TFW: Student asks you to explain PL280, but you explain PL638 instead. 😳

Life in the age of Twitter: World events happen and my reaction is, "I wonder what the person who impersonates Larry the Cat has to say about this."

My cat has learned to play fetch. Is she brilliant, freakish, or both?

A thread on why we shouldn't rely on the census to adjudicate race or indigeneity. Looking at the period 1820-1875, I will look at Dakota/Lakota people in federal, state, and territorial censuses. It demonstrates just how many Native people were in the census & problems of race.

The 1838 Wisconsin Territory census recorded whites and free people of color. Of 22 Dakota households, all are listed as white, accept 1 person of color in the Jean B. Faribault family. Also the 3 "free men of color" listed under Major Taliaferro were probably enslaved, not free.

Decolonization isn't about publishing an article, modifying a syllabus, or creating a DEI committee. It's about dismantling structures, institutions, & ideas. It’s also life-affirming. It’s about organizing politically to reclaim territories & collective subjectivities.

For White folks who think they have something useful to say about boundaries between Latino and Native identity: it's time for you to find a new hobby.

Is Elon Musk going to reach a Ransom of the Red Chief moment with the Twitterati? There's only so much misery a person can take.

IT’S ELECTION DAY!

Live coverage tonight of #NativeVote2022, 7-10 pm PST!

If you think that tribes are just social groupings, and find football analogies more convincing than my usual mumbo-jumbo, here goes: Tribal governments aren't the Green Bay Packers. Tribal citizens aren't a community that owns stuff together. Reservations aren't Lambeau Field.

Grabbing 🍿 as I await interdisciplinary battles prompted by the suggestion that Mauna Loa's eruption is bad for science.