Kim TallBear

How scientists are confronting the lingering imprint of colonialism Science series to spotlight efforts to reduce parachute science, empower Global South countries

Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...

Some of you may recall this post. I thought I'd provide an update on how planning for my analog course is going...

It's been a mix of expected and unexpected, but welcome, surprises --

Text layered over a photo of the Mississippi River as viewed from the Lake Street-Marshall Ave bridge of downtown Minneapolis. The left bank from the camera's view is Minneapolis and the right bank is St. Paul. Text reads: Riverside (11.22.25) Two Saint Paul city blocks from the Mississippi, I write in low-sky sun, late autumn, late afternoon. The trees have dropped their colourful wraps. They pose bare, brown, and bony. Soon they’ll be svelte and sparkle in tight coats of winter frost. In my aunt’s basement I write, and laugh every time I tell someone here’s where I live now. We eat her good cooking in the evenings, last night was bison and roots, creamy potatoes, candles in a tableside window. The Canadians think it is safer up there. My ancestors also came home in a year of graver danger.

This week's 100 words. My day of the week in my weekly writing circle is Saturday.

A river surrounded by natural grasses and flowers. The Stone Arch bridge is visible, as is the Minneapolis Mill District. A waterfall is visible in the distance.

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting!

owamniyomni.org/design/

U of A, NYU and Harvard experts lead process to codify world’s first global standard on Indigenous Peoples’ data

Here's fresh and happy news just out today! NativeBio was a late and junior partner but very happy to be part of this important work.

nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...

"University of Minnesota - Twin Cities American Indian & Indigenous Studies Ph.D. Deadline: January 2, 2026. Questions? Email AMINGRAD@UMN.EDU"

choose.umn.edu/portal/grad_...

If you ask historians of medicine what keeps them up at night, many will not say a new plague or bioterrorism, they will answer, "antibiotic resistance."

Reframe 1 and 2 (11.16.25) The second hardest thing was returning to the settlers’ “America.” But these waters and lands, beings that breathe here, exceed millions of Europeans’ re-namings—their straight marks and crooked justifications. The return is to an ancient terrain, to skies our ancestors studied, drew lines from to the Earth. The first hardest thing was leaving a “marriage.” But an ecology of intimacies exceeds, defies centuries of settler mappings of a man’s flesh-blood territory as “husband,” and a woman’s as “wife.” The turn was to a way of living together, sometimes, our child in the centre. A place the settlers don’t name.

I have a weekly writing-friend circle. Each of us takes a day of the week and we write in a loop. My menopause mind has trouble remembering on time. My day is Saturday. I remembered to write this morning.

Oglala Sioux Tribe leaves two major Native advocacy organizations - ICT Tribal president says the National Congress of American Indians and Coalition for Large Tribes no longer serve the interests of direct-service tribes

Very interesting.

House Dem finally sworn into Congress after weeks of controversial delay Rep. Adelita Grijalva (D-AZ) was officially sworn into Congress on Wednesday afternoon, putting an end to weeks of delay that caused intense controversy and pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-L...

House Dem finally sworn into Congress after weeks of controversial delay www.rawstory.com/adelita-grij...

OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to:...

OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies, like every great Ayn Randian self-created entrepreneur, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Japan deploys the military to counter a surge in bear attacks The deployment comes following a surge of bear attacks in Japan's northern Akita prefecture.

The 2025 Bear Wars www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...

YouTube video by APTN News Results of genealogical report on American groups claiming to be Abenaki | APTN News

Abenakis in Quebec have the genealogical reports they’ve been waiting for in their ongoing issue with American groups claiming Indigenous ancestry.

The groups were recognized by the state of Vermont as Abenaki tribes in 2011 and 2012.

The curtain has been pulled back on a scandal casting doubt on the true ancestry of an Abenaki chief.

The test results and who else was under the microscope, tonight on APTN National News.

Watch live: www.youtube.com/aptnnews

Just reading the political writing on the wall in the US, the faintest beginning strokes of their evolving mythology.

Please join NativeBio with MASS Design Group this MONDAY, Nov. 10 for conversations with some of the most inspiring thinkers today. FREE!

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When the current boundaries of the US split into more manageable/governable entities, please refrain from creating more settler founder mythological narratives, and please don’t think the next iteration of “New World” states makes you “Indigenous.”

What is fascinating about the AI bubble is that there is at its core a quasi-spiritual element. There are people working at these labs that believe they are building God; that is how they justify the massive investment in leading edge models that never have the chance to earn back their costs before they are superceded by someone else. That’s why they push for policies that I think are bad for innovation and bad for national security. I don’t like these side effects, to be clear, but I appreciate the importance of the belief and the motivation.

This paragraph from Ben Thompson's Stratechery column today is simply *chef's kiss*. Sure, AI is being pursued by cult members in economically irrational ways that stifle the public interest, but gotta admire their chutzpah!

eating settler memory for breakfast today. but that's what i get for....

First macabre giggle of the day.

So many want an individual hero or savior. In religion. In politics. In celebrity. Is this universal or more pronounced in this individualist society?