Tyler McCreary

Wet’suwet’en Ambassador for the Town of Smithers

• Ph.D. Geography, York University, 2014 M.A. Geography, University of Saskatchewan, 2007 B.A. Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, 2004
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Tyler McCreary is Wet’suwet’en Ambassador for the Town of Smithers. In Fall 2024 he was a Visiting Faculty with the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. His research examines how settler colonialism and racial capitalism inflect processes governing land, livelihood, and community life in North America. He has published four books, and over forty journal articles and book chapters. His most recent book is Indigenous Legalities, Pipeline Viscosities: Colonial Extractivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance (University of Alberta Press, 2024).

Tyler hosted a lecture in November 2024 on his work, Colonial Extracitivism and Wet’suwet’en Resistance. Watch the recording here.