Everybody knows what the violence against Native women is. It's the profound

disrespect for us and for the land. It's not only the profound disrespect for our

bodies, but for us as peoples and our relations with the land. So that's what the

real deal about remotiation is. It's these ways of knowing that people have.

They can be gendered any way they want, but for them to live again is

remotiation.

Today we are discussing rematriation and what it means for our communities to

help us understand how this concept has developed and the stakes involved. We

spoke with Dr. Diane Millian, Professor of American Indian Studies at the

University of Washington whom you just heard. We also spoke with rematriation

activists Michelle Shannon-Dowa and Marquel Musgrave who works for the

National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. Yeah, rematriation is a term

that's been taken up a lot in recent organizing and advocacy and we wanted to

get us all on the same page as to how we're thinking about what it actually

means. And I wanted to start the conversation by sharing a quote from

Aguasna Mohawk Seed Keeper, Rowan White, who says quote,

the indigenous concept of rematriation refers to the reclaiming of ancestral

remains, spirituality, culture, knowledge, and resources. Instead of the more

patriarchally associated repatriation, it simply means back to Mother Earth, a

return to our origins to life and co-creation rather than the patriarchal

destruction and colonization, a reclamation of germination of the life-giving

force of the divine female. Wow, Rowan is amazing. I'm trying to get that

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