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Host: Alyssa Yáx̱ Ádi Yádi London
Australia is paying out close to $379 million directly to Indigenous people who suffered from the government’s forced removal of children from families. It has renewed conversations in this country over reparations for the federal government’s role in broken treaties, land theft, forced relocations and compulsory boarding school attendance.
Guests:
Matthew Fletcher (Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians) – law professor at Michigan State University’s college of law and author of the “Turtle Talk” blog
Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs (member of the Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation) – Program director for Racial Justice at the Minnesota Council of Churches
Break 1 music: Idawadadi (Let Us Speak Our Voice) (song) Dawn Avery (artist) Our Fire Native American Contemporary Songs (album)
Break 2 music: Ideal Dub (song) Casper Loma Da-Wa (artist) Honor the People (album)
In their words: Two Australian Aboriginal elected leaders talk about the government’s decision to pay compensation to their country’s Indigenous people
Linda Burney is a member of the House of Representatives in the Australian Federal Parliament, and the Shadow Minister for Families and Social Services and for Preventing Family Violence. She is a member of the Wiradjuri Nation.
Ian Hamm is the chair of the Stolen Generations reference group for the Healing Foundation in Australia. He is Yorta Yorta
