Dr. Twyla Baker
Indigenous academic living and working on the original homelands of my ancestors. Nu’Eta & Hidatsa. Fort Berthold | MHA Nation | Indian Country I’m a Tribal College President fond of storytelling and green chile. All opinions are my own.
- I deeply love the brown skin I am in. 🥰
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- I would like to just exist without having to ‘decolonize’ sh*t anymore. I am exhausted from having to try and show folks there’s so many more better ways of being. That we aren’t locked into this, that these systems aren’t even that old, and ARE NOT inevitable, or invincible.
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- Just published an essay on this www.welcometohellworld.com/there-is-no-...
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- Enit. 🥴
- Its cold. 🥶
- Reposted by Dr. Twyla BakerAre we seriously about to go to war with Denmark, Norway, and France because an old man with obvious dementia and the nuclear codes is running our country, and a pack of enablers won’t do the bare minimum and get him into a care facility where he belongs? This is the craziest fucking timeline.
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- It’s astonishing to me when I see Native people defending what this administration is doing. They would not hesitate for one moment, to deliver this cruelty to you, too. In fact, our peoples are ones that should be the most familiar with this history, since it’s been that way since first contact.
- Reposted by Dr. Twyla BakerInuit from Alaska and Canada stand with our relatives in Greenland 🇬🇱 Quyana @ayyu210.bsky.social for organizing this video
- An 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?...
- Mornings like this make me grateful for my cozy little home. ☕️
- Idk if it’s possible for me to care less about movie awards shows than I do right now. Prayers over Minneapolis, my friends and family there. 💙🙏🏾
- I am angry a lot these days. I don’t like that. I suppose I’ll go lift or something.
- Reposted by Dr. Twyla BakerA reminder from Huffington Post that DHS and ICE have opened fire on unarmed civilians 16 times since Trump took office, killing 4 people. In every case, DHS claims that the victims "assaulted officers" and/or tried to ram them with cars. In every case, evidence proves they are lying. Every time.
- Native people making excuses, downplaying, caping for 🧊, is when colonization has won; because where is their soul? What would the ancestors have thought?
- Thou Shalt Not K*ll.
- The Hidatsa and Nu’Eta (Mandan) people of the upper Missouri fell to biological warfare (smallpox) in apocalyptic numbers about 5-6 generations ago for my family; upwards of 90% of the population for the Nu’Eta. And yet here I am. Talking to you. My Nu’Eta and Hidatsa blood flowing in my veins.
- Today was horrifying.
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- So thankful my mama was Motown, not country when I was growing up. 🫶🏾
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- Absolutely.
- Yknow I’d like to say that the U.S. isn’t supposed to go around invading countries (and it’s not), but I’m a citizen of a Native Nation of THIS land, and this country is BORN of invasion. This is standard practice for this country, yall. And yes, I’m still mad as hell about Venezuela.
- Reposted by Dr. Twyla BakerThe world's worst people are having a collective meltdown over Mayor Mamdani. I love it. Happy New Year.
- A gift as the seasons turn back to the sun. Please read my story, “Carrying the Light: A Winter Solstice Tale”, included in this amazing end-of-year edition of “The Game”, w/Editorial Director Kevin Powell. I’d be honored if you shared with your networks. thegame.visibility.art/p/issue-elev...
- New Year, True You. 💫
- Submitted a draft story and now I won't think on it. Been doing this for years, and I still get hella nervous when things go to edit. Excited too, though. :)
- My writing mentor, who has written 15+ books and edited many more, and done so many amazing things over a decades long career - said I’m one of his favorite writers. There isn’t a better Christmas gift than that. I can’t think of what could top it. 😭🥹💙🎄
- I just realized I hit my 27 year sobriety birthday on Dec 15th. I do not miss a moment of those days, and life can be hard at times, but it is endlessly easier, more beautiful, more fulfilling, sober. You go, Me.
- I put my pants on TWO legs at a time, too. 💅🏽 😎 😂
- Drop your advice for severely dry winter skin. 👇🏾 I am now premenopausal, so even though I’m from up north and the dry winter air ain’t new, THIS is a new one to me. 😵
- If you’re muddling thru the holidays, I see you. It’s hard to feel joy these days. Expectations are happiness killers, and it’s good to free yourself of them. Your happiness, your joy matters too. Lifting you up, friends.
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- Rob Reiner will be remembered with more love, more affection, respect, and deference than he EVER will, and that’s what gets to him the most. Reiner is beloved. He never will be.
- So now that the weather em events are wrapped, there’s no snowstorms forecast. 😭 like CMON, Mother Nature, I need to be snowed in!
- 50 Cent has the type of beef capacity that Natives have with the government. 😂 💀 Fr though, that Netflix doc had me 👀
- Reposted by Dr. Twyla BakerIt’s a collective shame that two years into genocide we spend today celebrating an ONGOING genocide. Go to native-land[.]ca, learn whose land you’re on, & pay them reparations. Find a survival fund for a family in Gaza, & pay them reparations. 15 HOURS LEFT to stop this family’s eviction. 419/700
- Busta Rhymes and Lil Jon on Thanksgiving Day parade floats; this is how I know I’m old now. 😂👵🏾
- I got a vegetable tray for tomorrow. I really am an eternal optimist.
- Typically I’m good at staying positive. The world is just rather heavy today, and I am pretty disheartened. I need someplace to put this feeling, so that’s Bluesky today. God’s blessings are coming, and I remain faithful. I just need to put the burden down for a minute from time to time.
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- I am already overworking and exploiting the worker, but I am also considering unionization. 😉😂
- I’m building an LLC. Wish me luck, I am my only employee. 😂
- Self love includes self discipline. Holding yourself to account. Taking care of yourself. I hope you’re finding gentle ways to do so, in these weird times.
- Walmart on a Saturday afternoon. Pretty sure this is one of those lesser known dimensions of hell. 🫠
- Every once in a while I get to write something that simply feeds my spirit; today is one of those days. Have a read of my latest, “Hardwood Hostiles: Art and Culture of Rez Ball” featured in The Game, as edited by the amazing Kevin Powell. 🏀 thegame.visibility.art/p/issue-five...
- “Stare into the deadlights” is so apt. 😭😭😭🫠🫠🫠😂
