Water is our relative
The Red Nation Podcast
The Red Nation
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🗓️ 3 October 2022
⏱️ 85 minutes
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RPH co-hosts Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) and Melanie Yazzie discuss the water crisis destroying communities across Turtle Island.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Elena. I want to issue a correction and apology for the latest episode of Red Power |
| 0:08.7 | Our Water is a relative. When I was talking about the Phoenix area |
| 0:14.4 | and the abuse of water by settlers |
| 0:17.1 | through the building of golf courses and swimming pools |
| 0:21.3 | and lawns, I inadvertently erased the Odom people. |
| 0:25.8 | I was trying to convey that native people would never settle an area and abuse water in the way that settlers do. What inadvertently came out was that |
| 0:38.8 | Native people didn't live in the area, which is of course not true. The Phoenix area, what is known as the Greater Phoenix |
| 0:45.6 | area, was the traditional homelands, is the traditional homelands of the Odom people. So I |
| 0:51.6 | apologize for the accidental erasure and what I meant to say was that people living in that area, the Odom people living in that area did not build golf courses, swimming pools, and lawns, but had much more respect |
| 1:07.6 | for our relative water. One of the principal barriers to the simulation seems to be the natural tendency of white people to violence. They love violence. They love violence. They love it as entertainment, the very foundation of |
| 1:27.0 | their way of violence, death and sacrifice. White people with almost missionary zeal have done their best to export this and sacrifice |
| 1:37.0 | for every corner of the world. We are not Americans. We are not Americans. |
| 1:45.0 | We are not Americans. |
| 1:48.0 | We are not Americans. |
| 1:49.0 | Better red than death. |
| 1:52.0 | Better red than Death. |
| 1:55.0 | than Death. Yeah! |
| 1:57.0 | Yeah! |
| 1:58.0 | Let me double check to make sure all of my settings are correct. |
| 2:05.0 | All right. |
| 2:07.0 | Hi everyone. |
| 2:08.0 | I just have to make sure I selected the right mic because I would say at least like two or three episodes a year I don't |
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