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Tribes Blast ‘Wannabe’ Native American Professor

By |2017-10-01T22:10:39-06:00July 11th, 2015|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

“I have always been, and will always be Cherokee.” This is University of California, Riverside professor Andrea Smith’s official response to recent allegations that she is not Cherokee, an identity that she has claimed throughout her decades-long career as a prominent figure in Native American scholarship and activism. In a blog post on Thursday night, [...]

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New DNA Results Show Kennewick Man Was Native American

By |2017-10-01T22:11:10-06:00June 18th, 2015|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

In July 1996, two college students were wading in the shallows of the Columbia River near the town of Kennewick, Wash., when they stumbled across a human skull. At first the police treated the case as a possible murder. But once a nearly complete skeleton emerged from the riverbed and was examined, it became clear [...]

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When Is Fashion Going To Stop Appropriating From Native American Culture?

By |2017-10-01T22:11:10-06:00March 24th, 2015|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

In fashion, it's a designer's job to create a world from the ground up season after season. Sometimes that means seeking inspiration from pre-existing ones, but all too often this hunt for a new muse leads to appropriating from other cultures. This past fashion month, Dsquared2's twin designers Dean and Dan Caten caught flack for [...]

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Facebook flags aboriginal names as not ‘authentic’

By |2017-10-01T22:11:10-06:00February 25th, 2015|Categories: Kim TallBear, Media|

  Facebook requires its users to use a profile name that’s the same as the name they use in real life, but some indigenous people say the social network is rejecting their real names because they don’t conform to its standards. Earlier this month, Dana Lone Hill, a member of the Lakota people living [...]

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