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Women Around the World: Gladys Radek · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I'm welcome to stuff
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  Speaker 1: I've never told you. Production of iHeart Radio. So Annie,
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  Speaker 1: yesterday was a sinco de mayo for May five. Also
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  Speaker 1: for you, it was Revenge of the Fifth. Did you
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  Speaker 1: do anything special? Yeah? I put, yeah, I did um.
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  Speaker 1: I watched the original Star Wars trilogy, which I had
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  Speaker 1: watched on May the fourth as well. I didn't tell
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  Speaker 1: you have to tell all of that. I wasn't gonna
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  Speaker 1: ask you May the fourth, well that's all. Uh? And
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  Speaker 1: then I yeah, I I drank out of my Star
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  Speaker 1: Wars cups and I had Star Wars cocktails and I
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  Speaker 1: made like little glowy lights eavers. I had a vaccinated,
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  Speaker 1: fully vaccinated friend. I'm not fully vaccinated. We did this
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  Speaker 1: and we nerded out hardcore. But I was holding back.
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  Speaker 1: And later I was like, one day, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to let me just be me and she was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready, and I said, I don't know that you are,
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  Speaker 1: but how are you holding back? I just have so much.
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  Speaker 1: I have so much to say, and I was trying
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  Speaker 1: not to be overwhelming, you know. And then I did
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  Speaker 1: read a lot of fan fiction. Once the work day
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  Speaker 1: was done, because yes, I did work, and then we
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  Speaker 1: watched some Mandalorian because you've never seen that, and I
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  Speaker 1: made some really really spicy food, but that was about
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  Speaker 1: about it. Spicy food. Well, I'm glad to hear I
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  Speaker 1: did not do all those things. I did think about
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  Speaker 1: doing at least a margarita or at least ordering from
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate, authentic Mexican restaurant and a Mexican business, but
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  Speaker 1: that didn't happen because yes, I got caught and work
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  Speaker 1: as well. So I guess I'm gonna have to find
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  Speaker 1: margarite us somewhere soon. I think you can do that.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can. And as we were writing this
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  Speaker 1: actual episode of Women Around the World, Welcome to Women
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  Speaker 1: around the World, it was May five, and for some
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  Speaker 1: that might have met, Sincoda Mayo, as we said, which
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  Speaker 1: is actually a celebration, just in case you don't know,
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  Speaker 1: of Mexico's victory in the Battle of Puebla, in which
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  Speaker 1: the Mexican army defeated the French. So again not Mexican
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  Speaker 1: Independence Day. I feel like most of our audience already
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  Speaker 1: knows this, but just to be stated, but also it
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  Speaker 1: is the day that has been designated as the National
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  Speaker 1: Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Native Women and
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  Speaker 1: Girls and Two Spirited People, and of course because of that,
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  Speaker 1: and we have actually have had Natalie Evans who came
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  Speaker 1: on to talk specifically about the missing murdered Indigenous women
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  Speaker 1: and girls in Two Spirited and she was fantastic. So
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  Speaker 1: if you want to check out her episode with us,
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  Speaker 1: you should. She's all so with a podcast called Some
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  Speaker 1: Kind of Brown, So you definitely should check her out
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  Speaker 1: if you haven't already. But we wanted to highlight what's
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  Speaker 1: been going on around the world and some of the
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  Speaker 1: activists who have been talking, so yeah, yeah, So in
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  Speaker 1: the National Crime Information Center reported at least five thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred cases of missing American, Indian, and Alaska Native
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  Speaker 1: women and girls. According to statistics, Indigenous women and girls
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  Speaker 1: are ten times more likely to be murdered than other ethnicities.
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  Speaker 1: Four out of five Indigenous women have experienced some type
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  Speaker 1: of violence, and over fifty six percent of Indigenous women
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  Speaker 1: are likely to experience sexual violence. A while back, I
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  Speaker 1: did a talk with Christine Nobis who is from Seating Sovereignty,
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  Speaker 1: about this, and she was very very clear to hammer
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  Speaker 1: home this is probably way underestimated by any data around it. Data. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it's difficult to get as these incidents continue to be
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  Speaker 1: underreported or misclassified altogether. And though this has been happening
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  Speaker 1: within the Native Indigenous communities, it wasn't until recently they
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  Speaker 1: started to get attention and any assistance at all. But
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean people haven't been speaking out or trying
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  Speaker 1: to bring justice to their community. And today we wanted
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  Speaker 1: to focus on one woman who's been working tirelessly to
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  Speaker 1: fight for justice for the m m I W G
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  Speaker 1: to s, and we are talking about Gladys Raddick. Gladys
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  Speaker 1: Raddick is a good Son what so Aton First Nations
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  Speaker 1: woman and joined the movement in two thousand eight after
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  Speaker 1: the loss of our niece tomorrow Lynn Chipman, who disappeared
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  Speaker 1: on a highway near Prince Rupert in Canada, and then
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  Speaker 1: another young Indigenous girl was later found on the Howay
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  Speaker 1: near Prince George, which is us along the stretch of
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  Speaker 1: the highway how he sustained and is now actually referred
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  Speaker 1: to as the Highway of Tears. Right, so, Raddick started
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  Speaker 1: the Grasses Movement Walk for Justice with others who had
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  Speaker 1: been affected. She created the organization to bring awareness to
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  Speaker 1: the m M I W You two s by walking
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  Speaker 1: the areas UM. The first one was a four thousand
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  Speaker 1: kilometer walk from Vancouver to Ottawa in two thousand and eight,
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  Speaker 1: and UM continue throughout the years to send messages to
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  Speaker 1: the Parliament and as they continue, more organizations have joined
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  Speaker 1: to bring awareness and seek justice from leadership. She has
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  Speaker 1: been a part of many different assemblies and inquiries to
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  Speaker 1: demand justice from the government. She can be seen in
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  Speaker 1: her quote war Pony as she calls it, which is
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  Speaker 1: her Toyota hashbag that has covered with the photos of
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  Speaker 1: the missing and murdered Indigenous people. And she continues to
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  Speaker 1: work to fight for awareness invisibility for the movement. And
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  Speaker 1: two thousand nineteen, she went to talk with Prime Minister
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  Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau trying to advocate for the needs of the
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  Speaker 1: families of those missing and how there has been little
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  Speaker 1: to no justice for these victims. And she stayed to
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  Speaker 1: a reporter quote, my message to Justin Trudeau is honor us.
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  Speaker 1: The families have real hearts and they love. And she
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  Speaker 1: has been talking a lot with all of these families,
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  Speaker 1: going from person to person in different organizations, trying to
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  Speaker 1: rally and make sure that they are highlighting what needs
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  Speaker 1: to be done. She has been a fierce advocate for
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  Speaker 1: the families of the victims, um learning their stories, sharing
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  Speaker 1: the names of those missing are murdered, and continuing to
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  Speaker 1: push for legislation and assistance for them. She and her
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  Speaker 1: team from Walk for Justice were able to get their
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  Speaker 1: recommendations approved for the House of Commons and still continue
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  Speaker 1: to work more to get the right assistance from leadership
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  Speaker 1: right and when we say right assistance, there's definitely this
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  Speaker 1: back and forth about what they're funneling their money into
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  Speaker 1: and how they're doing it and who they're investing in.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's a big conversation is instead of
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  Speaker 1: actually listening to the grassroos organizations that's been existing, they
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  Speaker 1: may be creating their own movements, which has not been
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  Speaker 1: fruitful for the most part, because again, as we talked
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  Speaker 1: about when we were highlighting now Secretary dev Holland, there's
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of representatives within governments, especially for the
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  Speaker 1: indigenous communities, and how are we supposed to know how
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  Speaker 1: to help them? They're not the ones leading. And I
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  Speaker 1: think that's been the bigger conversation, not only in Canada,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously in the US, and again very little has
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  Speaker 1: really talked about here in the U S as well,
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  Speaker 1: but more advocates have been continuing to ward to get
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  Speaker 1: justice for the m m i w G two s.
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  Speaker 1: As of yesterday, Secretary Dev Holland announced the formation of
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  Speaker 1: the Missing and Murdered Unit, which would focus on analyzing
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  Speaker 1: and working in the cases of the missing and murdered
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  Speaker 1: Indigenous peoples. So there is definite stuff happening. But again,
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  Speaker 1: we're finally getting to the point that their own community
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  Speaker 1: is able to be the leadership. So having de Hollog,
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  Speaker 1: who has been focusing on these types of issues throughout
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  Speaker 1: her time in Congress, is now able to actually create
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  Speaker 1: active units that could actually push for justice. So I
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  Speaker 1: definitely glad to hear that it's finally happening. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: so sad that it's taking it this long. And just
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  Speaker 1: like you said earlier, there's more. There's definitely more. When
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  Speaker 1: we talk about the amount of people who are not
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  Speaker 1: being talked about, is really really heartbreaking to know that
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  Speaker 1: we're ignoring this and when you even hear about these cases,
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  Speaker 1: much like many marginalized people, instead of finding justice for
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  Speaker 1: these victims, they start using them and um start putting
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  Speaker 1: them on trial, almost as if they don't deserve something
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  Speaker 1: because of whatever life they may have led. And most
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  Speaker 1: of the times it's not any different from any other community.
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  Speaker 1: But yet because they are the Indigenous people and because
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  Speaker 1: they have been steamrolled a majority of history, it continues
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  Speaker 1: to happen. And UH, I didn't want to also give
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  Speaker 1: a shout out to another organizer, Marida Growing Thunder, who
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  Speaker 1: she has also done some of these walks as well
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  Speaker 1: and has highlighted a lot of the m M I
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  Speaker 1: w G two s as well. And she actually has
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  Speaker 1: also has clothing that she started making when she was
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  Speaker 1: a senior in high school to bring awareness to her programs,
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  Speaker 1: and I think she started like in two thousand sixteen
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  Speaker 1: really excited to see how she continues to grow in.
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  Speaker 1: Our clothing is beautiful representation of the women and girls
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  Speaker 1: and the two spirited people who have been lost to
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  Speaker 1: their community. And I think, of course we've had a
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  Speaker 1: couple of episodes, but not enough, not enough obviously, UH
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  Speaker 1: to bring justice, to bring in any type of awareness,
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  Speaker 1: we need to be doing more. They need to be
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  Speaker 1: doing more. The government should be listening to the people
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully with people like Secretary Deb Holland that can
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  Speaker 1: actually happen. Yes, hopefully so, hopefully so. Well, listeners. If
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  Speaker 1: there are any other women or organizations you would like
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