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Don't count on it. So we're excited to welcome our esteemed guest today, sardana, who is.

So we're excited to welcome our esteemed guest today, Sardana, who is currently living in Canada right now, but we have

quite an agenda, quite an interview set before us but before we get to the questions

maybe you can introduce who you are and also where you're from.

So my name is Sardana, Nikolaevo, and just note to a very Russian last name

and I'm going to explain why it happened that way.

And I am currently a postdoctoral fellow with the International Indigenous Politics Collaboratory

at the University of Toronto.

I am originally from Sahara Public, which is the northeastern part of Russia.

So it's essentially the Arctic region within the Russian Federation. And one of the funny things that when people ask me,

where I'm from the kind of,

they just imagine Siberia and I can't stand it because we're not Siberia. We're not

Siberia. We're like very different area close to Siberia next to Siberia but we're not necessarily considered to be the part of the Siberia.

A lot of people, they don't recognize that.

So yeah, I'm from that area and I am Sahah.

Sahah is, we are legally non-recognized indigenous peoples

within the Sah Public, but we also have, within the Sahara Public,

we also have much smaller in size, in population size, indigenous communities and my dissertation work as a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Manitoba was working with event key indigenous communities

in the Arctic villages.

Yeah, thanks for that explanation.

The only thing I know about the Sky Republic is from what I've seen on YouTube and it's very cold.

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