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Jacqueline Keeler

@jfkeeler.bsky.social
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Diné/Dakota writer living in Portland, Oregon. My 2021 book, Standing Rock, the Bundy Movement, and the American Story of Sacred Lands, was called by Kirkus Reviews " an eye-opening narrative of two standoffs with the U.S. government.”

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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Today is Orange Shirt Day. Across the US & Canada, the fight for boarding school truth faces rising white nationalist denialism & threats to vital archives. I trace this history from my great-great-grandfather escaping Carlisle to Grant's Peace Policy. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-orange...
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The Orange Shirt Day Standoff: White Nationalism, Denialism, and the Fight for Indigenous Lands Across Canada and the U.S.
On September 25, reports came of masked white nationalist groups marching onto Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc land—where the confirmation of unmarked graves at the Kamloops Indian Residential School shocked t...
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
10 years after Standing Rock, the fight for water & survival has evolved into self-determination. From the Wozú solar microgrid powering buffalo processing to community energy independence, Standing Rock is building the future. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/returning-... #MniWiconi
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Returning to Sacred Waters: Ten Years Later, Building the Future at Standing Rock
A Decade After NoDAPL, Mni Wiconi Finds New Life in Sovereign Solar Microgrids and Community Resilience
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Updated my 9/11 retrospective on Substack with an audio clip reading from the piece. A reflection on how our generation’s democratic ambitions were replaced by a permanent state of war. Listen to the snippet or read the full essay here: jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-living...
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The Living Ghosts of Twentieth-Century Hopes: 9/11 & Gen Xers
Reflections on the War on Terror, Native sovereignty, and what I observed on September 11, 2001, from an A-frame in the Sierra Mountains.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
NPR and Canadaland thought they could air smears & dodge accountability. But they missed one crucial detail: Canadaland broke Canadian law. Read my latest breakdown: jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/yes-they-d...
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Yes, They Defamed Me—But Did You Know CANADALAND’s Broadcast Broke Canadian Law, Too?
From Canadian broadcasting violations to NPR’s Code Switch syndication: The cross-border fallout of protecting a "Pretendian."
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
That’s been a claim going on for several years. Smh.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Instead of BBQs & shopping—Labor Day could honor the immense sacrifices of the working class. Here, I trace that struggle & use Aunt Ella Deloria’s tiyospaye to map how we break out of the tech extraction machine and return to being good relatives. 🔗 jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-iron-c...
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The Iron Cage and the Tiyospaye: Max Weber, Ella Deloria, and the True Meaning of Labor Day
On Labor Day, we are all expected to hit the road and take a vacation or go shopping.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Thomas King looks exactly like his mom’s Greek family. He didn’t have to wonder. I don’t believe his story about his mother explaining his coloring as Cherokee. And he had plenty of time to do the genealogy and know both prospective grandfathers, Hunt and King, were white men #pretendians
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The NYT obituary for Ward Churchill sanitizes his legacy by scrubbing the truth about his fake Cherokee claims. He didn't have "disputed" heritage—his claims were thoroughly disproven by tribal nations & genealogists. Full piece coming soon. 🧵 #pretendians www.nytimes.com/2026/08/12/u...
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Ward Churchill, Professor Who Challenged His Dismissal, Dies at 78
His inflammatory essay about the Sept. 11 attacks prompted his dismissal by the University of Colorado for unrelated research misconduct. A jury later found that he had been wrongfully terminated for ...
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
🦋 Trump signs an EO slashing Bears Ears today. But don’t look at Utah in isolation. Last week, the White House targeted the Smithsonian for hosting "stolen land" narratives. Censor the history in museums to justify repeating it on the ground. My analysis: open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
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The Erasure Strategy: Why the White House Attacks on the Smithsonian and Bears Ears are the Same War
Utah politicians celebrate as the executive pen prepares to slash our monuments this afternoon—while the administration works to erase the history of how they got the land in the first place.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Part III of my America 250 series is live. I examine how 1776's "liberty" rhetoric was weaponized against Native Nations, focusing on the agonizing strategy of Chief Joseph Brant—& how these 250 yr old settler land hunger play out on our streets today. #America250 open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
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Part III: The Republic They Built—and the Nations That Endured
The Declaration's Forgotten Frontier
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Most of us were taught 1776 was just about "no taxation without representation." But the archival reality of the frontier tells a deeper story. Part II of my series looks at the raw financial motives and the land speculation that drove the Revolution: open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #America250
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Part II: Land, Liberty, and the Limits of Representation
If the frontier explains why Native Nations appear in the final grievance of the Declaration of Independence, it also forces us to reconsider the Revolution’s most familiar slogan: “No taxation withou...
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Every July 4, we hear soaring lines about equality. But how many read to the end where Jefferson brands our ancestors as “merciless Indian Savages”? As Native people, we know it wasn’t just racism—it was wartime propaganda masking the Founders’ land speculation:  open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
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Part I: “Merciless Indian Savages” and the Real Estate Behind the Revolution
The Declaration’s Forgotten Frontier
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Ahead of the 250th anniversary of the US, we need to remember how the Declaration of Independence functioned as a framework for a land grab of Native homelands—enshrined by the words "merciless Indian savages.” www.instagram.com/p/DaTLhAMCfw...
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Jacqueline Keeler on Instagram: "This morning at 8 a.m. on E Pluribus Unum on KBOO 90.7 FM, we took a hard, structural look at the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States. With July 4th just t...
36 likes, 6 comments - jfkeeler on July 2, 2026: "This morning at 8 a.m. on E Pluribus Unum on KBOO 90.7 FM, we took a hard, structural look at the upcoming 250th anniversary of the United States. Wit...
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“He turned our sacred Lakota ceremonies into crime scenes.” The sentencing of Nathan Chasing Horse is a reckoning for the “Medicine Man” industrial complex. During #RedDressDay week—we have to talk about where predators hide. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #MMIW #NathanChasingHorse
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The Day After Red Dress Day: Ransoming the Soul
How Nathan Chasing Horse Turned Our Ceremonies into Crime Scenes
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One of the Millions of Joe Kellys @thejoekelly.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
At the beginning of 2025, FEMA was running with a 35% staffing shortage. By March of that year, Donald J. Trump had stripped the organization of over 200 employees, leading many to question whether the department was ready for severe weather events.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Your cousin!
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Omg. The 9th Circuit is not what it was.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
From the sacred sites of Chaco Canyon to Oregon’s old-growth, we’re seeing the “Bundy-logic” of the Malheur occupation institutionalized at the national level. The settler state is treating our Mother as a balance sheet to be liquidated. #EarthDay2026 #PublicLands
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Earth Day 2026: Mother Earth is not a corporate “asset.” 🌎 From a $1B payout to kill offshore wind, the feds betrayal of Columbia River Tribes, commitments to a future are being abandoned. Read & listen at @KBOO: open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli... #EarthDay2026 #LandBack #Sovereignty #Journalism
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Earth Day 2026: Mother Earth Is Not Your "Asset"
In today’s special Earth Day broadcast on KBOO 90.7 FM, we dig into the "Great Unmaking."
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Sure. Happy to.
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David Delgado Shorter @davidshorter.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Tragic and yet all too common. jacquelinekeeler.substack.com/p/the-nuance...
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The “Nuance” of Erasure: How the Met’s Norby Failed NAGPRA & My Dakota Family
In April 2023, Patricia Marroquin Norby, then the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first Curator of Native American Art, took to Hyperallergic to plead for “nuance.” She described repatriation as “labor-i...
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I just spoke to folks who gave a very different summary of who and what AOO is (and Bonnechere) and the Metis lawyer you quoted. I think this certainly deserves an update on my Substack.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
An “Honest Mistake.” #CoupalvLeroux
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
“Honestly mistaken” white people who built careers in a FN identity and theis supporters don’t like it when you share this article. #coupalvLeroux
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
You’re the one posting under a ridiculous fake name. So brave. My name is right there. Jacqueline Keeler. Let’s have a REAL conversation.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Once again, what is your real name and nation?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
No response? Huh. My name is Jacqueline Keeler. Right there on my profile. I am a citizen of the Navajo Nation and born for the Yankton Dakota people. The things I say are under my real name and nation if they are not they are meaningless.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What’s your tribe. And name?
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
It was the sound of a legal theory disintegrating in real-time. If you cannot explain the status of the original inhabitants of this land, you have no business trying to redefine the citizenship of everyone else. #TrumpvBarbara #BirthrightCitizenship #TribalCitizenship #NativeAmerican
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
The defining moment of today’s hearing was when Justice Gorsuch asked the Solicitor General a simple, foundational question: “Are children of Native Americans birthright citizens?” After a painful silence the govt’s lead lawyer could only muster a hesitant “I think so.” youtube.com/shorts/w8xrX...
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John Sauer seems unsure when asked if Native Americans fall under birthright citizenship. Thoughts?
YouTube video by Don Lemon
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Please do. Because White Identity Entrepreneurs are the real victims here.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Communicate with me under your real name as I do. Your arguments mean nothing otherwise.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Fraud for pay disrespects tribal sovereignty.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Identity entrepreneurship is just marketing. Anyone can verify the claims. 99 percent of my vast extended Native family DO NOT put their tribe on their resume-they don’t need to. Someone with ZERO proof doing it is just engaging in self promotion.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
SCOTUS hears Trump v. Barbara Wed. They’re using Elk v. Wilkins (1884) to end birthright citizenship. But IF applied equitably, the "legal chain" for millions of white Americans collapses. Without modern visas, 19th-c. roots become "defective." A house of cards. ⚖️ open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
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The Ghost of John Elk: How the Right has Weaponized Indigenous History to End Birthright Citizenship
This Wednesday, April 1, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The judge didn’t find her claims to be true—he found her to be honestly mistaken.
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Jacqueline Keeler @jfkeeler.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
The "buy back the land" myth masks a troubling reality. From the 2019 White Earth inquiry to the 2023 sexual harassment verdict involving child safety, the receipts are clear. We must prioritize community accountability over celebrity brands to ensure our survival. open.substack.com/pub/jacqueli...
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The Manufactured Hero: Why We Must Stop Consuming "Feel-Good" Indigenous Myths
Every so often, a post cycles through our social media feeds—a perfectly curated, nostalgic-looking image paired with a caption that tells a story we desperately want to believe.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 13/03/2026
Just so we're all clear, this is a war crime and would be punishable by life or death under U.S. law.
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