We're Still Here with Simon and Julie
The John Fugelsang Podcast
Crossover Media Group
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode, we welcome back Simon Moya Smith, an Oglala Lakota and Chicano journalist, and Julie Francella, a mental health professional with extensive experience in Indigenous communities. Together, they delve into the recent Senate vote that threatens the Boundary Waters Wilderness and the sacred lands of Indigenous peoples. With urgent discussions around sovereignty, environmental protection, and the ongoing fight against colonialism, this episode highlights the importance of community action and the need to protect our natural resources.
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| 1:06.1 | Okay, I am so ready for Simon, Moia Smith, and Julie Franchella segment from this Senate vote that |
| 1:11.7 | could determine the fate of one of our most sacred wilderness areas, the destruction of |
| 1:16.1 | indigenous ceremonial land at the border. There's all manner of fuckery going on, and the fight |
| 1:21.4 | for sovereignty never seems to stop. So I am so pleased to welcome back Simon Moyus Smith. |
| 1:25.9 | Simon's an Oglala,ala Lakota and Chicano journalist. |
| 1:28.0 | He's a contributing writer at NBC News and The Nation.com. He's the author of the forthcoming book, Your Spirit Animal, is a jackass, and he's an adjunct professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. Simon, it's so good to have you back. Welcome. Thanks for having me, man, and much love to you, Mitch. Yeah, right? Mitch, it's a good guy. |
| 1:45.6 | Mitch is wonderful. |
| 1:46.5 | He comes to a lot of the live shows and he calls here way more than he should. His parole officer is worried with that. Julie Franchella is a mental health professional with over 30 years of experience handling complex trauma with indigenous youth and families. Julie's an enrolled member of the Ojibway of Batchewana First |
| 2:00.8 | Nation Reserve. She teaches indigenous studies at Durham College, focusing on the impacts of colonization |
| 2:05.4 | on First Nations people. Julie, it's so good to have you with us. Thank you so much. And I echo |
| 2:11.3 | Simon's statement there about Mitch. I got to meet Mitch and his wife and their daughter. They actually |
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