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Samantha Majhor

@sammaj.bsky.social

Oldest daughter, Sister, Auntie, Dakota/Assinboine winyan, Native American Literature prof., Očeti Šakowin digital story map, Dakota language learner

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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.

12.04.2025 03:30 — 👍 344    🔁 119    💬 28    📌 10
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Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of

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    📌 4
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DOGE Plans to Close 41 Offices of the BIA, IHS, NIGC, and DOI Office of Hearing and Appeals – Probate Hearings Division Below is a list of planned lease terminations pulled from the DOGE website on March 10, 2025. The list is likely incomplete and inaccurate, since DOGE’s “wall of receipts” has not…

DOGE 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    📌 1
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Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation In this series of three lectures, Kelly Wisecup examines how Indigenous peoples made and used the page to address structures of dispossession.

I'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    📌 0

like, 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

09.03.2025 22:13 — 👍 493    🔁 121    💬 3    📌 3
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Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS detention On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s ann...

actionnetwork.org/letters/dema...

10.03.2025 01:19 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

09.03.2025 17:29 — 👍 410    🔁 92    💬 18    📌 9
Against Anticipatory Obedience The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...

“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...

04.03.2025 14:23 — 👍 20    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0

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
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‘Life or Death Consequences’: Layoffs throw Indian Country into turmoil Thousands of workers are losing their jobs in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies

(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    📌 21

After 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    📌 1
stone text inlay: HERE WE ADMIT A WRONG

stone 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...

31.01.2025 20:12 — 👍 17096    🔁 5638    💬 487    📌 457
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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.

20.01.2025 16:57 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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