This word was used in a sentence being quoted from the book Marrow Thieves itself, but it wasn’t made clear in the podcast, and we want to assure our audiences that we are aware that this word isn’t what most Indigenous peoples want to be referred as, and it can be seen as incredibly offensive when used to describe Native peoples by non-Natives. Secondly, the word “Indian” is used at one point in this podcast episode to describe an Indigenous person. Firstly, we’d like to say that June is Indigenous Peoples Month, and outside of reading this book, we’d like to encourage our audience to celebrate by consuming more literature by Indigenous authors, purchasing art and jewelry by Indigenous artists, and educating yourself on the Land Back movement and the fight against the missing and murdered Indigenous women’s epidemic.

Hi everyone, this is Annaliese, your friendly podcast editor and occasional co-host popping in ahead to give a quick few notes before we begin this week’s episode. CONTENT WARNINGS: This book contains discussion of residential schools, the continuing genocide of Indigenous peoples in Canada and the US, collective trauma, religious abuse, involuntary human experimentation, genocide, forced assimilation, survival, starvation, exposure, food scarcity, water scarcity, being fugitives, murder, execution, child death, child murder, mild suicidal ideation, mention of sexual abuse, substance abuse/alcoholism, oral infection, and a climate apocalypse.

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