Good that this is happening. But in all seriousness, what took them so f-king long? www.latimes.com/california/s... #iceoutofcalifornia

When we confront the lie that the US is a nation of immigrants: There seems to be a degree of awareness that this myth excludes Native peoples and enslaved Africans. I find less mention of Mexicans who woke up the day after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and were told they were now Americans.

“When I was small, not much bigger than a pollywog,” said Frog, “my father said to me, “Son, this is a cold, gray day but spring is just around the corner.”

Palestine’s West Bank Archipelago More about the map: brilliantmaps.com/palestine...

As the term ends, I salute the students who persevered while also -fearing for the safety & immigration status of themselves, friends, & loved ones -wondering if resources for food, health care, & other life necessities would vanish -watching their dreams of a career in public service crumble

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Guardian interview with Babson College Student, Any Lucia López Belloza, deported to Honduras in defiance of court order. Her resilience in the face of all this is stunning. At Babson, we are furious and look to support her and the family any way we can. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Really important model of identity fraud as a violation of research ethics. If you lie about your identity to research subjects and build rapport based on that lie, the resulting research is poisoned fruit.

"One significant advantage of the co-governance approach is that it shifts the administrative burden from university faculty and staff...who are already burdened with disproportionate institutional responsibilities related to indigenization or diversity and equity initiatives."

It’s really great to see the former governor of South Dakota—home to the Wounded Knee Massacre and other sites of frontier violence—acknowledge that this is a nation built on blood.

Kurt Vonnegut is one of my favorite authors. Also, I once had a fabulous dinner in Bloomington. Clearly, I qualify as a longtime Indiana fan and not at all petty.

I am now the most passionate Indiana fan imaginable.

My entry in the debate over what time Thanksgiving dinner should be served: Anytime between 5 and 8 pm, depending on how late the cook wants to sleep in and how much football she wants to watch, and you’ll damn well be grateful she’s feeding you at all.

Filmed at the Black Hills, stolen from the Sioux tribes that all banned her from their reservation lands.

First, an earthquake hit Alaska. Then it was a typhoon. People turned to public radio for lifesaving information. Sen. Lisa Murkowski tried to get her colleagues to understand the importance of stations. They voted to defund public media anyway.

PSA: the best holiday dessert is cranberry pie. From Laurie Colwin.

Data centers popping up on Indigenous lands everywhere, but especially perilous to us desert tribes where water availability for crops and for communities have new competition.

"Mississippi’s only federally recognized Indigenous tribe unveiled a new online language resource in early September. The Choctaw Dictionary Project “is a digital resource designed to support language learners of all levels and encourage more daily use of the Choctaw language."

A reminder that you can’t separate the role of teaching a class from non-transparent mentoring at the discretion of the professor. Well after the final exam, students need letters of recommendation, advice about future education, a good word with potential employers, etc.

I propose that we create the job of cleaning off white boards between classes, since apparently no one wants to do it.

Still listed as a distinguished senior fellow www.americanprogress.org/people/summe...

If you want it to be easier to penalize creeps like Summers, please work with your Faculty Senate to tighten up Faculty Code on policies governing student/professor relations specific to graduate student mentoring. Clear rules make penalties easier.

TBC this is absolutely about govt-to-govt relations. Tribes need federal data on crime to set policy, and they’ve been working with crap data far too long.

Our melon-collie baby wishes you a very Happy Halloween!

So it’s bad if students publicly shame professors, but it’s good if professors publicly shame their students for publicly shaming them? If you don’t respect students’ privacy, maybe you’re bringing this on yourself.

Good news poli sci profs, we have a new example to teach of cueing racial bias.

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.

Per tht 2018 legal opinion, the precedent of undeclared wars set w Indigenous nations has been used to justify military actions agnst Korea, Vietnam, Libya, Somalia, Bosnia, Haiti, Kosovo, Sudan, Afghanistan, Yemen, & Iraq. Congress has only declared war 11 times.

In 1 battle w the Miami Confederacy, 88% of US soldiers died, effectively wiping the American army out. War 1 Indigenous nations is why we have a standing military & why it is so big. That war w the Miami Confederacy was cited by the Trump admin in 2018 to justify bombing Syria.

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?

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.

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

I am introducing a resolution today that the Seahawks never passed the ball on the 1 and now Tom Brady has one fewer Super Bowl

Practice job talks are critical but often impossible for students who are remote from their programs. I'm offering up to FOUR free pol sci practice job talks in Oct (mutually agreeable dates/times) for remote students. It can either be student and me alone, or we can invite others. #polisky #psjobs

When I hit puberty, I was caught up in debates over who was the hottest member of Duran Duran, but you do you.

PRIEC is now on Bluesky! 💙💛. Be sure to follow!

1/13 Forced Sterilization Is Not History in Canada In 1928 Alberta passed the Sexual Sterilization Act, giving a government board power to sterilize people it deemed unfit to reproduce. Indigenous women and girls were heavily targeted.

What do they think happened to the bodies of all the kids who died at boarding schools?

We all need (and deserve!) some news that offers joy and comfort, so here’s one for today: A kickass new cookbook will be available in time for Christmas. ictnews.org/news/sioux-c...

This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.

As one considers whether a university has created a hostile learning environment for Indigenous students, it may be of interest to consider how that university has profited from the theft of Indigenous lands and bodies. www.landgrabu.org/universities... projects.propublica.org/repatriation...

Highly recommend ICT’s coverage of the Wounded Knee massacre medals, which links to the academic research. The scholarship shows that key military observers at the time argued the massacre violated US military regs on protecting non-combatants lives. ictnews.org/news/mountai...

Cluelessness that what matters is whether your child will choose the name. It’s now acceptable for tweens/teens to select a new name and for teachers, peers, etc. to use that chosen name exclusively. If the name doesn’t have emotional meaning, why should they stick with it?

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me. But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

This is particularly gross when you ponder how meaningful it could be to descendants of survivors of Wounded Knee massacre if those medals were rescinded. Rescinding the medals of honor from those soldiers is one of the most basic and decent gestures imaginable.

Dakota physician Charles Eastman was an eyewitness to the massacre: "Fully three miles from the scene of the massacre we found the body of a woman . . .and from this point on we found them scattered along as they had been relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered, while fleeing for their lives." 3/

US forces surrounded a community of Lakotas along Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 and used the new invention of rapid-firing Hotchkiss cannons to kill large numbers of the population. Soldiers than pursued the survivors for miles, killing them wherever they were found. 2/