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Activists Around the World: An Update on Past Awardees, Part 2 · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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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: the m M you will leverage every resource available to
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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: end female genital mutilation or f g M and child
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  Speaker 1: and arranged marriages UM. She was appointed as the u
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  Speaker 1: N Women Goodwill Ambassador for Africa and has been working
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  Speaker 1: globally to end violence against women and girls. In our
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  Speaker 1: original episode, we have reported that she was able to
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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: in working with Liberia to end the traumatic practices of
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  Speaker 1: f GM and child marriage, and we wanted to include
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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: anything other than get communities to lead the change themselves,
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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: ending violence against women and girls, and all these things
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  Speaker 1: we have been talking about for decades. Right now, what
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  Speaker 1: is crucial is handing power back into the hands of
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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: can change that is if we work hand in hand
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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: suffer as a result of f G m violence against
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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: own money, we will not end violence against women. My
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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: oh with the U N as the ambassador to get
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  Speaker 1: this message out and it's incredible to see her work
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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: tirelessly to fight for the justice for the M M
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  Speaker 1: i G two s um and just a quick review.
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  Speaker 1: She started the Grassroot Movements Walk for Justice with others
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  Speaker 1: who had been affected by M and my w G
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  Speaker 1: two as crisis. She's created the organization to bring awareness
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  Speaker 1: to the movement by walking the areas um and the
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  Speaker 1: first one was a four thousand kilometer walk from Vancouver
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  Speaker 1: to Ottawa in two thousand and eight, and since then
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  Speaker 1: she's continued her work to seek justice for those missing
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  Speaker 1: and murdered a Native people, which caught the attention a
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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: a hard hitting glimpse into the life and perspective of
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  Speaker 1: pioneer for Indigenous women's rights in Canada. Um. Matthews, who
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  Speaker 1: grew up in Mission, met Reddick while working as a
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  Speaker 1: news reporter in twenty seventeen after moving to Terrorists, which
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  Speaker 1: is the area. In an interview with Tara Standard, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: says she hopes to bring more attention to the missing
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  Speaker 1: and murdered women through quote Raddick's powerful narrative. And as
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  Speaker 1: for Reddick, she's still fighting and advocating for the m
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  Speaker 1: m i w G. Two s on and she told
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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: back to the way we used to be, where we
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  Speaker 1: could live off the land, where we could believe in
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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: end of these uh, we do continue to check in
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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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  Speaker 1: we've we've featured on this segment. But as always, if
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  Speaker 1: there's something we missed, if there's someone we missed, if
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  Speaker 1: there's someone we should talk about in this segment, we
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