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Otter•Ꮵꮿ
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it's wild because white men always choose women and children to do this to first, like we see your weak asses.
November 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
they used to also let workers take the extra bread and now they lock their dumpsters
November 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
lil ms Honky Squared needs to mind those 7 full inches of dead ends on her head and not Ndn bidness

scuse me, lil Ms. Dr. Honky Squared, my bad
November 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
this direct dunk is earned btw she stepped into a Native scholar's mentions to gaslight girlboss and advocates for the theft of our bodies "for science"

i am a hater and she deserves it
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Other very useful reads:

Ishi's Brain by Orin Starn
Science Encounters the Indian, 1820-1880 by Robert Bieder
This awesome graphic novel by NAGPRA scholar Dr. Sonia Atalay: www.americananthropologist.org/ethnographic...
Completing the Journey: A Graphic Narrative about NAGPRA and Repatriation — American Anthropologist
This comic explains in plain terms what NAGPRA is, why it was enacted, and how what are legally termed “culturally unidentifiable individuals” and “associated funerary objects” are treated under the l...
www.americananthropologist.org
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Anyway, suppose you want to read about the reasons why Indigenous nations might be a wee bit touchy about folks like Dr. Weiss getting their hands on Indigenous remains.

In that case, my book "Decolonized Afterlife" SHOULD be out next year via Peter Lang Press and I highly recommend it. :-)
November 19, 2025 at 1:18 AM
its always Germans being extra weird about Native aint it?
November 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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What about the part where you wrote an entire book calling Indigenous peoples anti-science, said that ethics review boards were "stifling knowledge creation", and wrote a bunch of social media posts essentially poking fun at Indigenous cultural sensitivities?

How does that help anthropologists?
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
your papers are an example i use in CRT workshops and edits of how NOT to handle working with Native people, please keep providing me slides. Y'all do not need to keep the bodies of our relatives long-term in this age of digitized scanners
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
a healthy body can just filter out deadly toxins (it cant. we cant even filter plastics)
November 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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poetic writing about disgusting, racist, and relentless violence apparently strikes a lot of white men as profound
November 19, 2025 at 3:18 AM
yuppppp. and yet none of them will just hold a normal convo with a poc
November 19, 2025 at 4:48 PM
the fact that Rotten Mango is on the list wilds me out
November 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
the only people who deserve condemned are the ones who put up apartheid walls and sit on their roofs to watch bombings.
only one side gets millions of dollars from our federal budget to do that. and it aint Palestinians
November 19, 2025 at 4:44 PM