Hi everyone, Lee here up in a brief little intro before we get into this episode.

I'm so happy to be back in your podcast feeds with a fully researched episode.

It's been a while, and I thank you all for your patience.

This episode was recorded in November 22 and was originally meant to go out that month,

but unfortunately due to some health struggles and some pretty significant technical issues

with trying to edit this episode. We just weren't able to get it out until now, but I'm so

happy to bring it to everyone. Myself and my guest host worked

really hard on it for a long time and will be bringing more to you in the future. Before I transition

you into the episode, I just have a few brief things that I wanted to mention up top here.

One is a disclaimer. There will be a few quotes near the beginning of the episode that contain

pronouns that were not changed, that I had intended to change and didn't catch it until

after we had recorded. So if it sounds odd that some of the pronouns for folks that we are

referencing in quotes were changed and not others.

It was an oversight on my part and I apologize.

Second is there are multiple times in this episode where we are attempting pronunciations of words in languages that we do not speak.

So if you're affiliated with any of the nations or identities that we cover in this episode,

we encourage you to reach out to us with pronunciations or corrections for anything we might have gotten wrong. We would be so

happy to hear from folks. So please feel free to reach out to us. Lastly, this episode is being

released at the end of January, 2023, and I just wanted to

let all of you know anyone who is local or close enough to San Francisco Bay Area, the Bates Bay Area

American Indian Two Spirits powwow is actually happening really close. It's coming right up on

Saturday, February 4th at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion in San Francisco.

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