Winnipeg raised, Hamilton living. Cowessess First Nation member. Chair, Indigenous Studies Department, McMaster U. U of T, U of S, U of AZ alum (he/him)
Hamilton, Ontario
Joined May 2020
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Today is Indigenous Veterans Day.
We honour our veterans with this piece by Pamela Heinrichs through the Manitoba Indigenous Tuberculosis History Project.
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"When I was a child in the 1950's, none of us mattered at all.
But today every child matters. I see all the orange shirts.
I feel optimistic that things have changed."
- Anishinaabe Elder Herb Redsky 🧡 – at Shoal Lake 34B2, Ontario
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A burial site for dozens of children who died while attending the Brandon Indian Residential School will be acquired by the province, the Free Press has learned.
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Thanks to @DennisWardNews for inviting @Niigaanwewidam and I to talk more about our new book Truth Before Reconciliation: Confronting Residential School Denialism on APTN’s InFocus. Check it out 👇
This week on APTN News InFocus, I had the chance to guest host and look at residential school denialism and the ongoing spread of misinformation about residential schools and survivors with @Niigaanwewidam & @SeanCarleton
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Some personal reflections on the Jason Arday case. My deepest condolences to his family and loved ones and I hope the tragic incident draws our attention to more systemic issues we must address in and out of #academia #highered
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"Jason Arday was being lynched and many were asking 'should we support him?' You stop the lynching and deal with the rest after." There's plenty shame to go around from the mob, to Cambridge and many who should have known better. New @makeitplainorg pod: youtu.be/uPmtCS3MPT0
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The glee with which Gaines the Grifter longs to destroy the thriving WNBA for not playing into her anti-trans politics/far right cultural grievance politics tells you this has nothing to do with protect women's sports...quite the opposite.
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In "Treaty 6 and the Indian Act at 150: How Can Both Be True?" Dr Crystal Fraser discusses the implications of viewing treaties through the lens of the Indian Act.
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Meet Dr. Sarah A. Whitt who is an enrolled citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and an Associate Professor in the Department of Global and International Studies at UC Irvine.
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Meet Dr. Alaina E. Roberts a Chickasaw and Chickasaw Freedman Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh
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As part of Indigenous history month, Shekon Neechie will add another name to the list of Biographies of Indigenous Historians.
The first addition to that list is Kaitlin Reed, associate professor in the Native American Studies at Cal Poly, Humboldt.
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Your legacy will carry on in the hearts of Grizz Nation, always and forever. In loving memory of BC 💙
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NEW: Passive Denialism, Indigenous Historical Research Obstruction, and Cuts to Heritage Institutions
by Mary Jane McCallum
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I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.
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I am saddened to hear of the passing of a civil rights leader and former constituent, Claudette Colvin.
At just 15, she refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus, serving as a catalyst for the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the end of segregation.
Rest in power, Claudette🕊️
ALT REST IN POWER Claudette Colvin 09.05.1939-01.13.2026
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You’re lying. There was no attempt to run the officer over and no ICE agents appear to be hurt.
Get out of our city.
Today, ICE officers in Minneapolis were conducting targeted operations when rioters began blocking ICE officers and one of these violent rioters weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them—an act of domestic terrorism.
An ICE officer, fearing for his life, the lives of his fellow law enforcement and the safety of the public, fired defensive shots.
He used his training and saved his own life and that of his fellow officers.
The alleged perpetrator was hit and is deceased. The ICE officers who were hurt are expected to make full recoveries.
This is the direct consequence of constant attacks and demonization of our officers by sanctuary politicians who fuel and encourage rampant assaults on our law enforcement who are facing 1,300% increase in assaults against them and an 8,000% increase in death threats.
This is an evolving situation, and we will give the public more information as soon as it becomes available.
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A weekend academic conference is the latest battle between First Nations and the Metis Nation of Ontario, who call it an attack on their history because it questions the legitimacy of their connection to Métis heritage and territorial claims.
#cdnpoli
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