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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

From @ayyu210.bsky.social by @xhunei.bsky.social Happy Sesquicentennial :) Link to Ayyu's post: www.facebook.com/100000177680...

On the eve of the United States' 250 year commemoration, this feels like a great moment to wish our Indigenous fam a Happy Sesquidecimillennia (15,000) ~ despite all efforts to diminish us, here we still are.

Today and every day, I am thankful to be Native.

"it's a really long time," indeed.

✨️ Graphic credit and gratitude to Dr. Du Aaní Kawdinook Xh'unei - made almost a decade ago in response to Alaska's then-150 year Sesquicentennial ✨️

Image is the state of Alaska and the western parts of Canada with colors marking the tribes of these regions. Inupiaq is the light blue in Northwest Alaska

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

patriarchy boot analogy by LeAndra Lee Baker ~ Black woman, writer, philosopher & feminist 🙌🏽 youtube.com/shorts/inf-v...

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#patriarchy

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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Indigenous athletes are at the winter Olympics! 3 Métis athletes from Canada are competing in luge, hockey, & bobsleigh, and 2 Inuk athletes from Greenland (representing Denmark) in the biathlon. Read about them here!

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WINTER OLYMPICS: Indigenous athletes compete not just for their country but for the world - ICT

UPDATED: A brother-sister pair from Greenland, three Canadians and a New Zealander are among the Indigenous athletes competing in the Winter Games in Italy

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

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Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I just watched this twice. It’s very impactful and well done. Nothing will ever be done to rectify this colonialism and climate emergency without Democratic leadership. I feel the same sadness and shame as I do seeing the DHS and ICE behavior towards people. #akleg

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FRONTLINE | Alaska's Vanishing Native Villages | Season 2025 | Episode 4

A look inside Alaska Native villages fighting for survival against climate change.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April

Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

We stand with our 🇬🇱 Inuit relatives. Quyanaqpak to Max with Northern Journal for writing this to bring awareness to the familial connection with Greenland and Iñupiat perspectives of what is happening in Kalaallit Nunaat/Nunarput. #InuitFirst www.northernjournal.com/harm-against...

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‘Harm against our family’: Alaska’s Indigenous leaders call for solidarity with Greenlanders amid Trump’s threats

“We are essentially the same people."

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sylvie @syljuby.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

'Inuit land belongs in Inuit hands' ❤️

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

An Inuit message of solidarity and support for our 🇬🇱 relatives from Inuit of Alaska and Canada ❤️ You are not alone. We love you and stand for your right to self-determine the future of your nunaat ✨️ #InuitNunaat #InuitNunangat #Greenland #KalaallitNunaat #KalaallitPigaat youtu.be/MeE8PHbLgfo?...

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180,000 Strong Inuit Standing Together

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🦋 ᕈᕼi 🦋 @thephi.blue · 23/12/2025

Greenland has announced it will annex the United States, citing humanitarian concerns, chronic leadership instability, and an urgent need to protect valuable land from reckless mismanagement. Officials assured Americans they'll soon enjoy free healthcare, quieter politics, and less gold plating.

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 25/08/2025

Modeled reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice volume since the year 1901 - comparison between PIOMAS-20C and PIOMAS data sets now updated through 2025... Data information available at doi.org/10.1175/JCLI...

Line graph time series for Arctic sea ice volume in every July from 1901 through 2025. Two datasets are compared between PIOMAS-20C (a blue line) and PIOMAS v2.1 (a dashed red line). There is large interannual variability, but a long-term decreasing trend since 1990.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Centering Western perspectives of "true" history by calling our Indigenous histories "prehistory" & insinuating we are only modern due to colonization are two of many ways we are gaslit into assimilation and conformity. Ernestine Hayes (Lingít) says it brilliantly here ✨️ youtu.be/ejKXuPt6rEY?...

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Diminishing Native history as "prehistory" + weaponizing modernity. Always been and will be modern✌🏽

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

ask us how much our "free" healthcare *really* costs. youtube.com/shorts/tgS9-...

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do Natives get free healthcare?

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/08/2025

Two lawsuits allege that Jay McGraw, son of Dr. Phil, is the “principal beneficiary” of tribal lender Minto Money. CreditServe, a company that McGraw plays a key role in, controls the operation while “the Tribe is merely a front,” the suits said. (Published May w/ @adn.com)

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A 700% APR Lending Business Tied to Dr. Phil’s Son Is Dividing an Alaska Tribe

Tribal lender Minto Money has boosted the economy of its Alaska town. But some tribal members are appalled by the millions it’s made off desperate borrowers — much of which, lawsuits allege, has gone…

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

*vulnerable post* please know that if you're struggling right now, it's a humane response to the chaos happening across our world. we've made it through all of our toughest times - I will bet on us every. single. time. sending love ♡ #mentalhealthcheck youtu.be/rnpb11cViBw?...

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Last Dec, I testified w 17 leaders @ The Hague during #ICJ hearings on countries' obligations re climate injustice: www.pisfcc.org/peoplespetit... Tomorrow, the world's highest court will issue its advisory opinion on global responsibilities to address climate change + human rights. #ClimateICJAO

A medium height woman with dark hair and Inuit clothing stands in front of "Peace Palace" the International Court of Justice in The Hague, Netherlands, during a historic week of hearings related to states' obligations on climate justice and human rights, December 2024

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

As the northern hemisphere tilts toward the waning light, holding the many energies we are moving through and carrying with tenderness + love 💖 For our southen relatives, the light and warmth are returning; and this is the way of life ✨️ Sending love to all needing a little extra today 💖 #solstice

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

still think a dating app for N8Vs called Dreamcatcher would be 🔥

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Colonization IS white history. How Indigenous people have survived it is ours.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I am honored to give 2 upcoming presentations in Nuuk, Greenland: 1st - centered on Inuit identity/knowledge as our strength, 2nd - thesis research on the era of missionization + formation of Alaska's education system and its ongoing impacts to Native students and peoples 🙏🏽 #Inuit #Colonization

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Alaska Inuit stand in solidarity with our eastern relatives for Inuit sovereignty over #KalaallitNunaat #Greenland 🇬🇱 Stand with us ✊🏽🔥❤️ (song: Alianaak by powerful Inuk artist Varna Marianne Nielsen ❤️) youtu.be/OQFAyc0-Bgs?...

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Alaska Inuit stand w/ Greenland for Inuit sovereignty over #InuitNunaat (song: Alianaak by Varna)

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Powerful protests across Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) today standing for Inuit sovereignty and against colonization from the US and Denmark 🔥✊🏽✨️ #InuitNunaat

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

carving a qulliq/eq (Inuit seal oil lamp) for my aaka (mother) during an Arnaat (women's) cultural healing gathering on Yup'iit Nunaput in Curyung [aka Dillingham, Alaska] #qulliq #qulleq #naniq #Inuit #Inuk #sealoillamp #Indigenous youtube.com/shorts/hr6Q5...

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carving a qulliq for my Aaka ♡ #Inuit

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Who is a better colonizer? Denmark or the US? Neither. There are no good colonizers. From one Alaska Inuk to our Inuit relatives in Greenland, a perspective of what to expect if the US takes over your country and our people there. #Inuit #Greenland #Kalaallitnunaat youtu.be/N-E2TsGDlDM?...

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There are no good colonizers.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Yes, everything feels overwhelming & intense. Go out and feel the sun, wind, rain or snow on your face today. Take big deep breaths. Remember what we are fighting FOR, not AGAINST. Hold it close. Call a loved one & tell them they make our world better. Realign to goodness & let's get to work 💖

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

with Kendrick's halftime show, many Inuit are calling out the E-word slur on GNX which is both righteous AND we need more nuanced convos re: Black/Indigenous solidarity + erasure. made a quick vid to uplift the convo 🤲🏽 youtu.be/xIGsx9LwH-E?... #Kendrick #Inuk #NotYourEskimo

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Black/Indigenous solidarity and the E-word

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

with Kendrick's halftime show, many Inuit are calling out the E-word slur on GNX which is both righteous AND we need more nuanced convos re: Black/Indigenous solidarity + erasure. made a quick vid to uplift the convo 🤲🏽 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2AHebK4/ #Kendrick #Inuk #NotYourEskimo

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on Black/Indigenous solidarity + the E word #Kendrick #GNX #Inuk

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ThemBOO! @thembo.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Day one of Obama's term, the GOP was facing the same odds and declared unanimously and unambiguously that they would not help him a lick and anyone who didn't like it could eat shit. It largely worked, and they left the literal playbook for the Dems - who have instantly surrendered.

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

I’m in the nascent stages of organizing licensed Alaska lawyers in good standing who want to use their educations, free time & energy to learn about & work pro bono on issues the current administration may bring to our doorstep & how to be prepared to help people. If you’re interested DM me.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees: Don’t accept a buyout. Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer. And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it? Sincerely, Robert Reich Former U.S.Secretary of Labor

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

+ Theft of Indigenous lands, smallpox blankets, broken treaties, forced relocations, internment camps, dehumanizing one-drop and blood quantum policies, voting disenfranchisement, violent missionization, 1/

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

I needed the reminder today. Maybe you do too? #InukPower www.tiktok.com/t/ZT26nF8sR/

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One Hot Mess AK @libbybakalar.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It’s only “DEI” if it comes from the DEI region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling scapegoating racist bullshit.

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Matt Acuña Buxton @matt.akmemo.com · 27/01/2025

Rep. Dibert, who is Alaska Native, goes over some of the history and fights to have the name Denali recognized. She says changing the name ignores their work. "It’s not just a name. It’s a symbol of history, culture and respect."

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Erica Watson @rickirobin.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

The #Denali Borough often has a kind of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ approach to governing, but they have taken a stance on…you know.

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‘Láaganaay Tsiits Git’anee @laaganaay.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Wonderful to see Māori knowledge and kinship recognized and utilized for its unique and powerful understanding, leading the way with this amazing blessing to learn from this whale.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

in my observation, men who were raised within and honor matriarchy are among the most healthy, grounded, and beautifully masculine men I know.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

When colonial lies get lodged in our throats, we are very effective carriers of their poison. #endlateralviolence

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Happy #Truthsgiving! For your listening pleasure, sharing this live Coffee & Quaq podcast w/ yours truly, Dr. E.J. David & Igḷuġuq Jacquii talking about why why teaching true histories with Indigenous perspectives is important for *everyone*. open.spotify.com/episode/5ybl...

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Episode 10: #Truthsgiving

Coffee & Quaq · Episode

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Dr. Twyla Baker @indigenia.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Gonna’ pin this here.

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

ii'i - celebrating the miracle that is US, sistaq ✨️🫶🏽

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ayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

personally, I proudly identify as Iñupiaq and Yup’ik (or Inuit) - but I stand for my peoples' right to identify how we choose, including as esk*mo. 1/2

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Shayne 👩🏻‍💻 @shayne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Made a feed centering Alaska BIPOC voices on here because — OOOOOFFF — we need it

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