Kim TallBear
@kimtallbear.bsky.social
Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate citizen & Professor of American Indian Studies, University of Minnesota, Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics (SING) Canada. MSP/LAX/YEG. https://kimtallbear.substack.com; https://www.youtube.com/@ktallbear
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MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · 2w ago📻 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...
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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 · 3mo agoTomorrow 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
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
“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 agoWhat 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 agoWhat 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
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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
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
Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.
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
Thanks to @tazhii.bsky.social, @candiscall.bsky.social, @kimtallbear.bsky.social (and of course, @zoestodd.bsky.social) for just the latest in thought-provoking conversations!
MEDIA INDIGENA@mediaindigena.bsky.social · 6mo ago🆕 NEW—our 5-part series on 'The White Possessive' wraps up with a jump into genomics, a realm rife with racialized thinking and practice, but as population scientist Noah Collins notes, Indigenous-led research projects continue to prioritize community over commerce 📻 LISTEN NOW: pod.fo/e/38d11e
Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.
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
Info on another alleged self-indigenizer case. #pretendianism
Timeline of Efforts to Remove Dr. Driskill from OSU Faculty
I created this timeline because I wanted people to be able to learn about the efforts to remove Dr. Driskill from the Oregon State University faculty--a movement that is taking place on multiple...
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