Elise Blasingame

HAPPY JUNETEENTH MY BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ❤️🖤💚

When all of the barrel jeans hit thredup, where will you be?

… is what Claudia Jean Cregg *would say* if you miss our panel on Black Politics next Wed, April 23 from 3pm et/12pm pt feat papers by @aricaschuett.bsky.social and Curtis Edmonds. Register 👉 american.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Details 👇

Today!

NEW ISSUE from @psrm.bsky.social - Political Science Research and Methods Volume 13 - Issue 2 - cup.org/3FT3kKV w/ papers by @enblasingame.bsky.social, @jaketruscott.bsky.social, @peterrosendorff.bsky.social, @mikecowburn.bsky.social, @msaeltzer.bsky.social & more #MPSA25 #OpenAccess #MPSA2025

Please join the Indigenous Studies Network at @apsa.bsky.social for a talk with Morgan Mowatt, @ginastar.bsky.social and Matthew Wildcat as they discuss their 2024 article on Building an Indigenous Politics Subfield! #polisky Register: ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

A bill is working its way through the South Dakota legislature, which, if passed, would mandate the teaching of the Oceti Sakowin Essential Understandings. Oceti Sakowin tribes include the Lakota, Dakota and Nakota peoples. southdakotasearchlight.com/briefs/lawma...

After one (1) day of allowing public comment, the Library of Congress has caved and decided that Dear Leader can make whatever reality he wants. The official subject headings are now "America, Gulf of" and "McKinley, Mount (Alaska)." #Libraries

Listening to Tchaikovsky S6, thinking about FOIA, the strength of our federal employees, and how to Indigenize IRB forms at the university. youtu.be/qVA1ieo9Js4?...

They should make a polite fast & furious called kind & courteous

Any groups downloading data from the Federal Register? Or archiving that? Please let me know! #polisky

NOT OPTIONAL. Haskell Indian Nations University had to let go of about 50 staff, including instructors. Some students were left without teachers for classes in the middle of spring session. This is enraging.

GovWayBack. govwayback.com

Everyone reading that the OMB rescinded the federal funding freeze memo to *alleviate* confusion.

We are holding interviews with Tribal Leaders and advocates to make Corral the best possible tool for Tribal Consultation. Eligible participants will be entered into a drawing for one of (2) $250 gift cards or donation to Native-led charity of your choice! Sign up: bit.ly/4hm7850

Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies job University of Alaska Fairbanks (Hybrid) I really love this department! I graduated from it and the people are amazing!!! The College of Indigenous Studies, housed within the Center for Cross-Cultural Studies (CXCS). careers.alaska.edu/jobs/assista...

Some thoughts about this paper, on the long-awaited day of its publication:

🦜New Pub Alert! 🦜 In our new article @psrm.bsky.social, @joeornstein.bsky.social @jaketruscott.bsky.social and I demonstrate how LLMs (like ChaptGPT) can be used to process large text-as-data projects, like sentiment analysis, document scaling, and topic modeling. #polisky doi.org/10.1017/psrm...

Today I found out that I have met the requirements for my graduate certificate in Native American Studies at UGA. The PhD milestone will be April, but wanted to celebrate because it means a great deal that I was afforded the opportunity. Thank you INAS! inas.uga.edu @universityofga.bsky.social

This #GivingTuesday please consider making a donation to help create tools like Corral to hold U.S. governments accountable to Tribal Nations. We are halfway to our goal of $60,000 to create the Corral platform! Donate via Americans for Indian Opportunity (501(c)3) at: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

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The presidential pardoning of turkeys is one of my favorites. It's one of those specific benchmarks lobbyists dream of - "big turkey" saw an opportunity and now its a beloved national tradition. Enjoy your retirement, you beautiful powerbrokers.

Majority Rules is a great documentary that just came out. It covers the open primaries and ranked-choice voting during the first two election cycles for the AK House seat. Includes a few other states as well. (great for using in your political process courses #polisky) majorityrulesfilm.com

Just remembered this great resource - a database of many Tribal newspapers across North America. Was helpful today for my student who is studying the policy history of the 2013 VAWA Reauthorization and looking for Native voices! www.indigenousnewspapersinnorthamerica.amdigital.co.uk

The GOP is using bathrooms to target the first trans congresswoman. A long, ugly history of bathrooms-as-discrimination predates the attack on freshman member of Congress Sarah McBride. Read the story: goodauthority.org/news/republi...

The Indigenous Leadership Academy at ASU is focused on creating emerging leaders in Indian country. It's an amazing experience and great way to connect with Tribal sovereignty protectors from across the country! Deadline to apply is 12/13: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Did you know that 60% of Native candidates who ran for office in the 2024 cycle, won? 246 Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians ran for office in 25 states! Megan Feeney, Advance’s Research & Data Manager, breaks it all down here: www.facebook.com/events/11078...

Are we penciled in yet? Join us TOMORROW!!

For those watching, Peltola still has a shot in Alaska. Despite the early call by Decision Desk HQ, neither Begich (R) or Peltola (D) have reached 50%, so rank-choice will now kick in. They're not expecting final tallies until ~Nov. 30th. alaskawatchman.com/2024/11/18/b...

It was lovely speaking with NPR on how we had more Native candidates for office than ever before during this recent cycle! Once in office, Native American electeds are agenda-setting and leading on tribal sovereignty policy in American institutions. www.npr.org/2024/11/02/n...

heavy is the shrimp that fries the rice

Nothing Indigenizes a government institution better than practicing ceremony during political process. In this case, its a haka on the parliament floor. Excellent response by the Māori MPs in NZ. Changing treaty interpretation after almost 200 years is nasty business: www.bbc.com/news/videos/...