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just an Inuk trying to be a good future Ancestor ✨️
It program creates a pathway for people who currently teach an Indigenous language at schools to become fully certified.
New UAS Indigenous language master’s program gets final approval from state Board of Education
The Alaska State Board of Education and Early Development unanimously approved a new master’s in teaching program for Indigenous languages at the University of Alaska Southeast on Thursday.
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patriarchy boot analogy by LeAndra Lee Baker ~ Black woman, writer, philosopher & feminist 🙌🏽 youtube.com/shorts/inf-v...
#patriarchy
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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
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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. 🧵
I just watched this twice. It’s very impactful and well done. Nothing will ever be done to rectify this colonialism and climate emergency without Democratic leadership. I feel the same sadness and shame as I do seeing the DHS and ICE behavior towards people. #akleg
FRONTLINE | Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages | Season 2025 | Episode 4
A look inside Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change.
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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.
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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."
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An Inuit message of solidarity and support for our 🇬🇱 relatives from Inuit of Alaska and Canada ❤️ You are not alone. We love you and stand for your right to self-determine the future of your nunaat ✨️ #InuitNunaat #InuitNunangat #Greenland #KalaallitNunaat #KalaallitPigaat youtu.be/MeE8PHbLgfo?...
180,000 Strong Inuit Standing Together
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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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Storm Relief: An Alaskan Family Giving Back
Kuskokwim-raised siblings, author Don Rearden and artist Beth Hill, team up to raise funds for storm relief. Choose the donation level and destination that fits your interest. All donations will recei...
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Modeled reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice volume since the year 1901 - comparison between PIOMAS-20C and PIOMAS data sets now updated through 2025... Data information available at doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...
Centering Western perspectives of "true" history by calling our Indigenous histories "prehistory" & insinuating we are only modern due to colonization are two of many ways we are gaslit into assimilation and conformity. Ernestine Hayes (Lingít) says it brilliantly here ✨️ youtu.be/ejKXuPt6rEY?...
Centering Western perspectives of "true" history by calling our Indigenous histories "prehistory" & insinuating we are only modern due to colonization are two of many ways we are gaslit into assimilation and conformity. Ernestine Hayes (Lingít) says it brilliantly here ✨️ youtu.be/ejKXuPt6rEY?...
Diminishing Native history as "prehistory" + weaponizing modernity. Always been and will be modern✌🏽
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ask us how much our "free" healthcare *really* costs. youtube.com/shorts/tgS9-...
do Natives get free healthcare?
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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…
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*vulnerable post* please know that if you're struggling right now, it's a humane response to the chaos happening across our world. we've made it through all of our toughest times - I will bet on us every. single. time. sending love ♡ #mentalhealthcheck youtu.be/rnpb11cViBw?...
#mentalhealthcheck
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Last Dec, I testified w 17 leaders @ The Hague during #ICJ hearings on countries' obligations re climate injustice: www.pisfcc.org/peoplespetit... Tomorrow, the world's highest court will issue its advisory opinion on global responsibilities to address climate change + human rights. #ClimateICJAO
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
still think a dating app for N8Vs called Dreamcatcher would be 🔥
Colonization IS white history. How Indigenous people have survived it is ours.
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
Alaska Inuit stand in solidarity with our eastern relatives for Inuit sovereignty over #KalaallitNunaat #Greenland 🇬🇱 Stand with us ✊🏽🔥❤️ (song: Alianaak by powerful Inuk artist Varna Marianne Nielsen ❤️) youtu.be/OQFAyc0-Bgs?...
Alaska Inuit stand w/ Greenland for Inuit sovereignty over #InuitNunaat (song: Alianaak by Varna)
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Powerful protests across Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) today standing for Inuit sovereignty and against colonization from the US and Denmark 🔥✊🏽✨️ #InuitNunaat
In 2021, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level using EPA data ⤵️
The Most Detailed Map of Cancer-Causing Industrial Air Pollution in the U.S.
Using the EPA’s data, we mapped the spread of cancer-causing industrial air emissions down to the neighborhood level. Look up your home to see if you and your loved ones are living in a hot spot.
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carving a qulliq/eq (Inuit seal oil lamp) for my aaka (mother) during an Arnaat (women's) cultural healing gathering on Yup'iit Nunaput in Curyung [aka Dillingham, Alaska] #qulliq #qulleq #naniq #Inuit #Inuk #sealoillamp #Indigenous youtube.com/shorts/hr6Q5...
carving a qulliq for my Aaka ♡ #Inuit
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Who is a better colonizer? Denmark or the US? Neither. There are no good colonizers. From one Alaska Inuk to our Inuit relatives in Greenland, a perspective of what to expect if the US takes over your country and our people there. #Inuit #Greenland #Kalaallitnunaat youtu.be/N-E2TsGDlDM?...
There are no good colonizers.
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