Welcome back to all my relations. I'm your friendly co-host, Matika Wilbur from the

Tulalup and Swinn and Mish tribes. And I'm a mom, a photographer, and a storyteller,

and I'm so happy to be back on the air with you today. And before I begin, I just want to send

my love and prayers and good medicine out to each and every one of you. And I'm Adrienne.

I am a writer, a professor, and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. I know it's been a while since

you've heard my voice, but I've missed all of you, and I hope everyone is hanging in there.

To frame the conversation we're going to have today, we have to travel back in time to two years ago.

It was the late spring of 2020. George Floyd had just been murdered by the Minneapolis police,

and the world was watching as community members took to the streets to protest,

and the Black Lives Matter movement was in full force. Here at all my relations, we were trying

to figure out what to do to be as supportive as we could be. Matika and I decided that we wanted

to make an episode that talked about what the broader Indigenous community could do to support

the movement for Black Lives and to support the Black Native and the Afro-Indigenous relatives

in our communities. So we started talking to folks. And with each conversation, we realized that

the story was so much larger than one episode, and that trying to fit everything into a neatly

packaged hour was actually a disservice to the communities we were hoping to support.

So we kept talking, and then Matika and Dazia had more conversations, and now we're sitting on

some very beautiful interviews collected over the course of two years. Some relate to Black Lives

Matter and George Floyd, and others are more current, and others like the conversation you're about

to hear today, bring us back to the historical foundations of the relationships between Indigenous

and Black communities. Recently, something happened that made us want to share this particular

interview with Harvard professor and historian Dr. Taya Miles. Matika and I decided to contact Dr.

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