Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 13/02/20262 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.) 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 12/02/2026I’m teaching Vine Deloria, Jr.’s Custer Died for Your Sins this week. It’s a beautiful mix of joy, optimism, and outrage. I’ve now read it about 20 times and it still makes me laugh. 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026🔥in this case. And it can help instructors avoid the charge that to call out the racism in territorial governance is an edgy woke leftist idea. 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Finally, I must unfortunately note Freymann’s 2020 article on Guam as an illustration that imperialism is alive and thrives today. foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/14/c...foreignpolicy.comCounter China by Making Guam a StateMore than a partisan move, statehood would be a foreign-policy masterstroke. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Also, Mariely Lopez-Santana’s scholarship and public commentary on Puerto Rico is great. I’ve drawn lesson plans from them. 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Nothing in it authorizes judges to engage in the sordid business of segregating Territories and the people who live in them on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion.” 🧵 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“The flaws in the Insular Cases are as fundamental as they are shameful. Nothing in the Constitution speaks of ‘incorporated’ and ‘unincorporated’ Territories. Nothing in it extends to the latter only certain supposedly ‘fundamental’ constitutional guarantees. 🧵 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026There, Justice Brown contended, ‘the administration of government and justice, according to Anglo-Saxon principles, may for a time be impossible.’” 🧵 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026But it would not do for islands ‘inhabited by alien races, differing from US in religion, customs, laws, methods of taxation, and modes of thought.’ Id., at 287. 🧵 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“Employing arguments similar to those advanced by Professors Lang dell and Thayer, Justice Brown saw things in the starkest terms. Applying the Constitution made sense in ‘contiguous territor[ies] inhabited only by people of the same race, or by scattered bodies of native Indians.’ Id., at 282. 🧵 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026The Insular Cases have no foundation in the Constitution and rest instead on racial stereotypes. They deserve no place in our law.” 🧵 110
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026“A century ago in the Insular Cases, this Court held that the federal government could rule Puerto Rico and other Territories largely without regard to the Constitution. It is past time to acknowledge the gravity of this error and admit what we know to be true: 🧵 120
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 10/02/2026If 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 🧵 200
Reposted by Laura EvansRob Maxim @robmaxim.bsky.social · 03/02/2026If 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.comJobs and Internships 041
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 03/02/2026It says a lot that they’d rather kill the things they love rather than accept change. Boy Scouts had become so outside mainstream values that it was no longer viable financially. Going back = going bankrupt. 030
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 29/01/2026The leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe have a helluva lot more courage of conviction than a lot of mealy-mouthed politicians out there. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 26/01/2026I say yes. Uniforms assert norms and narratives. Here, they model appropriate military-civilian relations. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Precisely. SCLC chose Birmingham based on Bull Connor’s record. They avoided other cities with less monstrous police. This was the lesson learned from the unsuccessful outcome in Albany, GA. (documented in Aldon Morris’ book and in many others.) d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/... 071
Reposted by Laura Evansexplore.org @explore.org · 25/01/2026Cuddles and coffee. We all need a dose of unconditional love right now. These pups are future Guide Dogs for the blind. 09617
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Remember 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. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026If Pretti’s gun accidentally discharged, 💯 guaranteed they would have secured the scene and searched for the bullet and casing. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Genuinely—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? 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026And I am intrigued by the idea that the US government would transfer billions of dollars to Greenlanders for a sovereign wealth fund, since it’s only fair. End 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Sources: anthctoday.org/epicenter/publications/Mortality2021/AN_MortalityReport_web.pdf www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices... 🧵anthctoday.org 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026Cancer rates in US: Alaska Natives: 205.9 Overall population: 155.3 (Per 100k) 🧵 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 25/01/2026These 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 🧵 112
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 24/01/2026Heart-shaped whale spray, for anyone who needs something good and beautiful to sustain them. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Helpful 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...grist.orgGreenland 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. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Sometimes we talk about the enduring presence of genocidal institutions in a metaphorical way. But sometimes it’s physical. ictnews.org/news/former-...ictnews.orgFormer Native American concentration camp lies beneath current immigration detention center - ICTFort Snelling, the site of a Dakota War era concentration camp, is once again being used to detain Indigenous people 0107
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 23/01/2026Ah, old familiar speech that non-Christians are monsters who don’t love children. 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Which taught kids important messages, such as how cutting down trees is good for air quality and biodiversity 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Sounds like a sequel to Truax mattsonclass.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/...mattsonclass.weebly.com 100
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Yup. I read this as saying the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all Arctic peoples is up for grabs. 100
Reposted by Laura EvansRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Trump 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. 15824
Reposted by Laura EvansFaine Greenwood @faineg.com · 21/01/2026man 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. 371537399
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Maybe 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. 000
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 21/01/2026Seriously, what’s going to happen when he learns Reykjavik is in the Western Hemisphere, too? 010
Reposted by Laura EvansRebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Across 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. 04916
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 20/01/2026See the Pinkerton-Uri finding in the 2nd paragraph 200
Reposted by Laura EvansAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/01/2026WELKER: 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 26451999
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 18/01/2026Unreal. The US enacted Indigenous sterilization policy parallel to the Danes. At its peak in the 1970’s, one quarter of Native women in the US had been sterilized without consent. 120
Reposted by Laura EvansAFP 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. 05726
Reposted by Laura Evansayyu ❄️ @ayyu210.bsky.social · 17/01/2026An 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?...youtu.be180,000 Strong Inuit Standing TogetherYouTube video by Ayyu 8328115
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 17/01/2026If you’re having a tough day, here’s a baby orca to make it better. 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 16/01/2026What skills do you bring to defending yourself against polar bears? 010
Laura Evans @lauraevans.bsky.social · 14/01/2026Technically, I had internal bleeding when I bumped into the corner of my desk last week. I call it a bruise, but I suppose I could use frightening and misleading words to describe a it if I wanted to. 000