ayyu ❄️

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just an Inuk trying to be a good future Ancestor ✨️

Indigenous athletes are at the winter Olympics! 3 Métis athletes from Canada are competing in luge, hockey, & bobsleigh, and 2 Inuk athletes from Greenland (representing Denmark) in the biathlon. Read about them here!

WINTER OLYMPICS: Indigenous athletes compete not just for their country but for the world  - ICT

UPDATED: A brother-sister pair from Greenland, three Canadians and a New Zealander are among the Indigenous athletes competing in the Winter Games in Italy

ictnews.org

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ajc.com

We stand with our 🇬🇱 Inuit relatives. Quyanaqpak to Max with Northern Journal for writing this to bring awareness to the familial connection with Greenland and Iñupiat perspectives of what is happening in Kalaallit Nunaat/Nunarput. #InuitFirst www.northernjournal.com/harm-against...

‘Harm against our family’: Alaska’s Indigenous leaders call for solidarity with Greenlanders amid Trump’s threats

“We are essentially the same people."

northernjournal.com

Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.

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Two lawsuits allege that Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil, is the “principal beneficiary” of tribal lender Minto Money. CreditServe, a company that McGraw plays a key role in, controls the operation while “the Tribe is merely a front,” the suits said. (Published May w/ @adn.com)

A 700% APR Lending Business Tied to Dr. Phil’s Son Is Dividing an Alaska Tribe

Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone…

propublica.org

As the northern hemisphere tilts toward the waning light, holding the many energies we are moving through and carrying with tenderness + love 💖 For our southen relatives, the light and warmth are returning; and this is the way of life ✨️ Sending love to all needing a little extra today 💖 #solstice

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I am honored to give 2 upcoming presentations in Nuuk, Greenland: 1st - centered on Inuit identity/knowledge as our strength, 2nd - thesis research on the era of missionization + formation of Alaska's education system and its ongoing impacts to Native students and peoples 🙏🏽 #Inuit #Colonization

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