And I'm going to It's my pleasure to welcome to the show.

I'm going to go on here.

It's my pleasure to welcome to the show, two friends of mine, Joe Vital and Rachel Thunder.

I'll just start by asking you to introduce yourselves. We'll start with Joe and then Rachel.

Definitely. Thanks Nick. Thanks for having us here.

Joseph Patel, who's you, An I mean, I'm South Mountain.

I'm an enrolled member of the Red Lake Nation and also a proud Mexican.

Tansi, Graske Mountain, andten, an anaskamolten, a

a sis, anahio walk, upsees Rachel Thunder.

Hello, and thank you for having us on, Nick, and thank you to everybody who's watching or listening.

My name is Rachel Thunder.

I'm Plains Cree, Nihio, Nihio Walk, Treaty 8.

Well, I just want to thank you both for joining us. This is a really kind of sensitive issue. We're talking about the

Red Roof Depot and the demolition that is slotted or scheduled to take place next

week and the history of Minneapolis is quite interesting and in fact there's been several

studies around you know the kind of legal history and the political history of the land and who actually and how did the United States

actually acquire this land and I was doing a little bit of research the actual first you know

kind of settlers that came here created, U.S. settlers I should say, created a military fort Fort Snelling.

What became the city of Minneapolis was actually a military reservation.

That was kind of coercively taken from Dakota people.

So this is originally Dakota homelands and so the very origins of the city itself

through an act of dispossession, invasion, and settlement.

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