Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal Man arrived in the central American country on Friday as part of a group of 22 deportees

Elderly Irishman deported by US to Costa Rica under countries’ controversial deal

‘the US is continuing to use Shannon Airport to facilitate its deportation operations’.

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Opinion | It’s the End of the Internet as We Know It

Most major online systems we use every day are underwritten by unremunerated labor on which Capital has taken a free ride for decades. When that ends, more than security is thrown into dissaray. The political economy of the internet goes upside down. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Applications are due Sunday April 19th! For more information and access to the application form, visit sing-canada.ca. Email: admin.singcanada@gmail.com SING Canada (the Summer internship for INdigenous peoples in Genomics) is an all expenses paid (travel, accommodation, meals), Indigenous-led training program offered to Indigenous students and community fellows. Our curriculum explores the science and politics of genomics (the study of DNA and genetic information) through handson field and lab training, lectures/discussions, and network building. 2026 Workshop July 12-18th Montreal, QC

Happy to answer questions about the program. #SINGCanada2026

The “Nuance” of Erasure: How the Met’s Norby Failed NAGPRA & My Dakota Family In April 2023, Patricia Marroquin Norby, then the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Curator of Native American Art, took to Hyperallergic to plead for “nuance.” She described repatriation as “labor-i...

Tragic and yet all too common.
jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-nuance...

depressing af

We Need More Nuance When Talking About Repatriation Patricia Marroquin Norby, the Met Museum’s curator of Native American Art, reflects on the lesser-discussed everyday challenges of repatriation work.

By PM Norby, the subject of the previous linked-to article.

“Source communities”? Ouch. I assume that’s standard museum speak, and it’s language that really drives home that Native peoples are (re)sources. This article critiques “extreme ‘repatriation’ tactics.”

The Met Touted Her as Its First Native American Curator. Amid Criticism, She Quietly Left. Patricia Marroquin Norby quietly left her post at the Met Museum citing health reasons. Her detractors have said she has 'no American Indian ancestry.'

“Norby published an op-ed in the Minnesota Star Tribune defending her identity as a private matter, setting her argument framed against the backdrop of the ongoing ICE raids nationwide and the University of Minnesota’s “Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self Indigenization.”

New policy outlines expectations for Indigenous-specific opportunities at UVic - UVic News Indigenous self-determination is at the heart of the University of Victoria’s (UVic) newest policy, shaped by Elders’ Teachings and Indigenous members of

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Sovereignty over stereotypes: The data behind false Cherokee identity claims in Canada Many claims to Cherokee identity are unsubstantiated, and this actively harms Indigenous sovereignty, distorts understandings of Indigeneity and enables appropriation of Indigenous rights and resource...

"Collating available data from national, tribal and institutional sources indicates that only three to seven per cent of people in the U.S. who assert a public Cherokee identity have any verifiable relationship to living or historical Cherokee communities; 93 to 97 per cent of claimants do not."

Indigenous Substantiation | Indigenous University of Toronto

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Love that @kimtallbear.bsky.social is using box checking as a term again. Chuck Trimball, Oglala journalist, and I visited about this in the oughts. He wrote an awesome column about it decades ago.

Well I'm glad to help.

Bluesky is mostly a blow-by-blow account of right wing settlers dismantling the liberal settler civilizational infrastructure, and liberal settlers glimpsing (mostly without realizing it) the beginnings of a destruction endured by first nations to make this culturally evangelical & rapacious state.

For Centuries, Native Women Have Been Told to ‘Trust the Doctor.’ Part one of a two-part series examining widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their century-long fight for reproductive freedom.

About Cherokee Nation citizen Patti Jo King, pictured:

“Taking out the reproductive organs of a 19- to 20-year-old is a big deal...She was not in danger and this was not a surgical emergency. But her fertility was taken away by what could have been treated with antibiotics — even at that time.”

Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.

Less than one week to go for #HoldingOurGroundUMN, Mar 18-19 at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis campus. Register for in-person or online attendance at the link below. We welcome requests from community members for complimentary registrations. Instructions in the link below.

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization YouTube video by The Red Nation

Just watched @kimtallbear.bsky.social and Nick Estes in this excellent discussion.

Love the way Dr Tallbear strips away all the crap.

www.youtube.com/live/QgaF8yo...

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization YouTube video by The Red Nation

Join me today for a livestream interview on The Red Nation Podcast.

I'll be talking with my @umncla colleague, Professor Nick Estes about our upcoming March 18-19 hybrid symposium at University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. #HoldingOurGroundUMN

Good 5-part series from Media Indigena on "Interrogating 'The White Possessive'" featuring Kim TallBear and Candis Callison - podfollow.com/mediaindigen...

@mediaindigena.bsky.social @candiscall.bsky.social @kimtallbear.bsky.social

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions?
Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026.

Register: z.umn.edu/holding-our-ground

#HoldingOurGroundUMN @kimtallbear.bsky.social

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530 a.m. cleared TSA precheck and Clear at IAD no problem

Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry.

Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

What are the strategies for addressing "self-Indigenization" in our institutions?

Join UMN American Indian Studies for Holding Our Ground, a hybrid symposium on Indigenous Ethnic Fraud. March 18-19, 2026. Minneapolis + Online. Register: cla.umn.edu/ais/news-eve...

ICE is still rampaging in Minnesota. For Native Americans, it’s history repeating itself OPINION: For my tribes, the Dakota and Diné people, seeing federal agents disappear people from their communities isn’t a new crisis. It is a recurring nightmare, Jacqueline Keeler writes.

In my latest article, I write about how ICE raids in Minnesota echo the imprisonment of our ancestors at Fort Snelling, at Bdote, and the execution of the Dakota 38. This isn’t new. The land remembers. So do we. #iceout @sfchronicle.com

www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization Hosted by the Department of American Indian Studies, this symposium responds to the global phenomenon known as self-Indigenization, pretendianism, or ethnic fraud.

Registration open, in-person & online. Reduced student rates & community members can request complimentary registration; limited & will be vetted. We prioritize actual tribal/Indigenous voices in resisting #pretendianism, + recognize that our community includes non-Indigenous allies. Please share.

Thanks to @tazhii.bsky.social, @candiscall.bsky.social, @kimtallbear.bsky.social (and of course, @zoestodd.bsky.social) for just the latest in thought-provoking conversations!

Yes lots of focus on conversation and sharing stories of harm and sharing solutions.

Thank you.

Yes. There are multiple speakers from Canada as well.