🦋 Trump signs an EO slashing Bears Ears today. But don’t look at Utah in isolation. Last week, the White House targeted the Smithsonian for hosting "stolen land" narratives. Censor the history in museums to justify repeating it on the ground. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

The Erasure Strategy: Why the White House Attacks on the Smithsonian and Bears Ears are the Same War

Utah politicians celebrate as the executive pen prepares to slash our monuments this afternoon—while the administration works to erase the history of how they got the land in the first place.

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Part III of my America 250 series is live. I examine how 1776's "liberty" rhetoric was weaponized against Native Nations, focusing on the agonizing strategy of Chief Joseph Brant—& how these 250 yr old settler land hunger play out on our streets today. #America250 open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

Part III: The Republic They Built—and the Nations That Endured

The Declaration's Forgotten Frontier

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Most of us were taught 1776 was just about "no taxation without representation." But the archival reality of the frontier tells a deeper story. Part II of my series looks at the raw financial motives and the land speculation that drove the Revolution: open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #America250

Part II: Land, Liberty, and the Limits of Representation

If the frontier explains why Native Nations appear in the final grievance of the Declaration of Independence, it also forces us to reconsider the Revolution’s most familiar slogan: “No taxation withou...

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Every July 4, we hear soaring lines about equality. But how many read to the end where Jefferson brands our ancestors as “merciless Indian Savages”? As Native people, we know it wasn’t just racism—it was wartime propaganda masking the Founders’ land speculation:  open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

Part I: “Merciless Indian Savages” and the Real Estate Behind the Revolution

The Declaration’s Forgotten Frontier

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Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the US, we need to remember how the Declaration of Independence functioned as a framework for a land grab of Native homelands—enshrined by the words "merciless Indian savages.” www.instagram.com/p/DaTLhAMCfw...

Jacqueline Keeler on Instagram: "This morning at 8 a.m. on E Pluribus Unum on KBOO 90.7 FM, we took a hard, structural look at the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States. With July 4th just t...

36 likes, 6 comments - jfkeeler on July 2, 2026: "This morning at 8 a.m. on E Pluribus Unum on KBOO 90.7 FM, we took a hard, structural look at the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States. Wit...

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“He turned our sacred Lakota ceremonies into crime scenes.” The sentencing of Nathan Chasing Horse is a reckoning for the “Medicine Man” industrial complex. During #RedDressDay week—we have to talk about where predators hide. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #MMIW #NathanChasingHorse

The Day After Red Dress Day: Ransoming the Soul

How Nathan Chasing Horse Turned Our Ceremonies into Crime Scenes

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At the beginning of 2025, FEMA was running with a 35% staffing shortage. By March of that year, Donald J. Trump had stripped the organization of over 200 employees, leading many to question whether the department was ready for severe weather events.

Politico@politico.com · 3mo ago

FEMA’s top official said that the “vast majority” of calls were answered during the deadly Texas floods. But new data indicates that the agency failed to answer 58% of the calls, and the average wait was 61 minutes at the peak.

Earth Day 2026: Mother Earth is not a corporate “asset.” 🌎 From a $1B payout to kill offshore wind, the feds betrayal of Columbia River Tribes, commitments to a future are being abandoned. Read & listen at @KBOO: open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #EarthDay2026 #LandBack #Sovereignty #Journalism

Earth Day 2026: Mother Earth Is Not Your "Asset"

In today’s special Earth Day broadcast on KBOO 90.7 FM, we dig into the "Great Unmaking."

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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...

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“Honestly mistaken” white people who built careers in a FN identity and theis supporters don’t like it when you share this article. #coupalvLeroux

Jacqueline Keeler@jfkeeler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Coupal v. Leroux is a disaster for First Nations sovereignty. By awarding $70k based on "honest belief" in family lore—despite the Algonquin Tribunal debunking ancestor—makes accountability impossible. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #Pretendians #Indigenous #Accountability #TribalSovereignty

The defining moment of today’s hearing was when Justice Gorsuch asked the Solicitor General a simple, foundational question: “Are children of Native Americans birthright citizens?” After a painful silence the govt’s lead lawyer could only muster a hesitant “I think so.” youtube.com/shorts/w8xrX...

John Sauer seems unsure when asked if Native Americans fall under birthright citizenship. Thoughts?

YouTube video by Don Lemon

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SCOTUS hears Trump v. Barbara Wed. They’re using Elk v. Wilkins (1884) to end birthright citizenship. But IF applied equitably, the "legal chain" for millions of white Americans collapses. Without modern visas, 19th-c. roots become "defective." A house of cards. ⚖️ open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

The Ghost of John Elk: How the Right has Weaponized Indigenous History to End Birthright Citizenship

This Wednesday, April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v.

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The "buy back the land" myth masks a troubling reality. From the 2019 White Earth inquiry to the 2023 sexual harassment verdict involving child safety, the receipts are clear. We must prioritize community accountability over celebrity brands to ensure our survival. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

The Manufactured Hero: Why We Must Stop Consuming "Feel-Good" Indigenous Myths

Every so often, a post cycles through our social media feeds—a perfectly curated, nostalgic-looking image paired with a caption that tells a story we desperately want to believe.

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Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Hegseth: "We will keep pushing, keep advancing. No quarter, no mercy for our enemies." No quarter is the refusal to take prisoners and instead just execute everyone. It's been considered a war crime for over a century.

Coupal v. Leroux is a disaster for First Nations sovereignty. By awarding $70k based on "honest belief" in family lore—despite the Algonquin Tribunal debunking ancestor—makes accountability impossible. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #Pretendians #Indigenous #Accountability #TribalSovereignty

Identity Fraud or "Honest Belief"?

In Coupal v. Leroux, the court exonerated an academic of fraud, but left the real issue–institutional identity verification-entirely untouched.

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In today’s show, we break down the widening fracture in MAGA. With over 40 military units reportedly framing this conflict as a divine mandate for Armageddon, we have to ask: who is this war actually for? kboo.fm/media/132458... #EPluribusUnum #IranWar #ChristianNationalism #NoMoreWars #KBOO

The MAGA Schism: Podcasters vs Christian Nationalism on the Iran War

In this episode of E Pluribus Unum, host Jacqueline Keeler explores the unprecedented civil war erupting within the American Right over the escalating conflict in Iran. While "Digital MAGA" heavyweigh...

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It’s troubling to see @theviewtv celebrate International Women’s Day featuring Winona LaDuke, erasing the voices of women harmed by her leadership. We need to stop valuing the "image" of Indigenous wisdom over the actual safety and lives of our people. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/internatio...

International Women’s Day: Why 'The View' Should Have Left Winona LaDuke in the Silence She Earned

International Women’s Day is meant to uplift women, but The View’s choice last week to feature Winona LaDuke is especially troubling.

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The narrative around "Operation Epic Fury" is fraying, and if you look at the justifications, it’s not just messy—it’s dangerous. We’ve got a trifecta of conflicting rhetoric coming from D.C.: preemption, regime change, and, most disturbingly, a messianic shift in military command. 🧵

Hard to keep up! What do Cherokees think of Mullin as DHS Secretary? www.npr.org/2026/03/05/n...

Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her

Stepping in as acting secretary is GOP Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma who Trump said had "Wisdom and Courage required to Advance our America First Agenda."

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A reminder that Minnesota as a whole sends more revenue to the federal government than it gets back, and on a per capita basis Minnesotans contribute more revenue to the federal government than residents of almost every other state in the nation. www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/mapped-u-...

Mapped: U.S. Federal Tax Revenue Per Person, by State

Which U.S. states paid the most in federal taxes per person in 2023? See the surprising rankings in this per capita breakdown.

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BREAKING: Vice President JD Vance says the Trump administration is pausing some Medicaid funding to Minnesota because of fraud concerns.

Opinion: "Trauma is the point. For Native Americans, this is a strategy familiar to us," @jfkeeler.bsky.social writes. "The state terror we see today is an old operating system resurrected for our times." www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... @sfchronicle.com

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.

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Yes! 🙌🏽 Although will this tank our economy? Trump’s administration may have to repay about $175 billion? www.npr.org/2026/02/20/n...

Supreme Court strikes down Trump's tariffs

The 6-3 ruling is a major blow to the president's signature economic policy.

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STOP THE SAVE ACT. Call your Senators. 202-224-3121

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.

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The DOJ will redact billionaires’ names in the Epstein files, but Native women who go missing are met with silence & erasure. From Zorro Ranch on Native land to buried federal reports whose lives are worth protecting—and whose aren’t? open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...

Redacted Billionaires and the Seeding of Zorro Ranch on Native Land

I woke up this morning thinking about the “American Story”—that grand, violent fiction we are all forced to inhabit.

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This is a very, very bad decision from one of the two Reagan judges left on the Fifth Circuit, joined by one of the two most extreme Trump appointees on the court. And, it is about the issue I walked through at Law Dork earlier this week, in the context of Minnesota: www.lawdork.com/i/186796727/...

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6mo ago

BREAKING: A 5th Circuit panel has backed ICE's mass detention policy, a decision that clears the way for the administration to lock up people who are in immigration proceedings It's a 2-1 ruling Majority: Jones (Reagan), Duncan (Trump) Minority: Douglas (Obama) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Wow.

The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 6mo ago

“Not so long ago, Ammon Bundy was the most famous right-wing militia leader in America … But Bundy’s criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown now threatens to make him a pariah within his own community,” Jacob Stern reports: theatln.tc/XMDp2w1x

"Their report concludes governments, regulators and financial managers must pay far more attention to these high impact but lower likelihood risks, because avoiding irreversible outcomes by cutting carbon emissions is far cheaper than trying to cope with them." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Flawed economic models mean climate crisis could crash global economy, experts warn

States and financial bodies using modelling that ignores shocks from extreme weather and climate tipping points

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#ICEOUT #Portland “Fed officials fired tear gas at a crowd of thousands, including families…with large clouds of tear gas, pepper balls & rubber bullets. The protest was overwhelmingly peaceful…gas reached their eyes & their throats blocks from the facility.” www.oregonlive.com/crime/2026/0...

Feds at Portland ICE facility again deploy chemical agents against protesters

The federal response to Sunday protesters was not as immediately severe as the reaction Saturday.

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PDX Alert: If you're planning to shop or grab a bite today, take a look at this list first! Dozens of local businesses are striking today, January 30th. Support the cause or check for closures here: www.oregonlive.com/trending/202...