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Speaker 1: I never told your production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: And welcome for today's activist around the world, we decided

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Speaker 2: to extend our coverage on indigenous activists with an Inuit, Haitian,

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Speaker 2: Taino artist, activist and so much more. Ciccu a Lulu,

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Speaker 2: which is a really fun name. Mm hmmm, I just

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Speaker 2: want to put that out there. It's very like melodious.

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Speaker 2: It is it is right, which is fitting because she

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Speaker 2: is a very amazing artist and it just fits her.

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Speaker 2: But she is currently in Canada, but Alulu graduated from

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Speaker 2: the University of Victoria with degrees in anthropology and Indigenous studies,

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Speaker 2: which is a fitting educational background for the amazing works

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Speaker 2: that she has done and continues to do. Not only

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Speaker 2: has she work to uplift Indigenous stories and voices and

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Speaker 2: preserve the cultural depth of her community, but she has

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Speaker 2: done it through her beautiful storytelling. Y'all, There's a lot

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Speaker 2: and there's so much to her. Even though we're focusing

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Speaker 2: on her specific artwork, we'll mention briefly about her activism,

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Speaker 2: but there's a lot there, so you should know, of course.

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Speaker 2: So let's get started. So from her site cicku Alulu

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Speaker 2: dot com. Cicku A Lulu Enuaitian Tao is an award

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Speaker 2: winning interdisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker from yellow Knife and

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Speaker 2: Tea by the way of Miti, Metalic or in You

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Speaker 2: and Haiti. Her poetics and sorial work weaves the intimate

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Speaker 2: and intangible with archives and cultural materials to represence and

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Speaker 2: cistrial trajectories. And that disciplinary includes film, poetry, art, and

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Speaker 2: so much more. Everyone should go and look at her

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Speaker 2: side as well. Her work is incredible. She does have

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Speaker 2: see her artwork. So this is also from her Wikipedia page,

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Speaker 2: which we know. We love to see a Wikipedia page

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Speaker 2: on women. They should be in there, they write. Ciku

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Speaker 2: A Lulu explores a wide range of themes throughout her work,

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Speaker 2: with a strong focus on reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous knowledge

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Speaker 2: and traditions. She is particularly dedicated to addressing the patching

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Speaker 2: of ancestual gaps caused by colonialism, working to restore cultural

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Speaker 2: based education, teaching from a cultural perspective that reconnects indigenous

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Speaker 2: peoples with their ancestral lands, languages, and ways of knowing. A.

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Speaker 2: Lulu has employed a diverse range of artistic techniques, including

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Speaker 2: traditional and contemporary practices such as intricate traditional beaedwork, evocative poetry,

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Speaker 2: bit more on just a Again, her work is gorgeous

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Speaker 2: and she is pushed to honor her people, her family,

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Speaker 2: award winning film Spirit Andmulsion captured the beauty and history

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Speaker 2: The film, which was shot with a Super eight camera

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Speaker 2: us who were born in that era, we know it's okay.

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Speaker 2: But it follows her Teano indigenous mother in her life

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Speaker 2: as an activist and co founder of a bilingual indigenous

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Speaker 2: paper titled Indigena, which was published in North America, which

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Speaker 2: So this is from her website and the synopsis of

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Speaker 2: the film. A connection to My mother in the Spirit

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Speaker 2: World reactivates Teano culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: amidst a backdrop of flowers everywhere, and in act of sovereignty,

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Speaker 2: extends into the future. Filmed on Super eight and developed

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Speaker 2: And yeah, if you have a chance to go look

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Speaker 2: working on a feature length documentary to represent her activism.

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Speaker 2: retraces her mother's work as an activist and journalists during

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Speaker 2: production company, Akia Films, which she writes is quote an

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Speaker 2: Alulu's work also goes hand in hand with her advocacy work,

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Speaker 2: There's so much. She's like many of our activists that

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Speaker 2: There's so many more that you should check out. Yes,

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