ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyoka❌igaabaw Deondre S❌iles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin)
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ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyoka❌igaabaw Deondre S❌iles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin)
@niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
Gaa-zaagaskwaaji❌kaag Anishinaabe | Indigenous Geographies and Cli❌ate Justice | Director, GIF Lab | Public Scholar | Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia | Ohio State, ❌innesota-Duluth, St. Cloud State alu❌ | Posts = ❌y view
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Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.
Donate - Native Organizers Alliance
Supporting organizing and advocacy initiatives for Indigenous justice.
nativeorganizing.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
I had to remind myself that there is a Boston in the UK as well, although that scene *could* pass for suburban Boston, Massachusetts, couldn’t it?
Approaching Boston. 15 February 2025. #railway #photography
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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The Makah Tribe has the right to hunt whales by treaty (the only tribe in the lower 48). But they have been waiting on a government permit to exercise that right for TWO DECADES.
Makah Tribe’s treaty-protected whaling rights remain blocked more than two decades later - ICT
Federal officials have not responded to the October deadline for the tribe’s permit for a traditional summer/fall subsistence hunt of eastern North Pacific gray whales, covered by the Makahs’ 10-year…
ictnews.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Another publication alert:

A piece that I've co-authored on advocating for and advancing Indigenous perspectives in knowledge production is finally published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution!

Link: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Co-producing knowledge with Indigenous Peoples: challenges and solutions for academic institutions
Co-producing knowledge with Indigenous partners may be required for research on Indigenous Lands and Waters. However, academic paradigms challenge the…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Very excited and proud to have our second paper from the @giflab.bsky.social accepted and published in the proceedings of the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium, to be held next week!

Here is a link if you'd like to read it: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
A vision for participatory models of animal movement: a case study with Moose
A case study and vision for co-developing simulations of animal movement in coupled socioecological systems.
doi.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:14 AM