The "Paycheques and Paper Promises" Project is a unique project that researches the history of Mi'kmaq people throughout the changes brought forth by Canadian settler-colonialism. Focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this project examined the ways the Mi'kmaq people embraced, and sometimes resisted, certain elements of settler society based on Mi'kmaq social and cultural knowledge.

This database is part of a community-engaged history project that aims to research history that is important and relevant to Indigenous peoples. These documents were collected as part of my doctoral research at the University of Saskatchewan (defended in January of 2021). This website has a few key goals. First- to make these historical sources available and easily accessed by researchers and members from the Pictou Landing First Nation. This database aims to bring together sources from an array of repositories to make them available for community use. Second- to provide a long-term, digital, and single secure access point for historical research on the Pictou Landing First Nation. This website is continually being populated with new sources, and will provide a comprehensive collection of all aspects of Mi'kmaq history in Pictou Landing and the surrounding area.

I have now began a new project - a postdoctoral fellowship at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. This project focuses on the history of Industrial Colonialism (the reorganization of Indigenous land and resources to benefit a settler industrial economy while removing and isolating Indigenous people from their resource base) in Pictou County, Nova Scotia. This project continues to work in partnership with Pictou Landing First Nation. Over the next several months, this database will be overhauled to reflect this new project, but all of the currently hosted documents will be available in the same format throughout this transition.