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itsmayana.bsky.social
☀️Writer / Researcher on Indigenous-State Relations & Land Theft in Canada☀️
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Thank you to Yellowhead Institute for hosting this important discussion about what's at stake in the upcoming election 🔥 April 15!

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When in doubt, get crafty.

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"Slobodian describes the Conservative position this way: 'We’re going to have to break some laws, hurt some people, violate some rights.' And she describes the Liberal position: 'Why can’t we do this in a way that we uphold law? How much can we get and feel morally OK with what we’ve done'?"

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Meanwhile in Canada: Watching this once massive co-enterprise of empire & commerce go out with a whimper… HBC (1670-2025)

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Quinn Slobodian on why Trump wants to Make America Saudi Arabia

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Hey we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe

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My latest upcycled Métis bead/painting project: A gift for my uncle Chris Cook, ‘Namgis hereditary chief and lifelong fisherman.

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Stumps of Salt Spring Island (Hul'qumi'num & SENĆOŦEN Territory).

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February 14 is also Captain Cook FAFO Day 🌹

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We are in the "Palestinians are not indigenous but Afrikaners are" stage of Orwellian historiography

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It is so gratifying to see my research liberated from the paywalled world of academic journals. Thank you @thetyee.ca

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There’s something unimaginably bleak about the world’s richest man unilaterally deciding to stop food aid and medicine going to the world’s poor ‘to save money’

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I remember hearing about this police raid on a tiny Kansas newspaper. Man, the details are far more alarming than I realized! Most shocking: All the authorities involved are still in their positions. thisiscriminal.com/episode-302-...

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Wrote the cover story for @newstatesman.com on the Five Pillars of Muskism www.newstatesman.com/world/americ...

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In which Ralph Fiennes acts out the verified transcript of an MI6 agent admitting that he coordinated the overthrow of Iran’s last democratically elected government. In 1953.

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When we talk about "billionaires" in the US (of which there are about 800) we're usually talking more about centibillionaires with wealth of over $100 billion (of which there are about 12).

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Historic canned fish brands with surprisingly lively graphic design.

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Canal City Hakata in Fukuoka, Japan. Designed by Jon Jerde (Opened 1996).

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An utterly damning and horrific image.

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I published two papers this year. One in BC Studies; the other in Canadian Historical Review. One is about the illegal sale of Senak’w in Vancouver; the other is about birds, conservation, and Indigenous consent. Find them here:

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"In 1913, the Royal Commission on Indian Affairs ruled that an island reserve of the Tsawout + Tseycum First Nations of the W̱SÁNEĆ should be surrendered and sold to the province for the purposes of a bird sanctuary." Another one from my sister @itsmayana.bsky.social utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...

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LAST CHANCE to sign up for our poetry reading with NATALIE DIAZ, LEANNE BETASAMOSAKE SIMPSON, and JAMAICA OSORIO. The reading will be followed by a short moderated discussion by Leanne. Register here: www.workshops4gaza.com/calendar/a-p...

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