Tricia Zunker:
In Wisconsin, we have concerns about ensuring that we have clean air, clean water, so that future generations can live on our beautiful, protected lands. We have — the dealing with historical trauma, and this is another thing that we see with Secretary Deb Haaland, and the work that she's done as it relates to the boarding school era. A lot of the social ills that we face in tribal communities today, whether that is disproportionate rates of incarceration, suicide, low graduation rates, and other horrible things that the missing and murdered indigenous women crisis — this comes out of that time period. So we still have a serious reckoning at this time,

Steven Potter:
What needs to be done, what more kind of partnerships can there be between the Native American community and the state of Wisconsin politically?

Tricia Zunker:
So it's really important to reach out and connect to the tribal nations. I think Governor Evers has done an incredible job of working with tribal communities, tribal nations and respecting tribal sovereignty, and recognizing that we have a unique political existence as sovereign nations, as dual citizens. You know, for example, I'm a dual citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation and the United States, yeah. So, it's just working together and trying to find that line of ensuring that treaties are upheld and that our people can thrive within the boundaries of the state.