Yes Museums could return ALL baskets & cultural items (many they rarely use or display). Collaborate with tribes for visiting exhibit/research. Uphold sovereignty, build best practices, be better. Just give them all back. (Don’t get me started on remains of ancestors. Sheesh.) Museums will invite me to do “decolonizing museums” talks. I’ll go “Step 1 give everything back. End of steps.” They’re confused. I’ll say “anyway. Whose got keys to the warehouse?” Someone asks “wait? Do you mean everything?” I advance to next slide which says “yes. Everything.”

Native American Short Story: The Lord of the Flies

Native kids get stranded on island. Ask the kid w/ glasses to use them to start fires. Eat well. Tell stories. Laugh a lot. Catch and smoke some fish. Plane rescues them. They tell funny stories about it when they get home. Native American Short Story: Poltergeist

Native Auntie shows up. “Carol Ann stop talking to tv & go to bed.”

Oh look an Indian Burial ground. “Are these terrified white people bothering y’all? Yeah they built a subdivision. They blaming you but it’s a white guy haunting them!”

Here's what I'm finding out admin wise what it means to "support Native American Studies." When I do talks/lectures/ workshops people ask "Beyond land acknowledgement what can I really do?" (THREAD)

1. If you're a student. You have to major/double major in NAS or at least minor. 2. # of majors or minors is what keeps coming up. "You're such a small major." "Sure we care about the labor you put into the university but you don't have the same number of majors." "You're such a small department, cause you have very few majors." It comes up over and over.

Allow me to quickly explain the #SettlerNonsense in the Dior description of it's "NEW Savauge."

You can read description here: dior.com/en_us/products…

Begins: A new, highly concentrated interpretation of Sauvage, melding extreme freshness with warm oriental tones... #Thread "A new, highly concentrated interpretation of Sauvage, melding extreme freshness with warm oriental tones and wild beauty that comes to life on the skin."

"Oriental" is a craptastic way of making something "exotic". Edward Said talks about "orientalism":

It's a JOB APPLICATION season for Tenure Track hires and in case people have last minute questions I wanted to offer the following thread (now that I've been on a bunch o' job committees here's what I've learned on the other side...) 1/many #TenureTrack #JobApps First - even if you follow all the things you may just not get through. It sooks. Some of it is totally random. Depends on the job. Depends on the people on the committee. Depends on who is leading the committee. Depends on if one person in the room didn't get coffee that day...