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Kaden Jelsing is a historian of the US West, Indigenous North America, settler colonialism, and the environment. His research is focused on Indigenous-settler relationships, particularly in the nineteenth-century Pacific Northwest. A lecturer in the American Studies Department at Smith College, Jelsing teaches courses at the intersection of Native American and Indigenous Studies and Environmental Studies.

Jelsing was a Killam Predoctoral fellow at the �Թ��� of British Columbia where he researched how Indigenous and settler visions of the future articulated through prophecy expressed different modes of relationality towards the land, humans, and other-than-human beings. His dissertation, “Sovereign Futures: Indigenous and Settler Prophecies in Two Nineteenth-century American “Northwests” won the Beverly Purrington-Richard White Dissertation Award from the Western History Association. He is currently working on a book manuscript based on this dissertation.