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Certificate degree of indian blood, right? it shows -- >> i havent. >> i have one as well. they are still a car that shows what your name is and shows what tribal affiliation you are, and what degree of blood quantum you are. >> amber, with your -- indian blood theres, like, several different tribes listed. how do you make sense of your indigenous identity? >> its really just the way that i was raised. and i definitely relate to, like, what janee said, even the experience of your mom because i d...

Tickets today about, what do they call us? any thoughts andres leading the way to refer to us as indigenous people, janee? >> my mom was white and my dad was full blooded -- so i was kind of losing a sense of identity and who i am, where i came from. and it was on me, losing my father at a young age, to kind of have that search and to learn the correct history, and to learn about comanche nation. but it was always a check box to college or health forms, medical things. what is that check box? fo...

>> well, its the images that people see in tv and film, its the media that they consume that really shapes their worldview and how they perceive different communities. jane, to your point, i remember growing up, i come home every day and watch, like, bugs bunny, elmer fudd. i will never forget they would always be wild west of, but there was, like, a native guy and, you know, big belly, big red nose. like, this neurotypical thing. but he had a sash on and it said, vanishing american. i will neve...

Doesnt escape me that we are here at the suquamish indian reservation, and i disseminate the supreme court rendered a decision called off on versus suquamish. that court decision took away the rights of tribes to assert criminal jurisdiction over non-indians who perpetrate crime on indian reservations. that single-handedly led to law enforcement voids that exist to this day on indian lands. because that is still a lot today. >> every woman, every, child every person deserves to be able to feel s...

Janee in that, when we dont fit a certain image of what a native person looks like, then sometimes, we can even be not considered indigenous. what are the thoughts on -- determine of us of being indigenous going forward? we continue to be mixed race native people. >> well, thats always a touchy subject, you know? because our tribe goes by the 1929 treaty. and so, people that were on that role, their descendants get enrolled. even if they have no indian blood, and. >> this is part of the problem ...

Runs through the past. i think about our youth. i think about the need to continue to educate, to never forget who we are culturally. we are creating that path for them. their journey will be a lot easier than ours. >> jane? >> everyone thinks when people moved into america, it was empty. everybody who came over here, there was a whole country, its empty. we are far from a. people were here. we for you. he would have starved without us. we are still here. >> we are still here. >> we are still he...

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