1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,960 Speaker 1: I'm Rebecca Nagle Goheen daque La, citizen of Cherokee Nation. 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:07,520 Speaker 2: Are you guys big Chiefs fans? 3 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Hell? 4 00:00:07,920 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 2: Yeah Yes. 5 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,640 Speaker 1: This past year I've been out traveling the country something 6 00:00:14,280 --> 00:00:19,279 Speaker 1: to try to understand something about America. I feel like 7 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,959 Speaker 1: that's gonna happen a lot about where Native people fit in. 8 00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:25,040 Speaker 1: Do you know who Native Americans are? 9 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,600 Speaker 2: Yes, they are the people, so they're forced people to 10 00:00:29,720 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 2: live here. 11 00:00:30,280 --> 00:00:34,040 Speaker 1: Do Native Americans still exist? Maybe? 12 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:35,720 Speaker 2: I don't really. 13 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: Think so in the history we've pushed aside. Do you 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: think most people who come to the spot, do you 15 00:00:41,720 --> 00:00:44,720 Speaker 1: think that they come here to honor the atrocity. 16 00:00:44,080 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 2: That happened here? 17 00:00:45,840 --> 00:00:49,160 Speaker 1: No, they're doing winter sports, going all the way back 18 00:00:49,360 --> 00:00:51,080 Speaker 1: to how the United States began. 19 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:56,480 Speaker 2: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all 20 00:00:56,800 --> 00:01:01,440 Speaker 2: men are created. Will the Declaration, which is full of 21 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 2: these beautifully rendered senses and paragraphs about enlightenment ideals, does 22 00:01:06,680 --> 00:01:08,399 Speaker 2: also have this darker history to it. 23 00:01:08,440 --> 00:01:13,600 Speaker 1: The marciless Indian savages, whose notable of warfare is an 24 00:01:13,880 --> 00:01:15,720 Speaker 1: undistinguished as function. 25 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:20,679 Speaker 2: If we don't understand the full context in which our 26 00:01:20,760 --> 00:01:25,320 Speaker 2: nation was founded, we won't understand the full context in 27 00:01:25,360 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 2: which our nation now finds itself. 28 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,160 Speaker 1: So it's been two hundred and fifty years since seventeen 29 00:01:31,200 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 1: seventy six. How's this democracy of ours going? 30 00:01:35,600 --> 00:01:37,679 Speaker 2: I need to merge. I'm one of My wife called me. 31 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 1: Somebody got shocked. 32 00:01:39,800 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 2: Damn the photos are really bad. 33 00:01:49,480 --> 00:01:53,640 Speaker 1: We've seen the military deployed to US cities, invasions of 34 00:01:53,680 --> 00:01:58,160 Speaker 1: foreign countries, billionaires out of control, and a president with 35 00:01:58,360 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: unchecked power. I keep hearing people say, this isn't who 36 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: we are as a country. What's happening right now in 37 00:02:05,560 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: America is fundam America. This is just so un American. 38 00:02:09,480 --> 00:02:12,560 Speaker 1: But what I've learned the past year is that US 39 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:15,640 Speaker 1: history tells a different story. One hundred and. 40 00:02:15,600 --> 00:02:18,680 Speaker 2: Fifty years ago, they were hunting us down to kill us. 41 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 2: Now they're hunting down immigrants to deport them. 42 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:26,959 Speaker 1: Think it's it's not Is that a new thing? Is this 43 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:32,360 Speaker 1: what we've did? We're good at this. As we see 44 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:35,560 Speaker 1: more and more signs of fascism, people keep looking to 45 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,440 Speaker 1: other countries to understand it. But it's right here in 46 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: our own history. I don't believe we would have ended 47 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,280 Speaker 1: up in the same spot if people had realized what 48 00:02:45,440 --> 00:02:49,079 Speaker 1: the structure of the United States government is. I want 49 00:02:49,160 --> 00:02:53,000 Speaker 1: us to know how we got here, because otherwise we 50 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:57,680 Speaker 1: will never find our way out. This is First America, 51 00:02:58,000 --> 00:03:00,600 Speaker 1: the true story of how the United States came to 52 00:03:00,639 --> 00:03:04,440 Speaker 1: be and how we got to this present moment. From 53 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:08,920 Speaker 1: Critical Frequency and Pushkin Industries. Coming June twenty second, twenty 54 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:14,680 Speaker 1: twenty six. The goal is really to drive you all out, 55 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: to get you away from your land. 56 00:03:17,480 --> 00:03:18,440 Speaker 2: Was that successful? 57 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:26,080 Speaker 1: We're still here here Early and ad free episodes of 58 00:03:26,280 --> 00:03:30,239 Speaker 1: First America by subscribing to Pushkin Plus. 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