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Feminists Around the World: More Women Led Indigenous Organizations · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Anny and Samantha, all of them stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I never told you a production by Heart Radio.
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  Speaker 2: And welcome back to another activist around the world. And
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  Speaker 2: we promised to continue with more indigenous organizations around the world.
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  Speaker 2: So we are Aha, I kept the promise. Look at me.
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  Speaker 2: So we are starting up with Mayamaia just in case
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  Speaker 2: you wanted to look that up, which is a women
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  Speaker 2: led organization based out of Guatemala. So Maya has been
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  Speaker 2: around for quite a while, I believe this two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and eight, and has done so much for the community
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  Speaker 2: and the young indigenous girls from the area. So originally
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  Speaker 2: they were known as the Impact School, and then they
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  Speaker 2: changed their name to Maya, named after one of the
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  Speaker 2: brightest stars. If you know astronomy, I think you probably
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  Speaker 2: know there's a whole legend. There's all these stores. I
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  Speaker 2: love the stories about stars and planets not you. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll come back to that later. That gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a fun episode on I'm just look at.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that would be cool.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, anyway back to but yes, so it is named
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  Speaker 2: after the brightest star Maya, and they did this in
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  Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. So from their site Maya Impact dot Org,
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  Speaker 2: we are an organization led by Indigenous women for Indigenous girls,
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  Speaker 2: empowering generations of young Indigenous women through an educational model
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  Speaker 2: that embraces academics, culture, socio emotional intelligence, personal development, and
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  Speaker 2: family engagement. Together, these elements form the bedrock for nurturing
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  Speaker 2: a generation of powerful female leaders who will drive transformative change.
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  Speaker 2: And if you can't tell, we are big fans of
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  Speaker 2: programs that mentor young people because obviously, as I feel
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  Speaker 2: like we have seen as of the last couple of elections,
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  Speaker 2: mentoring young people is really important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So their site also talks about the different pillars of
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  Speaker 2: goals they have for their people, including offering leadership skills
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  Speaker 2: for growth, learning to achieve economic autonomy and stability, educational growth,
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  Speaker 2: and being able to choose when a family is right
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  Speaker 2: for her. So specifically under that they write MAYA graduates
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  Speaker 2: will postpone marriage and pregnancy until they reach an average
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  Speaker 2: age of twenty five, ensuring they are in a stable
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  Speaker 2: position to support a family. Currently, fifty seven percent of
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  Speaker 2: young Indigenous women in Guatemala are married or have become
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  Speaker 2: mothers by the age of twenty. So they've been actually
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  Speaker 2: featured on other sites like the site Girls not Brides
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  Speaker 2: dot Org for this type of commitment. And I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's been a long while since we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about Young Child Brides, because I know we've talked about
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  Speaker 2: it a couple of times. I think Kristen and Caroline
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  Speaker 2: did an episode, right.
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  Speaker 1: Yes they did, but you and I have discussed coming
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  Speaker 1: back to it because there's a lot of stuff to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that's new.
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  Speaker 2: Actually again, that's in the United YEP States are like
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  Speaker 2: yad school, No, no, we go. We don't need we
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  Speaker 2: don't need laws against that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's another future episode that won't be as
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  Speaker 1: fun as the Astronomy one hopefully will be You never can,
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  Speaker 1: You Never Can.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, So they do focus on issues like that,
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  Speaker 2: and their programs have earned a lot of accolades, including
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  Speaker 2: the MIT Solve in twenty twenty ORG Impact Award and
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  Speaker 2: was the finalist for the World's Best Schools. So they
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  Speaker 2: definitely still do impact schools. It exists now, but again,
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  Speaker 2: they have a whole different lot of programs that they're
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  Speaker 2: committed to and projects under the Maya Organization. So something
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  Speaker 2: to look into next. We have the Indigenous Foundation, so
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  Speaker 2: the organization works with the Indigenous community throughout Turtle Island,
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  Speaker 2: and I think we've talked about it previously, but when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to territories, it does expand through North America.
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  Speaker 2: When we talk about territories like Turtle Island, because I
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  Speaker 2: believe expands parts of the North US as well as
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  Speaker 2: south of Canada. So it kind of embarks a lot.
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  Speaker 2: So as a person who was newly studying these the
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  Speaker 2: last five years, that's my best explanation. I know people
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  Speaker 2: will come back and talk to us and be like,
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  Speaker 2: you need to do better. Agreed, But for four and
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  Speaker 2: four now for this short segment. So the organization was
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  Speaker 2: founded in twenty twenty, and the organization was founded by
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  Speaker 2: Mera Boswan and Sena y Neelmez who wanted to uplift
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  Speaker 2: the stories and voices of the Indigenous people. So this
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  Speaker 2: is from their site, the Indigenous Foundation dot org. When
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  Speaker 2: discussing what motivated us to start the Indigenous Foundation, we
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  Speaker 2: had different individual stories but a common goal. In November
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, we decided to both do research studies on
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous rights in Canada. Mira wrote about the crisis of
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  Speaker 2: MMIWG and police brutality against Indigenous women. Sina wrote about
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  Speaker 2: the lack of clean drinking water, and Indigenous communities. Although
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  Speaker 2: we both had knowledge about these topics, when diving into
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  Speaker 2: the research aspects of this, we were able to learn
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  Speaker 2: so much more at the topic of indigenous right. This
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  Speaker 2: is something that is not discussed often enough in school
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  Speaker 2: textbooks curriculums. History is often whitewashed and completely leaves out
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  Speaker 2: the struggles Indigenous communities went and still go through. After
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  Speaker 2: learning in more depth about these topics, we were compelled
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  Speaker 2: to do more and take action. Later that month, we
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  Speaker 2: decided to create our Instagram account as a way to
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  Speaker 2: spread awareness and reach others. So with their social media
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  Speaker 2: account up and running, it's the Indigenous Foundation you can
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  Speaker 2: look at them up. They have also added many other avenues,
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  Speaker 2: including podcasting. They have one called Unrooted, which they described
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  Speaker 2: like this on their site. Unrooted as a podcast by
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  Speaker 2: the Indigenous Foundation focused on centering Indigenous voices and stories.
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  Speaker 2: Through Unrooted, we hope to dismantle systems of oppression, uproot
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  Speaker 2: the deeply ingrained issues and racism that exist against Indigenous
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  Speaker 2: peoples to this day. We hope to share intersectional, holistic
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  Speaker 2: perspectives through our discussions with Indigenous and Afro Indigenous advocates
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  Speaker 2: and change makers. So their most recent episode was released
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  Speaker 2: in September, so they're pretty current, so you definitely should
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  Speaker 2: go and check them out if you haven't already, and
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  Speaker 2: I police they have like seven episodes but several episodes out,
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  Speaker 2: so you should definitely go and listen. They have amazing
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  Speaker 2: stories and a different look at what's going on in
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  Speaker 2: the Indigenous community through Turtle Islands, so go check that out.
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  Speaker 2: Then we have Indigenous Justice Circles, So this women led
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  Speaker 2: organization works to help the Indigenous community through programs that
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  Speaker 2: will help connect people through different organizations, empower them to
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  Speaker 2: advocate for justice and equity and protect their people and land.
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  Speaker 2: So they do a lot From their site indigenousjc dot org,
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  Speaker 2: The Indigenous Justice Circle is a Native female led organization
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  Speaker 2: that seeks the empower, connect, and support Indigenous leaders and organizations.
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  Speaker 2: Our mission is to advance gender justice, increase health equity,
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  Speaker 2: combat the MMIWGTS epidemic, and renew cultural lifeways and systems
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  Speaker 2: for Native Americans and Indigenous peoples. So one of their
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  Speaker 2: biggest focus is to help the younger generations connect with
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  Speaker 2: their community and have programs that bring intergenerational mentoring and opportunities,
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  Speaker 2: again something we absolutely love and think is so important.
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  Speaker 2: So in their program they have several specific setups for this,
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  Speaker 2: including the image in program where image n Here's some
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  Speaker 2: more information from their site. The Indigenous Adolescent Girls Empowerment
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  Speaker 2: Network IMAGEN is a coalition of tribal and Native led
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  Speaker 2: organizations that honors Native lifeways by renewing and sustaining girl societies.
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  Speaker 2: Our local, matrilineal intergenerational mentored groups strengthen Native girls in
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  Speaker 2: their collective power to thrive and help cultural survival. IMAGEN
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  Speaker 2: is building girl societies across Native America to strengthen the
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  Speaker 2: rising generations of girls and to SLGBTQ to transform health,
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  Speaker 2: economic and political systems for the benefit of Indigenous communities.
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  Speaker 2: When with these programs, they have created powerful projects, including
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  Speaker 2: their award winning documentary The Lakota Girls, which I guess
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna have to add this to this list our
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  Speaker 2: ever growing list. Here's some information about that film. So
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  Speaker 2: they write the documentary film about the women and girls
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  Speaker 2: of the Aglola Lakota Nation in South Dakota, in the
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  Speaker 2: community dealing with the effects of persistent structural racism and
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  Speaker 2: attempts to erase Native culture. The women chronicled in this
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  Speaker 2: film work to make the future better and brighter for
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  Speaker 2: girls age ten to eighteen by creating a network of
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  Speaker 2: girls societies across the districts using tools designed by the
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous Adolescent Girls Empowerment Network or IMAGING. So Girls Society
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  Speaker 2: is also a part of their project. So they have
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  Speaker 2: a lot and I'm excited because we definitely need to
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  Speaker 2: watch this documentary less seeing people being built up. And
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  Speaker 2: lastly for this segment, the Network of Indigenous Women in
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  Speaker 2: Asia or the NIWA. So this was established in twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: created through an initiative through the AIPP or the Asia
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous People's Pack. So the group includes fourteen different Asian
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  Speaker 2: countries coming together to help empower Indigenous womens to embrace
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  Speaker 2: their ability for self reliance and protecting their land and
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  Speaker 2: making sure that's sustainable. On their site under AIPP net
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  Speaker 2: dot org, they list four objectives for the group. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm just quoting this off Empower and build agencies of
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous women and intersectional groups within Indigenous women to raise
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  Speaker 2: and amplify their voices and concerns at all levels, Strengthen
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  Speaker 2: self organizing and solidarity among Indigenous women and their organizations
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  Speaker 2: at all levels. Promote participation and representation of Indigenous women
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  Speaker 2: in policy process and decision making at all levels. Build
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  Speaker 2: collective action and engage in alliance building, advocacy and lobby
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  Speaker 2: for the indigenous women's rights at all levels. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like that at all levels has to be said repeatedly.
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  Speaker 2: M yeah, lets me know why. Anyway, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to see more of their work, they have a pretty
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  Speaker 2: active Facebook page Network of Indigenous Women in Asia that
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  Speaker 2: you should follow. I think they just updated some things
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  Speaker 2: from September, so they're definitely on there. And we haven't
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  Speaker 2: focused a lot about indigenous people in Asia. I know
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  Speaker 2: it features a few. We've featured a few, but not
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  Speaker 2: as much as I do typically on the western side.
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  Speaker 2: But according to the International Labor Organization, two thirds of
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  Speaker 2: the world's indigenous population live in Asia, and with that
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  Speaker 2: they are most likely to be the poorest and most
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  Speaker 2: marginalized population. So this is from their report International Labor Organization.
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  Speaker 2: They say two thirds of the world's indigenous people are
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  Speaker 2: estimated to live in Asia. In other words, approximately two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and sixty million people representing two thousand distinct civilizations
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  Speaker 2: and languages. The different terms used to refer to them
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  Speaker 2: at the national level ranges from hill drives and indigenous
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  Speaker 2: nationalities to tribal people's ethnic minorities and natives, and testify
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  Speaker 2: to the variety of their experiences in the region. Yet
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  Speaker 2: such diversity, notwithstanding the situation of these people, shows important
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  Speaker 2: commonalities and consequent similar challenges concerning their persistent marginalization, which
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  Speaker 2: has cultural, social, economic, and political dimensions. The fact that
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  Speaker 2: Indigenous people continue to be among the poorest of the poor,
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  Speaker 2: even though sustained growth and poverty reductions efforts of the
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  Speaker 2: region have significantly contributed to declining poverty rates is a
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  Speaker 2: stark reminder of the unique challenges based by Indigenous women
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  Speaker 2: and men. I know that's added, why would we add
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  Speaker 2: this in, But I think it is something that we
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  Speaker 2: need to be reminded. This is a world issue, and
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  Speaker 2: this is an economic issue, This is a political issue,
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  Speaker 2: This is an ecological issue, and we know the people
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  Speaker 2: who are the forefront standing in trying to put tech
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  Speaker 2: the lands, trying to protect the climate, all of these
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  Speaker 2: things are Indigenous people. So and the fact that they
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  Speaker 2: are the ones that are most likely suffering or have
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  Speaker 2: the least amount of needs met is atrocious, so something
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  Speaker 2: for us to remember. I hate to say that downloade,
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  Speaker 2: But with all of that, we do want to come
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  Speaker 2: and talk about the marginalized indigenous communities more and the
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  Speaker 2: works that are being done. Again, we know they have
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  Speaker 2: they are the leaders and they continue to do work
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  Speaker 2: and voice their concerns. So if you don't have any
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  Speaker 2: specific people you should let us know.
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  Speaker 1: Yes you should, so please, If you have any organizations
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