In this episode, Treasure Shields Redmond and Saundi McClain-Kloeckner discuss Indigenous presence, water protection and human-environment relations along the Mississippi.
Saundi is a Black and Indigenous woman who has committed herself to making prayers at the Mississippi River in the way of many Native women throughout the US. She is part of a movement made visible most recently by the Standing Rock Water Protectors, and maintained by Native women up and down the Mississippi and other rivers.