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This is a peculiar time of year for Native people. Colonial holidays & massacres go hand-in-hand with consumerism. Two old white imperialists colonized the first two weeks of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth .

The veneration of a jurist who used the racist legal fiction of the Discovery Doctrine to describe *all* American Indians is appalling. Her thinking was that we’re still too incompetent

I can’t speak on whites pretending to be Black in the academy. But I see similarities with how whites have adopted a Native identity in the academy. Yes, there’s a

Daniel Carr, a Three Percenter militiaman, showed up with a handgun to the home of a witness to the Steven Baca shooting during Baca's preliminary hearing. Prior to this, Carr

I'm in the preliminary hearing on Steven Baca, who is charged w/ aggravated battery causing great bodily harm for shooting Scott Williams 4x in the back, aggravated battery on two

Re: Monday night’s shooting in Abq. A white guy shot into a crowd of mostly youth. Armed white supremacists held us at gunpoint until cops arrived. The cops gingerly detained

The white settler fascists in Apache, Pueblo, and Navajo lands appropriated the sacred Zia symbol & turned it into a symbol of hate. These photos were taken at an “anti-lockdown”

While this year has been a doozy, billionaires are making bank: Between January 1, 2020 and April 10, 2020, 34 of the nation’s wealthiest 170 billionaires saw their wealth increase

I see the Indigenous-led resistance against the rightwing coup in Bolivia as the vanguard of the climate justice movement. Why? Bolivia is at the forefront against US imperialism, the number