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Kim TallBear

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Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/LAX/YEG. https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear

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Good 5-part series from Media Indigena on "Interrogating 'The White Possessive'" featuring Kim TallBear and Candis Callison - podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

@mediaindigena.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @kimtallbear.bsky.social

25.02.2026 21:03 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions?
Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026.

Register: z.umn.edu/holding-our-ground

#HoldingOurGroundUMN @kimtallbear.bsky.social

25.02.2026 21:13 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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23.02.2026 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

530 a.m. cleared TSA precheck and Clear at IAD no problem

22.02.2026 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry.

Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

21.02.2026 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 155    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions?

Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Minneapolis + Online. Register: cla.umn.edu/ais/news-eve...

18.02.2026 16:55 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it’s history repeating itself OPINION: For my tribes, the Dakota andΒ DinΓ© people, seeing federal agents disappear people from their communities isn’t a new crisis. It is a recurring nightmare, Jacqueline Keeler writes.

In my latest article, I write about how ICE raids in Minnesota echo the imprisonment of our ancestors at Fort Snelling, at Bdote, and the execution of the Dakota 38. This isn’t new. The land remembers. So do we. #iceout @sfchronicle.com

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

14.02.2026 22:51 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.

09.02.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks to @tazhii.bsky.social, @candiscall.bsky.social, @kimtallbear.bsky.social (and of course, @zoestodd.bsky.social) for just the latest in thought-provoking conversations!

11.02.2026 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes lots of focus on conversation and sharing stories of harm and sharing solutions.

09.02.2026 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you.

09.02.2026 23:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yes. There are multiple speakers from Canada as well.

09.02.2026 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.

09.02.2026 20:04 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Timeline of Efforts to Remove Dr. Driskill from OSU Faculty I created this timeline because I wanted people to be able to learn about the efforts to remove Dr. Driskill from the Oregon State University faculty--a movement that is taking place on multiple...

Info on another alleged self-indigenizer case. #pretendianism

09.02.2026 19:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Inside the resistance with Will Stancil "It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."

"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."

04.02.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 15349    πŸ” 3323    πŸ’¬ 1146    πŸ“Œ 413

Rhetoric didn’t kill Renee Good or Alex Pretti. An unaccountable federal police force did.

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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 4 (ep 363) ON THIS EPISODE: part four of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" Based on a ...

πŸŽ™οΈ NEW: Part 4 in our series on 'the White Possessive' dives deeper into @kimtallbear.bsky.social presentation on pretendianism, and why self-indigenization represents the final frontier in settler society's drive to take for itself every last thing

πŸ“» LISTEN NOW:
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04.02.2026 23:56 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 3 (ep 362) ON THIS EPISODE: part three of 'the White Possessive,' the latest in our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration.'" This time ...

πŸŽ™οΈ NEW AUDIO: In Part 3 in our series on 'the White Possessive,' our roundtable reflects on talk by @olgault.bsky.social about others’ misappropriation + misrepresentation ofΒ her personal stories and observations, a case study in "epistemological extractivism"

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30.01.2026 15:03 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 2 (ep 361) ON THIS EPISODE: Part two of 'the White Possessive.' And back in part one, we brought you the basics of this analytical framework as articulated by Aileen Moreton-Robinson, an analysis at the heart...

πŸ“» HEAR: Part 2 in our series on 'the White Possessive' features Jennifer Brown's talk on its effects on public health and Indigenous people in Alaska, with reflections by our roundtablers

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20.01.2026 08:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MEDIA INDIGENA : Weekly Indigenous current affairs program: Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 1 (ep 360) ON THIS EPISODE: Interrogating 'the white possessive.' And according to Indigenous scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson, countries like Canada, Australia and the U.S. are best understood as 'white posse...

NEW πŸŽ™οΈ Our return to all-new podcasts opens our series of reflections on β€œSovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of β€˜Collaboration’.” First up, @candiscall.bsky.social on concurrence of Indigenous movements w/the rise of Indigenous people working in media

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06.01.2026 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 5

COMING SOON: With our very necessary, very productive hiatus very nearly over, we're very close to releasing the first podcast episode in what'll be an all-new 'mini-series.' Details to come, but here's a clue: it draws a lot on the work of renowned scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson!

05.01.2026 04:50 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump-GOP Panic Over ICE Grows as MAGA Goes Off Rails: β€œRace Traitor!” With Republicans admitting ICE is political poison even as MAGA figures demand more brutality, The Contrarian’s Jennifer Rubin explains how Democrats can exploit this moment to split the Trump coaliti...

Fascinating settler infighting. A friend recently told me how much white supremacists hate β€œrace traitors.”

31.01.2026 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Browse or contribute to open information on ICE activities. Helps people research how ICE operates, who supports it, and document its footprint using verified, open information. #3E #GoodvsEvil #toolkit

icelist.is

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Redditors Are Mounting a Resistance Against ICE A user from r/Minneapolis was among the first to share footage of federal agents shooting Alex Pretti. Following his death, subreddits about football, cats, and embroidery have all rallied against ICE...

I interviewed two of the mods of r/Minneapolis about their tireless work this month: β€œI just wanted a local subreddit to know what was happening in my city, and now all of a sudden, we’ve turned into this de facto hub of information for basically how to fight fascism.”
www.wired.com/story/reddit...

26.01.2026 20:10 β€” πŸ‘ 1542    πŸ” 434    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 9

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call β€œsymbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

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Chris Madel ends GOP bid for governor, says he can’t support federal β€˜retribution’ against Minnesota His exit comes as some other Republicans have started to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the state.

Very interesting.

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NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

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"ICE OUT" on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis, as seen from my flight leaving MSP airport

26.01.2026 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 10277    πŸ” 2076    πŸ’¬ 65    πŸ“Œ 71

These two putting the satirists out of work.

25.01.2026 23:11 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

again, if you're looking to help with mutual aid.

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