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please visit for the wild dot world slash donate. So we have to continue to keep things in their faces. We have to continue to hear it and

see it until they realize when I'm talking is you talking when I'm seeing you

seeing because we're connected to each other the same way the bodies of

water are connected to each other all around the world. The silence is broken by somebody crying trying to be heard never a word

always the attitude sought out your own

always alone

wishing for something the world is denying out in the will then a

somebody's crying. Hello and welcome to For the Wild podcast, I'm Iana Young.

Today we are speaking with Queen Quette.

Queen Quette, Marquette L Goodwine, is a published author, computer scientist, lecturer, mathematician, historian, columnist, preservationist, environmental justice advocate, film consultant, and the artivist. Queen Quette was selected, elected, and

instilled by her people to be the first Queen Mother,

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