1 00:00:04,840 --> 00:00:07,600 Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha and welcome to steph 2 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:19,640 Speaker 1: ib never told your production of I R Radio. Okay, 3 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,919 Speaker 1: before we start anything, we're gonna go ahead and time 4 00:00:21,920 --> 00:00:24,960 Speaker 1: stamp with this so everybody is aware. Today is in 5 00:00:25,120 --> 00:00:29,720 Speaker 1: January twenty one, So now we have that in place, 6 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,239 Speaker 1: forever on record, right, Yes, I'm pretty sure it is 7 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:36,800 Speaker 1: forever on record as long as podcast exists and people 8 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:40,199 Speaker 1: exist to listen to them. Also, at means if you're 9 00:00:40,240 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: listening to this when it comes out, it is a Tuesday, 10 00:00:44,920 --> 00:00:47,640 Speaker 1: it is a Tuesday, not right as we recorded, but 11 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: as you listen to it, as you listen to because today, 12 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 1: for us, it is a Thursday. More what is this day? 13 00:00:54,920 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: So we are excited to do a new weekly segment 14 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 1: for you. This is why we're time stamping at because 15 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: we know things changed very quickly and we wanted to 16 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:07,920 Speaker 1: do something that was a little more current and up 17 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: to date and hopefully we will be able to keep 18 00:01:11,160 --> 00:01:13,959 Speaker 1: up with all the good things that are happening. And 19 00:01:14,080 --> 00:01:18,000 Speaker 1: don't worry though it's a short, sweet and themed We 20 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:21,679 Speaker 1: are going to call this seatement women around the world 21 00:01:21,800 --> 00:01:28,160 Speaker 1: or women we should know, and it's going to be international. Well, yes, 22 00:01:28,160 --> 00:01:32,720 Speaker 1: it's also very lit, but there you go. So for 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:36,119 Speaker 1: these segments, we're going everywhere and anywhere to talk about 24 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:39,840 Speaker 1: women or gender not conforming people who are making history 25 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,160 Speaker 1: as we watch as it happens. And since so many 26 00:01:43,160 --> 00:01:46,080 Speaker 1: things seems to be happening right now, we didn't want 27 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,280 Speaker 1: to do a little more celebrating a bit with the 28 00:01:48,280 --> 00:01:52,160 Speaker 1: new changes happening in the United States and our current administration, 29 00:01:52,240 --> 00:01:56,360 Speaker 1: and specifically we wanted to talk about Biden's appointed nominee, 30 00:01:56,640 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: Representative dev Holland, who, by the way, how as yet 31 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 1: to be confirmed by the Senate, but we wanted to 32 00:02:03,160 --> 00:02:07,160 Speaker 1: celebrate what the significance is. Yes, because we did talk 33 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: about her briefly and around up of women in politics, 34 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,560 Speaker 1: yeah yeah, yeah, but now that things are changing and 35 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:19,440 Speaker 1: continue to change very rapidly, yes, we wanted to spotlight 36 00:02:19,480 --> 00:02:22,480 Speaker 1: her for this first in our segment Women around the World, 37 00:02:22,639 --> 00:02:26,240 Speaker 1: um So, Representative deb Holland is the first Native American 38 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 1: woman to be nominated to a cabinet position in the 39 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:32,720 Speaker 1: history of this country, this country being the United States. 40 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:37,640 Speaker 1: For US, she has already become a first for the nation, 41 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,280 Speaker 1: as she is one of the first of two Native 42 00:02:39,320 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: American women to be elected to the House. She was 43 00:02:42,040 --> 00:02:44,640 Speaker 1: elected in to Congress to serve as one of the 44 00:02:44,680 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: representatives of New Mexico. Right so. Holland is part of 45 00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:51,440 Speaker 1: the Pueblo of Laguna tribe in New Mexico and is 46 00:02:51,520 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 1: the daughter of two veterans. Her mother was part of 47 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:56,400 Speaker 1: the Navy while her father served in the Marines for 48 00:02:56,480 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: thirty years, and according to our site debt for Congress 49 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 1: dot com, which is still there, is a thirty five 50 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:05,440 Speaker 1: generation New Mexican. She is no stranger to working for 51 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:08,640 Speaker 1: the betterment and protection of the environment. Between her using 52 00:03:08,680 --> 00:03:11,960 Speaker 1: her voice to protest at Standing Rock to fight against 53 00:03:12,000 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: the Dakota Access pipelines, to her working in Congress to 54 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,080 Speaker 1: create and sponsored bills like the Green New Deal Protecting 55 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:21,400 Speaker 1: Chaco Canyon, which looked at the impacts of drilling on 56 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: the air, land, water, and Health, and Clean Economy Act QUOTE, 57 00:03:25,960 --> 00:03:27,960 Speaker 1: which set up a process to reach a goal of 58 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:31,359 Speaker 1: one Clean Economy by twenty fifty, which would meet key 59 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:35,760 Speaker 1: principles on environmental justice, job creation, economic development, and public health, 60 00:03:36,160 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 1: to her being Vice chair of the House Committee on 61 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: Natural Resources and serving on the subcommittees for Indigenous Peoples 62 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,640 Speaker 1: of the United States and National parks, forests, and public 63 00:03:46,760 --> 00:03:50,560 Speaker 1: lands right and her continued work to bring resources and 64 00:03:50,680 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: justice for Indigenous communities. She created the Not Invisible Act 65 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: and Justice for Native Survivors of Sexual Violence Act, which 66 00:03:57,920 --> 00:04:00,440 Speaker 1: helped to provide resources as well as bringing awareness of 67 00:04:00,560 --> 00:04:04,240 Speaker 1: issues within the Indigenous community and bring the conversation of 68 00:04:04,280 --> 00:04:07,680 Speaker 1: the missing and murdered Indigenous women to the Congress floors 69 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:10,160 Speaker 1: to say the last she's benified, or to make sure 70 00:04:10,280 --> 00:04:14,280 Speaker 1: Indigenous communities are getting access to federal funds and assistance 71 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: as it relates to crisis such as a current pandemic. 72 00:04:18,120 --> 00:04:20,200 Speaker 1: And we've talked about how hard it's hit the Native 73 00:04:20,240 --> 00:04:23,479 Speaker 1: American communities and how little focus have been placed within 74 00:04:23,520 --> 00:04:28,120 Speaker 1: these communities by the past administration. So what would it 75 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:31,440 Speaker 1: mean for her to become the first Native American woman 76 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 1: to be the Secretary of the Interior. As one former 77 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 1: secretary stated, she would have the voice and understanding of 78 00:04:38,920 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 1: the needs of the Native Indigenous lands which have been 79 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: attacked and dismissed by the government from the beginning of 80 00:04:44,279 --> 00:04:47,960 Speaker 1: United States history. The continued concern at this time is 81 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: undoing some of the abuses and liberties the last administration 82 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:56,400 Speaker 1: imposed in not only destroying native lands, but taking money 83 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,200 Speaker 1: and ignoring the health of the Indigenous communities that actually 84 00:04:59,440 --> 00:05:03,760 Speaker 1: still lived there. And as Elizabeth Cronk Warner, dean of 85 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 1: the University of Utah's College of Law and member of 86 00:05:06,120 --> 00:05:09,440 Speaker 1: the Associate Marie Chippewa tribe stated in The New York Times, 87 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:12,839 Speaker 1: Native Americans quote would go from being classified as a 88 00:05:12,839 --> 00:05:15,039 Speaker 1: group of people that the federal government was trying to 89 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: destroy to having a president say I see you and 90 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:20,599 Speaker 1: value to the point that I will raise you to 91 00:05:20,640 --> 00:05:23,640 Speaker 1: the highest level of decision making in the country, which 92 00:05:23,640 --> 00:05:27,279 Speaker 1: is a really significant quote. And of course, the path 93 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:30,520 Speaker 1: for correcting the damage already caused by previous administrations will 94 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:33,480 Speaker 1: be a very long and hard one. As stated by 95 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 1: Nick Tilson, the CEO of an indigenous led activist group, 96 00:05:36,839 --> 00:05:41,440 Speaker 1: an Indian collective, stated, quote, the history of that interior 97 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,440 Speaker 1: was created as a place to extract resources from public 98 00:05:44,560 --> 00:05:47,920 Speaker 1: lands and Indigenous people. And as we see and continue 99 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:51,560 Speaker 1: to see the abuses repeatedly at the cost of the 100 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:55,839 Speaker 1: communities and at the cost of the environment, And as expected, 101 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,960 Speaker 1: there are those who are opposing her confirmation, saying she 102 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,360 Speaker 1: would dismantle all the current projects which would increase job 103 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:07,040 Speaker 1: losses and unemployment. Representative Peter Strauber of Minnesota, who sits 104 00:06:07,160 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 1: on the Subcommittee on Indigenous People, has been campaigning to 105 00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:16,200 Speaker 1: get President Biden to remove Holland's nomination and then continuing forward. Yeah, 106 00:06:16,360 --> 00:06:20,240 Speaker 1: and to say the least, many tries were really unhappy 107 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:23,080 Speaker 1: with Rev. Stobbers take all five of the tribes under 108 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:25,400 Speaker 1: his congressional district. Has made it known that not only 109 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:28,799 Speaker 1: do they find his opposition offensive but an obvious instance 110 00:06:28,800 --> 00:06:32,320 Speaker 1: of him quote appeasing big industries as a detriment of 111 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:35,600 Speaker 1: the tribal interests. His records show that he often will 112 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,040 Speaker 1: side with companies over communities, such as Twin Medals mining company, 113 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:43,200 Speaker 1: which seeks to mind two and thirty four thousand acres 114 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,400 Speaker 1: section of the Superior National Forest, which a lot of 115 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:49,640 Speaker 1: environmental groups have alleged that Stopper interfered with these review 116 00:06:49,680 --> 00:06:53,159 Speaker 1: processing and allowing them to have access. And just so 117 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:56,000 Speaker 1: you know, Representative Holland was a co sponsor in trying 118 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,880 Speaker 1: to ban this specific mining. Strawberry has also been chastis 119 00:07:00,080 --> 00:07:02,800 Speaker 1: by the Midwest Alliance of Sovereign Tribes, which is made 120 00:07:02,839 --> 00:07:05,480 Speaker 1: up of thirty five tribal nations in the region. They 121 00:07:05,480 --> 00:07:09,000 Speaker 1: called his opposition and campaign against Holland as quote offensive, hostile, 122 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:13,400 Speaker 1: and irresponsible, and Chair air and Payment stated Strawbery quote 123 00:07:13,520 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: had subordinated the interest of Indian tribes to the interests 124 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:19,160 Speaker 1: of those you represent in your letter without any consultation 125 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:23,120 Speaker 1: with the tribes. And he continued by saying, quote, we 126 00:07:23,160 --> 00:07:26,000 Speaker 1: are unaccustomed to any member of Congress serving in such 127 00:07:26,000 --> 00:07:29,120 Speaker 1: a public role and leading an attack that diametrically opposes 128 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: the wishes of nearly all the Indian country. This is 129 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,880 Speaker 1: unprecedented representive. Holland has been given full support by the 130 00:07:35,920 --> 00:07:38,480 Speaker 1: majority of the tribes within the country. As a Cherokee 131 00:07:38,560 --> 00:07:42,240 Speaker 1: National Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Junior states, quote dev Holland 132 00:07:42,240 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: is a uniquely qualified to sort of a Secretary of 133 00:07:44,280 --> 00:07:46,640 Speaker 1: the Interior. As a graduate of the University of New 134 00:07:46,680 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 1: Mexico Law School and a former tribal administrator a congresswoman, 135 00:07:49,760 --> 00:07:54,280 Speaker 1: Holland has firsthand knowledge of tribal governance. She is a trailblazer. 136 00:07:54,440 --> 00:07:57,640 Speaker 1: The nomination of an American Indian to incabinet level position 137 00:07:57,760 --> 00:08:00,960 Speaker 1: is groundbreaking and it is long overdue. As a champion 138 00:08:00,960 --> 00:08:04,080 Speaker 1: of tribal sovereignty, Holland is an excellent choice to lead 139 00:08:04,120 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 1: the Department of the Interior and from Muskogee Creek Nation 140 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:10,760 Speaker 1: Principal Chief David Hill quote, Native voices should always be 141 00:08:10,800 --> 00:08:13,840 Speaker 1: involved in discussions that impact Native communities. We not only 142 00:08:13,840 --> 00:08:17,360 Speaker 1: support the confirmation of Congresswoman Holland as Secretary of the Interior, 143 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: but we also asked that her selection to a cabinet 144 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,600 Speaker 1: level position the only the beginnings of more Native representation 145 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:27,440 Speaker 1: in the federal government at all levels. And we hope 146 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: by the time this is released she has been confirmed, 147 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:35,120 Speaker 1: but as of now, as of this date, there is 148 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:41,160 Speaker 1: no confirmation date set. And yeah, we're definitely hoping to 149 00:08:41,200 --> 00:08:45,520 Speaker 1: see some good changes to come there. Of course, is 150 00:08:45,559 --> 00:08:48,560 Speaker 1: some concern of the House losing a Democratic seat with 151 00:08:48,640 --> 00:08:51,959 Speaker 1: her becoming Secretary of Interior, but it doesn't outshine the 152 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,960 Speaker 1: impact of her being the first Native American cabinet position, 153 00:08:54,960 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: and I think that needs to be stated repeatedly how 154 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: important and how significant that is with our history that 155 00:09:01,120 --> 00:09:03,559 Speaker 1: she does take on that administration. I think it will 156 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:06,600 Speaker 1: have huge impact for our country to see that type 157 00:09:06,640 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 1: of representative finally being lifted into that position. We can't 158 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:16,240 Speaker 1: overstate how abysial and honestly astonishing that it has taken 159 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,280 Speaker 1: this freaking long for even this to happen, for even 160 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: this to be a conversation. And of course I am 161 00:09:23,080 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: really just discussed personal note that anyone is trying to 162 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,920 Speaker 1: oppose it, Like, I can't believe that's even a discussion. 163 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: After all of this, after what we have talked about, 164 00:09:32,559 --> 00:09:35,959 Speaker 1: after the fact that we know that the injustices within 165 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: the Native community, the indigenous communities, like that we would 166 00:09:39,360 --> 00:09:42,360 Speaker 1: even have a debate. Why is this up for debate? 167 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:47,720 Speaker 1: I know I'm upset, but so there you go. And yes, 168 00:09:47,920 --> 00:09:51,280 Speaker 1: we'll be examining many more women around the world every 169 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,760 Speaker 1: Tuesday of the week, some maybe even fictional. Let us 170 00:09:55,800 --> 00:09:57,640 Speaker 1: know if you know someone we need to bring attention to, 171 00:09:57,800 --> 00:09:59,520 Speaker 1: or even if you want us to dig deeper, because 172 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: you know, we want to know what we love talking 173 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,880 Speaker 1: about women making history and so yeah, give us names. 174 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:12,280 Speaker 1: Let us know, name names, yes, and you can send 175 00:10:12,320 --> 00:10:15,680 Speaker 1: those names to our email Stuff Media mom Stuff at 176 00:10:15,679 --> 00:10:18,240 Speaker 1: iHeart media dot com. 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