what if we stopped showing the argentinian guy in a headdress...
megan baker
@meganabakes.bsky.social
ok choctaw sovereignty hobbyist || assistant prof northwestern anthro
armchair anthropology is suddenly okay when it comes to the world cup i guess
It might not surprise folks to know that legal scholars that are new to the birthright citizenship debate are also new to federal Indian law and are also horrendously bad at it.
Lawrence Hurley@lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: In the birthright citizenship case, Trump cites an 1884 Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to a Native American man. But experts on Native American law tell NBC News that argument is flawed, betraying an ignorance of the subject matter. 👇👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
New — The American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association are suing the Trump administration to block it "from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations" of students and faculty who engage in pro-Palestine or other First Amendment activity.
Columbia University’s immediate submission & betrayal of the core mission of higher education reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that appears intent on destroying US higher education. Full statement from AAUP President Todd Wolfson: www.aaup.org/news/cowardi...
Cowardice and Capitulation: Columbia Has Sacrificed Its Own Students to Authoritarianism
The AAUP condemns in the strongest possible terms any university that would sacrifice its own students to the demands of an authoritarian government. Columbia University’s decision to punish students ...
aaup.org
“As anthropologists, we are witnessing a doubling down on the discipline’s classical roots where a Palestinian woman can only occupy the savage slot–she can only speak as an object of research, through the colonizer’s narrative of her” www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...
On Refusing to Disappear: Stanford Anthropology’s Collusion with Genocide Denial — American Anthropologist
by Sarah Ihmoud (College of the Holy Cross)
americananthropologist.org
If you think this isn’t also happening in Oklahoma, you’d be very wrong. When I’m out knocking doors and talking to voters, I tell people that it’s not safe to be pregnant in Oklahoma anymore since the abortion ban. Here is evidence to back that up. #AC4OK
Cassandra Jaramillo@cassandrajaramillo.bsky.social · last yr.New and devastating reporting from my colleagues showing just how dangerous it has become to be pregnant and in Texas after the state banned abortion. Please read and share: www.propublica.org/article/texa...
A new, novel approach for Freedmen enrollment by going through the state legislature. House bill 1118 would make tribes who fail to enroll Freedmen descendants according to their 1866 treaties forfeit all cooperative agreements & contracts with the state + forfeit state funds that benefit the tribe
Northwestern’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Research is accepting applications for a NAIS postdoc! Due Jan 3, 2025. CNAIR is just the right balance of community and academia so it will be a good time!
nais, as a field, has slept on mark minch-de leon!!!! rectifying by reading everything and anything that he writes now!!
AICRJournal@aicrjournal.bsky.social · 2y ago"To write alongside these bad Indians is not just to survive but also to write with survival, to stay with survival’s difficulty as another way forward, to continue to be bad Indians by embracing the mosaic as our collective angle of reflection." -Mark Minch-de Leon (47.3: 12)
