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Rebecca Nagle

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Cherokee writer and journalist, check out my substack: https://gohini.substack.com/ Author of BY THE FIRE WE CARRY out now https://www.harpercollins.com/products/by-the-fire-we-carry-rebecca-nagle?variant=41322925359138

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · Apr 18

My first post is up! The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot: What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States. Read and subscribe: open.substack.com/pub/gohini/p...

The Constitutional Crisis Americans Forgot

What Trump is doing, has already been done. And not in some foreign country, but right here in the United States.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 8d

September Native News Roundup is out today. News from Palestine, repeating history, federal cuts hit tribal radio and Native students, plus resources for supporting Trans folks. Read and subscribe:

September 2025 Native News Roundup

News from Palestine, repeating history, federal cuts hit tribal radio and Native students, plus resources for supporting Trans folks.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 9d

& it was so great to share the stage and be in conversation with Michelle Adams, Priyanka Mattoo, Kyle Edwards, Rebecca Kunz and Jordan Shananaquet. Inspired and grateful.

Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 9d

Had an amazing time @ the Harbor Springs Festival of the Book! A career highlight was watching Eileen fucking Myles buy my book! The 22-yr-old queer baby inside me that idolized them was dying, but I managed to keep my cool.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 13d

Gonna be (mostly) off social media the next few weeks so I can go deep on my writing. So grateful for the time to focus while I’m at Good Hart Artist Residency and Blue Mountain Center.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 14d

By The Fire We Carry is out in paperback now, and it made Barnes & Noble’s list of best paperbacks of October!

The Best Paperbacks of October 2025 - B&N Reads

These are the best books to bring with you to the park, on the train, or on your daily PSL run.

www.barnesandnoble.com

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 14d

The cuts to minority serving colleges are hitting Oklahoma hard, where 13 schools that aren’t TCUs have high Native student populations.

Oklahoma colleges with large Indigenous student populations are losing grant money from DEI cuts

The Oklahoma Association of Community Colleges is urging Senator Markwayne Mullin to prevent minority-serving institution discretionary grant programs from going away. They are specifically concerned…

www.kosu.org

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 15d

So excited to be speaking at Harbor Springs Festival of the Book this weekend. If you’re in Michigan you can hear me at 2pm on Fri & Sat.

Harbor Springs Festival of the Book

The 2025 Harbor Springs Festival of the Book - September 26th through 28th!

www.hsfotb.org

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 15d

Lately, I’ve been feeling personally burned out & globally pessimistic. With the state of the world as it is, it can feel futile–or even self-indulgent–to go off into my little corner & write. Did some reflections to try & get re-grounded in my purpose & why I write. Here is what I came up with.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 16d

The Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations are suing social media companies for their roles in the mental health crisis among young people. Young Indigenous people have disproportionately high rates of suicide. www.kosu.org/news/2025-09...

Chickasaw, Choctaw Nations wage legal fights against social media companies for roles in mental health crisis

The Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations are suing social media giants for their role in the growing mental health crisis for Indigenous young people.

www.kosu.org

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 19d

Jamie Okuma, Shoshone-Bannock and Luiseño, just became the first Native American fashion designer to have a show on the main CFDA New York Fashion Week calendar.

Native American Designer Jamie Okuma Makes a Historic NYFW Debut

The designer, based on La Jolla Indian Reservation in California, is the first Native American designer to have a slot on the CFDA calendar.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 19d

Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk) has become a target for Republican redistricting efforts. In 2018, she was one of the first Native women ever elected to Congress and the first openly lesbian person to represent Kansas.

Kansas Republicans might redistrict to help defeat the state's only Democrat in Congress

Statehouse Republicans already redrew Democrat Sharice Davids' district in 2022. They may try again, joining the national gerrymandering battle over the U.S. House of Representatives.

www.kcur.org

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 19d

As a journalist, I’m hearing some of my colleagues make mistakes when talking about trans folks. The Trans Journalists Association put together this guide & style book.

Trans Journalists Association Stylebook and Coverage Guide

The Transgender Journalists Association’s Stylebook and Coverage Guide is a tool reporters, editors, and other journalists can use to improve news coverage of trans people and the stories that affect…

styleguide.transjournalists.org

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 19d

Got this email this week. I think I got on Dr. Oz’s PR list from writing about long COVID. As someone who lives with long COVID, watching these grifters reshape the public’s understanding of chronic illness is terrifying.

Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

Classic divide & conquer. Trump is giving money to Tribal Colleges & Universities + HBCUs that he took from grants for other minority-serving institutions. Those grants were already approved by Congress. While TCUs may benefit from the move, Alaska Native students will face cuts.

Trump administration boosts HBCU funding after cutting grants for Hispanic-serving colleges | CNN

The Trump administration is redirecting nearly $500 million in federal funding toward historically Black colleges and tribal colleges, a one-time investment covered primarily by cuts to other…

www.cnn.com

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

I'm fresh out of outrage this wk, but I will say this. The American myths the Trump admin is using 2 build its version of nat'lism have been here since the founding. The racist idea that this continent rightfully belonged 2 Europeans (then Americans) is something our country has nvr truly confronted

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

The Trump admin is freezing grant funding that Congress already allocated to help Alaska Native students attend college. The grants for Indigenous students in Alaska are part of a $350 million freeze for minority college students nationwide.

Trump administration terminates University of Alaska grants for Alaska Native, Indigenous students | Alaska Beacon

The U.S. Department of Education has terminated grant funding for the University of Alaska's Alaska Native and Native-Hawaiian-serving programs and support services.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

The only door this case opens is the ongoing and legally recognised right of Indigenous nations to access sacred sites. That established right is why the San Carlos Apache have accessed Oak Flat for generations despite it being on federal land.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

of religious orgs to make all types of claims to different places. But Indigenous nations have our own law (the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978) that explicitly protects our right to sacred sites.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

The main argument in this opinion piece, written by former Attorney General @ William Barr, and published by the @ Wall Street Journal editorial board, is flimsy as fuck. Barr argues that protecting Oak Flat based on religious freedoms would open the door for all types...

Opinion | A Dubious Religious Liberty Case Against Oak Flat Copper Mine

The government isn’t required to grant perpetual access to federal property for worship purposes.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20d

Overjoyed to be spending the next two weeks at Good Hart Artist Residency. If you’re in the area I’ll be speaking at the upcoming Harbor Springs Festival of the Book. Taking the next two weeks to go deep on my next big project—a new podcast series!! 👀

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21d

The conservative activist behind the Harvard admissions and Abigail Fisher cases is now going after schools set up to educate Native Hawaiian students.

Private school for Native Hawaiians vows to defend admissions policy from conservative strategist

A private school founded by a Hawaiian princess gives admissions preference to Native Hawaiian applicants.

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21d

assisted, abetted, or otherwise provided material support to an organization the Secretary has designated as a foreign terrorist organization.” Rights groups warn this could be construed to include people who speak out in support of Palestine. theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

theintercept.com

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21d

The House is holding hearings on a bill that could give Sec of State Rubio the power to revoke US citizens’ passports based on their political speech. The bill’s vague language includes anyone who “has knowingly aided…

New Bill Would Give Marco Rubio “Thought Police” Power to Revoke U.S. Passports

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has already sought to punish immigrants for speech. New legislation might let him revoke passports from U.S. citizens.

theintercept.com

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21d

The International Federation of Journalists Condemns Israel killing at least 9 journalists in Yemen.

The International Federation of Journalists Condemns Israel for Killing at Least Nine Yemeni Journalists

The International Federation of Journalists has condemned Israel for killing at least nine Yemeni journalists in a strike last week targeting the offices of a newspaper controlled by the Houthi…

www.democracynow.org

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21d

An independent UN Commission has found that Israel committed genocide in Gaza. The commission looked at statements made by Israeli civilians and military officials to establish the intent to destroy the people of Palestine.

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says

The panel finds that four of the five genocidal acts defined under international law have been carried out against Palestinians during the war.

www.bbc.com

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