So proud of my friend Marx Cassity for making this #TwoSpirit anthem about healing and resilience. Watch until the end and tell me you dont cry.😢

youtu.be/0j3Bn_yXZ54

Senate Bill 26X will extend the state-tribal tobacco compacts until the end of 2024 while HB 1005X will extend the motor vehicle registration to the same date. kosu.org/politics/2023-…

On the next IN THE THICK, Julio Ricardo Varela is joined by Rebecca Nagle, Cherokee journalist& host of Crooked Media's #ThisLand podcast, and Joseph M. Pierce, Cherokee writer & Associate Professor in the Department of Hispanic Languages and Literature Stony Brook University.

Episode drops tomorrow!

I, too, sing America...

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
'Eat in the kitchen,'
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed—

I, too, am America.

~Langston Hughes

Every #4thofJuly I think about what colonial militias did to Cherokee communities during the Revolutionary War.

In 1776, they waited until it was too late in the growing season for corn to be replanted. Then they invaded & burned the crops & everything they could to the ground.

We need to have a serious conversation about the rules of evidence at #SCOTUS .

This case is not the only example of Supreme Court practitioners playing fast & loose with the facts.

BREAKING G.T. Bynum is authorizing the City of Tulsa to file a petition to SCOTUS to re hear the Hooper v City of Tulsa case that was just decided by 10th Circuit days ago

The moment we are living through is one conservative strategists have been building towards for decades.

Where it doesn’t matter who controls Congress or the White House, bc conservatives control the courts.

And (by grabbing power) the court has the last word.

#BREAKING : For a 6-3 Court, Chief Justice Roberts holds that Missouri *does* have standing to challenge student loan program, and strikes program down.

FIRST op - Gorsuch writes 303 Creative: First Amendment prohibits CO from enforcing the anti-discrimination ordinance against a website designer. 6-3 opinion supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf…

So grateful to the team who made this.

So upset somehow we lost this & Rutherford Falls but keep shows where the only Native ppl are caricatures from the imaginations of ppl like Taylor Sheridan.

A day late but #ICYMI an appeals court rejected Tulsa’s attempt to use a 19th Century law—passed in order to coerce the five tribes into allotment—to wrestle back jurisdiction it lost after #McGirt .

3 yrs after the ruling, OK is still fighting it.

“Deeming race irrelevant in law does not make it so in life.”

Powerful words from Justice Jackson’s dissent.

The largest lithium mine in the US is slated to be built on the site of an 1865 massacre of Western Shoshone and Paiute people. The tribes are arguing in federal court laws protecting historical and cultural resources should block the project. apnews.com/article/nevada…

#ICYMI the latest episode of #ThisLand is out now!

We take you inside the Supreme Court to unpack what their ruling on #ICWA means. And, as always, we are joined by the amazing Matthew Fletcher! Listen wherever you get your pods!

Just talked to Greg Treat who said he plans on bringing up another vote to override Governor Kevin Stitt ‘s veto of both tag tobacco compacts during extended spec. Session. Story coming soon on KOSU

Another #Pride in the books. #TwoSpirits represented in the #Tulsa pride parade.

We were here long before this time of mounting homophobia & transphobia. And we will be here long after.