Kim TallBear

Dr. Kim TallBear is a citizen of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate in what is today NE South Dakota. She was raised by her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother on the Flandreau Santee Sioux reservation in SE South Dakota, and in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, all of it Dakota homelands. After ten years as a professor in the Faculty of Native Studies at the University of Alberta and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society, TallBear took up in Fall 2025 a position as Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. 

This YouTube channel is in the process of being updated to feature a collection of Dr. TallBear's online and in-person recorded talks, interviews, and other media related to her work on Indigenous genomics, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and the politics of environment and sexuality. You can also find her posts on her newsletter Unsettle at kimtallbear.substack.com and @kimtallbear.bsky.social‬.