This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

One of the most stark differences in the two administrations we witnessed this week was the outgoing attempts of decency from Joe Biden and the incoming guy finding all new ways to be clownishly racist

to the indigenous people on whose stolen land we dwell. I am so pleased this week above all to

welcome as we normally do on Thursday night, Simon Moyes Smith. He's an Oglala Lakota and Chicano

journalist contributing writer at NBC News and the Nation.com.

He's the author of The forthcoming book, Your Spirit Animal is a jackass, an adjunct professor of

Indigenous Studies at the University of Colorado, Denver. Simon, I am so glad to have you with us this week.

Good evening. Good evening. I always love to be here, man. I'm glad you do because Julie Franchella's with us as well. She's a mental health professional with over 30 years of experience and handling complex

trauma with indigenous youth and families. Julie's an enrolled member of the Egyptway of

Batchewana First Nation Reserve. She teaches indigenous studies at Durham College, focusing on the

impacts of colonization on First Nations people. Julie, good evening and welcome.

It's so great to have you.

Thank you.

And actually, I'm coming to you this evening from my nation, Batjana, First Nation.

I'm here visiting.

Yes, I wanted to ask you about it. Now, where is your reservation?

And what is your Canadian reservation's name?

So I'm actually here in Batchewanah First Nation,

and it is right on the north shore of Lake Superior,

right on the border, the United States, Canada border.

And our nation is Batchewana.

It's the Ojibwe word for Bajuanong, which means water that flows between the rocks.

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