How Are Contemporary Native Americans Thriving? with Dr. Elizabeth Rule

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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On this week’s Getting Curious, Dr. Elizabeth Rule joins Jonathan to discuss contemporary Native American rights and representation. She and Jonathan cover reproductive justice, tribal sovereignty, and the incredible work that Dr. Rule is doing to illuminate the relationship between Native history and contemporary Native Americans’ experiences and realities. Dr. Rule is the Director of the AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics & Policy, an Assistant Professor of Professional Studies and Faculty in Residence at George Washington University, and an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Follow Dr. Rule on Twitter @ERuleDC, download the Guide to Indigenous DC, and check out more of her work at www.elizabethrule.com. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Giving Curious. I'm Jonathan Venice, and every week I sit down for a 40-minute conversation
0:05.9	with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious. On today's episode,
0:11.0	I'm joined by the director of the AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics and Policy, Dr. Elizabeth
0:16.3	Rul, where I ask her, how are contemporary Native Americans thriving? On today's episode,
0:21.9	we have a conversation about reproductive justice in Native American communities and so much more.
0:27.0	As a sensitivity warning, this episode does address matters of sexual and gender violence.
0:32.2	That being said, what Dr. Rul has to share is so thoughtful and important, and we're so
0:37.0	honored to have her on this week's show. Not only that, we get to discuss lots of joy and
0:43.8	thriving topics that get to address a fuller scope of what Dr. Elizabeth Rul is accomplishing today.
0:51.3	So without further ado, on this week's Getting Curious, I'm joined by Dr. Elizabeth Rul
0:56.3	again, where I ask her, how are contemporary Native Americans thriving?
1:01.6	Welcome to Giving Curious, Assistant Jonathan Venice. I'm so excited to welcome our guest this week.
1:06.7	She is the director of the AT&T Center for Indigenous Politics and Policy. She is also an
1:13.1	assistant professor of professional studies and faculty and residents at George Washington University,
1:18.8	and you're also an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. Welcome to Giving Curious, Dr. Elizabeth Rul.
1:24.7	How are you? I'm doing great. Thanks so much for having me. It's a pleasure to be here.
1:30.5	Well, I'm so excited that you could be here, and I'm so excited for folks to get to know you,
1:35.9	and I am so curious about so many things. The kind of guiding question that we wanted to work
1:42.2	off for now is what does reproductive justice look like for Native American women and peoples?
1:48.5	And I know that there is also other communities all over the world that like are classified
1:54.5	differently and have different terms, and I want to make sure that I say all of those things
1:59.7	correctly. And I also think that this is a year when so many people have been made more aware of
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