The balance of new Indigenous leadership

It’s official, the Washington NFL football team is now known as the Commanders. The change comes after a half century of work by Native rights advocates who urged team owners to abandon its former derogatory name. Red Lake Band of Ojibwe citizen and political commentator Holly Cook Macarro reflects on this decision. She is a partner with Spirit Rock Consulting.

With the Super Bowl just around the corner, the Walker River Paiute in Nevada will be cheering on the Los Angeles Rams, and watching tribal citizen Austin Corbett play in the big game. Chairman Amber Torres joins the show to share her elation for Corbett.

Stanford University’s law school had never had a Native faculty member. That is until Nambe Pueblo citizen Elizabeth Reese was hired as an assistant professor of law. She tells us more about her journey.

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