Lovingly hosted, produced + edited by yours truly, this Indigenous climate fight retrospective includes the insights of: @irinaceric.bsky.social @shirip.bsky.social @trinaroache.bsky.social @kimtallbear.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @karynpugliese.bsky.social

MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎙️NEW AUDIO! Our 2026 mini-summer series "Petrostate Pushback" continues with part two—'Tactics & Terrains'—as we focus on the various frontlines + frontiers of Indigenous resistance to governments + industries trying to sacrifice their territories for massive energy projects 📻 HEAR: pod.fo/e/575325

“Indigenous people are always the gauge of authenticity [such that] we end up being used as sort of a [settler] narrative device... to spin their dominant stories about the way that the world works, with very little attention to the way that we would story the world” @kimtallbear.bsky.social 👇

MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · last mo.

📻 NEW AUDIO: Pt 1 of 'Petrostate Pushback,' a mini summer series drawn from our decade-deep archive! 🛢️Focused on Indigenous resistance to extraction + exploitation, we open this retrospective with a cluster of conversations about media myopia ▶️ LISTEN👇 pod.fo/e/4c9650

regarding frauds who speak on behalf of Indigenous peoples at the UN level: "Because the U.N. system relies heavily on NGO credentials and self-identification, it inadvertently creates a pathway to undeserved international legitimacy." This happens in Canada with 'environmental' research grants too

By Tristan Ahtone. Incisive quotes by Kyle Whyte on governance, representational & financial harm done to actual tribes from groups posing as tribes. Many people, including actual NDNs, uplift self-indigenizers and their tall tales as demonstrated in this lengthy article. #Pretendianism

The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.

How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.

grist.org

Feat. voices of @kimtallbear.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @reganboychuk.bsky.social @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social @northendmc.bsky.social + more!!

MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · last mo.

📻 NEW AUDIO: Pt 1 of 'Petrostate Pushback,' a mini summer series drawn from our decade-deep archive! 🛢️Focused on Indigenous resistance to extraction + exploitation, we open this retrospective with a cluster of conversations about media myopia ▶️ LISTEN👇 pod.fo/e/4c9650

Strib finally publishes the story on MPD wildly overspending to do nothing during the ICE siege: www.startribune.com/minneapolis-... You can compare this version to the one that was pulled: www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... (ht @roblevine82.bsky.social)

Minneapolis police rarely responded to ICE calls but still spent millions on overtime

The MPD prioritized preventing large-scale civil unrest over responding to calls from residents concerned about unlawful force by ICE, and racked up huge OT costs doing it.

startribune.com

FULBRIGHT OPPORTUNITIES INCLUDING: Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Scholarship, McMaster University Indigenous Studies Department McMaster Indigenous Research Institute

Research Chairs - All Disciplines

Award 271429-CA Research Chairs - General and interdisciplinary COMPETITION OPEN Awards to be taken up in the  2027-2028 Academic Year...

fulbright.ca

Important development in Vermont in the resistance to #pretendianism

Amid Backlash, Burlington City Council Rejects Abenaki Gift | Seven Days

The 11-1 vote came after councilors heard overwhelmingly from people who believe the four tribes recognized by the state of Vermont are illegitimate.

sevendaysvt.com

I'm watching now. Nick Estes just started. Great beginning to this event. A nice antidote to tiresome liberal American historians who see trump and this moment as some kind of aberration within an otherwise redeemable US American project.

Kim TallBear@kimtallbear.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Tomorrow at 1pm CT. Zoom registration available. Featuring my University of Minnesota American Indian Studies colleague, Nick Estes.

Tomorrow at 1pm CT. Zoom registration available. Featuring my University of Minnesota American Indian Studies colleague, Nick Estes.

Operation Metro Surge, State Violence, and Resistance at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities Campus

This panel examines Operation Metro Surge’s impact on UMN, highlighting faculty and student resistance to state violence, racial profiling, and the defense of vulnerable groups.

cla.umn.edu

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal ‘the US is continuing to use Shannon Airport to facilitate its deportation operations’. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal

Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees

irishtimes.com

Most major online systems we use every day are underwritten by unremunerated labor on which Capital has taken a free ride for decades. When that ends, more than security is thrown into dissaray. The political economy of the internet goes upside down. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

nytimes.com

Happy to answer questions about the program. #SINGCanada2026

Tragic and yet all too common. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-nuance...

The “Nuance” of Erasure: How the Met’s Norby Failed NAGPRA & My Dakota Family

In April 2023, Patricia Marroquin Norby, then the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Curator of Native American Art, took to Hyperallergic to plead for “nuance.” She described repatriation as “labor-i...

jacquelinekeeler.substack.com

depressing af

Trita Parsi@tparsi.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Disgraceful! The US/Israel just bombed Sharif University in Tehran. This is not only Iran's best university, but also a top 100 global university in the field of Civil Engineering. It has also been a center of student opposition to the Iranian gov And Trump just bombed it...

“Norby published an op-ed in the Minnesota Star Tribune defending her identity as a private matter, setting her argument framed against the backdrop of the ongoing ICE raids nationwide and the University of Minnesota’s “Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self Indigenization.”

The Met Touted Her as Its First Native American Curator. Amid Criticism, She Quietly Left.

Patricia Marroquin Norby quietly left her post at the Met Museum citing health reasons. Her detractors have said she has 'no American Indian ancestry.'

artnews.com

"Collating available data from national, tribal and institutional sources indicates that only three to seven per cent of people in the U.S. who assert a public Cherokee identity have any verifiable relationship to living or historical Cherokee communities; 93 to 97 per cent of claimants do not."

Sovereignty over stereotypes: The data behind false Cherokee identity claims in Canada

Many claims to Cherokee identity are unsubstantiated, and this actively harms Indigenous sovereignty, distorts understandings of Indigeneity and enables appropriation of Indigenous rights and resource...

theconversation.com

Love that @kimtallbear.bsky.social is using box checking as a term again. Chuck Trimball, Oglala journalist, and I visited about this in the oughts. He wrote an awesome column about it decades ago.

Bluesky is mostly a blow-by-blow account of right wing settlers dismantling the liberal settler civilizational infrastructure, and liberal settlers glimpsing (mostly without realizing it) the beginnings of a destruction endured by first nations to make this culturally evangelical & rapacious state.

About Cherokee Nation citizen Patti Jo King, pictured: “Taking out the reproductive organs of a 19- to 20-year-old is a big deal...She was not in danger and this was not a surgical emergency. But her fertility was taken away by what could have been treated with antibiotics — even at that time.”

For Centuries, Native Women Have Been Told to ‘Trust the Doctor.’

Part one of a two-part series examining widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their century-long fight for reproductive freedom.

imprintnews.org

Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.

Kim TallBear@kimtallbear.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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...

Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.

Kim TallBear@kimtallbear.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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...

Just watched @kimtallbear.bsky.social and Nick Estes in this excellent discussion. Love the way Dr Tallbear strips away all the crap. www.youtube.com/live/QgaF8yo...

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization

YouTube video by The Red Nation

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Join me today for a livestream interview on The Red Nation Podcast. I'll be talking with my @umncla colleague, Professor Nick Estes about our upcoming March 18-19 hybrid symposium at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. #HoldingOurGroundUMN

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization

YouTube video by The Red Nation

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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

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

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.

z.umn.edu

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Techmeme@techmeme.com · 6mo ago

In recent interviews, Sam Altman said AI's adoption faces more resistance than he expected, while Jensen Huang warned the "doomer narrative" may be winning (David Streitfeld/New York Times) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

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.

Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

standwithminnesota.com

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...

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.

cla.umn.edu

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...

ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it’s history repeating itself

OPINION: For my tribes, the Dakota and Diné people, seeing federal agents disappear people from their communities isn’t a new crisis. It is a recurring nightmare, Jacqueline Keeler writes.

sfchronicle.com