Robert Hazen
@techspecs.bsky.social
A 30-something Indigenous social scientist at Michigan Technological University working on a Master’s.
Ojibwe from the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
I call Michigan’s Upper Peninsula my home.
#landback | #freepalestine
Ojibwe from the Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.
I call Michigan’s Upper Peninsula my home.
#landback | #freepalestine
Friends and colleagues,
I’ve helped publish a book! Please check out “Wash Tubs and White Weasel: Memoirs of a Reservation Indian, 1940-1960” by Anita M. Chosa (a.co/d/2PgOBDh). Consider purchasing and/or sharing this post to help spread the word.
I’ve helped publish a book! Please check out “Wash Tubs and White Weasel: Memoirs of a Reservation Indian, 1940-1960” by Anita M. Chosa (a.co/d/2PgOBDh). Consider purchasing and/or sharing this post to help spread the word.
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May 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Friends and colleagues,
I’ve helped publish a book! Please check out “Wash Tubs and White Weasel: Memoirs of a Reservation Indian, 1940-1960” by Anita M. Chosa (a.co/d/2PgOBDh). Consider purchasing and/or sharing this post to help spread the word.
I’ve helped publish a book! Please check out “Wash Tubs and White Weasel: Memoirs of a Reservation Indian, 1940-1960” by Anita M. Chosa (a.co/d/2PgOBDh). Consider purchasing and/or sharing this post to help spread the word.
Let’s close the chapter on this part of the story: I have successfully completed my Master of Science in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. There’s so many people to thank for sharing their knowledge and guidance to help me achieve this goal. Thank you!
April 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Let’s close the chapter on this part of the story: I have successfully completed my Master of Science in Industrial Heritage and Archaeology from Michigan Technological University. There’s so many people to thank for sharing their knowledge and guidance to help me achieve this goal. Thank you!
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“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”
Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.
Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.
Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained
Fabian Schmidt’s family said they are unsure of why he is being held. They said he has a recently renewed green card, and no active issues in court.
www.nhpr.org
March 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.”
Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.
Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.
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Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people are praising the strength and determination of the families of two First Nations women who fought for a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for their loved ones' remains. #mbpoli #mmiwg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Manitoba premier, advocates praise families' love, strength after remains found in landfill search | CBC News
Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people are praising the strength and determination of the families of two First Nations women who fought for a search of a...
www.cbc.ca
March 8, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Advocates for missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people are praising the strength and determination of the families of two First Nations women who fought for a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for their loved ones' remains. #mbpoli #mmiwg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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😢 💔
And shame on the previous PC government for refusing to search the landfill.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And shame on the previous PC government for refusing to search the landfill.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Remains of Morgan Harris confirmed among those found at Winnipeg-area landfill | CBC News
RCMP have confirmed a set of human remains found in a landfill outside Winnipeg late last month are those of Morgan Beatrice Harris, one of four victims of a convicted serial killer.
www.cbc.ca
March 8, 2025 at 4:09 AM
😢 💔
And shame on the previous PC government for refusing to search the landfill.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And shame on the previous PC government for refusing to search the landfill.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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The women’s families, First Nations people and their supporters had been pushing reluctant authorities to search the landfill since 2022 @bartschaneman.bsky.social reports
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
Remains of murdered Indigenous woman found in Canadian landfill
The murders of two Indigenous women by a serial killer led to a pressure campaign to search the landfill near Winnipeg after authorities initially refused.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The women’s families, First Nations people and their supporters had been pushing reluctant authorities to search the landfill since 2022 @bartschaneman.bsky.social reports
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...
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That is exactly true.
March 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
That is exactly true.
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France just can’t stop showing off. Now they’ve burnt down their first Tesla dealership in protest to Elon Musk. #E3 #TeslaTakeOver
March 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
France just can’t stop showing off. Now they’ve burnt down their first Tesla dealership in protest to Elon Musk. #E3 #TeslaTakeOver
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"The US needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them." time.com/7262838/us-p...
The Case for Returning U.S. Public Lands to Indigenous People
"If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?" asks Joe Whittle.
time.com
March 7, 2025 at 2:42 AM
"The US needs to return its public lands to Native Americans. In fact, I believe that might be the only way to save our parks and forests from corporate privatization and destruction, as well as preserve public access to them." time.com/7262838/us-p...
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Groundbreaking children's play written by a Navajo playwright using elements of the Navajo creation story premieres at Kennedy Center despite upheaval. ictnews.org/news/groundb...
Groundbreaking play premieres at Kennedy Center despite upheaval
Award-winning playwright Rhiana Yazzie stands firm in taking her story to Washington audiences
ictnews.org
March 7, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Groundbreaking children's play written by a Navajo playwright using elements of the Navajo creation story premieres at Kennedy Center despite upheaval. ictnews.org/news/groundb...
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I don’t want to take the high road anymore, I want to do property damage
March 7, 2025 at 12:53 AM
I don’t want to take the high road anymore, I want to do property damage
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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What childhood was like before vaccines www.vox.com/health/40268...
What childhood was like before vaccines
The anti-vax movement has gone mainstream, but before these shots, grief and loss marked the lives of children.
www.vox.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
What childhood was like before vaccines www.vox.com/health/40268...
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Migrant Indigenous farmworkers feel deportation threat: Interview with Arcenio López of the Mixteco/ Indígena Community Organizing Project, who describes the particular hardships of his community—roughly 1/4 of all farmworkers working in California today. civileats.com/2025/03/04/a...
'If You Speak an Indigenous Language, You Are Treated as Less': Migrant Indigenous Farmworkers Feel Deportation Threat
A community organizer and former farmworker based in California reflects on the vital role of Indigenous migrant labor in U.S. agriculture.
civileats.com
March 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Migrant Indigenous farmworkers feel deportation threat: Interview with Arcenio López of the Mixteco/ Indígena Community Organizing Project, who describes the particular hardships of his community—roughly 1/4 of all farmworkers working in California today. civileats.com/2025/03/04/a...
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"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
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Are you nervous, Elon?
Jon Stewart Rips Musk Over His 'Bullsh*t' Excuse For Backing Out Of 'Daily Show' Interview Offer
Scared, Elon?
www.comicsands.com
March 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Are you nervous, Elon?
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This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.
March 4, 2025 at 6:09 PM
This reality show premise of finding the dumbest MFer in the country and making him president isn’t going well. Season 1 sucked. Season 2 is much worse.
Dump is a facist loser. He’ll never be my president. I will engage in any protest against him or treat him like the garbage he is. This is my resistance and he will never take away my free speech.
March 5, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Dump is a facist loser. He’ll never be my president. I will engage in any protest against him or treat him like the garbage he is. This is my resistance and he will never take away my free speech.
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Alight runs six centers for extremely malnourished children in Sudan, where the group treats babies + infants so sick that they will die within hours without ongoing care...They're trying to fundraise, knowing that the day they close their doors, children will die
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...
www.propublica.org
March 3, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Alight runs six centers for extremely malnourished children in Sudan, where the group treats babies + infants so sick that they will die within hours without ongoing care...They're trying to fundraise, knowing that the day they close their doors, children will die
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Because of course. That's why you don't need an agency to oversee national parks, because there won't be any.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests (Gift Article)
The president wants to circumvent environmental regulations to expand timber production, something sought by homebuilders and the construction industry.
www.nytimes.com
March 3, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Because of course. That's why you don't need an agency to oversee national parks, because there won't be any.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...
Of course Sugarcane didn’t win an Oscar. Hollywood still does like Natives originally films that promote Native advocacy. It’s still a win for Indian Country.
March 3, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Of course Sugarcane didn’t win an Oscar. Hollywood still does like Natives originally films that promote Native advocacy. It’s still a win for Indian Country.
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In February, one nonprofit got waivers for its programs supporting refugees in war-torn regions.
On Wednesday, the waivers were terminated.
In Somalia alone, its clinics served 1,200 patients/day.
On Thursday, all those clinics closed.
@propublica.org by @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
On Wednesday, the waivers were terminated.
In Somalia alone, its clinics served 1,200 patients/day.
On Thursday, all those clinics closed.
@propublica.org by @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.
The axing of some 10,000 programs has consigned untold numbers of children and refugees to death, officials say. Documents and interviews reveal that the State Department appears to have made the cuts...
www.propublica.org
March 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
In February, one nonprofit got waivers for its programs supporting refugees in war-torn regions.
On Wednesday, the waivers were terminated.
In Somalia alone, its clinics served 1,200 patients/day.
On Thursday, all those clinics closed.
@propublica.org by @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy
On Wednesday, the waivers were terminated.
In Somalia alone, its clinics served 1,200 patients/day.
On Thursday, all those clinics closed.
@propublica.org by @annamaria.bsky.social & Brett Murphy