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Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast. I'm your host, John Galin.

It's December 1st, 2017, new month, last month of the year. And what a great way to start the month with an interview with two really interesting people about a very important topic.

Those of you who live in Utah will know that within the past few days, the United States president, Donald Trump has announced that he will be visiting Utah on Monday, December 4th.

To make an announcement where it's anticipated that he will be announcing that he will be shrinking the bears, ears and grand staircase escalante national monuments.

So he'll also be visiting welfare square and visiting the LDS church during his time in Utah.

So I felt that it would be really important for us to cover this and a good friend of mine, someone who those of you follow warmest stories will know Dr. Thomas Murphy. He reached out to me and said, John, we really need to cover this topic.

And so today we're going to be interviewing two gentlemen about this important events news event.

The first is going to be Dr. Angela Baca.

He's a Native American filmmaker, a Navajo and a Hopi. He works in education films, fiction and nonfiction.

A graduate of the Native Voices program at University of Washington.

Angela Baca, Dr. Angela Baca, welcome to warmest stories.

Thanks, John. Just one note of correction. I'm still halfway through my PhD program. So I'm not totally a doctor yet. I couldn't really diagnose you. I could probably just like talk you into something.

Well, you know, thanks, thanks for that clarification. But we're excited for your, we're excited to see your, your graduate work and what you do with your research.

Tell us a bit more about yourself just so we know a little bit about you.

Yeah, so I am actually from the San Juan County area. I am a member of the Annath chapter. That's the one chapter that it's a hold out of the Utah Navajo chapters that hasn't supported the resolution on the Bearsers National Monument.

I, however, disagree with the majority of my chapter and I'm in full support of that monument. So I'm Navajo and I'm Hopi and in the traditional way we introduce ourselves with our clients. So I say, Yade, Angela Baca, Yine Shea, plus Chit Nishle, Keith, Annie, Bashi's, Chi, what a Chi, not kind of a nationala.

So those are my clients. That's how I'm related to a lot of different families and relationships networks that know me through who my relatives are.

So I have a different way of like relating to my social kinship and also accountability in my cultural way.

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