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Indigenous. Prodigal daughter of the Mandan-Hidatsa. Rez Neck w/a PhD. Baller as f*** Mama to an angel in heaven, Frosty. She/Her. Views are my own.

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Joined June 2011

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A group of my Indigenous colleagues and I put voice to a feeling we've all experienced at multiple points in our journeys, and I wanted to get it down before I lost it. It may have already been defined elsewhere, and it's going to evolve as I explore it - but this is a start.

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I hope we vaccinate Tribal language speakers ASAP. Vaccinate Tribal elders and knowledge carriers as quickly as possible.

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“My race is not a risk factor for disease, racism and racist health systems are.”

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Finally saw the Barbie movie with my kids. We enjoyed it overall, had a sweet message about womanhood. There was of course, the poorly thought out line about smallpox; to me that was further evidence that even in progressive movements, Native people are deeply,

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Imagine being a Native student sitting in a college class, and you see graphics like this? Even for the sake of ‘brevity’ - this is wrong. It’s teaching a story that is false. Data folks, don’t create things like this, it’s intellectually lazy.

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Animated map shows the US population density. There is a lot of history condensed in this little map. Source:

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Tribe officially granted me the 2.5 acres my childhood home sat on, last week. I’m putting my own house on it. No longer a landless Native. 😉 Very happy. Very blessed.

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White folks unironically declaring they’re glad they live in Canada, whilst standing on the bones and blood of the Indigenous people displaced for them to be there.

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This headline though. 😂

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It is Indigenous People’s Day on Monday. Please don’t let that day, or the month of November be the only time you pay attention to or learn anything about us. We are Native all the other days too.

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perilously invisible. The movie would not have suffered without that line, and had there been ANY Indigenous writers worth their salt in the writing room for that movie that line never would have been considered. I discussed it with my kids afterwards, how even within the social

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The hypocrisy of 'sanctity of life' arguments is more glaring when you know about forced sterilizations of Native women. When you know about the theft of generations of Native babies through boarding school systems & the foster system. It's not about life, it's about control.

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The CDC advised that we get our land back.

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THIS IS MY SISTER AND I'M LOSING MY ISH RIGHT NOW I'M SO PROUD. <3 Meet the Native American Woman Who Beat the Sponsor of North Dakota’s ID Law

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justice work we choose to engage ourselves in, as Native people, as Native women, we will continually have to throw elbows, speak up repeatedly, - including to those who would consider themselves our allies - because we suffer from the indignity of invisibility. I’m almost

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Quit saving stuff for a special occasion. Life’s a special occasion.

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Consider that white people are railing & wailing against Critical Race Theory right now, claiming victimhood, as Indigenous people are recovering bodies of children.

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used to it. It’s exhausting, but what other choice do we have? Anyway - the Barbie thing? A microcosmic slice of a much larger issue that is everywhere for Indigenous women, and people, for that matter. Beyond that - we laughed our bums off at Ken. 😉

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For folks considering leaving the U.S. pending election results or for WHATEVER reason - consider giving your land/real estate to the Native people who it originally belonged to. I am not joking.

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I deeply appreciate that my Tribe looked at CDC's changed guidelines, consulted their own public health professionals, and said 'we decline no thank you, we're gonna' keep doing what we are doing'. That's some beautiful sovereignty.

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I dream of a day when Native women are truly and sincerely loved and protected, the same way they love and protect.

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Dolly Parton is on TV singing and I’m reminded that not only did she give us ‘Jolene’ and ‘9 to 5’, she gives free books to kids (including mine), funded vaccine research, and supports BLM. That’s Auntie Dolly right there.

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“Trump supporters yelling ‘Go home’ . . . (Natives) yelling back ‘This IS my home’”

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Who’s home? Our home. 👉🏽 Lakota Treaty Defenders. 👊🏽

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I keep seeing this shooter being called a kid, and that’s technically correct. At the same time though, I can’t help but remember how many times they called Tamir Rice a man.

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751. One school. Fucking gut punch.

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People aren't lazy, there isn't a 'labor shortage', folks are just tired of risking their lives for companies that treat them like isht and act as if workers owe them their labor for poverty wages. I mean ain't a business major, but I get how labor supply and demand works.

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‘If it’s my job to break down historical trauma in my bloodline, then it must be white people’s job to break down historical oppression in theirs.’ - my very brilliant, observant teenage daughter. If she can see it, I hope other folks can too. Good morning. ☀️

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Gen X is trending so I’ll use the opportunity to remind folks so many X’ers were so pissed at society, we raised our Gen Z kids to rage against it too. #LongGame

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The fact that folks didn’t know about the Tulsa race massacres & the Osage Nation murders until certain movies came out is proof that suppressing & legislating the teaching of history is a very effective method of whitewashing it. Imagine how many other stories need to be told.

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22 years sober today. 😊

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If your people had a history of dying from infectious diseases brought by settlers, you would protect your lands and people too.

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Perhaps not for your folks’s, but definitely, absolutely for mine.

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Has an American President ever advocated for our death like this?

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“I suffered, therefore I don’t want others to,” and “I suffered, so others should have to suffer as well” are two very different people, mindsets, worlds. Be mindful of which you are choosing.

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Family, I hope you are paying attention to what is going on in South Dakota right now, and the Indigenous people protesting Trump’s rally. SD is DEEPLY anti-Indigenous, Gov. Noem refuses to protect ppl from the virus and regularly attacks Tribes there.

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Dear @ewarren - please - PLEASE. Get right with Indigenous people. Cherokee citizens have even been good enough to spell it out for you. Please.

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UPDATE: TWO POLLING LOCATIONS on my home Rez, the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in ND will NOT be open due to “budget concerns” come Election Day, which I’m just finding out about tonight. One in Mandaree, ND, and the other in Four Bears. Wow. They’ll stop at nothing.

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Hi. If you are non-Indigenous, please amplify the voices of Indigenous people as often as you can. Invisibility and ignorance about us is deadly for our Tribal Nations. Much appreciated, beloveds.

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Y’all leaving Twitter, but won’t leave me my land. 😔

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Our Dad passed on last night. My brilliant, complicated, funny, legendary, personal hero of a father. I’m not ok, and that’s ok. I am so lucky to be his daughter.

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My niece sent this and said it reminded her of me. 😂😂😂 She ain’t wrong.

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Look at these beautiful Natives 💫🙏🏾👌🏾 #Emmys

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Don’t be mad or jealous of young people for rejecting the systems that tormented you as you grew. Be proud of them for learning that they’d have to, in order to be free. You taught them a lot of that too.

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My timeline is full of BIPOC people saying there’s more work to do, and I love and admire you for that. Of course. You always show up. Always. But I need the white folx on here to be saying it. Really. Full chest.

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I wear a mask because I live in compassion and fellowship with other humans - not because I live in ‘fear’.

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Folks continue to know next to nothing about Native people & our experiences so I feel it needs to be said: States where federally recognized Tribal lands, and sizable populations of Native people are located, tend to be the most anti-Indigenous places in America.

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I have weirdos in my mentions talking about “NaTIvEs kILlEd eAcH OtHEr tOo”, as if that somehow makes any sort of point AT ALL, or in ANY FKN WAY justifies the reign of terror, theft, and genocide we’ve been under for the last 500+ yrs. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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Non-Native fam, there’s about to a FLOOD of anti-Native rhetoric coming at us from all directions due to a football game, so kindly check in w/ur Indigenous/Native friends. We hold each other up most often, but sometimes a bigger net’s needed. Thx, love you. 🙏🏾 #CallingAllies

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I don’t accept Native people being called ‘resilient’ all the time as license for continued injustice.

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While the rest of the Nation is distracted, this administration is taking Tribal lands illegally. MY Tribe’s lands. I’m absolutely positive this is intentional. It started with the Mashpee Wampanoag. #MHANation

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"The legal and historical precedent is clear: MHA Nation owns the rights under the riverbed within the boundaries of the Fort Berthold Reservation. The Department’s politically motivated action is nothing more than an illegal taking." - Chairman Mark Fox

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I’ve spent tons of time on Capitol Hill, enough to know that police are typically omnipresent. I once got detained because I set off an alarm, due to a little metal pin I was wearing on my jacket. It was TIGHT. What you’re seeing is white privilege, white supremacy in real time.

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Yeee! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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The vaccine just arrived at our Tribal Health facility. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

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You don’t always have to be doing something’. You can rest. Resting is doing something.

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LOOK AT THE NAME OF THE TEAM IMMEDIATELY UNDER THAT MESSAGE OMFG HOW IS THIS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHSSKFJRVSJCBTHSKS

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End racism. #ItTakesAllOfUs

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The land you’re standing on was looted.

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The #Strokeahontas thing is why Indigenous people don’t trust you either, liberals. Stop it. Just stop.

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If folks can change the narrative of the Jan 6 riots this quickly, with countless videos as evidence everywhere, imagine what’s been done with the rest of the history of this country.

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TW: Suicide In June of 2018, my daughter took her own life. It is not something I speak of a lot, because honestly it’s still very difficult to do so. Her loss left an enormous, ragged hole in the spirit of our family, her friends, and everyone who knew her. A few years have

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Be reminded that English is also a language foreign to this continent.

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This is a Pomeranian dressed up as Paddington Bear. Someone shred it with me, now I’m sharing it too.

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I bet Dr. King would rather we do the work he was speaking of, over quoting it once a year.

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The loss of Gabby Petito is tragic and heartbreaking and I pray peace for all who loved her. I also continue to pray peace for the thousands of Black and Indigenous women missing & murdered, whose cases will never receive such attention & energy. One doesn’t detract from the

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Hi white people who follow me. Not everything I tweet is for, or about you. In fact a lot of it, isn’t, nor should you try to make it so. You’re welcome here, but don’t center yourself.

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English is a foreign language too.

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I remember that one time a guy sent me an article to make a point. One that he wasn’t aware I had contributed to. I remember cuz it happened this morning. 😂

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As an Indigenous woman, I’d just like to say . . . *ahem* HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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Glenn Beck says migrants "will be killing farmers for food, and then it will turn into killing farmers for the land and they'll say 'this is my land'"

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Seriously. If you are attacking living, breathing Native women over your “loss” of a damn butter logo, you are the very reason why it needed to be gone. Stop being ridiculous.

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I’m not trying to ‘cancel’ anyone - I’m just saying it’s well beyond time we tell the whole story, otherwise we are telling fairy tales. Our job as educators/academics is to tell the truth. We can’t just skip over stuff anymore. We just can’t.

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I once had a Native grad student finishing his dissertation. Committee chair (older white male) gave our student feedback at his defense about being ‘biased’ on his topic, which was Native focused. My feedback was that anywhere else, that would be called content expertise.

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Tribal enrollment cards having expiration dates is probably one of the funnier indignities of having to have a colonial system validate your existence. I just looked. I expire in July of this year. 😂 Better re-up before I get accused of Pretendianism. 😉

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Morning from North Dakota, where we can’t make anyone wear a mask, but they sure wanna tell me what to do with my uterus. 😊

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My cousin is in the hospital on 100% O2 right now. Her husband passed last week. They have 5 kids. She was hesitant about the vaccine, afraid of it, and thus unvaccinated. Things like this are why I can’t see being sanctimonious about a COVID death, vaxxed or not. I just can’t.

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My dear, sweet, wonderful, blessed mother left us yesterday suddenly. Our family is heartbroken. The greatest person I ever knew, truly.

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So we gotta save whole languages and knowledge systems and forage and learn to make our medicines and be boss women with full time jobs and carry and birth and take care of the kids and the elders and bead and quill and quilt and remember birthdays and coffee orders and

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I am not a legal expert by any means, just a Tribal citizen. I do believe though, that decisions like todays are a continued chipping away of Tribal sovereignty which will keep on until we reach the point of dissolution of Tribes and Tribal lands. That’s BEEN the goal.

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So give the land back.

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There is no defense of looting. It is immoral, dangerous, illegal, counterproductive, and politically insane.

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Leave Twitter just because it’s being further and further overrun by white supremacist ideologues every day? Babe, I’m Native.

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Guys, I took a DNA test and it turns out I'm part white. I'm pretty sure that means I can speak on behalf of all white folx now.

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Respectfully- the U.S. wrote the guidebook on these types of tactics with Indigenous peoples in this country. My ancestors experienced it, saw it firsthand. Not only hundreds of years ago either; my parents were boarding school. I grew up eating commodity foods. It never stopped.

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I’ve never witnessed such savagery, I don’t think anyone has

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You don’t hear responses of “All Lives Matter” when you hear someone say “Blue Lives Matter”, and that should speak volumes to you.

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Without the momentum and support of #BlackLivesMatter , this day wouldn’t have happened. I am thankful for kinship and solidarity. I see you, relatives, and you can bet I’m pushing for justice for you just as hard.

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Idris Elba as the next Bond. There are no better alternatives.

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Anyone else re-examining every single aspect of their life, after all that’s happened? Physically, spiritually, mentally, emotionally, professionally?

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Attacking Tribal sovereignty by going after our most vulnerable - our children - is some Imperialist terroristic bullsh*t. There, I said it.

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Folks who don’t see how racism/dehumanization is associated with sports mascots never had to explain to a 10 yo daughter why white frat boys were doing the hand on mouth “woo-woo-woo” thing at her as she stepped out of a car in her regalia. #ChangeTheName

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@CA_AstroComm @Napaaqtuk Dr. Baker is great, though I also go by President Baker at our college. 😊 Thank you for this thread!

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Deb Haaland is wearing a ribbon skirt and mocs today. 💜💜💜

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I wonder sometimes what life would have been like for my pops had he not had the boarding school experience. Had his mom lived. If he’d been allowed to be a child, allowed his language and lifeways and on and on. He was provided with meals and a place to sleep, but at

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Not my creation, but bless who ever did make it. 😆

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"Because of tribal colleges, we are no longer one generation away from losing our languages; we are one generation away from saving them." John Eagle Shield, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Wow. Just wow. ❤

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It was the tireless work of Native women across the country that got VAWA to include Indigenous women. It was the work of Native women that got MMIP databases created at state and federal levels, where none had existed before. It continues to be Native women and allies who

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2 years

Good morning, family. #MLKDay

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3 years

If you’re still masking, sanitizing, got vaxxed - Thank you. So much. I’m out here protecting you too. 💙

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3 years

Normalize being genuinely happy for other people’s wins. 💪🏾

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3 years

NDN women have the world’s greatest earring game.

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4 years

Reminder, especially today to the Indigenous family, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS.

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5 years

What Indigenous Nation’s land are you on at the moment? I am speaking to you from my own homelands, the Nu’Eta, the Hidatsa, and the Sahnish Peoples, of which I am a citizen. Go find out and gimme a shout.

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10 months

Hi @Delta - my daughter JUST got into her hotel room that I paid for after she was turned away from the hotel you all sent her to with a ‘voucher’ after y’all stranded her in Minneapolis tonight. The hotel you all sent her to stated they had no rooms, and that they ‘didn’t know

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4 years

This is what it feels like when a treaty is upheld. Are you in shock too, Native fam? Whew.

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4 years

Look what my sis did for me. ❤️ While quarantined, she made me a pair of beaded moccasins. 😭💜

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3 years

Hi family. The ‘tomahawk chop’ is racist. Have a beautiful Saturday. 🤙🏾

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