Episode Synopsis "In the City and On the Rez: Setting the Scene"

We begin with broken treaties. Stanford Professor C. Matthew Snipp, Dr. Karina Walters, and Karen Biestman, J.D., talk Native-U.S. relations since colonization, tracing the roots of the inequalities we see in Native communities today. Source for COVID-19 cases in May: CNN, “Navajo Nation surpasses New York state for the highest Covid-19 infection rate in the US.” May 18, 2020. Music: Lofi geek, "deline"

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