And So, So we're going to get started right now. So thanks everyone for joining us for the

book-launched talk for the Red Nation Rising from Border Town Violence to Native Liberation.

You can order a copy at PM Press.

We'll be putting it in the chat function, so you can order it directly there. I just want to introduce

this book before we begin talking about it and hearing from contributors but also

people who are responding to it. So this book really came about

from the work that we have done as the Red Nation. We were founded in 2014 here in Albuquerque, New Mexico, primarily responding

to the brutal murders of two Navajo relatives whose names are Cowboy and Rabbit.

And the response by the community here

was one that really reflected the sort of mentality that a lot of indigenous people have when they enter into places that aren't considered indigenous territory.

And so places like Albuquerque, we consider, or we call it in the vernacular of indigenous language, you know, a border town.

And we really saw the murders of the two de née relatives as a continuation of border town violence.

In other words, a continuation of colonial violence that in fact the United States has not fully settled or colonized

this land otherwise it wouldn't still need to kill native people and this led

to a kind of a response, what we called the Border Town Justice Coalition.

We worked with families who were victims of border town violence, but also we're responding to the material needs of a lot of relatives on the street.

To this day, we still continue to do mutual aid.

We've partnered with Brad Malakodi and Brendan Benale, who wrote the forward to this introduction in doing outreach to relatives on the street and those who face border town violence in places like Gallup, as well as here in Albuquerque and in Winslow, Arizona.

And this book really arose from that political work on the ground, as well as thinking about and theorizing what it means to live in a nation that doesn't recognize the existence of the original nations indigenous people and so we frame borders and the

indigenous territories that be trusts what are considered you.S. national borders, international kind of relations.

So thinking about this in terms of not just the kind of hegemonic version of the U.S. Mexico border, but thinking of Native territory as real and

material because if it isn't real and material, then why is there so much effort

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