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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1h

its not perfect and i can hear voices telling me all the ways its not perfect but its SOMETHING I guess

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1h

ok its five am but I finished it

A "Personal Curriculum" for Native American Literary History

Seven units to guide you through Native American literature from 1800 to 2025.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3h

That’s what I’m working on instead of sleeping!!! If I had a quicker answer maybe I could be snoozing by now 😭 lol. I’ll post it when I’m done tho

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 3h

Halp I’m writing another Native American Literature syllabus instead of sleeping……

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Jeff Ostler @jostler.bsky.social · 10h

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170 years ago, the US Army massacred a Lakota village. Their plundered belongings are now back in Nebraska

170 years ago, the U.S. Army massacred a Lakota village near Lewellen, Nebraska. Dozens of items plundered from the dead were recently returned to tribal descendants.

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Annalise Ophelian @dr-ophelian.bsky.social · 10h

The documentary I made with Miss Major 10 years ago is on Vimeo on Demand. If you want to spend some time with her on screen tonight and learn some abolitionist trans history while you're at it, it's free to rent with the code "shinebright" vimeo.com/ondemand/major

Watch MAJOR! Online | Vimeo On Demand

The award-winning documentary "MAJOR!" follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a Black transgender elder who has been fighting for…

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Tao Leigh Goffe | 道 | PhD @taoleighgoffe.bsky.social · 8h

This year I wrote a book about how Columbus colonized the Caribbean in 1492 - not what is now the US mainland.

My book DARK LABORATORY celebrates Kalinago survivance and the African agrarian x aquatic traditions people like my ancestors, who were enslaved, brought to the region.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 7h

This is amazing!!!

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Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 9h

Here is a fairly drafty first draft!

I am so thrilled to tell the story of these two Appalachian Indigenous women from the 16th century, a story that is just barely tellable. Please let me know if you use it!

www.scottcave.net/blog/2025/10/13/luisa-and-teresa-of-appalachia

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 11h

just attempted to open substack by typing in "wubstack" and hitting enter without realizing my error

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TransLash Media @translash.org · 11h

We honor the legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a fierce protector of our collective freedom. Our hearts are with her loved ones and all who carry her vision forward.

"We will honor Miss Major forever." - @imarajones.bsky.social

An illustration of Miss Major surrounded by candles with blue background and a famous quote of hers written in gold. The quote reads“I don’t need their permission to exist; I exist in spite of them. I want you to train and teach and love on and create families within my community and gender non-conforming people, so that we can understand that we have a culture, we have a history, we have a reason to be here. We have a purpose. We’re entitled to be loved, and seek happiness, and share that with the people that we care about.” -Miss Major Griffin-Gracy

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 12h

Agreed, this book is very good and REALLY important.

Scott 🦇Cave🦇 @hellabarnes.bsky.social · 13h

If you are looking for a good treatment of Indigenous slavery in this era, may I recommend

www.pennpress.org/978081225310...

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Christopher Wiggins @cwnewser.bsky.social · 12h

Breaking: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, the legendary transgender activist and veteran of the Stonewall uprising who dedicated her life to the liberation of trans people, especially Black trans women, has died at 78.

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Sára 🍞 @ndntacocat.bsky.social · 12h

Happy Indigenous People's Day! I'm a Karuk food sovereignty advocate, traditional food gatherer, food writer & old nerd. My people are on the Klamath River & I grew up in the Hupa Valley. I wrote a cookbook about the way I use tradish foods in my family: tinyurl.com/4dufbvux

Chími Nu'am: Native California Foodways for the Contemporary Kitchen — Quiet Quail Books

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

This doesn't even touch the thousands of other Indigenous people (including Afro-Indigenous people) from the Caribbean & other parts of the Americas who are experiencing this violence.

No person should be illegal on stolen Indigenous land; all settler borders are illegal on stolen Indigenous land.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

IPD/Columbus Day is in some ways more about the anxieties and struggles of various groups within the continental US in the past 100 years, more so than it's about the actual history it references. But I can't ignore the connections as the people of Ayiti on the continent are targeted by the US govt

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

I'm probably going to write more about this after class, but on today's Indigenous People's Day I am thinking of Ayiti and its people past and present. First Caribbean island to be hit by European genocide, the first free Black nation in the Americas whose leaders renamed it for its Indigenous name

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 16h

On this Indigenous People's Day I'm teaching my Ojibwe language class and then heading to the launch of the Puerto Rican Studies Hub at the university here <3

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry, rubaboo, food of “CANADIAN MOUNTIES”???? The Metis Nation will not stand for this sir

YouTube still of a white guy in a kitchen with the title “Rubaboo—Pemmican Stew of the Canadian Mounties”

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

I’m so sorry Thomas, thinking of you and your family right now ❤️

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

And sometimes this has really complicated results. Sometimes it looks like nepotism. Sometimes it has the power to literally save lives—at the expense of other lives deemed not-kin. Idk. I’d just like to see the actual ways wahkohtowin works irl talked about more beyond the namechecked platitudes.

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Obvs “family” is important in probably most cultures. But there are specific ways I see wahkohtowin in Metis communities. People live and die by their kin. Not just in a loyalty way, but also just bc your kin are the ppl you are intertwined with whether you want to be or not

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 1d

Idk I just see in Metis communities that wahkohtowin is really powerful in positive and negative ways but in the sense of, people are fiercely attached to those they consider kin. And yes, Metis kinship CAN be more than blood+married kin, but even then there are often sort of “rules” for who counts

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