Brittany Packnett Cunningham

I'm so glad you asked that.

There are a million hot takes in this moment.

Right.

I tend to not be in the mood for hot takes when people need to get active.

One of the hot takes we keep saying is, wow, I can't believe the revolution is happening in Minnesota.

Right.

I thought that was just a place, you know, like, you know, like people are nice.

They go sledding.

Right.

You know, Midwestern charm.

The other hot take that I see a bunch of people giving is, well, they built the infrastructure in 2020.

Both of those things are incorrect.

Number one, Minnesota itself is an indigenous word.

Indigenous people on the land that is now called Minnesota have been resisting for hundreds of years.

This is the 250th birthday, rather, of America, the country, but it is not the 250th birthday of Turtle Island.

There were people here, there were strategies here, there were communities here, and those communities were

stood up.

The land holds that memory.

The people hold that memory.

The language holds that memory.