Maah Xopini Shųųshuke (Vincent)
@mr-wizard.bsky.social
NuÉta • poet • author • journalist • old school breakdance fighter
Just another Indin dancing in the pale moonlight
merciless I survive
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Just another Indin dancing in the pale moonlight
merciless I survive
https://cash.app/$m1sterw1zard
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwqhLt7aDu5iFoTapSt0zIq10Au2kcvO-
The most powerful force in Washington is the quiet, bipartisan agreement to underfund the same critical obligations, year after year.
It's a choice, not an accident.
#Politics #Policy #FederalBudget #Bipartisan #Washington #GovernmentSpending
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/different-...
It's a choice, not an accident.
#Politics #Policy #FederalBudget #Bipartisan #Washington #GovernmentSpending
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/different-...
November 25, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The most powerful force in Washington is the quiet, bipartisan agreement to underfund the same critical obligations, year after year.
It's a choice, not an accident.
#Politics #Policy #FederalBudget #Bipartisan #Washington #GovernmentSpending
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/different-...
It's a choice, not an accident.
#Politics #Policy #FederalBudget #Bipartisan #Washington #GovernmentSpending
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/different-...
Tried to post every day of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth. But it wears you down. The numbers stack, stats climb. No resolve, only a pause before the roller-coaster drops again.
I'll cry around some more. That's my routine. Wake up, read, look it up. Doesn't matter what month it is. I do that.
I'll cry around some more. That's my routine. Wake up, read, look it up. Doesn't matter what month it is. I do that.
November 24, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Tried to post every day of #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth. But it wears you down. The numbers stack, stats climb. No resolve, only a pause before the roller-coaster drops again.
I'll cry around some more. That's my routine. Wake up, read, look it up. Doesn't matter what month it is. I do that.
I'll cry around some more. That's my routine. Wake up, read, look it up. Doesn't matter what month it is. I do that.
The mascots and names are sacrificial. They're built to be controversial, to be debated and eventually consumed, so you never question the permanent, powerful institutions that remain untouched behind the curtain of ash.
Read: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/matchstick...
Read: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/matchstick...
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The mascots and names are sacrificial. They're built to be controversial, to be debated and eventually consumed, so you never question the permanent, powerful institutions that remain untouched behind the curtain of ash.
Read: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/matchstick...
Read: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/matchstick...
The food you eat shapes your future. For generations, a federal program defined dinner: survival on the government's terms. But A quiet and determined few continue rewriting a decades-old relationship between Indigenous people and the food they eat.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pass-the-c...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pass-the-c...
November 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The food you eat shapes your future. For generations, a federal program defined dinner: survival on the government's terms. But A quiet and determined few continue rewriting a decades-old relationship between Indigenous people and the food they eat.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pass-the-c...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pass-the-c...
A thirty-year-old law promised to return Native people. The process was stalled by loopholes and institutional delay. A fundamental shift is forcing a long-overdue conversation about possession, return and bureaucratic barriers to justice.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/relative-s...
#NAGPRA #Repatriation
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#NAGPRA #Repatriation
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A thirty-year-old law promised to return Native people. The process was stalled by loopholes and institutional delay. A fundamental shift is forcing a long-overdue conversation about possession, return and bureaucratic barriers to justice.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/relative-s...
#NAGPRA #Repatriation
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/relative-s...
#NAGPRA #Repatriation
Federal offices are closed. Flights delayed. Programs stalled. Indigenous communities keep moving. Leaders make decisions, businesses operate, schools teach. Life doesn't wait. Resilience is action. #NativeNations #IndianCountry #CommunityPower
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/wheels-kee...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/wheels-kee...
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Federal offices are closed. Flights delayed. Programs stalled. Indigenous communities keep moving. Leaders make decisions, businesses operate, schools teach. Life doesn't wait. Resilience is action. #NativeNations #IndianCountry #CommunityPower
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/wheels-kee...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/wheels-kee...
No thank you.
November 12, 2025 at 3:49 AM
No thank you.
Toxic chemicals are turning water and land into a battleground across Indian Country. Native inuNations taking action in court, challenging corporations, and asserting their right to protect health, culture, and sovereignty.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/infinite-c...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/infinite-c...
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Toxic chemicals are turning water and land into a battleground across Indian Country. Native inuNations taking action in court, challenging corporations, and asserting their right to protect health, culture, and sovereignty.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/infinite-c...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/infinite-c...
Every November, Native people pull themselves out of America's invisible story. Just like every day of the year, this impact sits just below the surface ready for everyone to be taken in.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/beyond-a-n...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/beyond-a-n...
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Every November, Native people pull themselves out of America's invisible story. Just like every day of the year, this impact sits just below the surface ready for everyone to be taken in.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/beyond-a-n...
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/beyond-a-n...
Forty-seven years after the Indian Child Welfare Act became law, Indigenous children are still overrepresented in foster care across the U.S. Families, advocates, and Native Nations keep fighting to make the law real.
Read the full story: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/law-and-shadow
Read the full story: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/law-and-shadow
Law and Shadow
The Indian Child Welfare Act turns 47. Across the country, Indigenous american families still navigate a child welfare system with courts, social workers while Native advocates sit should to shoulder ...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Forty-seven years after the Indian Child Welfare Act became law, Indigenous children are still overrepresented in foster care across the U.S. Families, advocates, and Native Nations keep fighting to make the law real.
Read the full story: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/law-and-shadow
Read the full story: mrw1zard.substack.com/p/law-and-shadow
Washington just extended a key funding deadline, protecting over $500M for Native small businesses. The full story of this win for Native economic power is on Substack. Link also in bio.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pause-for-patience
#NativeBusiness #SSBCI
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pause-for-patience
#NativeBusiness #SSBCI
November 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Washington just extended a key funding deadline, protecting over $500M for Native small businesses. The full story of this win for Native economic power is on Substack. Link also in bio.
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pause-for-patience
#NativeBusiness #SSBCI
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/pause-for-patience
#NativeBusiness #SSBCI
The Indian Affairs committee is debating the Lumbee Fairness Act. It's a clash over process and precedent.
Should one group have different rules than others? How does this matter for the federal recognition system?
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/rules-are-...
#Lumbee #FederalRecognition #IndianCountry
Should one group have different rules than others? How does this matter for the federal recognition system?
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/rules-are-...
#Lumbee #FederalRecognition #IndianCountry
November 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
The Indian Affairs committee is debating the Lumbee Fairness Act. It's a clash over process and precedent.
Should one group have different rules than others? How does this matter for the federal recognition system?
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/rules-are-...
#Lumbee #FederalRecognition #IndianCountry
Should one group have different rules than others? How does this matter for the federal recognition system?
mrw1zard.substack.com/p/rules-are-...
#Lumbee #FederalRecognition #IndianCountry
Indigenous leaders sign compacts for economic survival. The price is a piece of their sovereignty.
These are new age treaties. It happens with water rights, mineral leases, and now cannabis. Natives Nations are forced to accept terms that are always set by states.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
These are new age treaties. It happens with water rights, mineral leases, and now cannabis. Natives Nations are forced to accept terms that are always set by states.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Indigenous leaders sign compacts for economic survival. The price is a piece of their sovereignty.
These are new age treaties. It happens with water rights, mineral leases, and now cannabis. Natives Nations are forced to accept terms that are always set by states.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
These are new age treaties. It happens with water rights, mineral leases, and now cannabis. Natives Nations are forced to accept terms that are always set by states.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
So I came from Twitter and posted different over there. It was a lot more than just a person who writes as a grain of sand on the beach. Somewhere I made a distinction between being a goofball who is mouthy to just being mouthy. Anyways, look at this photo of me being super serious.
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
So I came from Twitter and posted different over there. It was a lot more than just a person who writes as a grain of sand on the beach. Somewhere I made a distinction between being a goofball who is mouthy to just being mouthy. Anyways, look at this photo of me being super serious.
Dig if you will a future. Where a Native Nation's success is measured only by its own people's well-being and its businesses money stays within, building and sustaining for generations. The only gaming compact a tribe needs is with its own vision for the future.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dig if you will a future. Where a Native Nation's success is measured only by its own people's well-being and its businesses money stays within, building and sustaining for generations. The only gaming compact a tribe needs is with its own vision for the future.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
The Office of Indian Education just had 7 of its 9 people cut. This shows what the U.S. shutdown means for Native Nations.
It's not closed offices. It is a halted legal obligation.
The stakes beyond the politics.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
#TreatyRights #TrustResponsibility #IndianCountry
It's not closed offices. It is a halted legal obligation.
The stakes beyond the politics.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
#TreatyRights #TrustResponsibility #IndianCountry
November 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The Office of Indian Education just had 7 of its 9 people cut. This shows what the U.S. shutdown means for Native Nations.
It's not closed offices. It is a halted legal obligation.
The stakes beyond the politics.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
#TreatyRights #TrustResponsibility #IndianCountry
It's not closed offices. It is a halted legal obligation.
The stakes beyond the politics.
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
#TreatyRights #TrustResponsibility #IndianCountry
In April, the Mashantucket Pequot Nation's $81,490 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities was terminated. The Department of Government Efficiency eliminated hundreds of humanities grants. The funds were redirected to support the Trump administration's "patriotic education" agenda.
November 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In April, the Mashantucket Pequot Nation's $81,490 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities was terminated. The Department of Government Efficiency eliminated hundreds of humanities grants. The funds were redirected to support the Trump administration's "patriotic education" agenda.
I saw this headline "Judge slashes Greenpeace penalty to $345M."
But that's a distraction.
The ongoing story is what this corporate lawsuit tries to erase: the Standing Rock Oyate's fight for their water against the active Dakota Access Pipeline.
A thread. 🧵
But that's a distraction.
The ongoing story is what this corporate lawsuit tries to erase: the Standing Rock Oyate's fight for their water against the active Dakota Access Pipeline.
A thread. 🧵
November 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
I saw this headline "Judge slashes Greenpeace penalty to $345M."
But that's a distraction.
The ongoing story is what this corporate lawsuit tries to erase: the Standing Rock Oyate's fight for their water against the active Dakota Access Pipeline.
A thread. 🧵
But that's a distraction.
The ongoing story is what this corporate lawsuit tries to erase: the Standing Rock Oyate's fight for their water against the active Dakota Access Pipeline.
A thread. 🧵
Reposted by Maah Xopini Shųųshuke (Vincent)
I spent the weekend in Vancouver on the campus of the University of British Columbia for a conference on Beyond Fires and Floods; Indigenous views about climate change. A lot to think about … so much of what we talked about will percolate in the weeks ahead. open.substack.com/pub/marktrah...
BH Governance | Breaking History What me, worry?
A couple of news rimes to get us started:
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October 28, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I spent the weekend in Vancouver on the campus of the University of British Columbia for a conference on Beyond Fires and Floods; Indigenous views about climate change. A lot to think about … so much of what we talked about will percolate in the weeks ahead. open.substack.com/pub/marktrah...
The government shutdown isn't just politics. It's a fridge running empty in Native homes. SNAP cuts mean nearly a million Indigenous kids could miss meals this month.
#NativeNews #SNAP #IndigenousChildren #FoodSecurity
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#NativeNews #SNAP #IndigenousChildren #FoodSecurity
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Hunger On the Menu
Urban Native families are especially vulnerable to SNAP reductions, threatening food security for thousands of Indigenous American and Alaska Native children nationwide.
open.substack.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The government shutdown isn't just politics. It's a fridge running empty in Native homes. SNAP cuts mean nearly a million Indigenous kids could miss meals this month.
#NativeNews #SNAP #IndigenousChildren #FoodSecurity
open.substack.com/pub/mrw1zard...
#NativeNews #SNAP #IndigenousChildren #FoodSecurity
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Listen, you would not like to hang out with me. I know my worth and I can smell hustle. I got a big mouth, a silver tongue and I'm nosey as fuuuuuk. So when it goes down, I speak right up because I was raised to. Rural rez and urban Indins made sure survival was the least of my worries.
October 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Listen, you would not like to hang out with me. I know my worth and I can smell hustle. I got a big mouth, a silver tongue and I'm nosey as fuuuuuk. So when it goes down, I speak right up because I was raised to. Rural rez and urban Indins made sure survival was the least of my worries.
Completely unrelated.
I need directions to the Bern Historical Museum in Switzerland. Additionally I need a group of people interested in creating a flash mob inside the Bern.
I just want to check out Mato-Tope's exploit robe and do not want to be DISTRACTED while I do it
#fights_with_strength_of
I need directions to the Bern Historical Museum in Switzerland. Additionally I need a group of people interested in creating a flash mob inside the Bern.
I just want to check out Mato-Tope's exploit robe and do not want to be DISTRACTED while I do it
#fights_with_strength_of
That guy that broke into the Louvre, wonder if I can chat him about the British Museum and just talk a bit about my ancestors’ things. I just wanna’ ask about something . . . 👀
October 23, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Completely unrelated.
I need directions to the Bern Historical Museum in Switzerland. Additionally I need a group of people interested in creating a flash mob inside the Bern.
I just want to check out Mato-Tope's exploit robe and do not want to be DISTRACTED while I do it
#fights_with_strength_of
I need directions to the Bern Historical Museum in Switzerland. Additionally I need a group of people interested in creating a flash mob inside the Bern.
I just want to check out Mato-Tope's exploit robe and do not want to be DISTRACTED while I do it
#fights_with_strength_of
Day 4 at the 2025 ND Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference. Dr. Katie Johnson from @mayoclinic.org in Rochester led the breakout session. I sat in the front row. A backpack sat at the end of the table I sat at. I'm an Indigenous man surviving racist North Dakota.
October 23, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Day 4 at the 2025 ND Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference. Dr. Katie Johnson from @mayoclinic.org in Rochester led the breakout session. I sat in the front row. A backpack sat at the end of the table I sat at. I'm an Indigenous man surviving racist North Dakota.
Third day of the ND Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference. Just after lunch. Lara Love Hardin is on stage. She's telling her addiction recovery story. Love-Hardin starts with her life before it all. Wealthy White neighborhood. Kids in Private schools. Dripped in Success.
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Third day of the ND Behavioral Health & Children and Family Services Conference. Just after lunch. Lara Love Hardin is on stage. She's telling her addiction recovery story. Love-Hardin starts with her life before it all. Wealthy White neighborhood. Kids in Private schools. Dripped in Success.