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SMNTY Classics: Gladys Radek · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie.
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  Speaker 2: And Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to Stuff I Never Told You, a production
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  Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio. And today we are bringing back an episode
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  Speaker 1: on an activist around the world, right, Samantha?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, we are bringing back Indigenous activist Gladys Reddick. We
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  Speaker 2: talked about her amazing campaign where she did the walk
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  Speaker 2: for the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Two-Spirit,
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  Speaker 2: because she had talked about how her family was affected
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  Speaker 2: by specific family members going missing and how it's still
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  Speaker 2: a big deal and things are not being done. And
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  Speaker 2: I thought we'd bring it back just also to celebrate
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  Speaker 2: that in 2024, she was the recipient of the Muriel
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  Speaker 2: Duckworth Award of Peace Activism and was also awarded in
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  Speaker 2: 2025 for the King Charles III Coronation Medal for her works.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe the walks are still happening every year.
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  Speaker 2: And it's something that we need to be talking more
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  Speaker 2: about because I think with all of the disasters around
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  Speaker 2: the world, sometimes we don't highlight what's been happening and
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  Speaker 2: what's still an injustice and what's not being addressed. So
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  Speaker 2: we think it's a good time to go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: remind ourselves of what other activists have been doing and
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  Speaker 2: that we need to be paying attention. So with that,
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  Speaker 2: please enjoy this classic.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie.
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  Speaker 3: And Samantha.
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  Speaker 1: And welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You, a production
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  Speaker 1: of iHeartRadio.
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  Speaker 3: So Annie, yesterday was Cinco de.
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  Speaker 2: Mayo or May 5th.
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  Speaker 3: Also for you, it was Revenge of the Fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Did you do anything special? Yeah, I put you on
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  Speaker 3: the spot. Yeah, I did.
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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 4th as well.
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  Speaker 3: See, I didn't tell you you have to tell all
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  Speaker 3: of that. I wasn't going to ask you May the 4th.
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  Speaker 1: Well..
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  Speaker 3: That's on you.
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  Speaker 1: And then I, yeah, 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 lightsabers. I had a vaccinated, fully
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  Speaker 1: vaccinated friend. I'm now fully vaccinated. We did this. And
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  Speaker 1: we nerded out hardcore. But I was holding back. And
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  Speaker 1: later I was like, one day you're going to 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 3: How were you holding back?
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  Speaker 1: I just have so much. I have so much to say.
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  Speaker 1: And I was trying not to be overwhelming. And then
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  Speaker 1: I did read a lot of fan fiction once the
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  Speaker 1: workday was done because, yes, I did work. And then
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  Speaker 1: we watched some Mandalorian because you've never seen that. And
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  Speaker 1: I made some really, really spicy food. But that was
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  Speaker 1: about it.
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  Speaker 3: Spicy food. Well, I'm glad to hear. I did not
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  Speaker 3: do all those things. I did think about doing at
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  Speaker 3: least a margarita or at least ordering from a legitimate,
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  Speaker 3: authentic restaurant. Mexican restaurant and a Mexican business. But that
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  Speaker 3: didn't happen because, yes, I got caught up in work
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  Speaker 3: as well. So I guess I'm going to have to
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  Speaker 3: find margaritas somewhere soon.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can do that.
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  Speaker 3: I think we can. And as we were writing this
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  Speaker 3: actual episode of Women Around the World, welcome to Women
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  Speaker 3: Around the World.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: It was May 5th. And for some that might have
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  Speaker 3: met Cinco de Mayo, as we said, which is actually
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  Speaker 3: a celebration, just in case you don't know, of Mexico's
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  Speaker 3: victory in the Battle of Puebla in which the Mexican
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  Speaker 3: army defeated the French.
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  Speaker 1: So..
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  Speaker 3: Again, not Mexican Independence Day. I feel like most of
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  Speaker 3: our audience already knows this, but just to be stated.
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  Speaker 3: But also, it is the day that has been designated
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  Speaker 3: as the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered
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  Speaker 3: Native Women and Girls and Two-Spirited People. And of course,
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  Speaker 3: because of that, and we have actually have had Natalie Evans,
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  Speaker 3: who came on to talk specifically about the missing murdered
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  Speaker 3: indigenous women and girls in Two-Spirited. And she was fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: So if you want to check out her episode with us,
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  Speaker 3: you should. She's also with a podcast called Some Kind
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  Speaker 3: of Brown. So you definitely should check her out if
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  Speaker 3: you haven't already. But we wanted to highlight what's been
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  Speaker 3: going on around the world and some of the activists
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  Speaker 3: who have been talking. So yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So in 2016, the National Crime Information Center reported at
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  Speaker 1: least 5,700 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 10 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 56% of Indigenous women are likely
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  Speaker 1: to experience sexual violence a while back. I did a
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  Speaker 1: talk with Christine Nobis, who is from Seeding Sovereignty, about this.
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  Speaker 1: And she was very, very clear to Hammerholm, this is
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  Speaker 1: probably way underestimated. like any data around it.
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  Speaker 3: Data, yes, is difficult to get as these incidents continue
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  Speaker 3: to be underreported or misclassified altogether. And though this has
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  Speaker 3: been happening within the Native Indigenous communities, it wasn't until
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  Speaker 3: recently that they started to get attention and any assistance
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  Speaker 3: at all. But that doesn't mean people haven't been speaking
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  Speaker 3: out or trying to bring justice to their community. And
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  Speaker 3: today we wanted to focus on one woman who's been
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  Speaker 3: working tirelessly to fight for justice for the MMIWG2S community.
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  Speaker 3: And we are talking about Gladys Reddick. Gladys Reddick is
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  Speaker 3: a Kitsan Wet'suwet'en First Nations woman and joined the movement
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  Speaker 3: in 2008 after the loss of her niece, Tamara Lynn Chipman,
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  Speaker 3: who disappeared on a highway near Prince Rupert in Canada.
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  Speaker 3: And then another young Indigenous girl was later found on
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  Speaker 3: the highway near Prince George, which is along the stretch
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  Speaker 3: of the highway, Highway 16, and is now actually referred
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  Speaker 3: to as the Highway of Tears.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Right. So Radix started the grassroots movement Walk for Justice
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  Speaker 1: with others who had been affected. She created the organization
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  Speaker 1: to bring awareness to the MMIWG2S by walking the areas.
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  Speaker 1: The first one was a 4,000-kilometer walk from Vancouver to
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa in 2008 and continued throughout the years to send
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  Speaker 1: messages to the parliament. And as they continue, more organizations
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  Speaker 1: have joined to bring awareness and seek justice from leadership.
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  Speaker 1: She has been a part of many different assemblies and
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  Speaker 1: inquiries to demand justice from the government. She can be
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  Speaker 1: seen in her, quote, war pony, as she calls it,
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  Speaker 1: which is her Toyota hatchback that is covered with the
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  Speaker 1: photos of the missing and murdered indigenous people.
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  Speaker 3: And she continues to work to fight for awareness and
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  Speaker 3: visibility for the movement. In 2019, she went to talk
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  Speaker 3: with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, trying to advocate for the
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  Speaker 3: needs of the families of those missing and how there
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  Speaker 3: has been little to no justice for these victims. And
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  Speaker 3: she stated to a reporter, quote, my message to Justin
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  Speaker 3: Trudeau is honor us. The families have real hearts and
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  Speaker 3: they love us. And she has been talking a lot
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  Speaker 3: with all of these families, going from person to person
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  Speaker 3: in different organizations, trying to rally and make sure that
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  Speaker 3: they are highlighting what needs to be done.
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  Speaker 1: She has been a fierce advocate for the families of
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  Speaker 1: the victims, learning their stories, sharing the names of those
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  Speaker 1: missing or murdered, and continuing to push for legislation and
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  Speaker 1: assistance for them. She and her team from Walk for
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  Speaker 1: Justice were able to get their recommendations approved for the
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  Speaker 1: House of Commons and still continue to work more to
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  Speaker 1: get the right assistance from leadership.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And when we say right assistance, there's definitely this back
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  Speaker 3: and forth about what they're funneling their money into and
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  Speaker 3: how they're doing it and who they're investing in. And
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  Speaker 3: I think that's a big conversation is instead of actually
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  Speaker 3: listening to the grassroots organizations that's been existing, they may
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  Speaker 3: be creating their own movements, which... has not been fruitful
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  Speaker 3: for the most part. Because again, as we talked about
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  Speaker 3: when we were highlighting now Secretary Deb Haaland, there's not
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  Speaker 3: a lot of representatives within governments, especially for the indigenous communities.
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  Speaker 3: And how are we supposed to know how to help
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  Speaker 3: them if they're not the ones leading? And I think
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  Speaker 3: that's been the bigger conversation, not only in Canada, but
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  Speaker 3: obviously in the U.S. And again, very little is really
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  Speaker 3: talked about here in the U.S. as well. But more
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  Speaker 3: advocates have been continuing to work to get justice for
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  Speaker 3: the MMIWG2S. As of yesterday, Secretary Deb Haaland announced the
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  Speaker 3: formation of the Missing and Murdered Unit, which would focus
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  Speaker 3: on analyzing and working the cases of the missing and
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  Speaker 3: murdered Indigenous peoples. So there is definite stuff happening. But again,
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  Speaker 3: we're finally getting to the point that their own community
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  Speaker 3: is able to be the leadership. So having Deb Haaland,
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  Speaker 3: who's been focusing on these types of issues throughout her
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  Speaker 3: time in Congress, is now able to actually create active
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  Speaker 3: units that can actually push for justice. So I definitely...
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  Speaker 3: glad to hear that it's finally happening. I'm just so
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  Speaker 3: sad that it's taking this long. And just like you
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  Speaker 3: said earlier, there's more. There's definitely more. And we talk
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  Speaker 3: about the amount of people who are not being talked about.
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  Speaker 3: It's really, really heartbreaking to know that we're ignoring this.
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  Speaker 3: And when you even hear about these cases, much like
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  Speaker 3: many marginalized people, instead of finding justice for these victims,
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  Speaker 3: they start using them and start putting them on trial almost,
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  Speaker 3: as if they don't deserve something because of whatever life
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  Speaker 3: they may have led. And most of the times, it's
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  Speaker 3: not any different from any other community, but yet because
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  Speaker 3: they are the indigenous people and because they have been
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  Speaker 3: steamrolled a majority of history, It continues to happen. And
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  Speaker 3: I did want to also give a shout out to
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  Speaker 3: another organizer, Marita Growing Thunder, who she has also done
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  Speaker 3: some of these walks as well and has highlighted a
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  Speaker 3: lot of the MMIWG2S as well. And she actually has
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  Speaker 3: also has clothing that she started making when she was
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  Speaker 3: a senior in high school to bring awareness.
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  Speaker 1: To her programs.
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  Speaker 3: And I think she started like in 2016 wearing Really
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  Speaker 3: excited to see how she continues to grow in our clothing.
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  Speaker 3: It's a beautiful representation of the women and girls and
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  Speaker 3: the two-spirited people who have been lost to their community.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, of course, we've had a couple of episodes,
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  Speaker 3: but not enough, not enough, obviously, to bring justice back.
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  Speaker 3: to bring in any type of awareness. We need to
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  Speaker 3: be doing more. They need to be doing more. The
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  Speaker 3: government should be listening to the people. And hopefully, with
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  Speaker 3: people like Secretary Deb Haaland, that could actually happen.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Hopefully so. Hopefully so. Well, listeners, if there are
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  Speaker 1: any other women or organizations you would like us to
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Christina.
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