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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 3d

I think there will always be people who are so desperate that they try to come to the US.

For Miller and friends, the cruelty itself is gratifying.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 4d

TBC, the issue isn’t NIMBYism by Native and other marginalized communities.

The issue is NIMBYism by comfortable communities who have the power to shove mining into someone else’s yard.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 4d

Upshot: lithium mining can generate environmental damage, at great cost to nearby Native and other marginalized communities—some of which are already suffering from the harms from the mining other minerals.

Needless to say, Christian is great, and all faults in this project are due to me.

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Leanne C. Powner @leannecpowner.bsky.social · 4d

Practice job talks are critical but often impossible for students who are remote from their programs. I'm offering up to FOUR free pol sci practice job talks in Oct (mutually agreeable dates/times) for remote students. It can either be student and me alone, or we can invite others. #polisky #psjobs

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 4d

As you watch the NFL’s push for youth flag football, there’s a striking emphasis on gender equity—that girls can play, too.

Someone in analytics has finally convinced the higher-ups which fans are more likely to bolt.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 4d

When I hit puberty, I was caught up in debates over who was the hottest member of Duran Duran, but you do you.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

“Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty."
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GOP Senator: Project 2025 Creator Has Dreamt About This Since Puberty

Republicans all know the havoc Russell Vought is about to unleash this shutdown.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 5d

PRIEC is now on Bluesky! 💙💛. Be sure to follow!

Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium @priec.bsky.social · 5d

What's going on in the Dakotas? Christian Castillo
UC Riverside presents work co-authored with @lauraevans.bsky.social

The politics of extractive markets gets even more complex when layering sovereignty.

"Green Mining: The Politics of Lithium and
Indigenous Peoples"

#UCRPRIEC20

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

Those south of the border should note the same things happened in the US. In the 1970’s, one quarter of Native women had been sterilized involuntarily.

www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices...

Government admits forced sterilization of Indian Women - Timeline - Native Voices

www.nlm.nih.gov

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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 10d

1/13 Forced Sterilization Is Not History in Canada

In 1928 Alberta passed the Sexual Sterilization Act, giving a government board power to sterilize people it deemed unfit to reproduce. Indigenous women and girls were heavily targeted.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

What do they think happened to the bodies of all the kids who died at boarding schools?

Michelle Cyca @michellecyca.com · 9d

so fucking tiresome to get emails like this whenever I write about residential school history, truly. people who believe that graves don't exist if they can't see the bodies with their own two eyes possess the critical thinking skills of a baby playing peekaboo.

I hope you are doing well.

I read your article on the Walrus on the reality of the current state on implementation of recommendations from that TRC. It truly is unfortunate that implementing these recommendations isn't proceeding with alacrity.

One are that is confusing for me is the truth around the Kamloops mass grave site. In your article, you state, "discovery of unmarked graves on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School". However, follow up work hasn't found any mass graves. I have tried to find primary sources on discovery of actual mass graves without success.

Can you please share primary sources on this? I have spoken to others who state that though ground penetrating radar found some suggestions of graves, follow up digging did not find any actual graves.

Appreciate any help you can provide. Thank you.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

💯. I’m struck by the widespread ignorance of the reality that the size of an admitted class is driven by financial models and selectivity standards, not a fixed number of seats.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

We all need (and deserve!) some news that offers joy and comfort, so here’s one for today:

A kickass new cookbook will be available in time for Christmas.

ictnews.org/news/sioux-c...

‘Sioux Chef’ book erases colonial borders, shares Indigenous recipes - ICT

Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota, explores Indigenous cuisine from Alaska to Mexico in new book, ‘Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America’

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 9d

This is a must-read for anyone in academia. While it focuses on administrative positions in certain parts, it's such an excellent resource with stats and critiques of all the indigenization/reconciliation rhetoric that it's got something for everyone. Highly recommend.

The cover of Tricky Grounds: Indigenous Women's Experiences in Canadian University Administration by Candace Brunette-Debiassige. A woman in a ribbon skirt faces away from us, on a piece of land, her braid connects to forests seen in the distance and she has her right arm raised holding a feather.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

It may also be informative to do a search of “land acknowledgment genocide” and the name of the university of interest to you.

There have been formal acknowledgements at many universities of their role in Indigenous genocide; such as with the illustration below:

cals.cornell.edu/american-ind...

Land Acknowledgment

cals.cornell.edu

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

As one considers whether a university has created a hostile learning environment for Indigenous students, it may be of interest to consider how that university has profited from the theft of Indigenous lands and bodies.

www.landgrabu.org/universities...

projects.propublica.org/repatriation...

Cornell University — The Repatriation Project

Find out whether Cornell University still has Native American remains using our database.

projects.propublica.org

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

Everyone probably already understand there’s a huge difference between exposing students to an idea and basing their grades on whether they agree with that idea.

But for reasons of student privacy, it’s illegal to discuss students’ grades. We’re unable to fully speak to these allegations.

Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 9d

I don’t think I can overstate the dread of those of who teach about genocide that this same thing will happen in our classes.

My heart breaks for the learning opportunities stolen from the students who enrolled in good faith.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10d

To be clear, neither Mears nor I are endorsing the middle path. The point is that revocation of Wounded Knee massacre Medals of Honor has never been all-or-nothing choice. Anyone saying otherwise is ignorant, or a liar, or both.

But Manifest Destiny is one helluva drug.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10d

Finally Mears (2024) notes that if the US military today wanted to follow a path of compromise, it could maintain the small number of medals awarded for acts that preserved Native lives.

In other words, Hegseth chose to be an extremist when a middle path was clearly available to him.

“Gresham’s award recommendation noted that he ‘worked carefully, patiently and coolly, up the ravine, searching among the dead and wounded, brought out Nineteen (sic) women and children, [and] disarmed some wounded men.’”

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10d

In fact, regs at the time set *stricter* standards for protecting Native non/combatants.

“Native Americans were ‘entitled, as repentant wards, to the protection of the government.’ If this assimilation to an enemy state did not occur, then the Judge Advocate General opined that ‘acts of violence committed against [Native Americans] as if they were enemies, are not acts of legitimate warfare but crimes.’”

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10d

Highly recommend ICT’s coverage of the Wounded Knee massacre medals, which links to the academic research. The scholarship shows that key military observers at the time argued the massacre violated US military regs on protecting non-combatants lives.

ictnews.org/news/mountai...

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 11d

Cluelessness that what matters is whether your child will choose the name. It’s now acceptable for tweens/teens to select a new name and for teachers, peers, etc. to use that chosen name exclusively.

If the name doesn’t have emotional meaning, why should they stick with it?

Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 11d

"'It’s kind of like how everyone wants their house to look like HGTV...A lot of people say they want a name that’s unique or individual. But, when it comes right down to it, they really don’t.'"

I may have made a mistake reading this

www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/b...

Meet the San Francisco woman who charges $30,000 to name your baby

Her bespoke naming services include a “baby name branding” campaign, a genealogical investigation designed to ferret out old family names and even a think tank to discuss the top naming options.

www.sfchronicle.com

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Deb Haaland @debhaalandnm.bsky.social · 12d

Military service is about courage and sacrifice. That’s what my father, a Marine, and my mother, a Navy veteran, taught me.

But awarding medals for the massacre at Wounded Knee is cruelty, not honor. And reaffirming them today only deepens the injustice. (1/2🧵)

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 12d

Wow!

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 12d

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