In celebration of Native American Heritage month I want to talk about erasure. Erasure is how anti-Indigenous racism functions in the U.S. today. 🧵

As Trump proclaims the Alaskan Arctic open for business, it turns out business isn’t good. The infrastructure to drill in the Arctic is expensive and the private companies interested in the area don’t appear to have the capital.

This 16 yr old American is being held in jail by Israel for allegedly throwing a rock at a car (his family denies this happened). Mohammed Ibrahim is one of 300 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons.

In the ongoing showdown between tribes and Oklahoma’s Governor over hunting & fishing treaty rights, the state AG is taking a side. And it’s not the Governor’s.

A former top lawyer for the Israeli military has been arrested for allegedly leaking a surveillance video of 5 Israeli soldiers beating and raping a Palestinian prisoner.

There are 5 chances to hear me speak in the next 2 weeks! I’ll be in Athens, GA this Thursday Nov. 6 at the Georgia Museum. I’ll be giving a talk about my book By The Fire We Carry, out in paperback this month! georgiamuseum.org/event/lectur...

Here is a great way to teach your kids more about Native Americans this month. Molly of Denali–the only kids TV show to feature an Alaska Native character–is on the road for Native American Heritage Month. Molly, the show’s main character, visits 5 reservations.

While the Trump administration dragged its feet on using emergency money to fund SNAP, tribes didn’t hesitate. Tribes across the country have declared states of emergency to help their citizens. Here is some of what they are doing.

One program being silently eliminated during the shutdown is Community Development Financial Institutions, which fund small businesses in underserved communities. Many Native-run businesses rely on small loans from CDFIs. Now, they’re on the chopping block. ictnews.org/news/trump-a...

Dark Winds is back for season 4! Coming Feb 15

This is a chilling attack on free speech. British journalist Sami Hamdi has been detained and lost his visa allegedly for comments criticizing Israel’s war on Gaza.

As Trump bombs more boats from Venezuela & moves warships to the Caribbean, even Republican lawmakers are arguing he can’t order such military actions w/o Congressional approval. But did you know U.S. presidents going back 2 George Washington, have fought undeclared wars?

After losing in state court, the company behind Line 5 tried to move the case to federal court. The problem with that move is that it was illegal. An appeals court rejected the bid, but now the pipeline company is appealing to the Supreme Court.

The Alaska Native villages of Kipnuk & Kwigillingok face a long road to recovery after Typhoon Halong. 90% of the buildings in Kipnuk were destroyed. Families are living in shelters. The Gov estimated it will take 18 months 2 rebuild. Donate 2 rebuilding efforts

To keep Alligator Alcatraz open pending litigation, Florida argued the facility was state–not federally–funded. That claim (made to a federal appeals court) now appears to be a lie.

Last Thurs, the Trump admin announced it is opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling, which sits on Inupiaq and Gwich’in land. The Gwich’in consider the land sacred and rely on the caribou migration.

Hey Dearborn/ Detroit! I am going to be in your city on Nov. 8 talking about the erasure of Native people in the media. If you’re in town, come check it out!

Last week, Palestinians in Gaza dug a mass grave for unidentified bodies returned to Gaza from Israel. Many of the body showed signs or torture and execution.

If SNAP (aka food stamps) runs out of funding on Nov 1 due to the government shutdown, over 1 million Native Americans could lose their benefits. That is 24% of Native American households.

If you are in Athens, GA next week, on Nov. 6, don’t miss yours truly at the Georgia Museum. I’ll be giving a talk about my book By The Fire We Carry, out in paperback this month!

The October Native News Roundup is out today. I’m breaking down news on how the federal government shutdown is impacting Native Americans, holidays for tyrants and medals for murderers, storms devastate Yup'ik villages, and court cases I'm following.

I rarely let myself celebrate my wins (always pushing towards what's next). But getting the paperback copy of By The First We Carry in the mail it all hit me. I looked at that first page and thought, “damn, I did that.”

Due to a family emergency, my talk tomorrow in Lincoln, Nebraska has been canceled. Stay tuned for a new date.

The Trump admin is planning to weaponize the IRS to pursue criminal inquiries into left-leaning groups.

A federal appeals court ruled the Trump admin can deploy the National Guard to Portland. For those who are shocked at watching the National Guard on the ground in U.S. cities, we need to talk about how it began…

ICE has arrested at least 170 U.S. citizens. ProPublica found those citizens were dragged, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A typhoon devastated Alaska Native communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, including the Yup’ik villages of Kwigillingok and Kipnuk. Here are some places to donate: Funds: Western Alaska Disaster Relief Fund (Alaska Community Foundation) alaskacf.org/westernalaska

After winning a historic court case upholding their right to tribal citizenship, Muscogee freedmen are fighting for the ruling to be enforced.

Excited to share that the paperback of By the Fire We Carry will be out next week! I am so honored that so many have read and enjoyed the book. Would love to see you at these upcoming fall events:

By The Fire We Carry was included on the Seattle Times’ list of new paperbacks to pick up this month!

I am so honored that By The Fire We Carry won the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize! As part of the prize, next week (10/28) I’ll be giving a lecture at the University of Nebraska. If you are in the Lincoln/Omaha area come check it out!

The Trump admin greenlit a 211-mile road that will cut through arctic wilderness in Alaska. A federal review of the road found that it would impact the hunting and fishing rights of Alaska Native tribes.

There are 7 hours left to enter to win the Goodreads giveaway for a paperback copy of By the Fire We Carry, which comes out on 10/28! www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho...

The Alaska Native village of Kipnuk was devastated last week by a typhoon. Before the storm, the Trump administration cut a $20 million grant that would have helped protect the village from coastal erosion. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

I’ll be speaking at The Henry Ford Theater on November 8 to present "We're Still Here: Fighting Indigenous Erasure in the Media.” Register and get tickets:

So excited for Eliana Ramage’s debut novel–a queer, Cherokee coming of age novel about a Cherokee girl who wants to be an astronaut.

St Louis was originally called Mound City bc over 200 earthen works spanned both sides of the Mississippi River. The largest one at Cahokia is comparable in size to Egyptian pyramids. Early archaeologists thought Native Americans were too primitive to have constructed the mounds and theorized

After a monumental legal victory in 2020, over 40% of the land in Oklahoma was a reservation. Since then, the state has refused to comply with the ruling in different ways.... www.kosu.org/news/2025-09...

How cool is this? How To Train Your Dragon has been dubbed in Cherokee

🧵How Native Americans are impacted by the government shutdown…

A typhoon has devastated communities in western Alaska and record flood waters have displaced at least 1,400 people and search and rescue operations continue. alaskapublic.org/news/public-... Donate here: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

Got to spend 2 magical weeks in the Adirondacks with other Native creatives. Pushing back against erasure in our respective fields can be a lonely path. Being in community was so healing. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time. Thank you to Blue Mountain Center for hosting.

The Supreme Court had declined to hear a case out of Oklahoma about whether or not cities can issue tribal citizens traffic tickets on reservation land.

The state of Oklahoma is attacking tribal hunting & fishing rights, saying that tribal citizens who hunt & fish without a permit from the state will be charged with a crime.

After years of advocacy and growing awareness of Columbus’s human rights abuses, some states and cities switched to celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. Now, we are witnessing the backlash to that modicum of change. Full post on my substack now:

September Native News Roundup is out today. News from Palestine, repeating history, federal cuts hit tribal radio and Native students, plus resources for supporting Trans folks. Read and subscribe:

Had an amazing time @ the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book! A career highlight was watching Eileen fucking Myles buy my book! The 22-yr-old queer baby inside me that idolized them was dying, but I managed to keep my cool.

Gonna be (mostly) off social media the next few weeks so I can go deep on my writing. So grateful for the time to focus while I’m at Good Hart Artist Residency and Blue Mountain Center.

By The Fire We Carry is out in paperback now, and it made Barnes & Noble’s list of best paperbacks of October!

The cuts to minority serving colleges are hitting Oklahoma hard, where 13 schools that aren’t TCUs have high Native student populations.