Welcome to another episode of Lurie Breaks It Down, a podcast where we dig deeply to connect the dots on the issues that shape our world.

I'm Lurie Daniel Favors, author, activist, attorney, and the host of the Lurie Daniel Favors show on Sirius XM's Urban View, Channel 126. If you like what you're about to hear, go ahead and give us five stars and then tell everybody that you know. And if you don't like it, just, child, keep it to yourself and pray our strength. Okay, thank you so much. Also, don't forget to check out my YouTube page, Lurie Daniel Favor's Media, where you should subscribe, like, and share because then you'll get notified when I post videos from my show, which I do just about every single day and when I go live with my YouTube audience. We need to get into some conversations today because there's a lot taking place.

First things first, this week we honored Indigenous People's Heritage Day, but I don't know if a

lot of people realize I certainly did not on Monday, which is the day that we used for that

honoring, that there was a typhoon that hit Alaska. And as you may know, there are a lot of

native communities, indigenous communities in Alaska, and basically several of them woke up with their houses floating down the river.

So far, one has been reported dead. There have been dozens of people rescued.

Roughly a thousand people have been displaced in a variety of Western Alaskan communities.

And according to the Alaskaaska beacon uh basically this

typhoon uh once it hit it has been very slow in terms of recovery because emergency supplies

which began to arrive but because of the way the geography of the land and the way in which ice

and the water like really interrupts the ability for um for land bridges that would allow people easy passage.

It's been really difficult.

According to the reports, the storm damaged boats, roads, airports, and power and sewer infrastructure over a vast region.

And damage assessments were not immediately available as emergency rescue efforts entered into yesterday.

I don't know what the Trump administration's decision to allow for

200 additional miles of land to be mined for data mining centers and a whole host of things

related to artificial intelligence and other forms of exploration. I don't know what that's going

to do to climate change in that region. I do know that they are already suffering drastically.

And so prayers for them and just hopefully they're going to be

able to recover as best as they possibly can. I want to take a little bit of a history lesson,

if we will. You guys know how America started, right? I know a lot of people like to talk about

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