This is Ron Kazanchi and welcome back to another episode of the Anti-Racism and Medicine series of the Clinical Problem Solvers podcast.

This episode is titled Our Land is Our Health, confronting anti-indigenous racism

and medicine. As always, our goal on this podcast is to equip our listeners at all levels of

training with the consciousness and tools to practice anti-racism in their health professions careers.

I am excited to be joined today by my brothers, Victor Lopez-Karman and Alec Kalak, who are brand new

members of our CP Selvers anti-racism and medicine team.

We are just so excited to welcome them into the fold.

And before we get started, I want to share a little bit about the intention behind this episode.

Our series to date has focused heavily on equipping our listeners with a thousand-foot

toolkit to understand structural racism.

But as we try to reimagine a more just and equitable healthcare system together,

we have to hone in on how white supremacy operates in different ways to place specific

minoritized groups at the margins. The movement for health equity and anti-racism should

leave no stone unturned, which is why some of our upcoming episodes will have a targeted focus on how particular minoritized communities are impacted by interpersonal, cultural, and structural racism.

November is Native American Heritage Month, but as Alec and Victor have reminded us, anti-indigenous racism is not just a problem in November. It is pervasive,

persistent, and ubiquitous in harming our indigenous communities. And we strongly believe that

indigenous peoples have been left out of anti-racism conversations in health care. Our hope is

that this conversation will motivate our listeners to learn more about the unique challenges

faced by tribes in the United States.

So with that framing in mind, let me introduce our fantastic hosts and new team members, Alec and Victor. First, I'd like to introduce Alec, who is a medical student at the University of California,

San Diego, where he is also pursuing a PhD in the joint doctoral program in public health

at the University of California,

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