# Kim Tallbear
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kim tallbear is a Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate professor at the University of Alberta, specializing in racial politics in science. TallBear was educated at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of California, Santa Cruz, where she was advised by Donna Haraway
and Professor Emeritus James Clifford (historian).A member of the Council of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, in late 2016 she became the first ever Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience and Environment. An anthropologist specialising in the intersection of science and technology with culture, TallBear is a frequent media commentator on issues of Tribal membership, genetics and identity.
Interrogating 'The White Possessive', Pt. 5 (ep 364)
On this episode: the last of our five-part series on the seminar, "Sovereignty First: Tackling the White Possessive in an Era of 'Collaboration,'" where we jump into genomics, a realm rife with racialized thinking and practice according to population scientist and Princeton graduate anthropology st…
Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization w/ Kim TallBear
TRN Podcast Nick Estes live in conversation with Kim TallBear about the conference they organized, Holding Our Ground: Voices and Strategies Against Self-Indigenization.
You can watch the individual panels that were livestreamed on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWiQ…
Bloodlines
In using a genetic test to try to prove her Native ancestry, Senator Elizabeth Warren inadvertently stepped into a quagmire. This week, we examine the tensions around DNA and identity. Plus, after Jamal Khashoggi’s death, revisiting the trope of the so-called reformist Saudi royal. And, a look at w…
Season 6, Episode 28: Rebecca, Danielle, and Jenny: Settler Colonial Sex and Purity Culture Stuff
Danielle
1. On adults needing honesty before they can guide young people
“But then that comes back to us and being able to honestly talk about our own experiences as kids and be far more honest about what that experience was. Be far more honest about the spectrums we probably all lie along or the…
Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 11 (ep 376)
ON THIS EPISODE: Part 11 of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended series on Indigenous climate narratives, based on conversations we co-convened over 3 days last fall at UBC. And with a lot of ground covered those first two days, we thought it best to end day two with a session for reflection,…
Beyond Fires & Floods: Pt 12 (ep 377)
ON THIS EPISODE… Part 12 of BFF: Beyond Fires and Floods, our extended climate series based on a three-day gathering of Indigenous journalists, scholars and experts we co-convened last fall at UBC. And at the tail-end of BFF's second day, we set aside time for participants to pause and reflect on a…
Trusting the Body’s Wisdom as Preparation for the End of the World
“One of the main tenets we want to teach people in somatics is to trust the body. And to trust that our whole selves know things that might have been pruned out of us, that might have atrophied, that might have been suppressed.”
This week I connect with Diné somatics practitioner Nazbah Tom for a c…
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 — Texas ‘ghost tribe’ rakes in millions of dollars with little to no official tribal documentation
The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas and its leader Juan Mancias have established themselves as leaders in environmental causes including the DAPL pipeline protests and another oil and gas pipeline in Texas. Mancias is recognized by the U.N. and has worked hand-in-hand with several established env…
Wednesday, September 9, 2026 — Texas ‘ghost tribe’ rakes in millions of dollars with little to no official tribal documentation
The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas and its leader Juan Mancias have established themselves as leaders in environmental causes including the DAPL pipeline protests and another oil and gas pipeline in Texas. Mancias is recognized by the U.N. and has worked hand-in-hand with several established envi…
Special Report: Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency (2025)
Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle join Mike for Playing with Fire: An Ecosexual Emergency (2025), third in their trilogy after Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story and Water Makes Us Wet: An Ecosexual Adventure. Made with a Guggenheim grant, it grows from the 2020 CZU fire that forced th…
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