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This is the John Fuglesang podcast.

I'm John Fuglesing. This is Sirius XM Progress.

Maybe the best thing to happen to this show all year was that we finally got Simon Moia Smith and Julie Franchella to do this segment every week.

And my God, it has become so quickly the most popular thing we do.

Everywhere I go around the country, people love this segment.

I am so honored to work with people who let us put together a segment that brings together

just great activists and great spirits like Simon and Julie.

Simons and Oglala Lakota and Chicano journalist.

He's a contributing writer at NBC News on The Nation.com, and he's the guy you want on your side in a bar fight or argument. He's the author of the forthcoming book, Your Spirit

Atomal is a jackass, and an adjunct professor of indigenous studies at the University of Colorado,

Denver. Simon, Merry Christmas. Welcome back. Merry Christmas. Good to be here, man. Do you say

Merry Christmas? Is that your thing? Yeah. It doesn't really bother me. Again,

it's not our culture. It's not our thing. And so we just go along with what, you know,

Happy Hanukkah, you know, Kwanza, holidays, Christmas. Go for it.

Terrific. I know the feeling. Julie Frenchella is 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 Ojibway at Batchewana First Nation Reserve.

She teaches indigenous studies at Durham College, focusing on the impacts of colonization and First Nations people.

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