Connie Walker On Covering the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

UNDISTRACTED With Brittany Packnett Cunningham

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mass graves found on the sites of former residential schools in Canada. Disturbingly high rates of murder and disappearance for Indigenous women across North America. These headlines have woken many in the U.S. up to the realities Native communities face—but award-winning Cree journalist Connie Walker (host of the podcast Stolen) has spent decades shedding light on these issues. In this episode, she sits down with Brittany Packnett Cunningham to unpack these crimes, their solutions, and what this long-overdue moment of awareness might mean. Plus, Brittany covers the latest Untrending News. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:30.3	and there's a lot to be excited about with so many amazing black women and Bi-Poc athletes
1:36.8	headed to Tokyo. But if I'm honest, I am still pissed off every day about how sports treats black athletes. I'm thinking
1:47.8	about Simone Biles and the rules that were basically changed to undermine her dominance. And of course I'm thinking
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