Hey friends, Matika here. I'm a photographer, a writer, a mom, and a relative, and I'm really

happy to be here with all of you today. Hey folks, Dr. Dr. Dazie here, Pivyshif, good day.

I am a professor at UCLA. I run the Data Warriors Lab. I'm a researcher, a relative, and a mama,

and it is so great to be back on another episode of All My Relations. Last year, right around this time,

we did a survey asking all of you what content you wanted to hear, and there was a resounding

request for content focused on reconnecting to ones, indigeneity, to community, and to reclaiming

the connections that colonization has tried to keep broken for so many generations, in some cases.

Totally. Learning what you guys wanted to hear really got us thinking because Matika and I were

both res girls, right? We are both born and raised in our communities. We maintain our community

connections and our kinship, you know, bonds and responsibilities. There's a lot of

words. There's a lot of responsibilities there too, you know, and it all good. So reconnecting for us,

right, has not been a part of our indigenous experience, but of course, we recognize that so many

folks were not raised in community, and some do not even know where to start, right? And so we

wanted to bring you the stories of two amazing indigenous people, one of whom you guys know very

well, and one of whom we know you will also totally love. And they take us on their journeys of

learning about who they are, learning to whom they belong, and how to go about making meaningful

connections as indigenous relatives in a society that has sought to destroy our kinship systems,

and in a society that has sought to assimilate us into, you know, essentially into white people.

Sorry.

All my relations.

All right, so we are really lucky to have two relatives actually on the pod today,

who are going to share their stories of reconnection. The first is Daniel French,

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