Let's go. Hi everyone.

Hi everyone. This is Melanie Yeti back with another episode of Red Power Hour, joined here by two wonderful Red Nation comrades, including a comrade who is coming to the podcast for the very first time. So I'm super excited about that. So I'll let them introduce themselves. And I start with you Elena and then we'll go to you,

Rochelle. Hi, it's Elena Ortiz calling in from Ogapoga Owinge. We're really excited to have

Rochelle here on this podcast. So I'll let her introduce herself. Hi there. My name is Rochelle

and I'm really honored to be on with Melanie and Elena.

Pretty heavy topic today, but I think we have a really nice, well-rounded kind of take on

some of the emotional impacts and yeah, but I'm really grateful to be on with you all.

Thanks for having me.

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