Robbie Richardson
@londonmikmaq.bsky.social
Oinpegitjoig Mi'gmaw.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Wrote The Savage and Modern Self: North American Indians in 18th-Century British Literature and Culture. Next book on Indigenous material culture in the 18thc.
Teaches 18th-century lit and Indigenous Studies.
Pinned
University of Toronto Press - The Savage and Modern Self
The Savage and Modern Self examines the representations of North American "Indians" in novels, poetry, plays, and material culture from eighteenth-century Br...
utorontopress.com
Guess I haven’t done this yet: I do 18th-century lit and Indigenous studies, lately museums, collecting, and Indigenous art and aesthetic expression. First book on Native people in 18thC British lit, next book on reading Indigenous material culture in the 18thC. utorontopress.com/978148750344...
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Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
November 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Excellent Mi’gmaq language flash card.
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Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
November 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Visiting family and found the tiniest Mi’gmaw basket in my brother’s house, still made of ash and sweetgrass like the big ones.
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Opinion: The inconvenient truth: Thomas King’s admission he isn’t Cherokee hits hard
www.winnipegfreepress.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
Court permanently blocks Trump’s executive order to dismantle federal agency for America’s libraries
Today, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island struck down the Trump Administration’s attempts to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
www.ala.org
November 24, 2025 at 10:51 PM
A judge has permanently blocked Trump's destruction of the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Really good news for libraries (and those like me, who love them! www.ala.org/news/2025/11...
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Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh
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November 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Job Alert! DH postdoc at Edinburgh - Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to work on the AHRC-funded project "Voices in Slavery’s Archive: Law, Place and Testimony in British Guiana", which will build a digital archive out of the recorded words of enslaved people. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPN147/p...
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An Iñupiaq cribbage board made and painted by Wilbur Willuk in 1958 out of a whale's tooth.
November 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
An Iñupiaq cribbage board made and painted by Wilbur Willuk in 1958 out of a whale's tooth.
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Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
November 21, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Omar El Akkad's One Day, Everyone will have Always Been Against This has won the National Book Award. This is a deserving, necessary win. His words need to be on all of our minds and in all of our hearts.
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
"When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?"
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‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
November 21, 2025 at 7:53 PM
A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
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This brilliant poem by Layli Long Soldier was one of the class favourites from her book.
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
This brilliant poem by Layli Long Soldier was one of the class favourites from her book.
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It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.
Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols.
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It certainly appears that the United States government is run by neo-Nazis.
One of those teaching days when my students and I sat around reading and analysing poems, book in hand, for three hours and it felt way too short.
November 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
One of those teaching days when my students and I sat around reading and analysing poems, book in hand, for three hours and it felt way too short.
Layli Long Soldier's book Whereas addresses the US Congressional apology to Native nations from 2009, which was not read aloud or witnessed by Native nations and was buried in the enormous Defense Appropriations Act, at the time the largest commitment to military expenditure in human history.
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Layli Long Soldier's book Whereas addresses the US Congressional apology to Native nations from 2009, which was not read aloud or witnessed by Native nations and was buried in the enormous Defense Appropriations Act, at the time the largest commitment to military expenditure in human history.
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In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
November 18, 2025 at 6:20 AM
In April 2009, the Washington Post asked 10 writers to make the case for something that deserves to be tossed out as part of "spring cleaning."
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
I chose Larry Summers.
Better late than never.
Unlocked version of my 16-year-old article below.
naomiklein.org/why-we-shoul...
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Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
Protect the Amazon, Tax the Polluters: Climate Activists Demand Action at COP30 in Belém, Brazilq
Democracy Now! is broadcasting from the U.N. climate summit in the Brazilian rainforest city of Belém, near the mouth of the Amazon River, where the COP30 summit has entered its second week of negotia...
www.democracynow.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Indigenous communities in the Amazon are demanding protection of their rights at the U.N. Climate Change Conference.
This week’s teaching.
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This week’s teaching.
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The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
November 17, 2025 at 6:37 AM
The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
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Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
Vatican returns Indigenous cultural items to Canadian delegation of Catholic bishops | CBC News
A century-old Inuvialuit kayak once used for beluga and whale hunts, and 61 other cultural objects from First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities have long been held in Vatican Museums vaults. But th...
www.cbc.ca
November 15, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Hopefully more to come home after this— my nieces were among the Indigenous people privately shown some of the Vatican’s collection of Native items over 3 years ago at the Papal apology for residential schools and there were lots more than objects.
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
November 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
This headline ticks all the boxes for me.
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📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
November 13, 2025 at 2:05 PM
📣Our UofG Library Visiting Research Fellowships are now open for applications!
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows
We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our internationally significant collections.
Apply at: www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...
📆Closing date: 5 January 2026
#UofGLibraryFellows