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An Email to My Peers: Black Lives Matter
Hi, everyone; As you know, across this colonizing nation, Black People are organizing and demanding justice for the murder of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Ahmad Arbery, Tony McDade, and so many others killed by state-sanctioned violence. As individuals with various financial means and access to privileges and power in academia, it is imperative that we […]
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The Native Elite: A (Re)Introduction of Access & Power
9 months ago, I wrote The Native Elite. A blog post commenting on and introducing the concept of a subset of peoples within native communities who possess strands of power that differentiates themselves from the rest of native communities. I wrote that blog post in an attempt to name an issue that I was seeing […]
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A (mini) College Guide for Native Scholars
As I am in the midst of graduate school, I have been working on a presentation on the sense of belonging as it pertains to Native and Indigenous scholars in Colleges and Universities. While working on this presentation, and reading social media posts by fellow Native scholars in College/Universities, I realized that there really is not […]
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Dear Native Youth/Indigenous Scholar
Recently, I wrote a twitter thread titled, Dear Native Youth/Indigenous scholar. My intention of the thread was to call attention to the violence that we, youth, inherited because of colonialism and its continuous recycling. While also acknowledging that decolonization for us is messy and difficult and a call for critical inquiry for how we reflect colonial […]
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Indigenous Hypervisibility
In the spring of 2016, I proposed a research project, Indigenous Hypervisibility: Examining Frameworks of ‘Success’, to examine how we portrayed ‘success’ and the effects of that this portrayal has on my fellow Indigenous youth. I re-wrote it as a blog post. Historical and contemporary portrayals of Native/Indigenous Peoples often exist in the margins of […]
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Anti-Blackness in Native Communities
About a year ago, I wrote a paper titled ‘Bondage, Resistance, and Belonging’, outlining the relationship between Indigenous Peoples within the ‘US’ and enslaved Africans, with a particular focus on the Choctaw, Seminole, Cherokee, Creek, and Chickasaw or known as the “Five Civilized Tribes”. My paper was an attempt to analyze it from the […]
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The Native Elite
Hey, folx. I think it is the time that we talk about a particular trend that I am seeing in our community. But first, a story. In 2013, I was one out of 6 (known) Native scholars who were projected to graduate in 2017 from an elite institution, Brown University. From the onset […]