We are Ken Jennings and John Roderick. We speak to you from our present, which we can only assume is your distant past, the turbulent time that was the early 21st century.

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M.T. 2508.

Certificate number 47911.

The Osage Head Rights. Have you over the last couple of years been in places or events that began with or posted a land acknowledgement.

How early were you aware of this phenomenon?

Well you know over the last couple of years I have not been to very many events.

Yeah exactly.

But I did start to hear from academic friends

who were in contexts where people were giving academic presentations, that there were

acknowledgments of land rights and particularly here in the northwest where

there are both a lot of universities and a lot of active tribes and I think a general awareness of...

A good number of guilty liberals. There are a lot of guilty liberals here and also a lot of one of our main exports apples and guilty liberals true but the tribes are still very

engaged and active and talking to each other quite a bit.

Like there are still treaties that are being negotiated and there are some tribes that aren't recognized that are trying to get

enough signatures on the petition.

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