In this episode we visit with Ruth Hopkins (Cankudutawin-Red Road Woman) She is Dakota and Lakota, of the Oceti Sakowin (Great Sioux Nation), born on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, and enrolled with the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation. Ruth is an award winning columnist for Indian Country Today, and co-founder of Lastrealindians.com. She is a contributor for The Guardian, Truthout.org, Jezebel.com, Racialicious.com, BKNation.org, and Counterpunch.org. Her work has been featured everywhere, including Gawker, the Associated Press, The Hollywood Reporter, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Star Magazine, MTV, and she’s been a regular on TMZ Live. Ruth is also an attorney, tribal judge, and a biologist who specializes in ethnobotany and environmental science.