Tvlse Native
@susannesanders.bsky.social
Mvskoke/Semvnole
Muscogee Nation Reservation
Retired Indian Education director
Daughter of a boarding school survivor (Seneca, Chilocco, Sequoyah)
Muscogee Nation Reservation
Retired Indian Education director
Daughter of a boarding school survivor (Seneca, Chilocco, Sequoyah)
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Hey colonizer, don't call us Indians and don't handle our ancestors so disrespectfully for photoshoots. What the fuck is wrong with you?
If you haven't read my book, On the Warpath: My Battles with Indians, Pretendians, and Woke Warriors, make sure to get a copy!
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November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Hey colonizer, don't call us Indians and don't handle our ancestors so disrespectfully for photoshoots. What the fuck is wrong with you?
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Artist Georgia O'Keeffe ignored the Indigenous presence all around her in New Mexico. Now a new exhibition at the O'Keeffe Museum draws awareness to the ongoing presence of Tewa Peoples by presenting a group exhibition of Tewa artists.
www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/ar...
New exhibition at Georgia O’Keeffe Museum foregrounds contemporary Indigenous perspectives
On Aug. 26, 2020, three months after the start of the George Floyd protests, the award-winning journalist and arts writer Alicia Inez Guzmán hosted an online panel discussion, titled “This is Not O’Ke...
www.abqjournal.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe ignored the Indigenous presence all around her in New Mexico. Now a new exhibition at the O'Keeffe Museum draws awareness to the ongoing presence of Tewa Peoples by presenting a group exhibition of Tewa artists.
www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.abqjournal.com/lifestyle/ar...
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The least surprising news of the day.
October 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The least surprising news of the day.
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Nothing nice can exist in TrumpWorld.
Trump Opens Pristine Alaska Wilderness to Drilling in Long-Running Feud
www.nytimes.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Nothing nice can exist in TrumpWorld.
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Trump: "We took care of Medicaid and Medicare. We took care of everything. We didn't know where we'd stand in a year or two years from now, so we put every single thing that we wanted in that bill for four years. So we don't need anymore votes."
October 20, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Trump: "We took care of Medicaid and Medicare. We took care of everything. We didn't know where we'd stand in a year or two years from now, so we put every single thing that we wanted in that bill for four years. So we don't need anymore votes."
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Tribes say OKC’s Rep. Frank Lucas is stalling their 150-year fight for 10,000 acres near El Reno while pushing $16.6M for a research center. | Em Luetkemeyer with Oklahoma Watch reports: freepressokc.com/tribes-say-o...
Tribes say OKC’s Rep. Lucas blocks land return
Tribes say OKC’s Rep. Frank Lucas is stalling their 150-year fight for 10,000 acres near El Reno while pushing $16.6M for a research center.
freepressokc.com
October 4, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tribes say OKC’s Rep. Frank Lucas is stalling their 150-year fight for 10,000 acres near El Reno while pushing $16.6M for a research center. | Em Luetkemeyer with Oklahoma Watch reports: freepressokc.com/tribes-say-o...
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This U.S. Fort in Florida held Seminole, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Caddo and Apache families as prisoners of war. Many of the prisoners died. Now signage commemorating that history has been “marked for review” by the Trump administration.
'A painful legacy': Native history subject to removal at historic Florida site - ICT
Federal government places signage relating to Native imprisonment at Castillo de San Marcos in Florida under review and subject to removal following Trump executive order
ictnews.org
August 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
This U.S. Fort in Florida held Seminole, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Kiowa, Comanche, Caddo and Apache families as prisoners of war. Many of the prisoners died. Now signage commemorating that history has been “marked for review” by the Trump administration.
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Which Native Nation is allowing this cracker to be out here doing this shit on their land? They best step up & shut that shit down ASAP! Dude needs 2 do 23&ME & find where his ancestors are from and go tf back to Europe or Scandinavia. Dont try to pull that shit on Turtle Island! 🤬 #Native #LANDBACK
July 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Which Native Nation is allowing this cracker to be out here doing this shit on their land? They best step up & shut that shit down ASAP! Dude needs 2 do 23&ME & find where his ancestors are from and go tf back to Europe or Scandinavia. Dont try to pull that shit on Turtle Island! 🤬 #Native #LANDBACK
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At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.
Leonard Peltier talks freedom, future after nearly 50 years in prison
After spending most of his life behind bars, Leonard Peltier now lives in a home on the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa reservation in North Dakota. He says he has no regrets but still harbors…
www.mprnews.org
July 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
At a moment when the problems our world is facing feel insurmountable, I found a lot of inspiration in this. My friend and reporter Allison Herrera sat down with recently freed Leonard Peltier, one of the longest-serving political prisoners in the U.S.
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OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A man who was a Hispanic conservative voice under Governor Stitt was deported earlier this year to Guatemala. Stitt's office says they don't know anything about him.
July 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A man who was a Hispanic conservative voice under Governor Stitt was deported earlier this year to Guatemala. Stitt's office says they don't know anything about him.
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A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center. cnn.it/40sUjzD
June 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
A coalition of groups, ranging from environmental activists to Native Americans advocating for their ancestral homelands, converged outside an airstrip in the Florida Everglades to protest the imminent construction of an immigrant detention center. cnn.it/40sUjzD
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“I was in a medical coma.”
Lankford on Mike Lee's tweet: "I haven't seen the comment he made."
June 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
“I was in a medical coma.”
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Proposed budget cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would affect tribal radio stations and Native news programs. Often in rural, tribal communities, public broadcasting is the only news source.
Indigenous Broadcasters Talk Threats to Federal Funding with Native America Calling
By Kyler EdsittyFlagstaff, AZ, February 20, 2025 – Native Public Media Chief Operating Officer, Brian Wadsworth, appeared on Native America Calling along with other Indigenous broadcasters to discuss…
www.nativepublicmedia.org
May 14, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Proposed budget cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting would affect tribal radio stations and Native news programs. Often in rural, tribal communities, public broadcasting is the only news source.
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More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle.
Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
Tribal communities risk losing local libraries and the history they hold amid DOGE cuts
Federally recognized tribes say the Trump administration cut the grant money they use to sustain the local libraries that serve as anchors in their most rural communities.
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May 11, 2025 at 10:30 PM
More than a hundred libraries on federally recognized tribal lands across the country were notified that their congressionally appropriated grant had been terminated midcycle.
Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
Those communities are at risk of losing their local libraries and the history they hold.
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A return to the fight against Alaska’s Ambler Road
Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land.
www.hcn.org/articles/a-r...
Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land.
www.hcn.org/articles/a-r...
A return to the fight against Alaska’s Ambler Road - High Country News
Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land.
www.hcn.org
March 28, 2025 at 8:06 PM
A return to the fight against Alaska’s Ambler Road
Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land.
www.hcn.org/articles/a-r...
Alaska Native tribes and activists will use previous momentum to try and keep a road from being built through caribou migratory paths, subsistence harvest areas and remote Indigenous land.
www.hcn.org/articles/a-r...
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Governor Stitt is applauding the dismantling of the Department of Education while misspelling Muscogee (Mvskoke if you wanna be tradish) and supporting the people who misspell department.
March 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Governor Stitt is applauding the dismantling of the Department of Education while misspelling Muscogee (Mvskoke if you wanna be tradish) and supporting the people who misspell department.
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I understand there's a lot going on, but truly, if we don't have our forests, we're screwed. We can't allow America to continue to pillage and extract without consequence any longer. Our planet and our futures are on the line.
March 5, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I understand there's a lot going on, but truly, if we don't have our forests, we're screwed. We can't allow America to continue to pillage and extract without consequence any longer. Our planet and our futures are on the line.
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hey so, um, all this is terrible, but the *1st* thing we need to halt is this: Trump's EO to clear cut 280 million acres of trees in National Forests and protected public lands.
our forests are irreplaceable. we need folks on the ground to stake out, track logging companies, create roadblocks, etc.
our forests are irreplaceable. we need folks on the ground to stake out, track logging companies, create roadblocks, etc.
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber
President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species
www.theguardian.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:54 AM
hey so, um, all this is terrible, but the *1st* thing we need to halt is this: Trump's EO to clear cut 280 million acres of trees in National Forests and protected public lands.
our forests are irreplaceable. we need folks on the ground to stake out, track logging companies, create roadblocks, etc.
our forests are irreplaceable. we need folks on the ground to stake out, track logging companies, create roadblocks, etc.
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This makes me so happy. California showing a degree of respect and sovereignty to native tribes in managing their own cultural burning and prescribed fire programs as they scale. Senator Dodd, The Karuk Tribe were tireless champions of this. www.latimes.com/environment/...
California tribe enters first-of-its-kind agreement with the state to practice cultural burns
After suppression of Indigenous cultural burning, the state agrees Northern California's Karuk Tribe may practice the burns more freely than it has in over 175 years.
www.latimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
This makes me so happy. California showing a degree of respect and sovereignty to native tribes in managing their own cultural burning and prescribed fire programs as they scale. Senator Dodd, The Karuk Tribe were tireless champions of this. www.latimes.com/environment/...
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After Trump’s executive order laying off federal employees last week, Haskell Indian Nations University lost almost a third of its staff, leaving students without teachers.
February 18, 2025 at 4:42 PM
After Trump’s executive order laying off federal employees last week, Haskell Indian Nations University lost almost a third of its staff, leaving students without teachers.