geographic Indigenous Futures of the Salish Sea Symposium. Western Geography 26.
Smiles, D., 2024. “Men Don’t Dance Fabric: An Autoethnographic Account of an “Academic NDN” at ceremony”. you are here: the journal of creative geography.
Gazing Wolf, J., Ignace, D., Jennings, L., Smiles, D., Blanchard, P., David-Chavez, D., Black Elk, L., Black Elk, L., Bridge, G., Chischilly, A.M., Deer, K., DeerinWater, K., Doan-Crider, D., Ecoffey,
T., Montgomery, M., Nelson, M., Plenty Sweetgrass She-Kills, R., Simmons, E., Vergun, J., Wildcat, D., Rattling Leaf, J., 2024.. “Centering Indigenous Knowledges in Ecology and Beyond.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. https://doi.org/10.1002/fee.2776
Smiles, D., 2024.. “A Feminist Geography is an Indigenous Geography”. Revista Lüvo 11(1).
Smiles, D., 2024.. “To the Anishinaabeg of the future”. ACME 23(2). https://doi.org/10.14288/acme.v23i2.2380
Jones, R., Kocher, A., Sultana, F., Smiles, D., McSweeney, K., Molnar, P., 2023. “Interventions on Public Geographies”. Political Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2023.103007
Smiles, D., 2023. Reflections on the (continued and future) importance of Indigenous geographies. Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206231179229
O’Leary, H., Smiles, D., Parr, S. and El-Sayed, M.M., 2023. “I Can’t Breathe:” The Invisible Slow Violence of Breathing Politics in Minneapolis. Society & Natural Resources, pp.1-21 https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2023.2194068
Leonard, K., David-Chavez, D., Smiles, D., Jennings, L., ʻAnolani Alegado, R., Tsinnajinnie, L., Manitowabi, J., Arsenault, R. and Begay, R.L., 2023. Water Back: A Review Centering Rematriation and Indigenous Water Research Sovereignty. Water Alternatives, 16(2), pp.374-428.
Smiles, D, 2018. “’…to the grave…’-Autopsy, settler structures and indigenous counter-conduct.” Geoforum (91), pp. 141-150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.02.034
Non-Refereed Publications (n=12)
Kim, E., Simpson, A., Poirier, B., Cachagee, M., Smiles, D. 2025. “Editorial: Issue 4”. Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health (4): 6-7. https://doi.org/10.33137/tijih.v1i4.46002
D. Smiles, 2025. “A New Definition of Indigenous Cultural Resource Management”. The Muckleshoot Journal (7): 20-27. https://www.mtcollege.org/_files/ugd/eb8cb3_68cf590b1df745dd8d37f7ef67dac8e3.pdf
Ignace, D. & D. Smiles, 2024. “‘Expressions of Gratitude’: Two Indigenous scholars share their experiences with the work of Robin Wall Kimmerer”. The Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America (105)3: 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.2150
Smiles, D. & S. Jaworski, 2023. “Collective Consent”. The Lab Book Glossary of Techniques. https://manifold.umn.edu/read/collective–consent/section/64eb9404–300c–41c9–a3a39c588f77506d
Smiles, D, 2022. “Autopsy and state violence: Implications in the death investigation of George Floyd”. Agitate! https://agitatejournal.org/article/autopsy–and–state–violence–implications–in–thedeath–investigation–of–george–floyd/
Yanchapaxi, MF., M. Liboiron, K. Crocker, D. Smiles, and E. Tuck. “Finding a good starting place: An interview with scholars in the CLEAR Lab.” Curriculum Inquiry 52, no. 2 (2022): 162-170.
Smiles, D. & M. Pesses, 2022. “Speaking Indigenous Geographies”. Pacifica (Fall/Winter 2021-22): 6-9. http://www.apcgweb.org/sites/default/files/editor_uploads/files/pacifica_fw_2122_compressed.p df
Smiles, D, 2021. “Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now”. Origins 15(1). https://origins.osu.edu/article/erasing-indigenous-history-then-and-now
Smiles, D, 2021. “Guest editorial: George Floyd, Minneapolis and Spaces of Hope and Liberation.”
Dialogues in Human Geography 11(2). http://doi.org/10.1177/20438206211027466
Smiles, D, 2020. “The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space.” Society+Space Blog. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the–settler–logics–of–outer–space
Arceño, M.A., D. Smiles, K. Yotebieng, T. Velez, J.P. Wilson, E. Bailey, A. Mazumdar, K.
McSweeney. 2020. “(Too) great expectations? On fieldwork, guidelines, and ethics in Human Geography.” Agitate! Blog. https://agitatejournal.org/too–great–expectations–on–fieldwork–guidelinesand–ethics–in–human–geography–by–mark–anthony–arceno–deondre–smiles–emelie–bailey–anuragmazumdar–thelma–velez–j–p–wilson–kelly–yotebieng–k/
Smiles, D, 2019. “Listening to Native Radio.” International Journal of Listening 33(3), 142147, https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2019.1628645
Books, Reports & Book Chapters
Academic Books (n=4)
Smiles, D. (Under contract) “Introduction to Turtle Island: Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies”. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Smiles, D. (Under contract) “Beyond ‘Resilience’—Indigenous cultural responses to climate change in the Great Lakes”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Smiles, D. (Under contract) “Decolonized Afterlife: Towards A New Understanding of the Spatial Politics Surrounding Indigenous Death”. Geneva: Peter Lang Publishing.
Smiles, D., Blanchard, P., Fabris, M. (Under contract) “Indigenous Geographies: Resistance, Resilience and Resurgence”. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Reports (n=3)
Leonard, K., Avery, C., Manitowabi, J., Nyblade, M., Smiles, D., Heyd-
man, T. R., Toulouse, C., & Smith, S. 2025. Water justice. In B. M. Panek (Ed.), Status of Tribes and Climate Change, Vol. 2. Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals, Northern Arizona University. http://nau.edu/staccreport
Öberg, G., Eronen, E., Chiblow, S., Smiles, D., 2024. Considerations for supporting Indigenous Data Justice and Data Sovereignty in Chemical Risk Assessment. Report to the Existing Substances Risk Assessment Bureau (ESRAB), Health Canada.
Smiles, D, 2021. “The challenges that are presented to indigenous students”. In Mentoring Our Own Native Scientists: 2021 MOONS Workshop Report, edited by Jay T. Johnson. Lawrence: University of Kansas ScholarWorks.
Book Chapters (n=9)
Smiles, D., 2026. “‘We’re Going to Reconciliation the Shit Out Of You’: Canadian Liberal Settler Violence and the Possibilities for True Reconciliation”. In Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences: Critique, Contestation, and Resistance in World Politics. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Beard, D., Smiles, D., Schoenbauer, K.V. and Villiard, M., 2025. The Unique Challenges Faced by Indigenous Communities During the Pandemic. In Pandemic Resilience: Vaccination Resistance and Hesitance, Lessons from COVID-19. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Smiles, D (contributing author), 2023. “Desirable Mountain Futures”. In The Canadian Mountain Assessment, edited by Graham McDowell & Madison Stevens. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Koppes, M; Smiles, D (co-lead authors), 2023. “Mountains Under Pressure”. In The Canadian Mountain Assessment, edited by Graham McDowell & Madison Stevens. Calgary: University of Calgary Press.
Smiles, D, 2023. “The Invention of an American Legend”. In Paul Bunyan: The Invention of an American Legend by Noah Van Sciver. New York: Toon Books.
Smiles, D, 2023. “Anishinaabeg in Space”. In The Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space, edited by Juan Francisco Salazar and Alice Gorman. Milton Park: Routledge.
Smiles, D, 2023. “Decolonial Methods”. In Key Methods in Geography (4th ed.), edited by Nicholas Clifford, Meghan Cope, Thomas Gillespie and Shaun French. Thousand Oaks: SAGE.
Smiles, D, 2020. “Ethical and Respectful Engagement between Medical Examiners/Coroners and Indigenous Families and Communities.” In MMIWG2 & MMIP Organizing Toolkit. Sovereign Bodies Institute.
Tham, J, and D. Smiles, 2019. “Rhetorical Augmentation: Public Play, Place and Persuasion in Pokémon Go.” In The Pokémon Go Phenomenon: Essays on Public Play in Contested Spaces, edited by Andrew Kulak, Jamie Henthorn, Kristopher Purzycki and Stephanie Vie. Jefferson, North Carolina: MacFarland & Company, Inc.
Public-Facing Scholarship
Book Reviews (n=9)
Smiles, D., 2024. “Talking to the Story Keepers: Tales from the Chilcotin Plateau” by Sage Birchwater. BC Studies 220: 122-123. https://bcstudies.com/book_film_review/talking–to–the–storykeepers–tales–from–the–chilcotin–plateau/
Smiles, D., 2023. “Terrastories”. Reviews in Digital Humanities 4(10).
https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/terrastories/release/1
Smiles, D, 2023. “The ‘It’ of Populism—A Review of Kai Bosworth’s Pipeline Populism.” Society+Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the–it–of–populism–a–review–of–kaibosworths–pipeline–populism
Smiles, D, 2022. Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe by Stacey Lola Drouillard. American Indian Culture and Resource Journal 45(2): 169-170. https://doi.org/10.17953/aicrj.45.2.reviews
Smiles, D, 2021. “‘Shoals of ‘unsettlement’; A review of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native Studies by Tiffany Lethabo King”. Society+Space.
Smiles, D, 2021. Repatriation and Erasing the Past by Elizabeth Weiss and James W. Springer.
Transmotion 7 (1): 221-228.
https://journals.kent.ac.uk/index.php/transmotion/article/view/993/1919
Smiles, D, 2020. Standing Up To Colonial Power: The Lives of Henry Roe and Elizabeth Bender Cloud by
Renya K. Ramirez. Great Plains Quarterly 40 (3): 242. https//doi.org/10.1353/gpq.2020.0036
Smiles, D, 2019. Seven Myths of Native American History by Paul Jentz. American Indian Quarterly 43 (4): 477-480. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5250/amerindiquar.43.4.0477
Smiles, D, 2018. In Divided Unity: Haudenosaunee Reclamation at Grand River by Theresa McCarthy.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal 41(3): 151-153. https://doi.org/10.17953/0161–646341.3.139
Media Articles (Selected, since 2020) (n=6)
Aganaba, T., Fish, A., Smiles, D., Milligan, T. 2025. “‘Democratizing space’ is more than just adding new players – it comes with questions around sustainability and sovereignty”. The Conversation.
Smiles, D, 2024. “‘Indigenizing’ universities means building relationships with nations and lands”. The Conversation.
Smiles, D, 2022. “Land–Grant or Land Grab Universities?”. Belt Magazine.
Smiles, D, 2022. “Counterpoint: The duty of education is truth, however discomforting.” Star Tribune, January 20. Op-ed.
Smiles, D, 2020. “The 2020 U.S. Census and Indigenous peoples.” OSU Department of Geography blog (blog).
Smiles, D, 2020. “Respectful Engagement During Fieldwork.” OSU Department of Geography
blog (blog).
Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. 