ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin)
@niiyokamigaabaw.bsky.social
Gaa-zagaskwaajimekaag Anishinaabe | Indigenous Geographies and Climate Justice | Director, GIF Lab | Public Scholar | Adjunct Professor, University of British Columbia | Ohio State, Minnesota-Duluth, St. Cloud State alum | Posts = my views.
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A couple good reminders about my Bluesky posts:
1. My posts reflect my own views and do not represent the views of my employer, or any organizations I represent.
2. I sometimes am wrong. I am not perfect—after all, I willingly cheer for Minnesota sports teams.
3. Land Back.
1. My posts reflect my own views and do not represent the views of my employer, or any organizations I represent.
2. I sometimes am wrong. I am not perfect—after all, I willingly cheer for Minnesota sports teams.
3. Land Back.
That's another journal manuscript submitted..I don't know if having a year as productive as 2025 will be sustainable for me over the long term, or even the medium or short term.
Still, it feels very nice to keep articles moving through the pipeline and hopefully into publication!
Still, it feels very nice to keep articles moving through the pipeline and hopefully into publication!
November 10, 2025 at 11:26 PM
That's another journal manuscript submitted..I don't know if having a year as productive as 2025 will be sustainable for me over the long term, or even the medium or short term.
Still, it feels very nice to keep articles moving through the pipeline and hopefully into publication!
Still, it feels very nice to keep articles moving through the pipeline and hopefully into publication!
These pictures just jumped into the comment section of a 17 year old girl's selfie on Facebook and said "Very nice..."
Collecting TikTok avatars of ppl telling me New York will be under sharia law in six months
November 8, 2025 at 12:57 AM
These pictures just jumped into the comment section of a 17 year old girl's selfie on Facebook and said "Very nice..."
My brother in Christ, why are you arguing with and threatening to block an AI?
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My brother in Christ, why are you arguing with and threatening to block an AI?
Also, looks like I'm headed to Paris in May 2026 to present at the Latin American Studies Association conference. Allons-y!
the eiffel tower is lit up at night in paris , france .
ALT: the eiffel tower is lit up at night in paris , france .
media.tenor.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Also, looks like I'm headed to Paris in May 2026 to present at the Latin American Studies Association conference. Allons-y!
Next year is looking like a year of books for me...
Starting with my first book, "Tales of an Indigenous Geographer", which is tentatively set for release in March/April 2026!
Starting with my first book, "Tales of an Indigenous Geographer", which is tentatively set for release in March/April 2026!
November 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Next year is looking like a year of books for me...
Starting with my first book, "Tales of an Indigenous Geographer", which is tentatively set for release in March/April 2026!
Starting with my first book, "Tales of an Indigenous Geographer", which is tentatively set for release in March/April 2026!
The best investment I make every year--a Moleskine planner, because I am schedule-challenged without a physical or digital calendar to lean on.
The second best investment--a healthy supply of correction tape dispensers, because schedules have that really annoying habit of changing quite often. 😆
The second best investment--a healthy supply of correction tape dispensers, because schedules have that really annoying habit of changing quite often. 😆
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The best investment I make every year--a Moleskine planner, because I am schedule-challenged without a physical or digital calendar to lean on.
The second best investment--a healthy supply of correction tape dispensers, because schedules have that really annoying habit of changing quite often. 😆
The second best investment--a healthy supply of correction tape dispensers, because schedules have that really annoying habit of changing quite often. 😆
Reposted by ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin)
URGENT CALL TO ACTION:
PORTLAND, ICE IS TRYING TO KIDNAP AND ABDUCT PEOPLE OUTSIDE SCHOOLS IN SAINT JOHNS NEIGHBORHOOD
The schools are on lockdown. They are asking for people to show up, cameras ready — also ready to be an " eye witness to a kiddo or family getting safely into their vehicle."
PORTLAND, ICE IS TRYING TO KIDNAP AND ABDUCT PEOPLE OUTSIDE SCHOOLS IN SAINT JOHNS NEIGHBORHOOD
The schools are on lockdown. They are asking for people to show up, cameras ready — also ready to be an " eye witness to a kiddo or family getting safely into their vehicle."
November 6, 2025 at 8:42 PM
URGENT CALL TO ACTION:
PORTLAND, ICE IS TRYING TO KIDNAP AND ABDUCT PEOPLE OUTSIDE SCHOOLS IN SAINT JOHNS NEIGHBORHOOD
The schools are on lockdown. They are asking for people to show up, cameras ready — also ready to be an " eye witness to a kiddo or family getting safely into their vehicle."
PORTLAND, ICE IS TRYING TO KIDNAP AND ABDUCT PEOPLE OUTSIDE SCHOOLS IN SAINT JOHNS NEIGHBORHOOD
The schools are on lockdown. They are asking for people to show up, cameras ready — also ready to be an " eye witness to a kiddo or family getting safely into their vehicle."
I'm wondering if it will be worth it to do some friendly smack talk to my department chair (who is a Purdue alumnus) about the football game this weekend:
a person is holding a balloon that looks like a poop with a face on it .
ALT: a person is holding a balloon that looks like a poop with a face on it .
media.tenor.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I'm wondering if it will be worth it to do some friendly smack talk to my department chair (who is a Purdue alumnus) about the football game this weekend:
Ol' Blake subsequently ran back to X and complained about how he was rightfully dragged for this opinion.
All drug use outside palliative care should be criminalized and possession of dealer quantities should be punishable by death without appeal.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Ol' Blake subsequently ran back to X and complained about how he was rightfully dragged for this opinion.
I'm supposed to be flying to Texas later this month, and then on to Ohio, and back to Victoria. I am increasingly wondering if that trip is going to happen.
November 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I'm supposed to be flying to Texas later this month, and then on to Ohio, and back to Victoria. I am increasingly wondering if that trip is going to happen.
The Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is accepting submissions for our next issue! Please see the link below for more information, and please share this call with your networks!
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Call for submissions for 5th issue!
| Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health
jps.library.utoronto.ca
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The Turtle Island Journal of Indigenous Health is accepting submissions for our next issue! Please see the link below for more information, and please share this call with your networks!
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ti...
jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ti...
Conservative feminism sounds like an oxymoron.
November 6, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Conservative feminism sounds like an oxymoron.
Today I stumbled upon a subreddit for Vancouver landlords and they are dooming big time over the ability of First Nations to enforce land claims, with all kinds of racist language and stereotypes.
You’d think they’d be all about paying what’s owed, isn’t that what they tell their tenants to do?
You’d think they’d be all about paying what’s owed, isn’t that what they tell their tenants to do?
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Today I stumbled upon a subreddit for Vancouver landlords and they are dooming big time over the ability of First Nations to enforce land claims, with all kinds of racist language and stereotypes.
You’d think they’d be all about paying what’s owed, isn’t that what they tell their tenants to do?
You’d think they’d be all about paying what’s owed, isn’t that what they tell their tenants to do?
Disappointed that Minneapolis re-elected Jacob Frey, but St. Paul definitely did something great last night:
Kaohly Her elected St. Paul mayor
Kaohly Her surged in the second round of voting to become both the city's first female and Hmong mayor.
www.kare11.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Disappointed that Minneapolis re-elected Jacob Frey, but St. Paul definitely did something great last night:
Why can I envision Max Liboiron shaking their head ruefully at the answer to that question?
Very disappointing to hear the university president respond to a question about Indigenization by talking about EDI. This is not the same thing. Indigenization will advance EDI, but EDI does not advance Indigenization. Indigenization is about sovereignty, not EDI. @munfaculty.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Why can I envision Max Liboiron shaking their head ruefully at the answer to that question?
Wild how this column says absolutely zero about Palestine or the very real retaliation that has been meted out to geographers in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.
howhttps://www.aag.org/academic-freedom-and-the-need-for-geographers-as-public-intellectuals/?_zs=g0PMk1&_zl=3MrRA
howhttps://www.aag.org/academic-freedom-and-the-need-for-geographers-as-public-intellectuals/?_zs=g0PMk1&_zl=3MrRA
Academic Freedom and the Need for Geographers as Public Intellectuals - AAG
AAG - Academic Freedom and the Need for Geographers as Public Intellectuals - All -
www.aag.org
November 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Wild how this column says absolutely zero about Palestine or the very real retaliation that has been meted out to geographers in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s death.
howhttps://www.aag.org/academic-freedom-and-the-need-for-geographers-as-public-intellectuals/?_zs=g0PMk1&_zl=3MrRA
howhttps://www.aag.org/academic-freedom-and-the-need-for-geographers-as-public-intellectuals/?_zs=g0PMk1&_zl=3MrRA
My goal for the next ten years is to build the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory (@giflab.bsky.social) into one of the leading Geography research groups in the world.
November 5, 2025 at 5:42 AM
My goal for the next ten years is to build the Geographic Indigenous Futures Collaboratory (@giflab.bsky.social) into one of the leading Geography research groups in the world.
Reposted by ᓃᔪᑲᒥᑳᐸᐤ Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles, Ph.D. (he/they/wiin)
This video goes incredibly hard
New York assemblyman Zohran Mamdani confronts Border Czar Tom Homan today in Albany 👇🏻
November 5, 2025 at 5:11 AM
This video goes incredibly hard
If what I'm hearing about Mamdani winning 18-29 males by 40% is true, the Democrats better be taking copious notes about how he did it, because they could literally break the GOP if they see even a fraction of that success with that age and gender group.
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 AM
If what I'm hearing about Mamdani winning 18-29 males by 40% is true, the Democrats better be taking copious notes about how he did it, because they could literally break the GOP if they see even a fraction of that success with that age and gender group.
Zohran!!! Zohran!!! Zohran!!!
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Zohran!!! Zohran!!! Zohran!!!
A member of the GIF lab is defending their PhD dissertation soon, and I am so happy to see our lab members going out and doing great things in the world! :-)
November 4, 2025 at 11:38 PM
A member of the GIF lab is defending their PhD dissertation soon, and I am so happy to see our lab members going out and doing great things in the world! :-)
You know you are on the right side of history when the National Post is writing a less than flattering story about you.
November 4, 2025 at 8:58 PM
You know you are on the right side of history when the National Post is writing a less than flattering story about you.
Very relatable thread.
hot take: Autistic people who take to leadership roles often engage w/ their position w/ the “servant leadership” approach, viewing their duty as being to the people that report to them, raising up peoples’ strengths to create successful autonomous teams
& the few of us skilled at that get promoted
& the few of us skilled at that get promoted
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Very relatable thread.