#Repost @amrpodcast ・・・ New episode alert! Join us in a project that is 2 years in the making! Back in 2020, after the murder of George Floyd and during the peak of the Black Lives Matter uprisings that followed, All My Relations started a journey to support the Black community and Afro Indigenous relatives through having conversations on police brutality, anti-blackness, Indian Country’s connection to chattel slavery, and Afro-Indigenous history. Originally, we thought this would be one episode, but with each discussion we realized we needed a series to fully do justice to all the nuanced past and present struggles. This first episode is an interview with Harvard professor Tiya Miles. Professor Miles is a scholar, historian, and writer whose work explores the intersections of African American, Native American and women’s histories. With Dr. Miles, we focus specifically on the history and structure of Black and Native interconnection. Through the lens of early Cherokee interactions with Black people, we talk about Black and Indigenous peoples first relationships that were shaped in a settler colonial landscape. Some southeastern tribes like the Cherokee bent to colonial standards and acted in ways antithetical to Indigenous values by owning enslaved Africans, and this legacy of pain and abuse has effects today for the descendants of those who were enslaved, and our communities as a whole. We also tie in current conversations around the recognition of Freedmen Descendants by the Five Tribes. We hope that you are excited to engage in these important topics. Our stories are intertwined, and we need to examine the past to determine how best to more forward. +++ #AMRPodcast #AllMyRelations #AllMyRelationsPodcast #BLM #BlackLivesMatter #afroindigenous