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Hey it's Isabel and today I'm joined by two wonderful DJ's and people, Kevin Sir and Tori Jay. They are the hosts of KEXP's Global Indigenous Music Show called Sounds of Survivors. Kevin and Tori, welcome back to the show.

Thank you.

Yeah, thanks for having us.

So you've both been guests on inner headphones before, but today you're here together to amplify

our celebration of Indigenous People's Day, a holiday that happens here in the U.S. on the second Monday of October.

So we're going to talk about some new music from indigenous artists who are pushing the boundaries of sound. But first speaking of sound I want to talk

about your show briefly because even though we're releasing this episode on a holiday that happens

once a year, your show celebrates indigenous music and

voices every week and you decided to call your show Sounds of

Survivors. Can you talk about where that name comes from? Yeah, absolutely.

Survivors is a theory in indigenous studies that was developed by Anishinabe

theorist Gerald Vizner and it's been interpreted by other scholars in the field as thinking through the intersection of survival and resistance.

And so Vizner himself had this way of understanding Indian life that he wanted to very intentionally move away

from narratives of tragedy and victimry.

And so thinking about the ways that we exist

under oppressive structures of settler colonialism

and what we do to adapt to those systems

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