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Writing on Indigenous identity, Métis heritage, Treaty 7 territory, and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.

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Two arms, one with darker skin, one with lighter skin, clasp together against a near-black background, bound by a single red thread that wraps around both. Dramatic low-key lighting isolates the hands at the centre, the red yarn the only point of vivid colour.

What We Lose with Cultural Extinction: The Red Thread Cut

In 1995, China abducted six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima—the recognized 11th Panchen Lama—severing the chain of mutual recognition at the heart of Tibetan Buddhist succession. Meanwhile, Michif, a language born from Cree verbs and French nouns that belonged to no one but the Métis People, has nearly vanished within living memory. Both losses are the same act: colonialism's weaponization of continuity. On the extinction of languages, the cutting of red threads, and what it means to inherit a chain with links already missing.
An outdoor powwow or Indigenous ceremonial gathering set against an overcast urban skyline. The left foreground is filled with a large, strikingly colourful regalia bustle. Concentric rings of neon yellow, red, orange, and purple feathers with long white ribbon fringe. In the mid-ground, several figures stand on a grassy field; two wear large traditional eagle feather headdresses that face away from the camera, their faces obscured. One person wears a Northwest Coast-style button blanket or cape featuring black-and-white formline design. The gathering includes people in both traditional regalia and everyday clothing. A highrise tower is visible through the cloudy sky in the distance, situating this cultural gathering within a contemporary urban landscape.

Where is the Indigenous Cultural Revolution?

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney's 'The Undercommons' describes a space of collective refusal beneath the institutions of the master. On why Black American cultural revolution was possible, why Indigenous cultural revolution is structurally different, and where the Indigenous undercommons already is. The potlatch went underground for sixty-six years. The drum broke out in a shopping mall. The land is the undercommons. We were always already here.
A green historical plaque mounted on a brick wall titled 'Kamloops Indian Residential School,' describing the school's operation from 1890 to 1977 and the forced removal, isolation, and cultural suppression of Indigenous children; a person stands partially visible to the right, looking at the sign

Follow-up: An Interview with Frances Widdowson

After publishing my piece on Frances Widdowson this morning, she reached out to comment. What followed was an hour of argument, bad faith, and one remarkable final message.
An edited photograph tinted deep orange-sepia. A person speaks forcefully into a handheld microphone while two University of Manitoba Institutional Safety Officers grip her from both sides. A thick painted banner across her eyes reads 'DENIER' in bold block letters.

Frances Widdowson Dedicates Her Life to Denying Residential Indian School Survivors, Then Calls Herself the Victim

Ex-Mount Royal University professor and author of 'Grave Error: How the Media Misled Us (and the Truth About Residential Schools)' believes she is persecuted by grieving Indigenous communities and woke leftist academic institutions. She has raised over $50,000 for her cause.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon travelled to Greenland to see first-hand the impacts of climate change. Together with the Prime Ministers of Denmark and Greenland, he visited the town of Uummannaq, where they hoisted flags, observed a prayer ceremony in a local church, went dog sledding; and met with indigenous people

Greenland Belongs to the Inuit

The Greenland debate keeps asking whether the U.S. could take it, or whether Denmark should keep it. The missing question is: What do the Greenlanders want? They’ve already answered: 'We don’t want to be Americans. We don’t want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.' This is about Indigenous sovereignty and the quiet billionaire scramble for Greenland’s resources.
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We’ve Known About Thomas King for Over Ten Years.

How do we reckon with Canada’s Pretendian problem?
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