You talk about relationality in your book, you know, like we're all related not the same.

And you talk about land-based identity. So I wonder if you wanted to touch on that a bit, because

this is all my relations. The word for people and land come from the same root, which I think is

a incredibly profound and beautiful way to understand what it is to be human

and what it is to be a human in our understanding is to live in relationship to your place and to your land.

And perhaps in the opposite as well, to be land is to have some relationship to the humans, you know, that are there.

Sorry. All My Relations.

Good afternoon, relatives.

I'm Adika Wilhelm Swinamish and Talela.

My name is Temerslane, and I'm so happy to be here co-hosting another episode of

All My Relations. I'm from Lummi Nation. Today we are lucky to be joined by writer and

documentarian Julian Brave Nois Cat who is Canem Lake Band First Nations and a descendant of Leitwatt Nation of Mount Curry. Julian, welcome to All My Relations. Siam, C.M. C.I.M. C.M. C.I.M. Uh, we'd go ahead up, Julian Brave Noyes, cat, one Chetchua, so chakbuck and at Stalem that's chas, and who it'stack one. a let one poopsman chocko yulcham to Lushutsi do you look?

What, what are you? much can at Stalemke, that's Gasschen or Chetakwin. That one poopsman, Chohoyuk, to Lushutsi, De Oluch, or Echwa, Seattle. My name is Julian. I'm from the Siquot-Malkan-Statling Nations. My family comes from a little res in British Columbia called Canem Lake. I got a lot of relations all over the province, a lot in Statlin country as well, and it's good to be here

today in Seattle with Hawaii to go sell in all my relations. Well, Julian, we're so glad you could

join us and, yeah, I got to catch up with you on your last roundabout the globe on sugarcane,

so we're grateful that you stopped off to join us here today.

I'd like to share a little bit of an official bio with our listeners.

So Julian is a writer, an Oscar-nominated filmmaker, champion powwow dancer,

and a student of Salish Art and History.

His documentary Sugarcane directed alongside Emily Cassie follows an investigation into the abuse and missing children at the Indian residential school where his family was sent near Williams Lake, British Columbia.

A story he's called a reverse Western Buddy Stoner Road Trip Tragic Comedy.

The film premiered at Sundance, 2024.

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