Hello, Bird Feed, and welcome to another episode of our legal mini-series.

I hope you're excited. I know I am. I'm Orrin Nimni, your legal editor at Current Affairs,

and I am joined by my brilliant co-host, Vanessa A.B, your social media editor. Hi, Vanessa. Hi, Orrin. It's

really good to be with you. Good to be with you, too. Hello, Bird Pete. So it is Thanksgiving

week, or whatever you'd like to call that holiday, but it is my favorite food holiday in the whole

world, but probably one of my least favorite holidays in a political sense, mostly because of a lot of folklore surrounding the holiday

erases the actual history of the genocide of Native people in this country.

But it does give us a wonderful opportunity to talk about issues with Native Americans in this country,

and Indian law in particular.

And so we have a very special guest, Kendri Cesar.

Kendri is a lawyer specializing in Alaska Native law in Juneau, Alaska.

And while in law school, she interned at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia,

and the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Alabama.

For folks that don't know, EJ.I is Brian Stevenson's project.

Brian Stevenson of recent, what was it, People's Choice Award fame?

I think he gave a talk there.

Anyway, that's beside the point.

He was there with John Legend or something.

But now we are going to talk about Indian law, talk and learn.

So here we go.

Hi, Kendri.

So thanks so much for joining us.

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