Please, everybody... if you need something light & funny… If you need a romcom… If you need a feel-good… Please pull up NORTH OF NORTH on Netflix and rate it highly.
Inuit deserve so much more of this.
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Please, everybody... if you need something light & funny… If you need a romcom… If you need a feel-good… Please pull up NORTH OF NORTH on Netflix and rate it highly.
Inuit deserve so much more of this.
The Alien Enemies Act was also the legal basis for the internment of Japanese people during WWII. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
15.03.2025 21:41 — 👍 73 🔁 23 💬 6 📌 4DOGE is planning to close 41 BIA, IHS, NIGC, and DOI offices, according to this list of planned lease terminations. turtletalk.blog/2025/03/11/d...
12.03.2025 01:01 — 👍 30 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 1I'm stoked out this year's Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography @ Penn: Kelly Wisecup presents a series of three lectures, "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation," March 24-7, 2025, on campus and via Zoom
10.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 38 🔁 20 💬 2 📌 0like, major papers wasted so much ink on the dangers of cancel culture this and speech policing that. people got paid to act like the biggest threat to the 1st Amendment was a disagreement amongst sophomores at Oberlin
only for Trump to start actually disappearing people off campuses for wrongthink
oh my god im so tired of saying it, but there are no votes to be found in the center. every vote democrats need to win lies with people who don’t believe that the system can do anything for them.
they need a reason to show up and it isn’t going to be a status quo centrist with the same ol bs
“It is the higher education community’s responsibility not to surrender to such attacks—and not to surrender in anticipation of them.”
www.aaup.org/report/again...
Black kids are 2x more likely to be put into external/nonrelative care than white kids. Indigenous kids are 16x. Not percent. There's a season of This Land by @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about ICWA, an act that is both recent and constantly under threat, and that a bunch of y'all haven't heard of yet.
02.03.2025 04:58 — 👍 71 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 0(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.
17.02.2025 18:54 — 👍 958 🔁 716 💬 7 📌 21After Biden designated several national monuments to protect sites sacred to Indigenous nations, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill to make designating future monuments harder.
14.02.2025 20:05 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1stone text inlay: HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG
I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-
Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
It’s on whitehouse.gov - commutation for Leonard Peltier issued today. Am I imagining things? Can’t find reporting on it yet but it just happened.
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