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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to Stephane.

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Speaker 1: Never Told Your Protection of iHeart Radio and we're back

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Speaker 1: with part two of our Where Are They Now kind

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Speaker 1: of episode for some of the activists around the world

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Speaker 1: that we have covered, and today we're starting with Interior

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Speaker 1: Secretary deb Holland and just a quick review. Secretary Holland

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Speaker 1: made history twice, first becoming one of the first Native

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Speaker 1: women to be elected in the United States House of

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Speaker 1: Representatives and then being the first Native woman to not

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Speaker 1: only be nominated but appointed to a federal cabinet position

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Speaker 1: in the US as the Interior Secretary um And since

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Speaker 1: her official appointment on March, she's been working to make

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Speaker 1: initiatives to help protect the indigenous community as well as

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Speaker 1: working for or the environmental safety of the indigenous lands

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Speaker 1: around the country and when I say country, United States.

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Speaker 1: On the day of her confirmation, Secretary Holland made sure

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Speaker 1: to represent her community by wearing a traditional Laguna Pueblo

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Speaker 1: regalia and a colorful ribbon skirt which was custom created

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Speaker 1: for her by Agnes Woodward. The custom ribbon skirt was

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Speaker 1: created specifically for Secretary Holland and was created for a

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Speaker 1: purpose designer Actness Woodward told Craft Industrial Alliance about the skirt. Uh,

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Speaker 1: the skirt is mostly about representation and how Indigenous women

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Speaker 1: choose to represent themselves. And yeah, so if you look

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Speaker 1: up Agnes Woodward you will see that she is a

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Speaker 1: designer and actually sells these skirts. Be mindful, this is

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Speaker 1: an Indigenous custom. So yeah, and she has been a

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Speaker 1: fierce representative of the indigenous community. In April one, Holland

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Speaker 1: began a new unit with a Bureau of Indiana Affairs

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Speaker 1: which would finally work for the decades long cases of

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Speaker 1: missing and murdered Native Americans. She stated, we are fully

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Speaker 1: minute to assist in travel communities with these investigations and

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Speaker 1: be a force multiplier in preventing these cases from becoming

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Speaker 1: cold case investigations. And in June, Holland created the Federal

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Speaker 1: Indian Boarding School Initiative after the discovery of two hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifteen remains were found comm Loops Indian Residential School

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Speaker 1: in British Columbia, Canada. The initiative was started to investigate

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Speaker 1: the boarding schools to find and review pass records and

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Speaker 1: part of the results of the investigations. They were able

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Speaker 1: to get volume one of a hundred six pages report

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Speaker 1: which identified four hundred eight boarding schools and at least

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Speaker 1: fifty three burial size that was spread across the mainland

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Speaker 1: of the United States, Alaska and Hawaii in a hundred

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Speaker 1: fifty year period. And the report was able to dig

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Speaker 1: into the different policies laws that helped create these schools

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Speaker 1: to begin with, as well as looking at the awful

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Speaker 1: abuse and conditions that the Native children suffered. And I

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Speaker 1: believe this initiative is still ongoing. She has also announced

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Speaker 1: Native Languages Memorandum of Agreement or m o A, which

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Speaker 1: addresses the barriers to Native Language Revitalization UM. This would

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Speaker 1: integrate quote native language instruction and language into educational settings

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Speaker 1: and strengthen tribal consultation around Native languages UM. Along with that,

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Speaker 1: she's sharing Executive Order fourteen O four nine, which created

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Speaker 1: the Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity

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Speaker 1: for Native Americans and Strengthening Travel Colleges and Universities, which

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Speaker 1: is what we just talked about UM, and it says

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Speaker 1: which seeks to advance equity, excellence, and economic opportunity for

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Speaker 1: Native people through a variety of policy goals, and we

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Speaker 1: talked about that with got to Juney about UM restoring

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Speaker 1: native language that which has oftentimes been forgotten and as

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Speaker 1: a result of boarding schools and the harsh federal laws

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Speaker 1: that came to colonize the indigenous people. So very important.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see this. Yeah, me too. Next, we

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Speaker 1: want to talk about one of the first activists we

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Speaker 1: highlighted on our series. Jahaduk Dukara, has been working to

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Speaker 1: and arranged marriages UM. She was appointed as the u

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Speaker 1: globally to end violence against women and girls. In our

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Speaker 1: prevent more than one million girls from having to go

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Speaker 1: through the painful and traumatic procedure of FGM and has

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Speaker 1: been working continuously to end the practice altogether. Though in

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Speaker 1: our country of Gambia, it is technically illegal, but it

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Speaker 1: is still practiced UM. Since since, she has been traveling

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Speaker 1: in different countries to help to end the abhorrent practices

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Speaker 1: like this. In November of two, Ducara started her mission

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Speaker 1: a part of her speech she gave at the conference

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Speaker 1: in Liberia. We need to ensure that we are supporting

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Speaker 1: communities to lead that change themselves, because if we do

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Speaker 1: twenty years from now, thirty years from now, we will

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Speaker 1: be back in the same communities talking about ending FGM,

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Speaker 1: we have been talking about for decades. Right now, what

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Speaker 1: communities and looking at different, better ways to build prosperity.

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Speaker 1: A lot of times we consider f GM and issues

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Speaker 1: like that as fixed traditional practices. The only way we

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Speaker 1: with traditional leaders who understand our traditions and understand that

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Speaker 1: tradition is not static. Cultures change. We have a lot

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Speaker 1: of traditions, but once we realize as a community that

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Speaker 1: not all these traditions are good for us, we leave

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Speaker 1: them behind. Now it's time to ensure that no girl,

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Speaker 1: not only in Africa, but around the world, continues to

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Speaker 1: women and girls continues to happen in this continent because

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Speaker 1: women are not economically empowered. Until women are earning their

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Speaker 1: commitment to the people and government of Liberia is that

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Speaker 1: I will make myself available and I will work with

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Speaker 1: you to ensure that the lessons that we have learned

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Speaker 1: from other countries can be considered in relation to Liberia

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Speaker 1: so that we don't lose anything. It's a win win

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Speaker 1: for everyone. We stay strong, we uplift women out of poverty.

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Speaker 1: Right um and yeah, she has been working really hard,

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Speaker 1: and how it's spread. And finally, anyway, for today, we

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Speaker 1: wanted to do a quick update on Gladys Reddick the

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Speaker 1: gets on what so eton. I'm so sorry if I

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Speaker 1: got that wrong. First Nations woman who has been working

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Speaker 1: She started the Grassroot Movements Walk for Justice with others

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Speaker 1: first one was a four thousand kilometer walk from Vancouver

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Speaker 1: she's continued her work to seek justice for those missing

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Speaker 1: filmmaker Jalen Matthews, who debuted a short documentary in twenty

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Speaker 1: two titled Gladys Reddick Journey for Justice. The documentary is

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Speaker 1: news reporter in twenty seventeen after moving to Terrorists, which

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Speaker 1: Terrorists the news organization people really need to hill right now.

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Speaker 1: Churches aren't going to heal us. They've done their damage.

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Speaker 1: When our people come up and start healing, then we'll

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Speaker 1: be better. Bring us back to our land, bring us

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Speaker 1: Mother Nature and her role in providing for us everything

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Speaker 1: that we needed. Yeah, well, we always say at the

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Speaker 1: and everyone will feature which they're doing stuff. So sure

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Speaker 1: we'll have future updates about some of the other people

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