people moved into america, it was empty, and we are far from empty. one textbook picture of what a native american looks like and that is not how it is today. the common stereotypes. how? yeah, how. americans walk around on eggshells. like, what do we call you guys? we only want to have a seat at the table. we do not want anything more. you just don t want i would have to create space, opportunity for young people to know that there is hope. to most, this is the city of seattle. for me, this is joe amish land. my name is alyssa london. i grew up here, but i m a proud member of the indian tribe of alaska. as an alaskan native, my native identity includes as everything i do. as an msnbc contributor, entrepreneur, and former miss alaska usa. alaska airlines flew me to washington, but i m not here to be in seattle. i m on my way across the puget sound. we are really moving! to the suquamish tribal nation. these are the plans of chief seattle, a suqua
duck freighter and oysters. we do the oyster first? yeah, let s do the oyster first. you had to say that. salty bite. all right, i m watching. i m going in, tears. so good. all right, anything with that sauce is amazing. you know, alyssa, you asked earlier about our clothes that we were today as an expression of who we are. i think about that in the context of what s going on now in oklahoma, for example. graduation time. our native students are being told that they cannot wear their regalia during graduation ceremony. something that is such an expression of who they are. so much of our history was about being quiet, about hiding, taking away what was uniquely ours, as natives, whether it s our language, or our clothes, or our ceremonies. so, when i was growing up, a lot of my classmates were non native. my classmates students and really understand about native people because i wasn t dressed in regalia, they didn t think that i was native or because i m a lighter ski