Welcome to her audience. You can start submitting your questions now. This is one of the books that i was sharing stories and inspirational things with young people. You made history in 2018 as one of the first of two native women elected to the United States congress. Just share with us what that meant to you. First of all i have to tell you how excited i am to get the chance to be here with you particularly dr. Hayden. I think you are an amazing person and an inspiration yourself so thank you so much for doing this and you know when then congresswoman now secretary deb haaland and i got elected in 2018 i think there was this almost like a collective sense of joy that so many people across the country felt because native women have been certainly amazing leaders for so long and to know that it was 2018 and hadnt seen a native woman in the u. S. Congress before gave us a chance to be part of that. It was pretty surreal actually and im just so fortunate and glad to have had the chance t
Being here with me today and allowing me to talk to you a little bit. About your great book that i guess was released on yesterday. Yeah, i understand it and im particularly interested in this book. Most of because its title away out of no way. Yeah. Now i havent been born and raised in the parsnitch as you. I dont know if youre in deposites, but im the son of a fundamentalist amendments here and you okay, so we kind of know a little bit about what that means. How about tell me a little bit about why you picked this ready to tell of your book great. Well, thank you so much and its wonderful to be here with you as you point out. Both of us are what they call pete cage preachers kids and the title of my memoir out of no way. Is a phrase thats deep in the culture of the black church. And let me hasten to say that when we say the black churches, you know, we have never met anything racially, exclusive about that. Were talking about the antislavery church. Absolutely. Were talking about the