And the So, All right, so.

We're ready to go.

Oh, you're going to be.

All right, so. All right, We're ready to go. Yeah. You want to just start by introducing yourself, who you are, where you calling from, and maybe just talk a little bit about your background.

Okay, I'm Dean Seneca.

From the Seneca Nation of Indians,

actually I'm actually from the Old First Ward in the city of Buffalo.

I'm proud to say I'm an urban American Indian. I'm from the Beaver Clan. My father grew up in the

Cataraugus territory and most of my family resides in Cataraugus. I attended the University of Buffalo. I did my

graduate work at the University of Hawaii and I pretty much worked with the American Indian, Alaska Native populations,

tribal nations, organizations from New Zealand to Quebec from Barrow to Brazil.

So I spent, you know, my first part of my career working for my tribe, the great Seneca Nation of Indians,

and recently spent 20 years as a federal employee with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

And I'm currently right now working or operating my own LLC, Seneca Scientific Solutions Plus,

where I am the CEO and we primarily do public health,

epidemiology, health research but on the other side we also do urban and regional

planning community development you know architectural and engineering services.

So in summary, that's a little bit intro about me.

There's a lot to talk about and I just want to start by saying that the

field of epidemiology is incredibly important for I guess understanding the

history of this particular country and this particular continent, because as a lot of people know,

contagious diseases were part of kind of the colonial process and you know either used as a form of kind of like

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