Dr. Twyla Baker
@indigenia.bsky.social
Indigenous academic living and working on the original homelands of my ancestors. Nu’Eta & Hidatsa. Fort Berthold | MHA Nation | Indian Country I’m a Tribal College President fond of storytelling and green chile. All opinions are my own.
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It’s a collective shame that two years into genocide we spend today celebrating an ONGOING genocide.
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Saving lives on the frontline in Palestine - help Maha
My name is Louisa and I'm raising money for my dear friend Maha and her family in Gaza.
chuffed.org
November 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s a collective shame that two years into genocide we spend today celebrating an ONGOING genocide.
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations.
Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations.
15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
Busta Rhymes and Lil Jon on Thanksgiving Day parade floats; this is how I know I’m old now. 😂👵🏾
November 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Busta Rhymes and Lil Jon on Thanksgiving Day parade floats; this is how I know I’m old now. 😂👵🏾
I got a vegetable tray for tomorrow. I really am an eternal optimist.
November 27, 2025 at 12:06 AM
I got a vegetable tray for tomorrow. I really am an eternal optimist.
Typically I’m good at staying positive. The world is just rather heavy today, and I am pretty disheartened. I need someplace to put this feeling, so that’s Bluesky today.
God’s blessings are coming, and I remain faithful. I just need to put the burden down for a minute from time to time.
God’s blessings are coming, and I remain faithful. I just need to put the burden down for a minute from time to time.
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Typically I’m good at staying positive. The world is just rather heavy today, and I am pretty disheartened. I need someplace to put this feeling, so that’s Bluesky today.
God’s blessings are coming, and I remain faithful. I just need to put the burden down for a minute from time to time.
God’s blessings are coming, and I remain faithful. I just need to put the burden down for a minute from time to time.
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AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.
Why AP is standing for your right to speak freely
The executive editor of The Associated Press says the news organization is fighting for the right of the press and public to speak freely without being targeted by the government.
bit.ly
November 24, 2025 at 10:30 AM
AP is back in court today to defend itself and the right to speak freely without government retaliation.
I am already overworking and exploiting the worker, but I am also considering unionization. 😉😂
Make sure the boss treats you right. (Go get it!)
November 24, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I am already overworking and exploiting the worker, but I am also considering unionization. 😉😂
I’m building an LLC.
Wish me luck, I am my only employee. 😂
Wish me luck, I am my only employee. 😂
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I’m building an LLC.
Wish me luck, I am my only employee. 😂
Wish me luck, I am my only employee. 😂
Self love includes self discipline. Holding yourself to account. Taking care of yourself.
I hope you’re finding gentle ways to do so, in these weird times.
I hope you’re finding gentle ways to do so, in these weird times.
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Self love includes self discipline. Holding yourself to account. Taking care of yourself.
I hope you’re finding gentle ways to do so, in these weird times.
I hope you’re finding gentle ways to do so, in these weird times.
Walmart on a Saturday afternoon.
Pretty sure this is one of those lesser known dimensions of hell. 🫠
Pretty sure this is one of those lesser known dimensions of hell. 🫠
November 22, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Walmart on a Saturday afternoon.
Pretty sure this is one of those lesser known dimensions of hell. 🫠
Pretty sure this is one of those lesser known dimensions of hell. 🫠
Every once in a while I get to write something that simply feeds my spirit; today is one of those days.
Have a read of my latest, “Hardwood Hostiles: Art and Culture of Rez Ball” featured in The Game, as edited by the amazing Kevin Powell. 🏀 thegame.visibility.art/p/issue-five...
Have a read of my latest, “Hardwood Hostiles: Art and Culture of Rez Ball” featured in The Game, as edited by the amazing Kevin Powell. 🏀 thegame.visibility.art/p/issue-five...
Issue Five | The Game
Issue 5 brings Rez Ball pride, survival, healing, and poetic brilliance together—celebrating community, creativity, and the power of stories that move and uplift.
thegame.visibility.art
November 20, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Every once in a while I get to write something that simply feeds my spirit; today is one of those days.
Have a read of my latest, “Hardwood Hostiles: Art and Culture of Rez Ball” featured in The Game, as edited by the amazing Kevin Powell. 🏀 thegame.visibility.art/p/issue-five...
Have a read of my latest, “Hardwood Hostiles: Art and Culture of Rez Ball” featured in The Game, as edited by the amazing Kevin Powell. 🏀 thegame.visibility.art/p/issue-five...
“Stare into the deadlights” is so apt. 😭😭😭🫠🫠🫠😂
It feels like everything creative has to be public facing. what happened to being a hermit artist or a reclusive writer? We just have to stare into the deadlights every day now? And in terms of helping our people, where are the showboaters the hotdoggers, the emcees get in here please i’m dying lol
November 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
“Stare into the deadlights” is so apt. 😭😭😭🫠🫠🫠😂
My deep love of a good hot hamburger sandwich and mashed taters is why I think I’m just a reincarnated 1970’s powwow singer.
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
My deep love of a good hot hamburger sandwich and mashed taters is why I think I’m just a reincarnated 1970’s powwow singer.
Why do the painfully introverted choose extremely public facing careers?
Asking for me. 😭💀
Asking for me. 😭💀
November 18, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Why do the painfully introverted choose extremely public facing careers?
Asking for me. 😭💀
Asking for me. 😭💀
It was such a pleasure to do this one. If folks want to listen, please do. This podcast was a fantastic glimpse into life at our Tribal College, especially in a time of rapid and sweeping changes: www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It was such a pleasure to do this one. If folks want to listen, please do. This podcast was a fantastic glimpse into life at our Tribal College, especially in a time of rapid and sweeping changes: www.npr.org/2025/11/12/n...
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It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
It doesn't actually matter if Chuck Schumer votes for this or not.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
If he can't keep his caucus unified to protect healthcare for over 10 million Americans, he should resign as leader.
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Whatever happens after this, y’all, we must all agree to do whatever non-felony things we can to make Schumer miserable until he resigns.
November 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Whatever happens after this, y’all, we must all agree to do whatever non-felony things we can to make Schumer miserable until he resigns.
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omg the accuracy
Waiting for Democrat fundraising texts and emails to begin in 3… 2…1
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM
omg the accuracy
Just once I’d like to spiral INTO control. 🫠
November 6, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Just once I’d like to spiral INTO control. 🫠
Man, I miss Royal Fork. 😂 That was “fancy” dining for me when I was a kid.
November 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Man, I miss Royal Fork. 😂 That was “fancy” dining for me when I was a kid.
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I’m not proud of this in any way but I had no idea about the boarding school atrocities until the Deer Lady origin episode of Reservation Dogs. No bullshit I couldn’t stop crying for 15 minutes after the episode finished.
November 3, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I’m not proud of this in any way but I had no idea about the boarding school atrocities until the Deer Lady origin episode of Reservation Dogs. No bullshit I couldn’t stop crying for 15 minutes after the episode finished.
Vance speaking about “widespread child sacrifice” in the Americas when colonizers arrived - while graveyards FULL of Native children at church boarding schools are still being found - is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Remember.
Honor #NAHM.
Remember.
Honor #NAHM.
November 3, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Vance speaking about “widespread child sacrifice” in the Americas when colonizers arrived - while graveyards FULL of Native children at church boarding schools are still being found - is the epitome of hypocrisy.
Remember.
Honor #NAHM.
Remember.
Honor #NAHM.
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I don't need the time change.
November 3, 2025 at 1:21 AM
I don't need the time change.
So true!!
It's not retirement home, it's just common sense 😅
November 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
So true!!
It’s that time of year when we all turn into retirement home residents; dinner at 5, bedtime at 6:30, Gnite! 🌙
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
It’s that time of year when we all turn into retirement home residents; dinner at 5, bedtime at 6:30, Gnite! 🌙