Last month I had the honor of giving the fireside keynote at the @minneapolisfed.bsky.social’s Center for Indian Country Development data summit. @camohrwriter.bsky.social has put out a great new article overviewing the summit and its takeaways for Indian Country:

The government shutdown revealed a major flaw in how the U.S. funds Native American Tribes. @robmaxim.bsky.social and co-authors outline why reform is needed—and what Congress can do to ensure stability.

As part of today's Center for Indian Country Development Data Summit, Director Casey Lozar will give remarks followed by a fireside chat with Brookings Metro's @robmaxim.bsky.social. Tune in live 10:15-10:50 a.m. CT to listen: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/live

A good conversation about the importance of maintaining the integrity of government economic data -- and investing in improvements. @brookings.edu Here's the video www.youtube.com/live/SnccjSu...

“Charlene Aqpik Apok launched Data for Indigenous Justice in 2020 after trying to collect the names of missing and murdered Indigenous people to read at a rally, only to discover no government agency had been keeping track” Colonialism is also when the state makes it hard to gather data on MMIWP

"It is obviously disappointing that the Trump Administration continues to attack federal workers and their Unions. It is particularly upsetting that this administration has done so on the eve of Labor Day, a federal holiday intended to honor and thank workers."

This week our @brookings.edu team released a report on how public data fails Tribes and Native American people. It comes as the federal government works to undermine confidence in public data. Here’s a thread on why you should care about high-quality data, and how to improve it for Native people 👇

Great piece by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye at @ict-news.bsky.social on our new report about Native American data. We discussed how state and regional governments can help improve data for Tribes and Native American people in the wake of the federal government’s destructive actions toward public data.

With the Trump Administration undermining federal data, Native American Tribes need new partners to access high-quality data about their lands and citizens. My new @brookings.edu report with @manannan.bsky.social and @hlstephens.bsky.social explores how states and regions can support Tribal data 👇

Legally, tribal businesses operating on trust land do not have to pay local taxes. A town in southern Oklahoma is threatening to shut off the water and sewage to Delaware Nation’s casino unless the tribe pays city taxes. www.kosu.org/local-news/2...

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)? Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

From @hshierholz.bsky.social: Trump's firing of BLS commissioner is undemocratic and economically dangerous. Between illegal firings, starving data agencies of resources, and now political intimidation, the US looks set to run into the next economic downturn flying blind www.epi.org/press/trumps...

I know it’s a troll. I also know that this is an official government account sharing art that was designed to propagate Indigenous dispossession, cultural destruction, and conquest, and that whoever shared this surely knew it. It is right there in the painting.

Can confirm that no Native people are clamoring for the Commanders to use their old name. However, if you’re wondering what Native people actually want from the Trump Admin, you can listen to my recent podcast ep with Allison Neswood of @nativerights.bsky.social: www.brookings.edu/articles/rob...

DC voters keep voting to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers, and the DC Council keeps voting to overturn the will of the people. Kind of kills their credibility when they call for voting rights for DC residents. If you want to support DC voting rights, try respecting DC voters.

NEW: Two tribal nations are planning to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review a ruling that struck down a key tool for protecting minority voters under the federal Voting Rights Act in Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Funding for Tribes has been under siege in Trump Administration. In this week’s @brookings.edu Metro Blueprint podcast, I spoke with Allison Neswood at @nativerights.bsky.social about how funding cuts are affecting Native people and undermining Tribal sovereignty www.brookings.edu/articles/rob...

Come work with me! I'm hiring for a fall intern to support my research on Indigenous economies. Ideal candidate would have strong quantitative skills and an interest in Native American policy. Full posting can be found below, DM me with any questions! interns-brookings.icims.com/jobs/3684/fa...

it's disgusting that the administration is treating working for the IHS as some kind of penance

Spoke with @anaswanson.bsky.social at the Times about how foreign retaliatory tariffs will impact U.S. communities. Great job by @lazarogamio.bsky.social building a fantastic visual of which places are most exposed to foreign tariffs, based on our @brookings.edu work www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Late to posting this, but spoke with Alyssa Fowers at the Post about which U.S. communities are most exposed to foreign tariff retaliation. Kudos to her excellent visualization incorporating data from our team, @markmuro1.bsky.social and @shriyared.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Read the whole thing. I’ll just flag that “Native American” and “Tribal” are on this list, which doesn’t bode well for the regime’s interactions with 575 federally recognized Native nations and their citizens

Tribal Organizations Say Trump’s Mass Layoffs Have Life-or-Death Consequences. Opposition mounts to the layoff of thousands of workers in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies. ictnews.org/news/life-or...

Presidents Trump and Musk laid off dozens tonight at Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas. “There will be students on campus whose classes have no instructors when school resumes...accreditation could also be at risk, as it cannot support all its students.” lawrencekstimes.com/2025/02/14/h...

I was on this site (NCES) every single day during my masters program. It’s critical to understand the higher ed landscape.

Amid news that DOGE is shutting down the agency that runs the National Center for Education Statistics, our team at @brookings.edu has a new report out that shows the importance of higher education data, and why it needs to be improved, not gutted: www.brookings.edu/articles/fed...

China’s retaliatory tariffs will hurt Trump-voting counties most, say @brookings.edu analysts Mark Muro and Rob Maxim www.brookings.edu/articles/chi...

Last year Elon Musk and SpaceX claimed the NLRB is unconstitutional after being accused of labor violations. Now under Trump, the NLRB is dropping its opposition to this claim. The labor board will no longer fight in court against the charges that it shouldn't exist.

China’s retaliatory tariffs will hurt Trump-voting counties the most. In our new piece, @markmuro1.bsky.social @shriyared.bsky.social and I look at which places in the U.S. have the most workers in industries likely to be affected by Chinese tariffs. www.brookings.edu/articles/chi...

Included on the list of keywords that can now cause a grant to be pulled at the National Science Foundation is “Indigenous community.” This shows the lack of knowledge that some in the Trump Administration have about the legal obligations owed to Tribes and Native people. They’re not based on DEI!

Spoke with ICT about the on-again, off-again funding freeze, and what it would mean for Tribal communities if it happened My take: in its attack on "DEI," the Trump Administration has targeted many programs core to the government's trust-and-treaty obligations to Tribes ictnews.org/news/tribes-...

"Because the funding THPOs receive from the Historic Preservation Fund are grants, that funding was paused":Tribal Historic Preservation Officers can't access federal funds to protect tribal ancestors, cultural items & sacred sites, says National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers.

Senator Murkowski understands Indigenous issues better than many other senators. Most Greenland residents are Inuit people, who share a cultural and linguistic history with Iñupiat people in Alaska. It’s not surprising that she actually acknowledges the people of Greenland, not just its resources.

While there are certainly more important discussions happening at the moment, I weighed in on the debate over land acknowledgements today in the Times. My view is getting rid of land acknowledgments will serve only to further reduce Native visibility in U.S. society. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/o...

Got to speak with Kirk Siegler at NPR about @debhaalandnm.bsky.social’s legacy as the nation’s first Native cabinet secretary. As I note, much of Secretary Haaland’s work, especially her efforts to document the history of federal Indian boarding schools, can’t be undone. www.npr.org/2025/01/16/n...

My new piece for @nativenewsonline.bsky.social: Biden designated the former Carlisle Indian School as a national monument. But now it will be the Trump Administration that creates it It's critical they acknowledge the true history of abuses that took place there nativenewsonline.net/opinion/pres...

A recent report co-authored by Robert Maxim and Glencora Haskins calls on the federal govt to commit to investments in Indian Country that reflect the profound trauma, economic damage and harms caused by the Indian boarding schools. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mg2U...

President Biden will designate the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School as a national monument to tell the story of federal Indian boarding schools He will also unveil a 10-year Native language revitalization plan www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Biden's apology for "boarding schools" got all the headlines but nobody noticed the quiet progress he made in Indian country by prioritizing Native Americans in his signature policies -- nobody but the great @robmaxim.bsky.social and glencora haskins, that is! www.brookings.edu/articles/pre...

I like most of what @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev writes, particularly his work on service sector unions But he gets a lot wrong in this piece about Indigenous land Most crucially, Native American land rights aren’t based on “race.” Let me explain in a thread 👇 www.noahpinion.blog/p/no-you-are...

Kutâputunumuw (thank you) to everyone who gave me a follow over the last couple days! I’m a researcher at the Brookings Institution studying inclusion in tech and the labor force. I also lead our work around Native American communities and Tribal economies. Looking forward to engaging with everyone!

Before you tuck into turkey, please read this powerful thread by @josephvlee.bsky.social on the ongoing existence and cultural perseverance of the Wampanoag people. We are so much more than “the Tribe who met the Pilgrims”! Sharing below another, personal, story about Wampanoag history👇

While courts overturn race-conscious policies and Donald Trump threatens to roll back “woke” programs, our new research shows that the digital economy remains highly segregated by race and gender. My new piece with Mark Muro, Yang You, and Carl Romer: www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

For my first post on Bluesky, sharing my new piece with Glencora Haskins on President Biden’s recent apology for the federal Indian boarding schools, and how policymakers can continue to make progress after Donald Trump retakes the presidency in January. www.brookings.edu/articles/pre...