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Samantha Majhor
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Oldest daughter, Sister, Auntie, Dakota/Assinboine winyan, Native American Literature prof., Očeti Šakowin digital story map, Dakota language learner
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Please, everybody... if you need something light & funny… If you need a romcom… If you need a feel-good… Please pull up NORTH OF NORTH on Netflix and rate it highly.

Inuit deserve so much more of this.
For the 1st time, I'm watching a sitcom full of people like my family in a place similar to the land that, due to diaspora, while still my home, I've never felt under my feet.

I'm seeing & hearing the work of artists I know.

The starlet gets to be messy & imperfect.

You can't quantify this.
April 12, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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The Alien Enemies Act was also the legal basis for the internment of Japanese people during WWII. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION Tren de Aragua (TdA) is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of
www.whitehouse.gov
March 15, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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DOGE is planning to close 41 BIA, IHS, NIGC, and DOI offices, according to this list of planned lease terminations. turtletalk.blog/2025/03/11/d...
DOGE Plans to Close 41 Offices of the BIA, IHS, NIGC, and DOI Office of Hearing and Appeals – Probate Hearings Division
Below is a list of planned lease terminations pulled from the DOGE website on March 10, 2025. The list is likely incomplete and inaccurate, since DOGE’s “wall of receipts” has not…
turtletalk.blog
March 12, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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I'm stoked out this year's Rosenbach Lectures in Bibliography @ Penn: Kelly Wisecup presents a series of three lectures, "Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation," March 24-7, 2025, on campus and via Zoom
Indigenous Ecologies of the Page: Bibliography, Birchbark, and Remediation
In this series of three lectures, Kelly Wisecup examines how Indigenous peoples made and used the page to address structures of dispossession.
www.library.upenn.edu
March 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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like, major papers wasted so much ink on the dangers of cancel culture this and speech policing that. people got paid to act like the biggest threat to the 1st Amendment was a disagreement amongst sophomores at Oberlin

only for Trump to start actually disappearing people off campuses for wrongthink
March 9, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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oh my god im so tired of saying it, but there are no votes to be found in the center. every vote democrats need to win lies with people who don’t believe that the system can do anything for them.

they need a reason to show up and it isn’t going to be a status quo centrist with the same ol bs
March 9, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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“It is the higher education community’s responsibility not to surrender to such attacks—and not to surrender in anticipation of them.”

www.aaup.org/report/again...
Against Anticipatory Obedience
The statement that follows, prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee on College and University Governance and Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, was approved for public...
www.aaup.org
March 4, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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(1/4) Recent layoffs of federal workers has a disproportionate impact on Native Americans, but is receiving almost no media attention. In Indian Health Services, which provides healthcare to 2.8 mil NAs, 2,200 people were laid off, including 1,400 who provide direct patient care.
‘Life or Death Consequences’: Layoffs throw Indian Country into turmoil
Thousands of workers are losing their jobs in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies
ictnews.org
February 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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After Biden designated several national monuments to protect sites sacred to Indigenous nations, Republican lawmakers introduced a bill to make designating future monuments harder.
February 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I went to post about the National Japanese American Memorial in D.C., which is beautiful but usually missed by tourists. It is a deeply staggering admission of guilt and a warning to future Americans. I went to link to the inscriptions and-

Well, they took the site down. www.nps.gov/places/japan...
January 31, 2025 at 8:12 PM
It’s on whitehouse.gov - commutation for Leonard Peltier issued today. Am I imagining things? Can’t find reporting on it yet but it just happened.
January 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM