00:01.72 heritagevoices Hey Chris or Rachel whoever's editing this? Um, ah so we just are going to redo that question because I don't know if something went wonky with the audio for a second first. So okay, so when you're thinking about. Like the booter center or your research or just where you would like to take things in the future. What what comes to mind on on the things that you'd like to do. 00:30.46 Eric Pinto Yeah, you know it's I think it's just ah working with our team and falling back on. Ah the the mission of the booter center supporting native students who want to receive their masters in social work. Um, relaying that message getting that message out there that hey like there's scholarship opportunities for native students. So really making sure that you know native people are aware of this type of opportunity um to get a top education and to enhance you know your knowledge and skills and becoming a leader. Out there and and supporting our people so there's that side of it and also too I think it's also creating. Um you know more collaborations and partnerships ah with local organizations and institutions. Um that keep on building that up because with that. I mean we're just going to keep on building that awareness and those educational opportunities for our non-native community and we need to do that here. Um, and also to networking with the tribes with the ancestral connections here in St Louis um making sure that hey. We're going to support them and if they want to be involved in some type of you know, project here or they need assistance with you know how do they you know protect a site you know here in the area and um, you know, whatever type of support that native people need to have like you know we're going to be there and and that kind of even touches onto. 02:01.46 Eric Pinto How do we even support like the local native community because there's no Urban Indian Center here. There's no other type of native lead organization here that native people excuse me sorry choke to myself. 02:12.33 heritagevoices Okay. 02:14.61 Eric Pinto Ah, that native people can lead ah can fall back on to to build that community up and provide support. You know, ah, that's 1 thing I know like you know one of our community members has touched on was actually crit trying to create an urban indian center and we're gonna have a meeting with ah. A member of ah the director of the Kansas City Urban Indian Indian Center and kind of really assess like what are things that we have to do on our part to get that role in here because they used to be here back in. You know when my grandparents were here in it in a. Um, it went away during I think the late 90 s early two thousand s um and so there's those hardships there and you know, ah our community also has to face some other hardships like there's no ah indian health services here. Um, so like you know for my father like he can't receive you know health care. 02:59.70 heritagevoices Oh. 03:05.43 Eric Pinto Um, here in St Louis the closest facility would be I think at haskell university in Lawrence Kansas so that'd be like a four and a half hour drive for him to receive those types of health care services and like other native folks. Um, yeah, so that's definitely a challenge that you know so those are the types of things I think we definitely want to try and. Move forward on and and bettering our community and supporting native people. 03:29.26 heritagevoices Um, yeah, well I Um sorry okay I'm going to ask you this Obviously this is going to be edited out. Is there anything else that you want to to cover or should I move into the outro stuff. 03:44.39 heritagevoices Like did you have any like burning like this is the last thing or like this is the thing that I want to you know, make sure everybody knows. 03:54.95 heritagevoices My so box. 03:56.92 Eric Pinto Yeah, look yeah, let me? Ah, yeah, there is something there I just want to kind of want to make sure how I frame it? yeah. 04:09.14 Eric Pinto Let's see here. Yeah, are you just kind of kind of State. Do you have any like last burning or you just kind of state like the yeah. 04:17.28 heritagevoices I can yeah I can do that I can do that? um all right? Well we're we're at the end of our time but any ah last burning thoughts. 04:27.30 Eric Pinto Oh of course plenty of thoughts we could keep going going but I understand everybody has lives and can't listen to our podcast episode forever. Ah, um, yeah, so you know I would like to say. 04:38.44 heritagevoices Ah, sad. 04:44.82 Eric Pinto You know, especially to Non-native Community ah is to keep on learning um, get out there. Ah build relationships with native people keep learning more about yeah obviously like our history but we're not people of just the past you know we're still here. Um, find ways of how you can help our people out. A simple thing. It could be donating or maybe purchasing you know items through a native business or you know anything like that you know attend events such as like a powow or something um just to make you more aware and it gets you outside of just reading about us and books Or. Ah, ah, research articles and um, you know and besides the movies too like dances with wolves or something. Um, yeah, so make sure that you're Engaging. You're updating yourself on what's kind of happening in our communities. You know there's like a lot of issues that you know are still happening and. 05:28.10 heritagevoices So. 05:40.95 Eric Pinto You know, ah that still contribute to like our erasure and um, you know that affect our prosperity moving forward. So and you know that's even like 1 thing like dealing here like in St Louis it it. was hard for me like as I mentioned like with identifying as being being native. Um. You know it's hard connecting with people that you know my people who are far away my relatives. Um and I even had to do that work myself. Um, but unfortunately too you know there's conversations within you know communities that might go on like you know well who's native and stuff like. You know, ah kind of like you have like these gatekeepers out there. Um, so I want people to kind of be aware too like you know there's erasure. That's like kind of you know, colonial erasure. But then there's also erasure that you know, kind of happens within our um with our own communities because of that that. Whole mindsets being carried on into our people you know such as like things like tribal enrollment like I understand the purpose of tribal enrollment and and all that and you know I'm not enrolled in my tribes but you know like 1 1 thing that I face is you know like. You know as I mentioned like you know if we go talk about like blood quantummen and things like that you know I'm 50% I'm 25% zuny 25% Choctaw um, and unfortunately due to these ah ah, colonial structures and these types of rules like I can't roll into either tribe like ah. 07:00.54 heritagevoices E. 07:12.93 Eric Pinto Mississippi banner truckta indians you have to be 50% their their ah tribe I can't enroll into them. Um, and my dad's enrolled into their tribe. Ah I do however make the blood quantum for the zuni which requires 25% but your parent has to be enrolled with their tribe. 07:14.25 heritagevoices Hello. 07:29.99 Eric Pinto So there's these types of structures that are built there and you know I understand like our people. Um you know, ah tribal governments create constitutions to ah um, you know, have those rules in place and everything and but some people are are out there. You know, saying that. 07:30.76 heritagevoices Ah. 07:48.64 Eric Pinto Know like hey well you don't have a tribal id card and um, you know how can you say you're you're native or you know you're choctaw or you're Zuni and um, you don't have a tribal id card and stuff and um, you know if we're just looking at blood quam light. 07:56.41 heritagevoices The government. 08:04.40 Eric Pinto Is that really constitutes being native because you know tribes too like you know tribes are in control of making these blood Quantum rules and you know but into their constitution. So You know how can someone who could be potentially less have less blood Quantum and enrolled into their tribe tell me that if I have more technically. Native blood than them. Ah tell me I'm not native like you know, Ah, that's ah, that's erasing our people over time and I think the big picture that people don't realize is that ultimately a lot of these things happen because the federal government wants to take over our lands and resources. And so you know let's say over time that you know there's people that can't enroll into a tribe because they don't make that blood Quantum due to what's written into their constitutions. Well then the government can you know, terminate that that tribe and say hey well there's no longer a group. You know people that can technically enroll to your tribe.. There's no tribe there. So now your lands are gonna be susceptible for us to take over. So I think people are missing the big picture on on some of these types of issues that are happening um with native people and communities and such and we have to kind of rethink that and um. And really touch back on and on our indigenous ah you know, ah you know, views and knowledges and beliefs as well too. Um to take a step back because yeah, um, Colonialism has really ah messed things up. So um. 09:31.77 Eric Pinto Yeah, just wanted to make sure that people are out there becoming more aware of like some of these different dynamics that do affect native people. 09:36.99 heritagevoices Um, yeah, and I just want to say? Thank you so much for all of your work. You know, bringing students into social work. Um, all of your work with archaeologists and the local indigenous community and and tribes that are you know have been. Forced off of their land. Um, so just thank you and also I think it's a really good example of areas where you know cultural people in cultural resources or anthropology. Um. Have a lot more potential partners out there in the community that they might not recognize because they're not seeing them as you know, specifically anthropology or cultural resources or tribes or whatever. Um, but that there are a lot of other organizations that are are trying to do similar work that um. That we could. We could partner with and bring to the table. So thank you and thank you for coming on today. Um, yeah, excited to to see where you and all of your students go with all of this in the future. 10:42.54 Eric Pinto Yeah, thanks Jessica! No this has been great and you know if anyone is interested into coming to St Louis to wash you the brown school and enter into the social work program here. Um yeah, please contact us and. Ah, will more happy ah help you out and guide you how to how to become a social worker. 11:01.96 heritagevoices Awesome. Is there a specific like way for them to reach out to you or some I don't know so. 11:09.48 Eric Pinto Yeah, so if you visit? Yeah, so if you visit our website so the website ah you could probably just Google you know search Katherine and booter center for american indian studies at Washu. Or Washington University in St Louis um you know it should automatically pop up so there's that in. Ah yeah, could we ah put the share the link with everyone. Yeah. 11:25.51 heritagevoices You. 11:33.29 heritagevoices Absolutely looks like there's a contact page so we will share the link for that specifically within the show notes as well. Um, yeah, well thank you again? and um, yeah. 11:41.40 Eric Pinto Death. 11:49.37 heritagevoices And also everyone for your reference booter B You D E R Just so you know. 11:57.10 Eric Pinto Um.