It's a MEDIA INDIGENA (partial) reunion with @kimtallbear.bsky.social and I sitting down with Candis to discuss her talk at this awesome @sfuindg.bsky.social event! ⬇️

We are in a grand moment of untenable contradictions for the colonizers, including European powers. They and their "New World" offspring illegally took Indigenous lands already occupied. There is strategic myopia in European states calling the US to account, and then there is historical truth.

HOLDING OUR GROUND: Voices and Strategies against Self-indigenization Mar 18-19, 2026 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities In person-registration limited to 200. Book event registration (with Dina Gilio-Whitaker and Audra Simpson) limited to 80. Online reg (for symposium only) also available

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

No saviors.

When the Mind Returns - the puzzle of terminal lucidity: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/cons...

At least we get a few LOLs at the end of empire

Some thoughts on the perils of ego-centric colonial celebrity, & of the power of love, truth, and joy in co-constitutive Indigenous sovereignties after the "Un)Making of Metis Claims in Ontario" conference hosted by Robinson Huron Waawiindamaagewin. drfishphilosopher.substack.com/p/twitter-is...

“Minneapolis police said in a statement that they responded to an “officer needs help” call, but confirmed that no one was being assaulted and that no “life-safety conditions” warranted further officer involvement. A spokesperson said Minneapolis police left the scene within 10 minutes.”

Defense bill snubs Indian Country in favor of Lumbee federal recognition

Abukar Arman, a former US envoy to Somalia, told Al Jazeera it may be more strategic to avoid responding in kind to Trump’s remarks. “Trump is a narcissist whose ego is as fragile as an eggshell. The more humiliated he feels, the more imbecilic his attacks would become."

I continue to believe the average American really isn't okay with seeing their neighbours terrorized and kidnapped, or seeing masked goons rampaging through their communities. The US fascist movement has *massively* overplayed their hand, and while this is a very evil moment, heroes are rising.

A breaking self-indigenizer investigation, this time close to home. Involving Dr. Erica Moore, current president of Sinte Gleska University, of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Research on the case done by Tribal Alliance Against Frauds (TAAF). #Pretendianism

The through line with white people extractively claiming to be Indigenous for gain in 🇨🇦 is celebrity distorts+overrides our wave-based collective onto-sovereignties. This is why I refuse to reify concept of ‘the one’ speaking ‘for’ a collective. Pretendians and celebrity are two sides of same coin.

It's GIVING TUESDAY. Help us out and we will help the world! Thanks to Joseph Kunkel (Northern Cheyenne) and MASS Design Group! vimeo.com/1142541296/e...

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“The irony couldn’t be starker: the very programs best equipped to study the social and ethical implications of AI were being defunded, even as the university promoted the use of OpenAI’s products across campus.”

She is an exemplary delusional USA cult member.

Its fundamentally "American," isn't it, since red or brown people (depending on how one racializes our ancestors) were genocided to make way for a white Christian nation state? My goodness, people, get another guiding story because this one is clearly a lie.

By McGill Assoc. Provost Indigenous Initiatives, Celeste Pedri-Spade "These heroes were largely created by settler-controlled industries like publishing, media and academia — not by us. Their success was sustained by gatekeepers who valued marketable versions of Indigeneity over authentic voices."

"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."

This week's 100. An August memory on a snow-falling-on-trees winter day.

As I've said in interviews, I don't know King's work. I didn't take notice of him until I heard back channel accounts that he was not actually Cherokee. This audio has a clip of King's CBC Massey Lecture. He sounds like AI, elegant but vacuous. Like AI, he wasn't speaking from lived experience.

"The literary icon who isn't Indigenous after all" CBC's The Current, yesterday, Nov 27, 2025. Drew Hayden Taylor and I interviewed on Thomas King.

X is like the house in disarray with a fridge full of rotten food that the ragged vestiges of humanity try to hide out in, but then zombies in the bedroom get out and come for them.

Recreating the conditions of “broken homelands.” LOL no kidding. Would that the terrors of all those messed up nations had stayed on the other side of the Atlantic. Bringing their disease, oppressive religions and customs. The hypocrisy of rapacious settlers never ceases to shock.

Some quick thoughts on Thomas King's revelations, from a Red River Métis and Critical Indigenous Studies perspective. "Hollow-gram Indigeneity and the superficiality of colonial consumption (or: the unbearable flatness of fraud)" zoestodd.com/2025/11/26/h...

We've discussed pretendians ad nauseam on the podcast, with each new exposé much like the last. That said, as we heard from @kimtallbear.bsky.social in 2024, once we get beyond the tabloidy and tawdry, there is a bigger picture at play podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/m...

“Stevenson..would like to see a “critical evaluation” of the major institutions in Canada that have supported non-Indigenous scholars, writers and thought leaders who have claimed Indigenous identities. She wonders why their stories have been "so compelling and convincing" to these institutions..”

1/2 An important Commentary in Nature Genetics from people I know and respect. The landscape of the Belmont Report/Common Rule, Technological Prowess, Data Promiscuity and speculative markets around www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Another sorry, not sorry from a writer who has gained financially and social capital by riding for decades on a myth of speculative Cherokee ancestry. #pretendianism

Our University of Minnesota American Indian Studies department Dakota language instructor, Cante Maza sharing what Dakota people know, why "Minne" is part of so many place names in Minnesota.

Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...

Some of you may recall this post. I thought I'd provide an update on how planning for my analog course is going... It's been a mix of expected and unexpected, but welcome, surprises --

This week's 100 words. My day of the week in my weekly writing circle is Saturday.

Owámniyomni Okhódayapi just announced the Dakota-led design for the restoration of five acres at Owámniyomni (St. Anthony Falls), adjacent to the Upper Lock on the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. Project construction is targeted to begin in spring 2026. Very exciting! owamniyomni.org/design/

Here's fresh and happy news just out today! NativeBio was a late and junior partner but very happy to be part of this important work. nni.arizona.edu/news/u-nyu-a...

I have a weekly writing-friend circle. Each of us takes a day of the week and we write in a loop. My menopause mind has trouble remembering on time. My day is Saturday. I remembered to write this morning.

Very interesting.

House Dem finally sworn into Congress after weeks of controversial delay www.rawstory.com/adelita-grij...