Video of yesterday's event at UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues: 'Identity Fraud and Indigenous Self-determination - Perspectives of Abenaki Youth' -

State-recognized 'Abenaki tribes' in Vermont are neither Abenaki nor Indigenous.

#UNPFII2024

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Defending the identity of the Abenakis at the UN: “we are the wildest dream of our ancestors”
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Listening to Abenaki leaders address identity fraud at the UN today. Here's the link if you're online right now: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1k/k…

Times Square tonight with the Abenaki delegation to the UN!

Stop Indigenous Identity Fraud!

Code Switch has an excellent essay on the opinion piece about NPR making the rounds, noting it acts as if the existence of systemic racism is an open question, though NPR has reported on the extensive evidence which proves it absolutely exists. READ: loom.ly/SdKRJGc

April 17, 2024 at the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues:

'Identity Fraud and Indigenous Self-Determination: Abenaki Youth Perspectives'

Link to watch is in graphic below.

Kao Kalia Yang's decision to leave the Hmong-only phrases in her book, The Rock in My Throat, spotlights the problem of the English-dominant literary landscape in a country where residents speak hundreds of languages.

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Please read this write up about Warrior Girl Unearthed! ojibwe.net/warrior-girl-u…
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Congratulations to 2024-2025 President-Elect Raymond Pun and all our newly elected leaders. Thank you to all the great candidates who stood for election this year and all the members who voted.
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A team of Native women and youth embarked this week on a journey across the Navajo and Hopi nations, successfully distributing 10,200 books for free, sourced from dozens of publishers of Native American authors. 🪶💖🎀

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Excited to share the promo for my upcoming graphic novel, 'Super Indian Volume Three.' Preorder via superindiancomics.com

Excited to be part of the upcoming IndigiPopX, April 12-14 in Oklahoma City, OK. Tickets are on sale...and I hear they are giving me an award. Aww, heck...why not? See you there!

Hey! Puddin'! Go there. Got shrimp and grits. Bourbon bread pudding. Get it!

Sign up! 'Indigenous Belonging and Rights in the Northeast' on April 25:

#ChapterBook #CoverReveal for Jo Jo Makoons: Rule School!! Out this fall - read about Jo Jo in the tribal talent show!! Art by the amazing Tara Audibert !! Just look at Jo Jo's little ribbon skirt
Rosemary Brosnan Cynthia Leitich Smith Erin Murphy

Fans of Arigon Starr and her exceptional work... A new volume of SUPER INDIAN is at the printers! …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2024/03/native…

Excited to see this! A picture book coming from a Pueblo writer!

Trisha Moquino's, THE LAND WE LIVE ON will be out in 2028 from Candlewick! Illustrations by Madelyn Goodnight. Screencap from Publisher's Weekly: publishersweekly.com/.../94580-righ…... Abby Arquero -- this is wonderful!

More evidence of the folly and racist injustice of legalized identity fraud in Canada, aka self-identification…

The Gladue provision in Canadian criminal sentencing law allowed this pedophile to avoid jail time by self-identifying as Haudenosaunee of Montréal, with no evidence…