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4 weeks ago | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
In mid-March, hundreds of tribal leaders and Indigenous school principals, teachers, and parents across Turtle Island voiced their objection to President Donald Trump’s ill-defined “school choice” executive order (EO) for Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools during a nationwide tribal consultation.
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1 month ago | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
Drawing on economic lessons from the Covid pandemic emergency, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation just east of Oklahoma City has frozen tribal spending and hiring until the pandemonium settles from President Donald Trump’s bloodless purge of federal workers, programs, and spending.
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2 months ago | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
On Thursday evening, arriving in a parade of lowriders cruising into the National Hispanic Cultural Center’s courtyard, Deb Haaland stepped out of a pearl white Chevy Impala convertible, waving to her supporters. As a citizen of Laguna Pueblo, Haaland was the first Native woman elected to Congress and then the first Native person to lead the Department of Interior as secretary. And as of Tuesday, she is campaigning to be elected the first Native state governor.
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2 months ago | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
In mid-January, at the last possible minute, on the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration into his second presidency, then-President Joseph Biden commuted the sentence of Indigenous political prisoner and American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier, who is serving two consecutive life sentences having been convicted of killing two FBI agents in a shoot out in 1975 during an FBI paramilitary offensive.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
No FrontiersPeer beyond the veil of western empires and colonial societies, their global rise in extreme beliefs, and the Indigenous peoples struggling for rights and sovereigntyNo thanks
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Nov 29, 2024 | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
No FrontiersPeer beyond the veil of western empires and colonial societies, their global rise in extreme beliefs, and the Indigenous peoples struggling for rights and sovereigntyNo thanks
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
Share Project 2025’s playbook for dismantling the federal government would functionally sever federal Indian trust responsibilities The conservative playbook echoes over a century of assimilationist and Termination era Indian policies Losing access to federal programs, funding, and services would inflame tribal economic and social disparities By contrast, Project 2025’s conservative culture war fears Indigenous interest groups and activists will “tear apart the foundations of Western...
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
Project 2025’s playbook for dismantling the federal government would functionally sever federal Indian trust responsibilities The conservative playbook echoes over a century of assimilationist and Termination era Indian policies Losing access to federal programs, funding, and services would inflame tribal economic and social disparities By contrast, Project 2025’s conservative culture war fears Indigenous interest groups and activists will “tear apart the foundations of Western Civilization”...
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
First and foremost, Project 2025 seeks to dismantle the federal government and institute a Christian Nationalist agenda in all sectors of American life, a kind of assimilation tribal nations and Indigenous citizens are all too familiar with.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
nofrontiers.substack.com | Kalen Goodluck
An open letter signed by over 180 attorneys and endorsed by three legal advocacy organizations calls for the Biden administration to investigate possible war crimes and acts of genocide committed by American citizens fighting for the Israel Defense Force (IDF) as well as investigations into Americans for inciting genocide.