The So, Well, thanks for joining us today. Nick, you are a staff writer for the new Republic and also you're from the Sapani Nation, which is historically located within North Carolina and Virginia and what is today known as the quote of quote of quote

of quote-of-quote South.

Could you start by introducing yourself and where you're calling from?

Yeah, absolutely, and thank you so calling from? Yeah, absolutely.

And thank you so much for having me today, Nick.

Yes, my name's, my name's Nick Martin.

I'm calling in from Brooklyn, New York, which I've been living here for I guess about just a little over four years now, but my true home is in North Carolina. I was born and raised closer to Charlotte,

but our ancestral home and our tribal community

is located in what's called High Plains,

that in North Carolina and along the Virginia border.

So we have travel members.

Historically, we were in like you said in both states, but now we're all over.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of people don't know this about me,

but my mom is actually born and raised in Raleigh Durham,

and she has, or she had, I should say, should say she passed a very thick southern accent and she lived in South Dakota and my dad had you know very thick res accent because he was born and raised in lower rural

Indian Reservation where I'm enrolled and so it was kind of always a funny

household because my mom just had this incredibly thick accent.

My dad had that I don't know how I got like the I got the white

bread accent but yeah I was gonna say like I don't really feel or hear like any of the twang there.

Did you ever have it like then you just work through it?

Whereas it's just nothing so.

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