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This episode honours a 7th Century hero. A Black indigenous Woman who was a leader. A warrior priestess named Dihya, champion of the native North African Amazigh people, her name means \u201cthe beautiful gazelle\u201d in the Tamazight language of the Amazigh. Amazigh, plural Imazighen, means \u201cfree or noble people\u201d in the Indigenous Tamazight language. Among outsiders, the more common name for Imazighen is Berber, which comes directly from the word \u2018barbarian\u2019 or babary. A colonizer\u2019s word. A word that\u2019s used to diminish and destroy. Like her people, Dihya is largely known to the world now by the name given to her by those she resisted, conquerors who wrote her history for generations and christened her \u201cel-Kahina\u201d or The Kahina, meaning \u201cprophetess\u201d or \u201cseer\u201d or...\u201cwitch\u201d. \n\nThis episode of the Missing Witches podcast was written and performed by Risa Dickens.\xa0 Music and editing by Amy Torok.\xa0 Thanks again to our sponsor Foxglove Pharm, don\u2019t forget to use our listener offer code MISSINGWITCHES for 13% of your order.\xa0 OR make a contribution to their Wildlife Rescue, Out Of The Woods.\xa0 Find your witchy wellness at FoxglovePharm (that\u2019s pharm like pharmacy with a ph) dot com.\xa0 You can also support Missing Witches on Patreon at patreon dot com slash missing witches and COMING SOON, Missing Witches T-shirts on TeePublic.\xa0 AND PLEASE consider pre-ordering our upcoming book, Missing Witches by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok, published by North Atlantic Books.