Robin Maxkii does stuff

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 WEBSITE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION
in the meantime, please enjoy me referring to myself in the third person.
Robin Maxkii (Mohican/Munsee-Lenape/Xicana) is a writer and creative best known for founding one of the first Indigenous hackathons in the United States and generally bothering the tech industry about Native inclusion.


A former co-host of PBS’s Code Trip and the subject of Google’s Between Worlds, her writing, speaking, and creative work have appeared on national and global stages including The New York Times, the United Nations, the Obama White House, and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She also penned some of the bon mots on the back of your Old Spice body wash, so spiritually she contains multitudes.


Currently, she serves as the Executive Director of the Indigenous Digital Sovereignty Project.&#38;nbsp;


She also definitely has no plans to yeet Plymouth Rock into the Atlantic, despite what her old Tumblr might suggest.


Anushiik / Oneewe.CONTACT: robin@digitalsovereigntyproject.com
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	WORDS+
EDITIORIALS
	

Proud member sometimes of the Native American Journalists Association
…at least when I remember to pay my dues.
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robin.maxkii@gmail.com

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Wrote the #IndigenousEveryday poem for Times Square placement&#38;nbsp;

	WITH RESERVATION

poem—-
I am from recycled goods, bus passes, and borrowed books,walking in the canyons, biking in the woods,reading about places I want to visit,hearing about people I want to meet,riding the bus alone.
I am from homes with no electricity and hauled water in containers,brilliant night skies, ambrosial petrichor,cutting wood for winter, baking bread for dinner,watching bootleg movies on a duct taped television,hitchhiking to get to the city.I am from game stews, bowls of mush, squash and frybread,sweet mush with clumps when my mom makes it,mush plain with black coffee when my father makes it,blue corn mush with juniper ash when my friend’s mom cooks it,“What is mush?” off the reservation.
I am from “What are you?” …never who,“I thought all you guys were dead” and“Well my grandmother is a Cherokee Princess,”
I am from “Be Proud of who you are,”I am from places and cultures that seem worlds away sometimes.I am from Irene and Ambrose and a cobbling of friends,a patchwork of people met along the way,Elders words and oral histories,traditionalists and rebels,caring people whose toil is quiet but the impact deafening.


- Robin Máxkii 

A graduate of Diné College and Salish Kootenai College. This poem is inspired by George Ella Lyon’s “Where I’m From.” Originally published in Tribal College Journal

D.INSTRUCTIONS ON HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD’S LARGEST FRYBREADThrough food and art is healing. 
Understanding the origins of local cuisine can help us navigate the correlation between history and community. And by coming together to cook those foods, we are establishing a unity between our diet and our roots. In this specific case, we also have a visual representation of how a community uniting can solve issues. 
In an effort to get people aware of food sovereignty issues, I organized and directed an experiential community cooking experience centered around frybread. Frybread, while not truly Indigenous, is a result of forced colonization and has become an identifiable dish within Indian Country. It has a complicated history of both pride, resentment, and ingenuity. This event garnered national media attention and became local folklore within the community.&#38;nbsp;


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