Every month, a group of Indigenous scientists from around the world gathers on Zoom. They never have an agenda. They meet as colleagues to catch up and commiserate about the challenges of being Indigenous in Western academia.
Their February meeting, however, quickly struck a different tone.
“There was this cascade that started happening,” recalled Max Liboiron, a professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland who hosts the virtual calls. “Everyone in the US was like, ‘Holy shit. My…
