Andy Fisher

Northwest Native Nations Could Lose Hundreds of Millions in Federal Funding, Report Says  - Underscore Native News Portland State University researchers say nearly half of federal funds allocated to Northwest tribes in 2024 is at risk under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act.

Think broken treaties are a thing of the past?

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National park to remove photo of enslaved man’s scars The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

Sanitized for your protection

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Absolutely. Hitler agreed to kill himself, Hirohito negotiated his unconditional surrender, and Mussolini consented to be hung upside down by Italian partisans. Let's do the Civil War now.

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Yahoo news indeed. You can always count on MAGA to draw the wrong conclusions from tragedy. Seriously, though, can we get some real science education in this country?

"Standing, there, identified with the American bondman, making his wrongs mine, I do not hesitate to declare, with all my soul, that the character and conduct of this nation never looked blacker to me than on this 4th of July! " -- Frederick Douglass, What to a Slave is the 4th of July #Skystorians

A tale of three t-shirts for this July 4th

Tangier Island is destined to go blue by 2050, when the rising waters of Chesapeake Bay will render it uninhabitable, but it looks like one resident is already having second thoughts.

Congratulations to Jacob Bailey, Chris Ward, Elaine Harvey, Bronsco Jim Jr., Jeremy Takala, and the Kamiłtpah community for winning Best Feature Documentary at the World Cultures Film Festival! This well-deserved award for "These Sacred Hills" will help spread its important message.

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ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research ChatGPT can harm an individual’s critical thinking over time, a study released this month suggests. Researchers at MIT’s Media Lab asked subjects to write several SAT essays and separated sub…

This is your brain on AI

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A message for our times. For all times.

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Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the a...

Come and see the violence inherent in the system

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

Good article, written by a human being

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The wheel of karma grinds slowly but exceedingly fine #Indigisky

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April 22, 2025: This Earth Day Feels Different Opinion. The United States commemorated the first Earth Day 55 years ago on April 22, 1970, as a means to galvanize Americans around protecting an increasingly polluted environment. Earth Day was the ...

"The environmental policies of President Trump's second administration represent a direct threat to Indian Country. They erode tribal sovereignty, disregard treaty obligations and jeopardize the health and heritage of Indigenous communities."

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Oregon House Passes Bill Mandating Climate Science Integration into Education System Oregon's House passed a bill to include climate and sustainability education across all grade levels, aiming to prepare students for environmental challenges.

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A colleague recently saw this message while researching the Indian Claims Commission, which has nothing to do with "DEI" but got flagged anyway. Apparently, the history of our government's (problematic) efforts to provide restitution to tribes is "woke."

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Will ‘patriotic’ indoctrination be the next attack on Native American schoolchildren? Soon after Donald Trump returned to the White House, he issued an executive order that some fear could become an assimilationist tool reminiscent of 19th century policies targeting Native Americans.

“Are they going to attack the schools and tell them what curriculum they can teach and what they cannot teach? Will it take away some of the culture and language emphasis in schools?”

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