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Book Club: Finding My Dance · Stuff Mom Never Told You

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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Sanny and Samantha. I welcome to Stuff
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Speaker 1: I Never Told You production of iHeartRadio and today for
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Speaker 1: our book Club, which may or may not come out December.
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Speaker 1: You know, holidays coming around, a lot of scheduling happening.
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Speaker 1: We are talking about a beautiful children's book from twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty two, Finding My Dance, written by Rhea Thundercloud and
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Speaker 1: illustrated by Khalila J.
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Speaker 2: Fuller.
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Speaker 1: It follows the story of a young Indigenous woman, Wakeja
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Speaker 1: Haja Peewinga, which is Rio's ho Chunk name, and her
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Speaker 1: journey from a child to an adult with a child,
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Speaker 1: and her different experiences with dance, as well as her
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Speaker 1: becoming a mother. It is largely autobiographical based on Thundercloud's
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Speaker 1: own experiences with dance. She is a professional Indigenous dancer.
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Speaker 1: You can look up videos of her really amazing and
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Speaker 1: thank you to the read along of this book that
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Speaker 1: she does, which is really lovely and very helpful. For
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Speaker 1: pronunciations and thank you. We always try to get those right,
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Speaker 1: but sometimes you can't find them anywhere, but here. It's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: You can look it up, just fantastic. You can also
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Speaker 1: look up photographs she does dance from both northern and
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Speaker 1: southern styles of Indigenous dances, which honors her heritage. And
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Speaker 1: she's also she's just done a lot of other stuff.
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Speaker 1: She's collaborated with PBS. She's talked about missing and murdered
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Speaker 1: Indigenous women. She's talked about Indigenous sensuality and sexuality. She's
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Speaker 1: got a lot of interviews and things that you can find.
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Speaker 1: So look her up and also look this book. It's
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Speaker 1: really really lovely.
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Speaker 3: It is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because this is a shorter book, this will be
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Speaker 1: a shorter episode, but always recommend it. I highly recommend it.
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Speaker 1: So Ria this and also the character who again that's
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Speaker 1: her name, her ho Junk name. She is from the
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Speaker 1: Ho Chunk Nation in Wisconsin and the San Dio Pueblo
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Speaker 1: in New Mexico, and as early as four, her mother
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Speaker 1: encouraged her to get into dancing. She gifted her this
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Speaker 1: orange jingle dress, which is a traditional style of dress.
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Speaker 1: Her mother told her that the dress was healing and
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Speaker 1: would bless anyone who watched her dance in it. She
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Speaker 1: talks about the power and importance of dancing in a
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Speaker 1: powow circle, which is something she does, I believe. At
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Speaker 1: the age of four, she starts very early, while she
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Speaker 1: was nervous the first time. With the support of her family,
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Speaker 1: she had a wonderful experience and went on tour doing
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Speaker 1: their dances and she stayed with friends and family along
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Speaker 1: the way. She traveled all over. When she was thirteen,
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Speaker 1: she received her fancy shawl, which is a type of
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Speaker 1: shawl that is reminiscent of a butterfly's wings in movement
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Speaker 1: and in looks. Wakaja then tries all different types of
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Speaker 1: dance styles from modern to jazz, everything in between, and
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Speaker 1: she was and is successful too, making it to a
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Speaker 1: competitive team after an audition and winning a prestigious award
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Speaker 1: with her very first dance solo. So it's just a
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Speaker 1: story of her falling in love with dance, finding all
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Speaker 1: these different types of dance and finding a way to
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Speaker 1: express herself, stay true to her heritage, connect with other
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Speaker 1: people and travel and you know, ultimately tell this story
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Speaker 1: and yes she does have a child at the end
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Speaker 1: and talks about how she what she wants for her
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Speaker 1: and what she wants when it comes to her journey,
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Speaker 1: whatever that might look like, how she wants that to
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Speaker 1: be for her, and and the way she's taking to
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Speaker 1: improve it. Versus what she what her journey was. So
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Speaker 1: that's it. It's beautiful, it's beautifully illustrated.
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Speaker 3: Illustrations are gorgeous.
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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I like how. I like how. It's just
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Speaker 2: a lot of different formats.
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Speaker 1: So in some it will be like a two pager
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Speaker 1: and a really colorful like pow wow circle, and some
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Speaker 1: it's like a bunch of smaller illustrations on one page.
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Speaker 1: That's just a lot of he variety that I really appreciated.
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Speaker 1: So the themes, I would say, the big theme is
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Speaker 1: a dance that was art or expression.
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Speaker 2: She is.
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Speaker 1: That's just something she immediately loved and wanted to get into,
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Speaker 1: and people in her life supported her in but she
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Speaker 1: just talked about how immediately she wanted this and she
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Speaker 1: knew that she wanted this, and to see her journey
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Speaker 1: of all of the different things she tried, she she
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Speaker 1: has this. She has a quote in there dance isn't
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Speaker 1: one thing.
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Speaker 2: And she also.
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Speaker 1: Expresses kind of her her hardship and trying to fit
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Speaker 1: into classical dance styles because they were much more rigid
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Speaker 1: than she was used to. They had much more rules,
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Speaker 1: and that was not how she grew up in these
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Speaker 1: indigenous dance styles.
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Speaker 3: Right, I've talked about how I enjoyed dancing and is
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Speaker 3: something that helps me my anxiety. But when we talk
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Speaker 3: about the root of dance and where it came from
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Speaker 3: and its forms, and we don't give enough credit for
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Speaker 3: its origins and its beginnings and why they did it.
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Speaker 3: These were traditional, almost like religious, a part of their culture,
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Speaker 3: and I think throughout the years, not necessarily like in
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Speaker 3: a bad way, but become because it has become more
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Speaker 3: of a hobby, more of an exercise. We talk about
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Speaker 3: with yoga, we talk about with meditation, that it became
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Speaker 3: more entertainment rather than seeing the root of what it was.
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Speaker 3: And I think she explores a lot of that in
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Speaker 3: her own childhood. Of course, like I'm going deeper than
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Speaker 3: what the book is actually saying, but she talks about
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Speaker 3: origins and her connections to her ancestry through dance through nature,
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Speaker 3: and that was kind of the intent of dance to
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Speaker 3: begin with. And we talk about that with like how
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Speaker 3: folk art and folk dancing and music came from the
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Speaker 3: pleas of you know, enslaved people bringing their culture and
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Speaker 3: trying to connect back to their culture which was stolen
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Speaker 3: from them. And again for many of the Indigenous people
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Speaker 3: was not only stolen, it was trying to be eradicated
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Speaker 3: or erased. And also they were like they made fun
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Speaker 3: of it. They made it into such a way that
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Speaker 3: even hearing the word pow wow, which is an amazing ceremony,
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Speaker 3: and you hear more about it and like it is sacred.
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Speaker 3: But because of the way white culture and white supremacy
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Speaker 3: as taking these words and like believes or ideals, they
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Speaker 3: have caused this almost like backlash and what it is
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Speaker 3: and a way of illegitimizing what it truly is. And
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Speaker 3: when we talk about cultural appropriation, why using that terms
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Speaker 3: are saying get together is is really offensive. And while
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Speaker 3: we have to pay attention to what this narrative does
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Speaker 3: because they are trying to destroy a culture which is
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Speaker 3: so deeply ingrained and so deeply a part and rich
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Speaker 3: part of their nature, and that they're returning to that
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Speaker 3: they are actually being praised for again like it's kind
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Speaker 3: of come back to fashion to a noting that this
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Speaker 3: is a beautiful ceremony that should be looked with reverence
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Speaker 3: and that should only be done by Native people with
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Speaker 3: those types of roots. But it is interesting because we
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Speaker 3: talk about classical it is kind of like it's pretty,
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Speaker 3: don't get me wrong. And there's also roots of that
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Speaker 3: in ancestral dancing for other formats, but it got whitewashed
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Speaker 3: and become a show and tell type of thing. I
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Speaker 3: guess is a way instead of seeing what dance could be.
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Speaker 3: And it is interesting, especially when you have whitewashed where
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Speaker 3: she was like learning and she's great, she's a great answer,
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Speaker 3: like she knows she's gotten awarded for all these different
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Speaker 3: types of solos and such, but having some of those
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Speaker 3: parts that she doesn't connect with it, how it does
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Speaker 3: seem difficult.
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Speaker 2: And I think that says a lot.
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Speaker 3: Again, this is going real deep into it, but that
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Speaker 3: when we talk about things like this, how beautiful important
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Speaker 3: it is, and why it needs to be noted to
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Speaker 3: young children, because I feel like that's when you really
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Speaker 3: feel the magic of it, when you connect you know.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, and you touched on a lot of stuff
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Speaker 1: that we're going to come back to, but yeah, I mean,
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Speaker 1: I do I agree that when you're young. That's when
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Speaker 1: I was in dancing class and until I got too
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Speaker 1: self conscious about my body that it was.
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Speaker 2: I loved it.
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Speaker 1: It felt very freeing and I was like, undoubtedly I
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Speaker 1: was doing a much more classical type. But when you're
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Speaker 1: younger and it kind of feels like I get to
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Speaker 1: wear this and there's this music and I get to
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Speaker 1: move in this way. And it wasn't necessarily strict because
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Speaker 1: I was really young, so it was it did feel
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Speaker 1: pretty magical. I remember those moments of thinking, I'm so
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Speaker 1: excited to do this, So I do think, yeah, when
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Speaker 1: you're younger, not that you can't find it at any time,
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Speaker 1: but it is a special like it feels really like fun.
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Speaker 3: And also you get to do it with your friends
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Speaker 3: hopefully hopefully like you get to do with people who
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Speaker 3: feel that same way with you. So as a class,
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Speaker 3: you're doing these fun classes unless you know, things can
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Speaker 3: go awry often, but if you're truly enjoying it and
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Speaker 3: allow to enjoy it for what it is, I just
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Speaker 3: feel like a connection.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it does. It does.
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Speaker 1: And outside of the book, in an interview, Thundercloud said
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Speaker 1: one of the reasons that she loves dance is that
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Speaker 1: she would get all in her her mind and this
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Speaker 1: was a way of being present with her body. And
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Speaker 1: I think that that that just made so much sense
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Speaker 1: to me because that's how I feel when I go
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Speaker 1: hiking because I have to focus on every the next
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Speaker 1: step and the next step and the next step, and
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Speaker 1: it does help me get out.
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Speaker 2: Of my head, which can be difficult to do.
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Speaker 1: I won't why, but if you can do it, it's
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Speaker 1: really nice. And afterwards I often feel very refreshed, like
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Speaker 1: I just needed that moment of being present with my body. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I think it's really important. It used to be so
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Speaker 1: good about stretching, but I've fallen off. The last time
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Speaker 1: I stretched and it was really nice. I was like, Yep,
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Speaker 1: there's a reason why I did this all the time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, mm hmmm.
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Speaker 1: She also talks about finding connection and communication through art
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Speaker 1: and preserving culture that way. That is, yeah, very very important.
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Speaker 1: But she's a big proponent of finding that communication because
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Speaker 1: she was shy. She talked about feeling very shy, which
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Speaker 1: she later kind of expounded on and said also I
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Speaker 1: was the only indigenous person. But we'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: more in a second, but at the time she was
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Speaker 1: interpreting it as shy and dance was a way that
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Speaker 1: she could communicate. So here's a quote. I could always
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Speaker 1: dance it out and feel better, which yeah, again, and
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Speaker 1: using dance as another language, which I really love how
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Speaker 1: she talks about that.
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Speaker 2: We used to do that in a.
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Speaker 1: Not by not the same level by any means, but
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Speaker 1: in college, I in a group that was just about
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Speaker 1: international communication, connecting with people might not speak your language,
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Speaker 1: and we did. We would make dances to communicate, which
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Speaker 1: some of them I still know.
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Speaker 2: And it was college. I will stick with you. You
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Speaker 2: think about some.
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Speaker 3: Of the routines that I did as a kid with
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Speaker 3: my friends who were in dance, and I wasn't with
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Speaker 3: a great number for footloose.
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Speaker 2: Oh I bet you did.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, I love that. I love it.
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Speaker 1: Uh. And then it kind of ends with this message,
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Speaker 1: I am beautiful thunder woman, and dance will always be
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Speaker 1: a part of me. I've heard really coming into her
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Speaker 1: own of this is who I am, and dance is
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Speaker 1: a part of it. And she talks about feeling the
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Speaker 1: history through it, and feeling ancestors through it, ancestors watching
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Speaker 1: over you and doing these dances that people before you
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Speaker 1: had done and preserving them and presenting them across the country,
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Speaker 1: which I love. And she also subscribes being gifted a
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Speaker 1: set of eagle wings and the importance of that because
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Speaker 1: eagles fly higher than any bird and they take your
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Speaker 1: messages up to the sky. And another thing she touches
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Speaker 1: on that I love is quote it felt wonderful to
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Speaker 1: see the changes of Mother Earth as she was traveling,
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Speaker 1: just seeing all of these different environments, locations and nature
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Speaker 1: being important in general, which we've discussed at length when
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Speaker 1: we talk about Indigenous women on this podcast, but it
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Speaker 1: is and appreciating that and protecting that as much as
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Speaker 1: you can, right, Yeah, they.
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Speaker 3: Like to that. Yeah, I did love also, And she
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Speaker 3: was talking and I think we're going to talk about
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Speaker 3: it in a second, about the fact that her brother
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Speaker 3: was so encouraging and I love that when you see
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Speaker 3: Indigenous dance and when you see the ceremonies, it's about
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Speaker 3: warriors and warriorhood and the matriarch and and seeing that
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Speaker 3: represented from both of them and how important it is
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Speaker 3: on both those notes. And like again when we talk
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Speaker 3: about mother Earth and the fact that they based their
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Speaker 3: their lineage on the matriarch, I think this also, This
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Speaker 3: dance also played a huge part in that conversation, and
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Speaker 3: we know that in general, their rituals have a lot
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Speaker 3: of that as a part of their forefront in their
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Speaker 3: storytelling too, So it is I love seeing that family
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Speaker 3: part as also like the separate parts of like that,
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Speaker 3: I'm like, that's really Yeah. She was like empowered and.
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Speaker 2: Ready to go. Yeah, I did love when her brother
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Speaker 2: came up turned and was like you got this and
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Speaker 2: hard and she did and.
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Speaker 1: She's So this brings us to identity, which is also
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Speaker 1: a huge theme in the book. As mentioned, she was
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Speaker 1: often the only indigenous woman and any school dance, whatever
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Speaker 1: it was, she says, sometimes I felt like an outsider.
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Speaker 1: In the book an interviews, she said like, no, I
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Speaker 1: want the house side, right, but and her kind of
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Speaker 1: interpreting that as I'm shy. And also yes, she didn't
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Speaker 1: correct people on the pronunciation of her name at first.
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Speaker 2: She later did.
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Speaker 1: The author this is not in the book, but the
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Speaker 1: author describes going on a high school field trip to
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Speaker 1: a reservation where the other students like you were kind
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Speaker 1: of talking about Samith that made fun of the dance
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Speaker 1: and song, and for her that was just such a
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Speaker 1: that they were laughing at this thing that was her
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Speaker 1: identity or culture, part of her whole life of it's
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Speaker 1: something she loved and her fellow students just laughing at it.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, she at the end of the book she
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Speaker 1: writes about how after her daughter was born, she would
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Speaker 1: correct people who mispronounced it, and so that's sort of
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Speaker 1: the trying to build that better.
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Speaker 2: World for her. But she has started to correct people
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Speaker 2: on her own name too, and she did in the book.
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Speaker 3: Ye M right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I find it interesting because when she talks about again
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Speaker 3: going from what she loved, learned in love with her
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Speaker 3: own cultural dances and ancestral dances, and then learning contemporary
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Speaker 3: dances and know realized she is also good at that,
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Speaker 3: but also realizing how different it was and I could
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Speaker 3: not imagine. And I think she kind of alludes to
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Speaker 3: that with that being like, I don't feel like I'm
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Speaker 3: a part of this classical was hard and understanding that
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Speaker 3: her dances are often invalidated by those types of schools
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Speaker 3: and competitions because they're very whitewash the man I keep
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Speaker 3: saying that term, but it's true in that it gets
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Speaker 3: taken into being like that's not a real dance, this
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Speaker 3: is dance type of conversation. And I'm wondering if that,
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Speaker 3: like hearing that, seeing that being on trips like that
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Speaker 3: where they invalidate that, like they would celebrate her championship
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Speaker 3: for ballet, but not for being warrior dancing like any
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Speaker 3: of those ways, and seeing how to figure out to
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Speaker 3: meld those two types of communities together. When she loved
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Speaker 3: dance in general, like she loved any form, and that's
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Speaker 3: true appreciation in that understanding, like community, like to love
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Speaker 3: dance is to love all dance, even if you're not
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Speaker 3: great at it, to know and learn the difficulty then
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Speaker 3: ciation of contemporary ballet, hip hop, all of these things,
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Speaker 3: and ancestral rights like doing indigenous dancing in loving that,
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Speaker 3: I think definitely as people go traveling the world as
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Speaker 3: she did, they did appreciate it more. But in general,
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Speaker 3: the popular, like the populace in general, does not. And
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Speaker 3: so her trying to figure those two things out while
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Speaker 3: being in a community that she loves that doesn't love
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Speaker 3: her or her world is an interesting aspect as well.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, because she does.
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Speaker 1: She does touch on that very briefly of the I
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Speaker 1: felt like I couldn't dance my indigenous dance right, and
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Speaker 1: that would never fly in this very white world.
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Speaker 2: And so.
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Speaker 1: I'm just like reading quotes from the author now, I'm
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Speaker 1: just really glad that she was able to find this
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Speaker 1: platform and find success. As always, we wish her case
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Speaker 1: wasn't an outlier, but I'm glad that she has held
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Speaker 1: on to that and still finds joy in that, and
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Speaker 1: it's now getting a lot of recognition for it.
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Speaker 2: And then yeah, she.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if she's I wouldn't say I know
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Speaker 1: if she's going to try to direct her daughter into
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Speaker 1: dancing or anything, but that she is trying to make
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Speaker 1: sure that her daughter knows about her culture and her
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Speaker 1: heritage and that people get her name correctly. And she
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Speaker 1: has this other quote I thought was really moving. I
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Speaker 1: transformed again when I was gifted a daughter of just
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Speaker 1: how moving that was for her. And she also has
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Speaker 1: this other quote, a language that still exists despite many
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Speaker 1: attempts to wipe it out forever, which we've discussed before. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Indigenous languages are are been under threat, purposeful attempts to
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Speaker 1: erase them. But she was saying like that, she would
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Speaker 1: think this when people at her school couldn't pronounce her name.
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Speaker 1: She was like, you know, this is a language that
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Speaker 1: still exists, right and.
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Speaker 2: No one knows it.
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Speaker 1: No one knows it outside of you know where I
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Speaker 1: come from. And again, that idea of preserving a culture
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Speaker 1: and a language that she's trying to do we're speaking
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Speaker 1: of when we're talking about representation. In twenty twenty one,
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Speaker 1: the Cooperative Children's Book Center reported only one percent of
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Speaker 1: American children's books were written by indigenous authors. So this
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Speaker 1: is a big deal that she has this book and
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Speaker 1: is telling this story, and children's books are important, like
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Speaker 1: as we said, when you're young, seeing those things matters. Yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 1: And she has another she has another quote. The author
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Speaker 1: does not in the book, but she was saying she
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Speaker 1: learned about a lot of her her culture's history after
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Speaker 1: school because she said, never was taught it, never got
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Speaker 1: the chance to learn it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, which is absurd, Like it feels as a
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Speaker 3: podcasting show that tries to bring attention to different people,
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Speaker 3: different activists who have done different things, including many Indigenous people,
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Speaker 3: trying to learn the history of what they have been
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Speaker 3: through or even like the things that exist today but
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Speaker 3: that are a recall of what was taken away from them.
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Speaker 3: It's been fascinating because it's like having to learn something
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Speaker 3: new but pretending like I already knew it, you know
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Speaker 3: what I mean, Like in conversations with any of the
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Speaker 3: Indigenous people or seeing what they've worked for trying to
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Speaker 3: fight for indigenous rights, fight for existence, just their tribal existence,
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Speaker 3: fight for their language, fighting for their foods, fighting for
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Speaker 3: like any of these conversations or like past names of
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Speaker 3: lands that were taken from them, it is like significantly
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Speaker 3: impactful to see them still call upon it, because once
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Speaker 3: they lose that, once it gets forgotten, it just is lost.
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Speaker 3: And I couldn't imagine a group of people losing their
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Speaker 3: entire way of being in their ancestry because of white
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Speaker 3: supremacy and the years of genocidal attempts against them for existing,
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Speaker 3: for being here, and having these types of representation, like
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Speaker 3: the fact that if she's saying that she wasn't taught
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Speaker 3: and it is her culture, how many more of us
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Speaker 3: have no clue of the many things that are fascinating
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Speaker 3: and it actually teaches us lessons today. Yeah, like that's
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Speaker 3: so important, And it's the more like we uncover, the
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Speaker 3: more we talk about, the more communities, the more groups
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Speaker 3: of people that we see and talk about, Like it's
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Speaker 3: almost shameful, Like I feel like I haven't done a job,
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Speaker 3: my job, even though I'm new to this job, and
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Speaker 3: even though we were never taught that we have to
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Speaker 3: seek it and especially as we are trying to stop
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Speaker 3: the bigger attempts, today's attempts, the current attempts to shut
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Speaker 3: down these types of information, this type of history today,
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Speaker 3: Like it's such a significant amount of information that we
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Speaker 3: don't have that is a loss to everyone.
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, absolutely, And if you want to look up her,
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Speaker 1: I believe this interview was with Colores in partnership with PBS,
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Speaker 1: but she talked about that. She said, there was two
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Speaker 1: sentences in my textbook that was just basically about how
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Speaker 1: indigenous people attacked white people.
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Speaker 3: That's all literally like, oh, look, these white people help
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Speaker 3: the indigenous people, and then the indigenous people were mad
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Speaker 3: when we told me they had to move.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean we're laughing because it's ridiculous and terrible.
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Speaker 3: It is like they downplay the atrocities as if it
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Speaker 3: was just history and that it didn't really affect too
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Speaker 3: many people.
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Speaker 1: It's fine, right, right, But I would recommend checking checking
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Speaker 1: out some of the interviews she's done and some of
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Speaker 1: the other work she's done, and just hear her. The
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Speaker 1: videos of her dancing very just beautiful in this book,
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Speaker 1: which is important and I'm glad kids have access to it.
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