Benjamin Kucher
@truthinthesoil.bsky.social
• MA Student at the University of Alberta
•Chair of the Canadian Archaeological Association Indigenous Issues Committee
•Chair of the Canadian Archaeological Association Indigenous Issues Committee
Earlier this week I joined @aptnnews.bsky.social to discuss residential school denialism and the need for legislative action
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07MQ...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07MQ...
October 4, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Earlier this week I joined @aptnnews.bsky.social to discuss residential school denialism and the need for legislative action
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07MQ...
Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/07MQ...
Wearing orange on September 30th is important. But the work doesn’t end when the shirt comes off. Indigenous Peoples live with the intergenerational impacts of residential schools every single day.
Remembrance without action is just performance. Carry the truth with you beyond today.
Remembrance without action is just performance. Carry the truth with you beyond today.
October 1, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Wearing orange on September 30th is important. But the work doesn’t end when the shirt comes off. Indigenous Peoples live with the intergenerational impacts of residential schools every single day.
Remembrance without action is just performance. Carry the truth with you beyond today.
Remembrance without action is just performance. Carry the truth with you beyond today.
On #TruthAndReconciliationDay, we call on Canada to confront Residential School denialism.
We believe Survivors.
We honour their truth.
We will never stop fighting for those who never made it home.
Read our letter:
We believe Survivors.
We honour their truth.
We will never stop fighting for those who never made it home.
Read our letter:
September 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
On #TruthAndReconciliationDay, we call on Canada to confront Residential School denialism.
We believe Survivors.
We honour their truth.
We will never stop fighting for those who never made it home.
Read our letter:
We believe Survivors.
We honour their truth.
We will never stop fighting for those who never made it home.
Read our letter:
The cover is done. The manuscript is almost there. One step closer to publishing The Death of A Curious Mind: A Manifesto for Surviving the Violence of the Academy.
This one’s for every voice that’s been silenced in the name of rigor.
#AcademicTwitter #AmWriting #DecolonizeAcademia
This one’s for every voice that’s been silenced in the name of rigor.
#AcademicTwitter #AmWriting #DecolonizeAcademia
August 1, 2025 at 2:31 PM
The cover is done. The manuscript is almost there. One step closer to publishing The Death of A Curious Mind: A Manifesto for Surviving the Violence of the Academy.
This one’s for every voice that’s been silenced in the name of rigor.
#AcademicTwitter #AmWriting #DecolonizeAcademia
This one’s for every voice that’s been silenced in the name of rigor.
#AcademicTwitter #AmWriting #DecolonizeAcademia
1/ Today marks 35 years since the start of the siege at Kanehsatake and Kahnawà:ke. what the world came to know as the Oka Crisis.
A thread on what happened, why it matters, and why we must never forget.
#OkaCrisis #Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #LandBack
A thread on what happened, why it matters, and why we must never forget.
#OkaCrisis #Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #LandBack
July 11, 2025 at 3:49 PM
1/ Today marks 35 years since the start of the siege at Kanehsatake and Kahnawà:ke. what the world came to know as the Oka Crisis.
A thread on what happened, why it matters, and why we must never forget.
#OkaCrisis #Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #LandBack
A thread on what happened, why it matters, and why we must never forget.
#OkaCrisis #Kanehsatake #Kahnawake #LandBack
1/ I’ve been quietly working on something that feels like both a rupture and a homecoming. Another book!
July 9, 2025 at 2:59 PM
1/ I’ve been quietly working on something that feels like both a rupture and a homecoming. Another book!
1/ As an Indigenous person and rights advocate, I’ve seen a lot of racism. But Ann Coulter’s post: “We didn’t kill enough Indians” is one of the most vile, dehumanizing things I’ve ever seen online. Let’s be clear: this is genocidal rhetoric. Period.
July 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
1/ As an Indigenous person and rights advocate, I’ve seen a lot of racism. But Ann Coulter’s post: “We didn’t kill enough Indians” is one of the most vile, dehumanizing things I’ve ever seen online. Let’s be clear: this is genocidal rhetoric. Period.
On July 1st I started sharing pieces from my book: “We Were Never Theirs” and I wanted to catch up on it by posting the past few days here! I’m sharing one piece a day for the entire month of July! If you are interested in reading the full book it’s available online as an e-book!
July 3, 2025 at 4:13 PM
On July 1st I started sharing pieces from my book: “We Were Never Theirs” and I wanted to catch up on it by posting the past few days here! I’m sharing one piece a day for the entire month of July! If you are interested in reading the full book it’s available online as an e-book!
The stages of thesis edits:
1.This is fine.
2.This needs work.
3.This is absolute nonsense.
4.Who wrote this absolute disaster??
5.Oh right, it’s me.
#AcademicTwitter #ThesisWriting
1.This is fine.
2.This needs work.
3.This is absolute nonsense.
4.Who wrote this absolute disaster??
5.Oh right, it’s me.
#AcademicTwitter #ThesisWriting
June 24, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The stages of thesis edits:
1.This is fine.
2.This needs work.
3.This is absolute nonsense.
4.Who wrote this absolute disaster??
5.Oh right, it’s me.
#AcademicTwitter #ThesisWriting
1.This is fine.
2.This needs work.
3.This is absolute nonsense.
4.Who wrote this absolute disaster??
5.Oh right, it’s me.
#AcademicTwitter #ThesisWriting
A reminder that the weight we carry is heavy, but we carry it together.
June 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A reminder that the weight we carry is heavy, but we carry it together.
May 27, 2021.
The world learned what we had always known—215 children buried at Kamloops.
It was the day the silence shattered.
The grief poured out.
And truth refused to be buried.
We carry them still.
#215 #EveryChildMatters #IndigenousLivesMatter
The world learned what we had always known—215 children buried at Kamloops.
It was the day the silence shattered.
The grief poured out.
And truth refused to be buried.
We carry them still.
#215 #EveryChildMatters #IndigenousLivesMatter
May 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
May 27, 2021.
The world learned what we had always known—215 children buried at Kamloops.
It was the day the silence shattered.
The grief poured out.
And truth refused to be buried.
We carry them still.
#215 #EveryChildMatters #IndigenousLivesMatter
The world learned what we had always known—215 children buried at Kamloops.
It was the day the silence shattered.
The grief poured out.
And truth refused to be buried.
We carry them still.
#215 #EveryChildMatters #IndigenousLivesMatter
Heading to Montreal this week to speak at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Users’ Meeting!
I’ll be sharing insights from community-based archaeology on how astronomy can build ethical, community-led practices—especially on sacred Indigenous lands like Maunakea.
#CFHT2025
I’ll be sharing insights from community-based archaeology on how astronomy can build ethical, community-led practices—especially on sacred Indigenous lands like Maunakea.
#CFHT2025
May 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Heading to Montreal this week to speak at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Users’ Meeting!
I’ll be sharing insights from community-based archaeology on how astronomy can build ethical, community-led practices—especially on sacred Indigenous lands like Maunakea.
#CFHT2025
I’ll be sharing insights from community-based archaeology on how astronomy can build ethical, community-led practices—especially on sacred Indigenous lands like Maunakea.
#CFHT2025
Bill 54 is a direct assault on Indigenous sovereignty.
It violates our Treaties, disrespects our Nations, and rebrands colonialism as “autonomy.”
#Bill54 #StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #abpoli #cdnpoli
It violates our Treaties, disrespects our Nations, and rebrands colonialism as “autonomy.”
#Bill54 #StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #abpoli #cdnpoli
May 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Bill 54 is a direct assault on Indigenous sovereignty.
It violates our Treaties, disrespects our Nations, and rebrands colonialism as “autonomy.”
#Bill54 #StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #abpoli #cdnpoli
It violates our Treaties, disrespects our Nations, and rebrands colonialism as “autonomy.”
#Bill54 #StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #abpoli #cdnpoli
6/ To our allies across Turtle Island: now is the time to show up.
Reject Bill 54.
Call out Alberta’s separatism.
Stand with Indigenous Nations defending the Treaties that built this country.
We are not backing down.
#StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #Bill54
Reject Bill 54.
Call out Alberta’s separatism.
Stand with Indigenous Nations defending the Treaties that built this country.
We are not backing down.
#StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #Bill54
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
6/ To our allies across Turtle Island: now is the time to show up.
Reject Bill 54.
Call out Alberta’s separatism.
Stand with Indigenous Nations defending the Treaties that built this country.
We are not backing down.
#StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #Bill54
Reject Bill 54.
Call out Alberta’s separatism.
Stand with Indigenous Nations defending the Treaties that built this country.
We are not backing down.
#StopSeparatism #TreatyRights #IndigenousSovereignty #Bill54
5/ To Premier Smith and her allies:
You do not speak for Treaty land.
You do not speak for us.
And if you continue down this path, you will meet resistance at every level—legal, political, and grassroots.
You do not speak for Treaty land.
You do not speak for us.
And if you continue down this path, you will meet resistance at every level—legal, political, and grassroots.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
5/ To Premier Smith and her allies:
You do not speak for Treaty land.
You do not speak for us.
And if you continue down this path, you will meet resistance at every level—legal, political, and grassroots.
You do not speak for Treaty land.
You do not speak for us.
And if you continue down this path, you will meet resistance at every level—legal, political, and grassroots.
4/ This isn’t just rhetoric—it’s an assault on the foundations of Nation-to-Nation relationships.
And it will be met with full and unified opposition from Indigenous Nations across Alberta and all of Canada.
We are not asking for recognition. We are asserting it.
And it will be met with full and unified opposition from Indigenous Nations across Alberta and all of Canada.
We are not asking for recognition. We are asserting it.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
4/ This isn’t just rhetoric—it’s an assault on the foundations of Nation-to-Nation relationships.
And it will be met with full and unified opposition from Indigenous Nations across Alberta and all of Canada.
We are not asking for recognition. We are asserting it.
And it will be met with full and unified opposition from Indigenous Nations across Alberta and all of Canada.
We are not asking for recognition. We are asserting it.
3/ Treaty land is not up for grabs.
Sovereignty is not negotiable.
And Alberta has no authority to override the sacred and constitutional Treaties that predate the province itself.
This separatist agenda is a direct violation of Indigenous rights.
Sovereignty is not negotiable.
And Alberta has no authority to override the sacred and constitutional Treaties that predate the province itself.
This separatist agenda is a direct violation of Indigenous rights.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
3/ Treaty land is not up for grabs.
Sovereignty is not negotiable.
And Alberta has no authority to override the sacred and constitutional Treaties that predate the province itself.
This separatist agenda is a direct violation of Indigenous rights.
Sovereignty is not negotiable.
And Alberta has no authority to override the sacred and constitutional Treaties that predate the province itself.
This separatist agenda is a direct violation of Indigenous rights.
2/ The Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, the Treaty 7 Chiefs Association, the Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Piikani Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, and many others have said:
Enough.
Enough.
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
2/ The Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations, the Treaty 7 Chiefs Association, the Treaty 8 First Nations of Alberta, the Blackfoot Confederacy, the Piikani Nation, Onion Lake Cree Nation, and many others have said:
Enough.
Enough.
1/ Let’s get this straight: All three Treaty confederations in Alberta—Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8—have now issued official statements condemning Premier Danielle Smith’s separatist rhetoric and Bill 54.
This is not just pushback. This is a wall of resistance.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
This is not just pushback. This is a wall of resistance.
#abpoli #cdnpoli
May 2, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Treaty land is not Alberta’s to take. As Indigenous peoples, we are not negotiable, erasable, or silent. We are sovereign. We are organized. And we will not stand by while our rights are threatened.”
#IndigenousSovereignty #TreatyRights #StopSeparatism #Bill54 #cdnpoli #abpoli
#IndigenousSovereignty #TreatyRights #StopSeparatism #Bill54 #cdnpoli #abpoli
May 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Treaty land is not Alberta’s to take. As Indigenous peoples, we are not negotiable, erasable, or silent. We are sovereign. We are organized. And we will not stand by while our rights are threatened.”
#IndigenousSovereignty #TreatyRights #StopSeparatism #Bill54 #cdnpoli #abpoli
#IndigenousSovereignty #TreatyRights #StopSeparatism #Bill54 #cdnpoli #abpoli
Carrying this message with me as I head down to Calgary today, for the final National Gathering on Unmarked Graves. Every Child Matters — and that truth doesn’t expire when the funding ends. We will keep doing the work, with love, anger, and purpose. #EveryChildMatters #TruthBeforeReconciliation
March 25, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Carrying this message with me as I head down to Calgary today, for the final National Gathering on Unmarked Graves. Every Child Matters — and that truth doesn’t expire when the funding ends. We will keep doing the work, with love, anger, and purpose. #EveryChildMatters #TruthBeforeReconciliation
In a world that grows colder by the day—more corporate, more rigid, more exhausted—Natalie offers something quietly radical: care.
March 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
In a world that grows colder by the day—more corporate, more rigid, more exhausted—Natalie offers something quietly radical: care.
Treaty Rights Are Not Up for Negotiation!
Treaty Nations are standing united against Alberta’s overreach and the Government of Canada’s failure to uphold its legal obligations. Our Treaties are not mere agreements—they are sacred covenants that recognize our sovereignty and self-determination.
Treaty Nations are standing united against Alberta’s overreach and the Government of Canada’s failure to uphold its legal obligations. Our Treaties are not mere agreements—they are sacred covenants that recognize our sovereignty and self-determination.
March 13, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Treaty Rights Are Not Up for Negotiation!
Treaty Nations are standing united against Alberta’s overreach and the Government of Canada’s failure to uphold its legal obligations. Our Treaties are not mere agreements—they are sacred covenants that recognize our sovereignty and self-determination.
Treaty Nations are standing united against Alberta’s overreach and the Government of Canada’s failure to uphold its legal obligations. Our Treaties are not mere agreements—they are sacred covenants that recognize our sovereignty and self-determination.
Thank you, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for your years of leadership and service to Canada. It was an honor to meet you and discuss the future of Indigenous advocacy, student rights, and reconciliation. Wishing you success in your next chapter! #ThankYouPMTrudeau #Leadership
March 9, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Thank you, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, for your years of leadership and service to Canada. It was an honor to meet you and discuss the future of Indigenous advocacy, student rights, and reconciliation. Wishing you success in your next chapter! #ThankYouPMTrudeau #Leadership
This decision is a betrayal of truth, justice, and reconciliation.
The work of locating missing children & supporting Indigenous communities must continue.
Read our full statement below:
The work of locating missing children & supporting Indigenous communities must continue.
Read our full statement below:
February 13, 2025 at 11:15 PM
This decision is a betrayal of truth, justice, and reconciliation.
The work of locating missing children & supporting Indigenous communities must continue.
Read our full statement below:
The work of locating missing children & supporting Indigenous communities must continue.
Read our full statement below: