In this brief prologue episode, we introduce our new podcast, ourselves, and this season's theme: planting good relations.

Find out more about Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Utah by visiting our website at: https://transform.utah.edu/pi-studies/ 

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Maile’s book, Possessing Polynesians, can be found here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/possessing-polynesians 

Maile’s essay mentioned in this episode, “Native Hawaiians are Confronting the Legacies of Indian Boarding Schools,” can be read here:

https://truthout.org/articles/native-hawaiians-are-confronting-the-legacies-of-indian-boarding-schools/ 

Read more about Angela’s work here: https://utah.academia.edu/AngelaLRobinson

The interview between Naomi Klein and Leanne Simpson quoted from in this episode can be read here: 

https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2013/03/06/dancing-the-world-into-being-a-conversation-with-idle-no-more-leanne-simpson