Miacel Spotted Elk
@miacelselk.bsky.social
cover Indigenous affairs @grist.org
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COP30 has big plans to save the rainforest. Indigenous activists say it’s not enough.
COP30 has big plans to save the rainforest. Indigenous activists say it’s not enough.
“We need the government to recognize our climate authority and our role as guardians of biodiversity.”
dlvr.it
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
COP30 has big plans to save the rainforest. Indigenous activists say it’s not enough.
Wrote about COP30 with @fridagarza.bsky.social for @grist this week about what the protests mean in context of land tenure and deforestation grist.org/global-indig...
COP30 has big plans to save the rainforest. Indigenous activists say it's not enough.
"We need the government to recognize our climate authority and our role as guardians of biodiversity.”
grist.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Wrote about COP30 with @fridagarza.bsky.social for @grist this week about what the protests mean in context of land tenure and deforestation grist.org/global-indig...
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
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#Food #Indigenous #Tribes
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org/indigenous/t...
#Food #Indigenous #Tribes
The government froze food aid. Tribes are thawing old traditions.
Decades of work to rebuild traditional food systems are paying off, but droughts and funding cuts threaten to unravel the progress.
grist.org
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
November 7, 2025 at 11:58 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.
Wrote about the history of villages in Alaska and policies spanning centuries inform the deep impact caused by Halong alongside the thawing permafrost
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
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#AK #Alaska #Weather
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org/indigenous/n...
#AK #Alaska #Weather
Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit.
As Typhoon Halong swept through western Alaska, it laid bare how centuries-old policies made Native villages particularly vulnerable to climate change.
grist.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Wrote about the history of villages in Alaska and policies spanning centuries inform the deep impact caused by Halong alongside the thawing permafrost
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"Drought, dispossession, and data centers: The real horrors of the film 'Eddington,'" by @miacelselk.bsky.social.
Drought, dispossession, and data centers: The real horrors of the film “Eddington”
A movie released in mid-July 2025 blends Westerns, horror, and satire to delve into life in the COVID era and beyond. Key to the plot is the development of a massive data center, and its hugewater…
thebulletin.org
August 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
"Drought, dispossession, and data centers: The real horrors of the film 'Eddington,'" by @miacelselk.bsky.social.
Wrote about Eddington
Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’.
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
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#AI #Indigenous
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
grist.org/indigenous/d...
#AI #Indigenous
Data centers, drought, and dispossession: The real nightmares in Ari Aster’s ‘Eddington’
In the new horror-tinged Western, a fictional Pueblo tribe and a fractured town reveal how pandemic politics and AI infrastructure deepen old patterns of violence.
grist.org
August 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Wrote about Eddington
Recently wrote about a lawsuit filed by the Miccosukee Tribe in the Everglades
A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrant detention center.
The Miccosukee, who make their home in the Everglades, said authorities didn't do an environmental review.
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#Florida #FL #Climate #Policy #Immigration #Imigrant #ICE #Politics
The Miccosukee, who make their home in the Everglades, said authorities didn't do an environmental review.
grist.org/indigenous/a...
#Florida #FL #Climate #Policy #Immigration #Imigrant #ICE #Politics
A tribe in Florida joins the fight against the 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant detention center
The Miccosuki tribe alleges that both state and federal agents failed to conduct an environmental review of what the camp would to the Everglades.
grist.org
July 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Recently wrote about a lawsuit filed by the Miccosukee Tribe in the Everglades
Wrote about the incoming impacts on tribal energy development from the bill’s passage last week
Biden's 2022 Inflation Reduction Act did plenty, like creating tax credits for wind energy, battery storage, large solar farms and programs to repurpose lands harmed by environmental degradation.
Trump’s bill largely dismantles all that. By @miacelselk.bsky.social
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Trump’s bill largely dismantles all that. By @miacelselk.bsky.social
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Clean energy projects on tribal lands were booming. Then came Trump's tax bill.
From Alaska to Arizona, tribes are confronting the possibility of stalled projects, energy outages, and economic disruption.
grist.org
July 11, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Wrote about the incoming impacts on tribal energy development from the bill’s passage last week