We’ll be up with our inaugural episode real soon.

For now though, to get a taste of where we’ll meander on the podcast,
here’s a recent piece that our host wrote and was featured on Medium. Jake
discusses his Native heritage, Elizabeth Warren’s recent DNA test to
‘prove’ hers amid insults from the president, what it means to erase a
culture, and his own struggle with identity.

My father (my full-blooded grandfather’s son) presents as nonwhite and
has spent much of his life working in Indian country. I present as
white, and I get to reap all the benefits of that status as I walk
through the world. This status does not excuse me from what I now
consider to be my responsibility to represent my Native heritage. There
was a period in my life, however, when I concealed an important piece
of who I am because of resentful mockery akin to the kind invoked by
Trump.

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