Colton John Brandau, PhD

Native American Studies (UCD/CSUS/Chabot/SCU); He/Him; Historian, Alaska Native Studies, Anti-Colonialism; Settler ≠ slur; #LandBack #BLM #FreePalestine 🏳️‍🌈

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

Well, I got the official email today, I have completed my PhD program and can now call myself Dr. Brandau!!

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

@onehandpolitics

[Nick Tilsen @NickTilsen]

Oglala Sioux Tribe Officially Bans ICE!!! Sending encouragement to other Tribes to do the same!

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Trump is not “bringing back” the age of U.S. imperialism. From Indigenous nations, to Guam and Puerto Rico, to migrants detained at our border, the U.S. has always controlled the lands and lives of people who had no say. The U.S. has always been an empire.

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

Republicans: Overthrow the government, take the oil, and destroy the country

Democrats: Get Congressional approval to overthrow the government, take the oil, and destroy the country

[Irish Unity 🇮🇪🇵🇸 @IrishUnity]

Remembering the Lakota people massacred at Wounded Knee 135 years ago today. RIP

"Its heart was buried in Wounded Knee,
But it will come to rise again."

- Bobby Sands MP

[Steven Mazie @stevenmazie]

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional

ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting people to detain and deport is cool cool cool

[Brendan Gutenschwager @BGOnTheScene]

“No one’s illegal on stolen land” chants in LA this evening

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

At AATSEEL 2026 I will be leading a research lab on Indigenous Studies and how Slavic Studies can better engage with these methods, knowledges, and Indigenous Nations/communities.
If you are interested in participating in this lab, please follow the link below.
See you in NOLA!

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

@rachelbnolan Congratulations!!

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The Israeli apartheid regime has resumed its genocide, carrying out airstrikes all across Gaza and killing hundreds of Palestinians. This comes after a complete blockade of food, electricity, and aid.

They will never stop until there are sanctions and an arms embargo.

[CU Apartheid Divest (CUAD) @ColumbiaBDS]

BREAKING: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HAS JUST SUSPENDED, EXPELLED, AND REVOKED DEGREES FROM 22 STUDENTS FOR PROTESTING GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE

[g a b y @gabydvj]

the ACLU just released video of ICE arresting Mahmoud Khalil, taken by his pregnant wife. note the plainclothes officers

[Workshops4Gaza @Workshops4Gaza]

Columbia has kidnapped another student!

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

The Trump administration position is clear: The First Amendment does not apply to criticizing Israel or opposing Israel’s policies. The administration is starting to carry out a policy of criminalizing this speech.

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

"The Becon of Hope"

(Also, tying Amherst's efforts to genocide Lenape and Shawnee Peoples to the Sauk leader Black Hawk shows how knowledgeable this group is of actual Native American history)

[Native American Guardians Association @GuardiansNative]

𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐆𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐧'𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐅𝐞𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝟓, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓,
𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞

In the service of the Great Spirit, on behalf of truth, it is NAGA's sacred mission to not just save traditional Native American culture - but promote and grow it.

We "Guardians" and the other 90% of WAPO surveyed Natives who supported NFL's use of Redskins and image of Chief Two Guns Whitecalf for 87 years continue to be ignored by today's woke/racist decision makers at the D.C.-based franchise which continues to insist on utilizing THE most DEGRADING and INSENSITIVE namesake in any sports league - the Commanders. Had the NFL done any type of focus group with Natives, they would know that their team name is considered indefensible as it was a series of Commanders - many from D.C. - who decimated the once-formidable native nations of this continent.

Lord Jeffery Amherst - in an attempt to wipe out redskin warrior Black Hawk- used small-pox infected blankets to wipe us out.

General G. E. Custer - a calvary Commander sent from D.C. - attempted to wipe out our people to include redskin warriors Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull.

General Patrick Connor - a troop Commander sent from D.C. - wiped out an entire native encampment known as the Bear Creek Massacre.

Each of these "Commanders" and 100s more like them, were responsible for our near-total cultural eradication. Thus, the continued use of the rushed, non-focused group, woke-culture provided name to replace the venerable redskin warrior Chief Two Guns Whitecalf, stands as a excruciating reminder of the generational horror unleashed on our people by 'Commanders from D.C.

NAGA will continue to be THE BECON OF HOPE to the vast majority of both card-carrying Native Americans and the more than 50% of all Americans who carry some level of native DNA - that's more than 160 million of us.

We will continue to fight the slanderous misinformation campaign of the NFL's Commanders and their dishonest political/media cabal who continue to misrepresent what a Redskin is and was. Born in Boston, Ma. in 1933, the Redskin name is and was always "

'...Braves on the warpath…” as indicated in the team’s own fight song – a red-painted warrior - nothing more, nothing less.

In short, Commanders from D.C. were once sent to murder redskin warriors, to wipe out our culture and eventually remove our lands from all of our people.

Today’s news that the Commanders will continue to unfairly relegate Chief Two Guns and other redskin warriors to the
dustbin of history and clearly is designed to continue the genocidal efforts of Amherst, Custer and Connor.

As the original Americans, we deserve better than be labeled D.C. Commanders – it’s insulting. We deserve honest representation and the telling of the truth. Educate not Eradicate.

[Nick Estes @nickwestes]

Leonard Peltier is granted clemency! He’s out of prison and commuted to home confinement. This is a huge win for grassroots Indigenous movements who kept his campaign alive and a moral indictment on the system and people who kept him unjustly imprisoned for half a century.

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

@HerbertHistory I live for Hollywood bullshit

[Colton John Brandau, PhD @ColtonBrandau]

Took a quick trip out to Maine so I could propose to my girlfriend in style.
She is the most caring, supportive, and wonderful person I know and I can’t wait to spend my life together with her