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Laura Evans

@lauraevans.bsky.social
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Poli Sci prof at University of California, Riverside. I write and teach about the politics of Native Nations, Indigenous peoples, federalism, and race. I am both a dog person and a cat person.

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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
2 things to note: -Tribes are not subsets of states, as press release implies. -States cannot choose whether tribal rights, including tribal rights, are constricted or not. Tribes are sovereigns that precede the states. (Yes, there are tons of nuances here. But remember the fundamentals.)
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
If teaching US modern territorial politics for the first time, may I suggest using US v. Vaello Madero Gorsuch concurrence details how the entire basis for territorial governance today is racist. Here are highlight quotes 🧵
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Rob Maxim @robmaxim.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
If you or someone in your network is interested in working at @brookings.edu on issues affecting Native Americans and Tribal economies, I am hiring for a (paid!) summer intern. You can find more info or apply here:
interns-brookings.icims.com
Jobs and Internships
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
The leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have a helluva lot more courage of conviction than a lot of mealy-mouthed politicians out there.
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explore.org @explore.org · 25/01/2026
Cuddles and coffee. We all need a dose of unconditional love right now. These pups are future Guide Dogs for the blind.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Remember that at this point, the Trump Administration has researched the best arguments they have available to justify Pretti’s murder. Their best wonks and analysts were up all night designing a strategy. It’s telling that their best arguments are devoid of fact and reason.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Genuinely—can someone explain to me Bondi’s request for MN voting records? In every state I know, it’s already public record whether you’re registered, for which party, and which elections you’ve participated in. Are Bondi’s staff so incompetent that they don’t know this? Or is MN law unusual?
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
These claims are patently false. Here’s the data on Native health Native Life expectancy Greenland: 74.0 for women, 69.2 for men Alaska: 72.8 for women, for 68.1 men Share of Native women involuntarily sterilized in US in 1970’s: one quarter 🧵
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Heart-shaped whale spray, for anyone who needs something good and beautiful to sustain them.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Helpful explanation of why it’s important to think about US power plays over Greenland through the lens of Native politics. Too much other news coverage has been built on a lot of presumptions about the people of Greenland and their desires. grist.org/global-indig...
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Greenland is a global model for Indigenous self-governance. Trump’s demands for the island threaten that.
Historians say underpinning Trump's talk of national security lies a longstanding pattern of American entitlement to Native land.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Sometimes we talk about the enduring presence of genocidal institutions in a metaphorical way. But sometimes it’s physical. ictnews.org/news/former-...
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Former Native American concentration camp lies beneath current immigration detention center - ICT
Fort Snelling, the site of a Dakota War era concentration camp, is once again being used to detain Indigenous people
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ah, old familiar speech that non-Christians are monsters who don’t love children.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Yup. I read this as saying the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all Arctic peoples is up for grabs.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/01/2026
man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes? 89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Maybe Trump’s reference to Iceland is dementia. But maybe it’s a tell. If someone informed him that his logic wrt Greenland applies as well to Iceland and to the Arctic islands of Canada and Norway, he’d be pleased as punch.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Seriously, what’s going to happen when he learns Reykjavik is in the Western Hemisphere, too?
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Across the country Indigenous nations are warning their citizens they may be targeted by ICE and to carry tribal IDs. If this is not evidence of racial profiling, I don’t know what is.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026
WELKER: Why is it necessary to do something 85% of Greenlanders oppose? BESSENT: Denmark has a terrible history w/ Greenlanders. There were forced sterilizations until the '90s. Now that the US has expressed an interest, there is this new interest. But the US needs to be in control to prevent a war
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 18/01/2026
🇬🇱 Greenlanders protest in Nuuk after Trump's annexation threats Thousands of people protest in the capital of Greenland against President Donald Trump's plans for the US to annex the Danish autonomous territory.
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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
YouTube video by Ayyu
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Settler colonialism is a helluva drug
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
If you’re having a tough day, here’s a baby orca to make it better.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
It is hard to see this as anything but retaliation against the Oglala Sioux Tribe by Noem. They were highly critical of her and kicked off the movement to ban her from reservations in SD. See letter below. At DHS, Noem’s rhetoric and imagery have been consistently anti-Native. 1/2
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.
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History Keeps Happening @historykeeper.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
"Oneida Nation LLC takes action to terminate contracts with ICE"
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Oneida Nation LLC takes action to terminate contracts with ICE - ICT
In a Jan. 2 Oneida Live online meeting, Tribal Chairman Tehassi Hill said he had just learned of the ICE contracts on Monday morning, Dec. 29 through social media posts.
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
‘Buying countries is Stone Age mentality:’ Inuit speak up on Greenland canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...
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‘Buying countries is Stone Age mentality:’ Inuit speak up on Greenland
Indigenous Greenlanders, who endured centuries of colonialism from Denmark, now face a new threat from Donald Trump’s United States
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Arn Keeling @arnkeeling.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Can’t argue with that logic! #YanquiStayHome www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'No such thing as a better colonizer': Inuit emphatically reject U.S. takeover of Greenland | CBC News
Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland. And, they say, they're tired of being used as geopolitical chess piec...
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is vile.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Miccosukee Tribe is being punished 4 fighting Alligator Alcatraz. Congress passed a bipartisan bill 2 expand the Tribe’s land base & Trump vetoed the bill saying the tribe undermined his immigration agenda. The House refused 2 override his veto. ictnews.org/news/house-r...
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House refuses to override Trump veto of a bill for Miccosukee lands - ICT
The House refused Thursday to override President Donald Trump's veto of two low-profile bills — one involving the Miccosukee Indian Reservation — as Republicans stuck with the president despite their…
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This bill passed unanimously. You need 2/3rds of both houses to override a veto. That’s less than unanimity. That’s how craven these people are.
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Native people being detained by ICE proves the raids are not about immigration status, but skin color. Since the Trump administration sent 2,000 ICE officers to Minneapolis at least 5 Native people have been detained and an unknown...
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I would encourage everyone interested in following the Alaska Senate race to be following Indigenous media. Sullivan’s choice to alienate the Alaska Federation of Natives—and its significance—seems to have escaped the attention of other outlets. ictnews.org/news/alaska-...
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Torey Dolan @toreydolan.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
I’m proud to have worked with the Native American Rights Fund on an amicus brief on behalf of Native communities about the difficulties Native communities face when voting by mail: www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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Five Native Americans detained by ICE during ongoing raids in Minneapolis - ICT
Native American community members report increased ICE presence, fears of racial profiling
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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
From the Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents the almost 200,000 Inuit of Alaska, Greenland, Canada, and Chukotka (or Russia): “There is no such thing as a better colonizer.”
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Trump wants Greenland. But what does Greenland want?
“There is no such thing as a better colonizer."
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Kimberly Atkins Stohr @kimberlyeatkins.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
From my column of nearly a year ago, a reminder that Trump’s Greenland gambit is an attempt to steal an indigenous nation that is working toward its own independence: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/01/08/o...
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Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
In what appears to be a punishment for fighting Alligator Alcatraz, President Trump vetoed a bipartisan bill that would have expanded and clarified Miccosukee land in Florida. nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/...
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Trump Veto Stalls Effort to Expand Miccosukee Tribal Lands
On Monday, President Donald Trump vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have expanded and clarified the Miccosukee Tribe’s land in Florida’s Everglades. The veto appears to be in retribution of the...
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
As is half of Iceland. Make Reykjavik Great Again?
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Plus, circumpolar security policy has been based on cooperation with Canada and Norway. We seem less safe by sabotaging those relationships. Both Canada and Norway include Arctic islands, to which Trump’s land-grab logic would also seem to apply. Surely this makes them nervous.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Suppose I’m an evil genius in Trumpland. What’s my pretext for an invasion and occupation of Greenland? A false flag, and then I claim the response by Europeans is insufficient? Please help me make sense. Even evil geniuses have to workshop.
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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
There seems to be a lot of confusion between “lots of professors who lack merit are being hired” (false) and “lots of people with merit are unable to find jobs as professors” (true).
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 19/12/2025
Full of unpleasing blots and sightless stains, Lame, foolish, crooked, swart, prodigious, Patch’d with foul moles and eye-offending marks
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Authorities are investigating possible ties between the shooting at Brown University and a professor who was killed at MIT, WPRI reports www.wpri.com/target-12/po...
Authorities are investigating possible ties between the shooting at Brown University and a professor who was killed at MIT, WPRI reports. Two images of people gathering.
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Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
How many instructors have used the “these go to eleven” clip in a stats or math class? ✋ I remember when the ability to include a video film clip in a PowerPoint came along—I thought it was ridiculous, until I realized I could show that clip, and I was sold.
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FLAVOR FLAV ⏰ @flavorflav.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
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Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
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Chris Newman @cnewman.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Good that this is happening. But in all seriousness, what took them so f-king long? www.latimes.com/california/s... #iceoutofcalifornia
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California leaders launch online portal where 'federal agent misconduct' can be reported
California officials launched an online portal Wednesday where residents can report potentially illegal activity by federal agents or military officers working in the state.
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