Greetings my

Greetings my kin and my people.

This is Lila June, host of Nehijit, Indigenous Solutions, Indigenous Voices podcast.

Hi, this is Katina Stone Butler with the Black History for White People podcast.

So happy to be with each other today. We're so excited to do this very special episode

where we are discussing how to be in deeper solidarity between the black community and the

indigenous community, how to show up for each other, how we've showed up for each other in

the past, and really have some of the harder conversations that we don't always talk about

within our communities with the aim of being more resonant with each other and more healed with each other and more strong as we move forward for our collective liberation.

Katina, maybe you could just give a brief overview of the impacts of colonization on the black community.

I know that's a very big subject, but maybe just, you know, go off on what you want to share with listeners

who are of many different audiences on these podcasts.

Well, just first of all, thank you, you know, for spending this time with me.

I think that it is so powerful and necessary for us as Black and indigenous people to give language to our shared experiences and our

triumph and even, you know, in how we stood in solidarity throughout history on this land,

land that was stolen, you know, from indigenous people and land that was forced upon black bodies.

And so as a black woman with indigenous roots, my great-grandmother, who passed away a couple of

months before I got married in the mid-90s, she was black and indigenous.

Her mother was a Cherokee woman and just growing up

sitting at her feet and learning from her experience as a black woman and an indigenous woman.

And just my parents who instilled in me very early on wanting me to have knowledge and understand

who I am, who I was and where I came from. There's so much

...