Hey, this is Annie.

And Samantha.

And welcome to Steph I'm Never Told You, production of iHeartRadio.

And for our holiday treat, I guess, episode, because we're going to be gone as this is released, technically.

Technically.

Yeah.

I guess it's released a day before, but, you know, whatever.

Anyway, we wanted to give thanks to the women and folks from the indigenous communities who have been working hard not only to preserve the

land as it was before the ugliness of colonization and trying to teach the people around them

the dangers of continuing down said ugly path, but also preserving their own culture that these

same colonizers have tried to eradicate and make extinct.

And though there are so many things that we can talk about under this topic, and probably we'll come back to, honestly,

today we thought we would just focus on those who've been working hard to preserve their native language

and indigenous language. Also, let's go ahead and put this caveat. Since this is not our indigenous

language slash our native tongue, which by the way, I'm struggling on my own, both Korean and English.

So, you know, sorry. Yeah, we may butcher some of these words, and I hate that so much, because I would love to be fluent in everything and just perfect addict, but I am not.

So with that, we tried our due diligence in looking up all of the pronunciations, and sometimes I swear to God, I was being gaslit,

that we should already know these words. And it probably is true. We should to a certain extent.

But anyway, so please be patient with our very bad pronunciation. Again, as per usual,

if you know these languages and want to share with

us how to say it correctly, we would gladly, gladly hear those. Because as you know, when it

comes to like Google translation, not the greatest, not the greatest. So, but yes, be forewarned.

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