Welcome to Amped Up. This is your host Ryan Knight, and our guest today is Mark Charles.

Mark is an independent candidate for president

and the author of the book Unsettling Truce.

Mark, welcome to Amped Up.

Thank you, Ryan. It's very good to be with you. If I could, I'd like to introduce myself

traditionally, if I can take a moment to do that.

So Yate Aye.

Yate Aye, Mark Charles Eunish, yeah,

Sine Bicke-Din-Anish,

that Tohuglini-Bashishin,

Tzinbakay-Dinha d'a d' chate,

to the chitney d'as.

In our Navajo culture, when we introduce ourselves ourselves we always give our four clans.

We're matrilineals of people and our identities come from our mother's mother.

My mother's mother is American of Dutch heritage and that's why I say

Sinbaket-Din-Ea.

Loosely translated that means I'm from the wooden shoe people.

My second clan, my father's mother, is Toe Higgini,

which is the waters that flow together. My third clan, my mother's

father, is also Sinbake de Nae. And then my fourth clan, my father's father, is Toh Chitney.

That's the Bitterwater clan, it's one of the original clans of our Navajo people.

I also just want to acknowledge I'm speaking to you today from Washington, D.C. and these are the

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