The U.S. Supreme Court also has issued the long-awaited decision in Haaland v. Brackeen. #ICWA #DefendICWA #ProtectICWA
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The SEA 23 Panel Stream for Early Native American & Indigenous Studies will feature five sessions:

1) When to Begin the Early American Literature Survey, 9:00-10:30 AM, June 8

1/ For months, we’ve been investigating UC Berkeley’s troubled history with tribes, its failures over the decades with repatriation & Indigenous people’s repeated complaints about a single professor.

Our latest, in partnership with NBC News: propublica.org/article/berkel…

BREAKING: 48K University of Calfornia TAs, postdocs & other student workers just walked off the job.

It's the largest strike in the US since 2019.

Many UC workers earn < $24k/yr. A PhD student I spoke to said they donate blood plasma to make ends meet.
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Kimberly Takahata Kimberly Takahata is an early Americanist literary scholar whose work focuses on texts of settler colonialism & Indigenous life & a 2022 - 2023 Regional Fellow at Wolf Humanities Center. tinyurl.com/bdetp4vz

#SCOTUS hears oral argument today in Brackeen, a constitutional challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act; the Court could use #Brackeen to undermine the foundations of Indian law. Plaintiffs argue that ICWA is unconst'l race discrimination and that it violates states' rights. /1

The Race & Empire Caucus of #ASECS is still seeking participants on this roundtable. If any Indigenous scholars are interested but never considered a society like ASECS a home for your work, I’d be happy to answer questions about the panel and conference!

For your consideration: ⁦Liz Polcha⁩ ⁦Ittai Orr⁩ and I are organizing a panel for ⁦The Society of Early Americanists⁩ on mutual aid. Please send submissions by this Thursday, October 20th drive.google.com/file/d/1g98Qsz…

#asecs2023 Race and Empire Caucus CFP: 'Roundtable: Land Sovereignty and the (De)Colonial Biosphere: Recentering Indigenous Relations to the Living World
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CFP: Liz Polcha Ittai Orr and I are organizing a panel for SEA '23 and we'd love for you to join us! Please send abstracts by Oct 20th

Our first fall '22 meeting of the BIPOC Writing Group will be held tomorrow evening in Garey Hall! Come in person for pizza, prompts, and fun, or write to Professor Tsering Wangmo for the Zoom link.

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This will be missed with the Queen’s death, but it needs to be posted. “The University of Alabama has more than 10,000 Native American human remains in its possession, according to a federal notice published by the National Park Service last week.” nativenewsonline.net/currents/10-24…

This fall is the first time in five years I'm reteaching a prior course. I've reworked it, but it's saving me prep time and increasing my confidence in the class. And that's one more hardship with the market/contingency: restarting over and over, always investing time and labor

It's good to see more news coverage re: Penn Museum's plan to bury remains of Black Philadelphians held in its collection & the objections. But the articles aren't engaging with what it would mean for descendant communities to lead this work, not museums.

#MuseumsAreNotNeutral

Mark your calendar!

We're hosting a 'Writing History for the Public' panel on 8/3 at 5PM EST with Elise A. Mitchell, Adam X. McNeil (ABD) (aka Metaphors & Memes), @hellenkeniford, & marisa s. budlong.

We especially encourage grad students to come. It's all about how to get over your hesitations & pitch that story!