The Border Crossed Us

All My Relations Podcast

Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane

Native, Documentary, Pop Culture, Contemporary Native American Culture, Relationships, Society, Indigenous, Native American, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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The Border Crossed Us is led by Jon Ayon, an AMR team member who conducted field research to gather the stories of peoples and Tribes at the southern settler colonial border between the United States and Mexico. This political border was drawn with no respect for the Indigenous peoples that live there — with land claims that predate both colonial governments. Now families and cultures are separated on either side. There are current cultural and religious permits in place for Native peoples to...

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of All My Relations.
0:11.5	Today's episode is very different from all our previous episodes.
0:16.2	It is what we are calling a special report from Turtle Island and we hope you like it.
0:25.5	Hello relatives, Matika here with Dr. Dr. Desi, Yo Des.
0:30.5	Hey, hey everybody.
0:32.8	And All My Relations Field Reporter, Director John Ion.
0:36.4	Hi John.
0:37.4	Hello.
0:38.4	Thanks for having me.
0:39.4	Today we're going to discuss a widely covered topic, the Southern currently called US
0:44.4	Mexico border.
0:45.4	But we're going to talk about it from an indigenous perspective, the perspective you
0:48.7	probably never heard in national media.
0:51.8	Or maybe you've heard the border across us.
0:54.9	And when the border across us, it changed our relationships, our kinships to one another,
0:58.9	our relationship to the free flowing water, to land and animals and their natural migration.
1:04.4	It's also permanently shifted our religious practices.
1:07.7	And it's disrupted relationships with a lot of our communities.
1:11.9	Yes, we're talking about nearly 2,000 miles.
1:15.2	The southern border between what it's currently called the United States and Mexico extends
1:19.7	from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico.
1:22.6	And it's the world's single most crossed international boundary.
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