James Cairns lives in Paris, Ontario, on territory that the Haldimand Treaty of 1784 recognizes as belonging to the Six Nations of the Grand River in perpetuity. He is a member of the Spring Socialist Network, Faculty for Palestine, and a professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies, Law and Social Justice at Wilfrid Laurier University. His book In Crisis, On Crisis: Essays in Troubled Times is available from Wolsak & Wynn.