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We are excited to present an extra guest interview that relates to a previous topic we have

discussed.

This is a spiritual interview follow-ups.

Keep using our favorite term that we've used to that.

To episode 172, the foundational myth machine, Indigenous Peoples of North America on

Hollywood, which came out last December, where we detailed Hollywood's treatment of Indigenous

Peoples of North America as the title indicates.

Also episode 158, how notions of light and barrenness were created to erase Indigenous

Peoples, which dealt with how media contrived and government contrived notions of barrenness

and light have been used historically to erase Indigenous Peoples by effectively making

them part of nature or making things that were full of life and civilizations as being

empty.

A wilderness to be civilized.

One book heavily informed research for both of these episodes, especially episode 158.

The book was an American genocide, the United States and the California Indian catastrophe

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