Introducing: Tongue Unbroken

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I'm gonna cheese Johan. Thank you everyone. My name is Connecto.
I'd like to invite you to listen to a new
podcast on the I Heart Media network, the Tongue Unbroken.
We'll be talking about Native American language revitalization and de colonization,

(00:22):
which are wonderful things if you want to avoid that
ugly thing called genocide. Check out this conversation I had
with the brilliant and kind Dr sel Neelie. I want
to talk to you about this concept of blood quantum
because a lot of people might not know about it,
or a lot of people might have conflicting ideas on

(00:44):
what it is and what it should be and what
we should do with it. And you and I probably
have similar thoughts on what we should do with it,
which is throw it out the damn window. Yeah. Blood
quantum was designed to eradicate Native people, you know. Jack
Forbes writes about this in The Blood Grows Thinner, and
he talks about how blood quantum was first used in

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seventeen oh five when Virginia adopted laws which made a
so called half blood person a legally inferior person. And
so the idea is that if blood quantum, which is
a racialized identity for Indigenous people. If that is enacted

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and trace through, eventually the blood quantum will diminish to
the extent where Native people's no longer exist in that
legal framework. And if that happens, then treaty obligations are
no longer the federal government is no longer to fulfill
their treaty obligations, or when the Tongue Unbroken is made

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possible by the next up initiative, Listen starting August one
on the i Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever
you get your podcasts.