We also owe a great debt to Professor Wenona Singel (Little Traverse Bay Bands) whose scholarship Justice Gorsuch cited *ten times* in his concurrence (joined by Jackson & Sotomayor, JJ.). Prof. Singel leads the fields of public law and governance, and is an expert on ICWA.
The Brackeen majority opinion is very important. But I also think we should pay special attention to Justice Gorsuch's concurrence. A 🧵 on how Gorsuch brings clarity to Indian law while setting up significant issues to be resolved: (1/14)
We are overcome with joy that the Supreme Court has upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which is widely regarded as the gold standard of child welfare.
Truly devastated.
Today, @Harvard University's Peabody Museum is announcing it holds a massive collection of Native hair clippings representing > 300 Tribes. Over 700 taken from Native youth attending boarding schools.
Protecting our children is our common political interest.
When parents take their kids to conferences we are trying to still show up for our careers while parenting. The financial & literal cost of bringing them isn’t easy. I think of the systemic barrier this creates for student-parents. #NASPA22#StudentParents#Momademia
If decolonial scholarship from the Global North didn't occupy so much discursive space, decolonial thought, as well as decolonial praxes of living, resisting, & organizing, from the Global South wouldn't seem as invisible, peripheral, or silent.
@TylerMTully "Decolonization is not a swappable term for other things we want to do
to improve our societies and schools. Decolonization doesn’t have a synonym." Tuck & Yang 2012
Miigis B. Gonzalez, Kelley J. Sittner, Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, and @MelissaLWalls find an indirect association between Indigenous language use in the home and positive mental health, mediated by spiritual connectedness @APA_Journals https://t.co/fkqzXqJybI