SteveRoach
@manetooleefa.bsky.social
Saawanwa on Baxoje, Meskwaki, & Sac Land. Pronouns: wiila, he, him. Hasiski peteki, hini yeesihaataakootamakwe yeelaatoweeyakwe
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So with Trump threatening Kalaallit Nunaat, ICE detaining unhoused Oglala Lakota men near the site of the Fort Snelling concentration camp by Bdote, and the overall US targeting of Indigenous and Indigenous-descendant people from Abya Yala…are we going to start talking about Indigeneity yet?
January 14, 2026 at 10:16 PM
So with Trump threatening Kalaallit Nunaat, ICE detaining unhoused Oglala Lakota men near the site of the Fort Snelling concentration camp by Bdote, and the overall US targeting of Indigenous and Indigenous-descendant people from Abya Yala…are we going to start talking about Indigeneity yet?
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4 Lakota men were kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. 3 of them were taken to what used to be a concentration camp for Native people, and the only people talking about it are other Indigenous people. I am angry but mostly numb, I am so used to this at this point. We are always forgotten.
January 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
4 Lakota men were kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. 3 of them were taken to what used to be a concentration camp for Native people, and the only people talking about it are other Indigenous people. I am angry but mostly numb, I am so used to this at this point. We are always forgotten.
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Ayiiyiiyiiyiiyii! Huge news, and I am so excited for @waub.bsky.social, HECK YES!
January 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
Ayiiyiiyiiyiiyii! Huge news, and I am so excited for @waub.bsky.social, HECK YES!
Don't normally get sad when celebrities die but feeling Bob Weir's passing. Never a Deadhead but saw them in concert more than any other band almost all in the 80's #ScarletBegonias
January 11, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Don't normally get sad when celebrities die but feeling Bob Weir's passing. Never a Deadhead but saw them in concert more than any other band almost all in the 80's #ScarletBegonias
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This is a list of all the female kākāpō in the world. They are spread across three islands; Whenua Hou, Pukenui, and Te Kakahu.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
It's started! The 2026 #kakapo breeding season is under way, with the first nest found on Whenua Hou today. Pearl is on two eggs. #conservation #parrots #birds
January 8, 2026 at 11:37 PM
This is a list of all the female kākāpō in the world. They are spread across three islands; Whenua Hou, Pukenui, and Te Kakahu.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
The fact they are all named and listed on one whiteboard shows how endangered this species is.
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People want 2 hear feel-good stories abt #LandBack, not the barriers tribes face. Often, local communities fight it NIMBY-style. A new lawsuit alleges state officials in Utah conspired 2 block the Ute tribe from buying back some ancestral homeland. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/18/u...
Ute Indian Tribe says a top state lawmaker meddled when it tried to buy back land • Utah News Dispatch
The Ute Indian Tribe alleges a top state lawmaker plotted with other officials to block it from buying part of its ancestral land.
utahnewsdispatch.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:42 PM
People want 2 hear feel-good stories abt #LandBack, not the barriers tribes face. Often, local communities fight it NIMBY-style. A new lawsuit alleges state officials in Utah conspired 2 block the Ute tribe from buying back some ancestral homeland. utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/12/18/u...
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From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...
January 7, 2026 at 1:03 AM
From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...
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what are yall's favorite native horror movies/games/books? would love any recommendations of any type to drop here below 👇
January 6, 2026 at 10:14 PM
what are yall's favorite native horror movies/games/books? would love any recommendations of any type to drop here below 👇
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In the New Year, I will need someone who is skilled at making an artful map for a project that I am working on. If this is you, please reach out in January - niapoetry@gmail.com
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
December 30, 2025 at 2:19 AM
In the New Year, I will need someone who is skilled at making an artful map for a project that I am working on. If this is you, please reach out in January - niapoetry@gmail.com
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
I need a visual representation of the circulation of a historical pamphlet.
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Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
Organizing My Thoughts
Kelly Hayes writes about things you should know if you want to change the world.
organizingmythoughts.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Times are tough, and some of my paid subscribers have had to cancel lately due to financial hardships. I get it, and I wish for better times for us all. Unfortunately, paid subscriptions are now dipping into unsustainable territory. I am hoping to get eight new paid subscribers before the new year.
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On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.
December 24, 2025 at 3:18 PM
On Christmas Eve 1855 enslaved teenagers from Loudon County, Virginia fended off slave patrollers as they made their escape to freedom in Philadelphia. This image, “A Bold Stroke for Freedom,” is housed in the Library of Congress.
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Anywayyy if you wanna see my art categorized and collected since 2017, download comics and see behind-the-scenes, for as low as a $1 a month, please join my patreon: patreon.com/triplejeopar... depending on the Lvl of your patreonage you could get rewards and commissioned drawings too! 👀🙌📝
Get more from Kayla Shaggy on Patreon
creating original comics, drawings, and illustrations
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December 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Anywayyy if you wanna see my art categorized and collected since 2017, download comics and see behind-the-scenes, for as low as a $1 a month, please join my patreon: patreon.com/triplejeopar... depending on the Lvl of your patreonage you could get rewards and commissioned drawings too! 👀🙌📝
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Niitsitapi women in saaám (stand up headdresses) and breastplates, with children during the 1901 Royal Tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. Photographed near Calgary, Alberta.
📷 William Notman | McCord Stewart Museum
📷 William Notman | McCord Stewart Museum
December 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Niitsitapi women in saaám (stand up headdresses) and breastplates, with children during the 1901 Royal Tour of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York. Photographed near Calgary, Alberta.
📷 William Notman | McCord Stewart Museum
📷 William Notman | McCord Stewart Museum
This is terrible! BLM reconsidering allowing buffalo on federal grazing allotments. www.beefmagazine.com/policy/remov...
Removing bison from the equation
The ranching community just received a gift from the Department of Interior.
www.beefmagazine.com
December 22, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is terrible! BLM reconsidering allowing buffalo on federal grazing allotments. www.beefmagazine.com/policy/remov...
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Happy Solstice | Tattooed Sun, 1994, stonecut by Kenojuak Ashevak | Baffin Fine Arts
December 21, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Happy Solstice | Tattooed Sun, 1994, stonecut by Kenojuak Ashevak | Baffin Fine Arts
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A businessman won hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to help Native Hawaiians. Instead, he spent the money on private jets, luxury homes, and polo horses. Even after his company was raided, the gov still gave him more contracts.
He Spent Funds Meant for Native Hawaiians on Polo and Porsches. The Federal Government Failed to Stop Him.
A small business program allowed Christopher Dawson to win big contracts if he promised to uplift Native Hawaiians. Instead, federal prosecutors allege, he used the money to line his own pockets.
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
A businessman won hundreds of millions of dollars in federal contracts to help Native Hawaiians. Instead, he spent the money on private jets, luxury homes, and polo horses. Even after his company was raided, the gov still gave him more contracts.
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I have finally finished my list of 12 essays by Indigenous trans women in North America (plus some extra audio/video links). Please please please spend some time getting to know their work. Too often people use Indigenous trans women as a figure to weaponize rather than sit and think with them.
Words by Native Trans Women and Transfems
Native trans women are current writers and thinkers, not just historical fodder for gender theory
landbodymind.substack.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I have finally finished my list of 12 essays by Indigenous trans women in North America (plus some extra audio/video links). Please please please spend some time getting to know their work. Too often people use Indigenous trans women as a figure to weaponize rather than sit and think with them.
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It's #GivingTuesday please consider supporting FACT.
Donations up to $15,250 will be MATCHED. Your generosity helps provide farmer grants, grow a network of humane, pasture-based farmers, strengthen efforts to address the threat of bird flu. give.foodanimalconcerns.org/campaign/739...
Donations up to $15,250 will be MATCHED. Your generosity helps provide farmer grants, grow a network of humane, pasture-based farmers, strengthen efforts to address the threat of bird flu. give.foodanimalconcerns.org/campaign/739...
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December 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
It's #GivingTuesday please consider supporting FACT.
Donations up to $15,250 will be MATCHED. Your generosity helps provide farmer grants, grow a network of humane, pasture-based farmers, strengthen efforts to address the threat of bird flu. give.foodanimalconcerns.org/campaign/739...
Donations up to $15,250 will be MATCHED. Your generosity helps provide farmer grants, grow a network of humane, pasture-based farmers, strengthen efforts to address the threat of bird flu. give.foodanimalconcerns.org/campaign/739...
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just attended ngarino ellis’s keynote on māori responses to c18 colonial representations of indigenous peoples and now need to buy this book. perhaps you do too? (or recommend to your library!)
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Toi Te Mana
A landmark account in words and pictures of Māori art, by Māori art historians—from Polynesian voyaging waka to contemporary Māori artists.He toi whakairo, he mana tangata. Through artistic excellence...
press.uchicago.edu
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
just attended ngarino ellis’s keynote on māori responses to c18 colonial representations of indigenous peoples and now need to buy this book. perhaps you do too? (or recommend to your library!)
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Sure hoping I get that grant I applied for because I have one month of savings left to cover December and after that I may be hooped!
Still not going to go back to academia though. I'll happily get a mall job.
Still not going to go back to academia though. I'll happily get a mall job.
November 27, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Sure hoping I get that grant I applied for because I have one month of savings left to cover December and after that I may be hooped!
Still not going to go back to academia though. I'll happily get a mall job.
Still not going to go back to academia though. I'll happily get a mall job.
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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
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.
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King's books, many of which i have read and enjoyed, are conspicuously absent from Bad Indians Book Club.
In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
King's books, many of which i have read and enjoyed, are conspicuously absent from Bad Indians Book Club.
In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
In case you were wondering if this was something a lot of us already knew.
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The Great Artesian Basin covers a 5th of Australia & contains ancient water that feeds mound springs. Arabana people should rightfully be compensated by BHP for their decades of extraction of this fossil water resource that's damaged their landscape, cultural heritage, knowledge, histories & stories
Water is under pressure in the Great Artesian Basin
The Great Artesian Basin covers a fifth of Australia and contains water that has been there for millions of years. Now, decades of extraction are taking their toll and traditional owners are fighting ...
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 AM
The Great Artesian Basin covers a 5th of Australia & contains ancient water that feeds mound springs. Arabana people should rightfully be compensated by BHP for their decades of extraction of this fossil water resource that's damaged their landscape, cultural heritage, knowledge, histories & stories