1 00:00:06,790 --> 00:00:09,993 >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 2 00:00:09,993 --> 00:00:15,232 MY NAME IS CLARISSA ALEXANDER, 3 00:00:15,232 --> 00:00:19,703 PRINCIPAL STRATEGIST WITH THE 4 00:00:19,703 --> 00:00:20,504 NATIVE AMERICAN PORTFOLIO AT THE 5 00:00:20,504 --> 00:00:21,705 NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 6 00:00:21,705 --> 00:00:23,907 I'M A RESEARCHER OF PUBLIC 7 00:00:23,907 --> 00:00:26,209 HEALTH PROFESSIONAL, ADVOCATE 8 00:00:26,209 --> 00:00:27,344 FOR HEALTH DISPARITIES RESEARCH, 9 00:00:27,344 --> 00:00:29,813 EQUITABLE ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. 10 00:00:29,813 --> 00:00:32,115 TODAY I'M YOUR HOST AND MASTER 11 00:00:32,115 --> 00:00:39,689 OF CEREMONY FOR CELEBRATION OF 12 00:00:39,689 --> 00:00:41,191 RESILIENCE OF THE EVENT 13 00:00:41,191 --> 00:00:43,894 COMMEMORATING NATIVE AMERICAN 14 00:00:43,894 --> 00:00:45,929 HERITAGE MONTH 2024. 15 00:00:45,929 --> 00:00:47,397 THIS COLLABORATIVE IN-PERSON AND 16 00:00:47,397 --> 00:00:50,767 VIRTUAL EVENT MARKS THE LAUNCH 17 00:00:50,767 --> 00:00:51,935 OF EDI'S INCLUSIVE CULTURAL 18 00:00:51,935 --> 00:00:54,671 EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE TO PROVIDE 19 00:00:54,671 --> 00:00:55,672 RELEVANT AND APPROPRIATE 20 00:00:55,672 --> 00:00:56,773 EDUCATIONAL ENGAGEMENT 21 00:00:56,773 --> 00:00:57,874 ACTIVITIES, THAT PROMOTE 22 00:00:57,874 --> 00:00:59,643 CULTURAL COMPETENCY WITH RESPECT 23 00:00:59,643 --> 00:01:01,378 TO NATIVE PEOPLES. 24 00:01:01,378 --> 00:01:04,247 TO SUPPORT US WE SOUGHT 25 00:01:04,247 --> 00:01:05,582 OUTSTANDING SPEAKERS TO 26 00:01:05,582 --> 00:01:06,249 HIGHLIGHT NATIVE AMERICAN 27 00:01:06,249 --> 00:01:10,287 TRADITIONS AND TO ASSIST US IN 28 00:01:10,287 --> 00:01:11,488 RECOGNIZING EXCEPTIONAL AWARDEES 29 00:01:11,488 --> 00:01:15,492 ACCOMPLISHED IN THEIR FIELDS 30 00:01:15,492 --> 00:01:15,959 DEDICATED TO PROMOTING 31 00:01:15,959 --> 00:01:18,528 DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, 32 00:01:18,528 --> 00:01:20,230 AND ACCESSIBILITY, TO ENSURE 33 00:01:20,230 --> 00:01:21,031 PROGRESS OF NATIVE PEOPLES. 34 00:01:21,031 --> 00:01:25,035 WITH THAT I WOULD LIKE TO 35 00:01:25,035 --> 00:01:27,170 INTRODUCE AN ELECTED MEMBER OF 36 00:01:27,170 --> 00:01:28,205 THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF 37 00:01:28,205 --> 00:01:30,173 MEDICINE, IN THE PAST HAS SERVED 38 00:01:30,173 --> 00:01:32,809 AS SENIOR ASSOCIATE DEAN OF 39 00:01:32,809 --> 00:01:37,848 RESEARCH AND PROFESSOR OF 40 00:01:37,848 --> 00:01:38,348 DENTISTRY, BIOCHEMISTRY, 41 00:01:38,348 --> 00:01:45,922 BIOPHYSICAL -- BIOPHYSICS, 42 00:01:45,922 --> 00:01:48,558 PRINCIPAL DEPUTY DIRECT YORE OF 43 00:01:48,558 --> 00:01:49,059 -- 44 00:01:49,059 --> 00:01:56,500 DIRECTOR OF NIH NIH, DR. 45 00:01:56,500 --> 00:01:59,703 LAWRENCE TABAK. 46 00:01:59,703 --> 00:02:02,138 >> THANK YOU, AND GOOD MORNING, 47 00:02:02,138 --> 00:02:02,405 EVERYONE. 48 00:02:02,405 --> 00:02:04,841 THOSE OF YOU WHO BRAVED THE 49 00:02:04,841 --> 00:02:06,376 ELEMENTS, VERY NICE OUT TODAY, 50 00:02:06,376 --> 00:02:08,778 AND ARE HERE IN PERSON, AND OF 51 00:02:08,778 --> 00:02:13,383 COURSE THOSE OF YOU ON THE 52 00:02:13,383 --> 00:02:13,650 VIDEOCAST. 53 00:02:13,650 --> 00:02:17,087 I'M HONORED TO RECOGNIZE AND 54 00:02:17,087 --> 00:02:18,188 CELEBRATE THE REMARKABLE 55 00:02:18,188 --> 00:02:19,356 RESILIENCE AND CULTURAL 56 00:02:19,356 --> 00:02:22,559 STRENGTHS OF AMERICAN INDIANS 57 00:02:22,559 --> 00:02:23,660 AND ALASKA NATIVES. 58 00:02:23,660 --> 00:02:27,264 AND OF COURSE THIS BEING THE 59 00:02:27,264 --> 00:02:28,598 NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH. 60 00:02:28,598 --> 00:02:30,967 AS WE GATHER IN THIS THE SPIRIT 61 00:02:30,967 --> 00:02:33,503 OF EQUITY, DIVERSITY, INCLUSION, 62 00:02:33,503 --> 00:02:34,938 AND ACCESSIBILITY, IT IS 63 00:02:34,938 --> 00:02:36,907 ESSENTIAL THAT WE NOT ONLY 64 00:02:36,907 --> 00:02:38,642 ADDRESS CHALLENGES FACED BY 65 00:02:38,642 --> 00:02:39,843 NATIVE COMMUNITIES BUT ALSO 66 00:02:39,843 --> 00:02:42,479 UPLIFT AND LEARN FROM THEIR 67 00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:44,948 ENDURING STRENGTHS, WISDOM, AND 68 00:02:44,948 --> 00:02:45,649 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE. 69 00:02:45,649 --> 00:02:47,384 AMERICAN INDIANS AND ALASKA 70 00:02:47,384 --> 00:02:50,820 NATIVES HAVE A PROFOUND LEGACY 71 00:02:50,820 --> 00:02:54,090 OF RESILIENCE, DESPITE 72 00:02:54,090 --> 00:02:57,193 GENERATIONS OF ADVERSITY, NATIVE 73 00:02:57,193 --> 00:02:59,696 PEOPLES REMAINED STEADFAST 74 00:02:59,696 --> 00:03:00,630 PRESERVING IDENTITIES, 75 00:03:00,630 --> 00:03:01,431 LANGUAGES, TRADITIONS. 76 00:03:01,431 --> 00:03:03,433 THIS IS A TESTAMENT TO THE 77 00:03:03,433 --> 00:03:06,736 STRENGTH THAT IS WOVEN INTO THE 78 00:03:06,736 --> 00:03:07,804 FABRIC OF EACH COMMUNITY. 79 00:03:07,804 --> 00:03:10,640 ONE OF THE CORNERSTONES OF THIS 80 00:03:10,640 --> 00:03:14,277 RESILIENCE IS THE VALUE PLACED 81 00:03:14,277 --> 00:03:16,479 ON COMMUNITY AND 82 00:03:16,479 --> 00:03:18,148 INTERDEPENDENCE, I'VE LEARNED 83 00:03:18,148 --> 00:03:18,848 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES WHILE 84 00:03:18,848 --> 00:03:21,384 WELL-BEING IS NOT SEEN AS AN 85 00:03:21,384 --> 00:03:24,120 INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT, BUT A 86 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,355 COLLECTIVE ONE. 87 00:03:25,355 --> 00:03:26,222 THIS COMMUNITY-CENTERED APPROACH 88 00:03:26,222 --> 00:03:28,925 IS SOMETHING FROM WHICH WE CAN 89 00:03:28,925 --> 00:03:31,361 ALL LEARN. 90 00:03:31,361 --> 00:03:33,763 TRADITIONAL PRACTICES LIKE 91 00:03:33,763 --> 00:03:35,732 STORY-TELLING, DRUMMING, DANCE, 92 00:03:35,732 --> 00:03:36,266 CEREMONIAL GATHERINGS, AND 93 00:03:36,266 --> 00:03:38,501 TRADITIONAL HEALTH AND HEALING 94 00:03:38,501 --> 00:03:40,904 PRACTICES ARE MORE THAN RITUALS. 95 00:03:40,904 --> 00:03:44,708 THEY SERVE AS AN EXPRESSION OF 96 00:03:44,708 --> 00:03:47,577 HISTORY, IDENTITY, HEALING, AND 97 00:03:47,577 --> 00:03:47,944 WELL-BEING. 98 00:03:47,944 --> 00:03:52,816 FOR MANY OF THESE PRACTICES 99 00:03:52,816 --> 00:03:53,917 SERVE AS CRITICAL ANCHORS 100 00:03:53,917 --> 00:03:55,118 REINFORCING A SENSE OF IDENTITY 101 00:03:55,118 --> 00:03:59,723 AND BELONGING THAT CAN BE LIFE 102 00:03:59,723 --> 00:04:00,123 SAVING. 103 00:04:00,123 --> 00:04:01,791 NIH-SUPPORTED RESEARCH HAS 104 00:04:01,791 --> 00:04:04,761 YIELDED POWERFUL EXAMPLES OF 105 00:04:04,761 --> 00:04:06,062 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES 106 00:04:06,062 --> 00:04:07,497 INTEGRATING TRADITIONS INTO 107 00:04:07,497 --> 00:04:09,132 HEALTH AND HEALING FROM 108 00:04:09,132 --> 00:04:11,635 ADDICTION RECOVERY PROGRAMS TO 109 00:04:11,635 --> 00:04:13,169 MENTAL HEALTH PROMOTION 110 00:04:13,169 --> 00:04:13,503 INTERVENTION. 111 00:04:13,503 --> 00:04:16,239 SUCH RESEARCH HAS SHOWN THAT 112 00:04:16,239 --> 00:04:17,340 WHEN INDIGENOUS PEOPLE RECONNECT 113 00:04:17,340 --> 00:04:22,278 WITH THEIR HERITAGE AND CULTURAL 114 00:04:22,278 --> 00:04:26,650 PRACTICES, IT AIDS NOT ONLY 115 00:04:26,650 --> 00:04:27,751 THEIR RECOVERY AND RETURN TO 116 00:04:27,751 --> 00:04:30,787 HEALTH BUT IT ALSO NURTURES A 117 00:04:30,787 --> 00:04:35,492 POWERFUL SENSE OF BELONGING AND 118 00:04:35,492 --> 00:04:35,725 PURPOSE. 119 00:04:35,725 --> 00:04:37,127 DESPITE THESE STRENGTHS, NATIVE 120 00:04:37,127 --> 00:04:39,129 COMMUNITIES BEAR EXTREME ILL 121 00:04:39,129 --> 00:04:41,431 EFFECTS, POVERTY, AND OTHER 122 00:04:41,431 --> 00:04:42,332 STRUCTURAL DETERMINANTS THAT 123 00:04:42,332 --> 00:04:45,035 HAVE LED TO THE LOWEST LIFE 124 00:04:45,035 --> 00:04:47,070 EXPECTANCY OF ANY RACIAL OR 125 00:04:47,070 --> 00:04:49,105 ETHNIC GROUP IN THE UNITED 126 00:04:49,105 --> 00:04:49,673 STATES. 127 00:04:49,673 --> 00:04:51,508 ONGOING EFFORTS AT NIH 128 00:04:51,508 --> 00:04:53,843 DEMONSTRATE OUR COMMITMENT TO 129 00:04:53,843 --> 00:05:00,650 THE NIH MISSION TO ENHANCE LIFE 130 00:05:00,650 --> 00:05:03,586 AND REDUCE DISABILITY, WE STAND 131 00:05:03,586 --> 00:05:04,888 IN SOLIDARITY WITH INDIGENOUS 132 00:05:04,888 --> 00:05:08,391 COMMUNITIES TO FULFILL MISSION 133 00:05:08,391 --> 00:05:10,794 BY ENSURING THEY HAVE ACCESS TO 134 00:05:10,794 --> 00:05:12,662 RESOURCES THAT SUPPORT 135 00:05:12,662 --> 00:05:14,297 SELF-DETERMINED GROWTH AND 136 00:05:14,297 --> 00:05:14,597 WELL-BEING. 137 00:05:14,597 --> 00:05:17,033 THE TRIBAL HEALTH RESEARCH 138 00:05:17,033 --> 00:05:19,002 OFFICE HAS LED TWO MAJOR 139 00:05:19,002 --> 00:05:23,273 INITIATIVES THIS YEAR, FIRST IS 140 00:05:23,273 --> 00:05:24,841 GALVANIZING TRIBAL SUPPORT AND 141 00:05:24,841 --> 00:05:27,110 INPUT FOR DEVELOPMENT OF 142 00:05:27,110 --> 00:05:28,878 INDIGENOUS DATA SOVEREIGNTY 143 00:05:28,878 --> 00:05:31,181 POLICY AT NIH THAT RECOGNIZES 144 00:05:31,181 --> 00:05:33,483 TRIBAL SOVEREIGNTY AND HONORS 145 00:05:33,483 --> 00:05:34,451 FEDERAL TRUST RELATIONSHIP. 146 00:05:34,451 --> 00:05:38,054 THE SECOND IS THE UPCOMING 147 00:05:38,054 --> 00:05:39,522 FEDERAL INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL 148 00:05:39,522 --> 00:05:43,893 HEALING SUMMIT TO BE HELD AT NIH 149 00:05:43,893 --> 00:05:47,931 ON DECEMBER 18-20, WHICH BRINGS 150 00:05:47,931 --> 00:05:50,567 TOGETHER BOARDING SCHOOL 151 00:05:50,567 --> 00:05:51,134 SURVIVORS, COMMUNITY 152 00:05:51,134 --> 00:05:54,070 PRACTITIONERS, SCIENTIFIC 153 00:05:54,070 --> 00:05:54,804 EXPERTS AND INTERGENERATIONAL 154 00:05:54,804 --> 00:05:57,674 TRAUMA AND HEALING, AND FEDERAL 155 00:05:57,674 --> 00:06:00,510 PARTNERS TO IDENTIFY GAPS AND 156 00:06:00,510 --> 00:06:02,378 OPPORTUNITIES TO DEVELOP NEW 157 00:06:02,378 --> 00:06:04,881 INITIATIVES TO PROMOTE 158 00:06:04,881 --> 00:06:08,084 INDIVIDUAL, FAMILIAL, COMMUNAL, 159 00:06:08,084 --> 00:06:09,219 AND POPULATION HEALTH, HEALING 160 00:06:09,219 --> 00:06:10,587 AND HEALTH. 161 00:06:10,587 --> 00:06:12,756 IN PARTNERSHIP WITH TRIBAL 162 00:06:12,756 --> 00:06:13,656 COMMUNITIES, WE ALSO RECOGNIZE 163 00:06:13,656 --> 00:06:16,926 THE EFFORTS OF THE NIH OFFICE OF 164 00:06:16,926 --> 00:06:17,694 EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND 165 00:06:17,694 --> 00:06:20,430 INCLUSION, WHICH HAS PUT 166 00:06:20,430 --> 00:06:21,731 TOGETHER TODAY'S EVENT, TO 167 00:06:21,731 --> 00:06:24,200 RECOGNIZE THE RESILIENCE AND 168 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:26,569 CULTURAL STRENGTHS OF AMERICAN 169 00:06:26,569 --> 00:06:28,071 INDIANS AND ALASKA NATIVES, AND 170 00:06:28,071 --> 00:06:30,940 TO HONOR THOSE WHO HAVE 171 00:06:30,940 --> 00:06:32,242 CONTRIBUTED TO THESE 172 00:06:32,242 --> 00:06:32,542 COMMUNITIES. 173 00:06:32,542 --> 00:06:33,877 TODAY AS WE CELEBRATE THE 174 00:06:33,877 --> 00:06:37,046 STRENGTHS OF AMERICAN INDIAN AND 175 00:06:37,046 --> 00:06:38,915 ALASKA NATIVE COMMUNITIES, LET'S 176 00:06:38,915 --> 00:06:41,317 ALSO REFLECT ON HOW INDIGENOUS 177 00:06:41,317 --> 00:06:42,852 KNOWLEDGES HAVE ALREADY SHAPED 178 00:06:42,852 --> 00:06:48,691 SCIENCE AND WHAT WE CAN DO TO 179 00:06:48,691 --> 00:06:51,861 EMBRACE INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES IN 180 00:06:51,861 --> 00:06:52,862 CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE WAYS TO 181 00:06:52,862 --> 00:06:54,364 PROMOTE SCIENCE AND HEALTH 182 00:06:54,364 --> 00:06:55,365 INTERVENTIONS THAT FURTHER 183 00:06:55,365 --> 00:06:57,433 CONTRIBUTE TO INDIGENOUS HEALTH 184 00:06:57,433 --> 00:06:59,302 AND WELL-BEING AND DECREASE 185 00:06:59,302 --> 00:07:00,170 HEALTH DISPARITIES. 186 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:02,272 I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL, A 187 00:07:02,272 --> 00:07:08,478 SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR INVITED 188 00:07:08,478 --> 00:07:10,780 GUESTS, HAPPY NATIVE AMERICAN 189 00:07:10,780 --> 00:07:21,057 HERITAGE MONTH. 190 00:07:29,799 --> 00:07:30,733 191 00:07:30,733 --> 00:07:31,267 >> THANK YOU. 192 00:07:31,267 --> 00:07:33,670 THANK YOU SO MUCH, DR. TABAK. 193 00:07:33,670 --> 00:07:35,205 THAT WAS AN IMPRESSIVE WELCOME. 194 00:07:35,205 --> 00:07:37,273 NOW I WOULD LIKE TO BRING TO THE 195 00:07:37,273 --> 00:07:41,377 STAGE THE OLDER -- ELDER GIVINS 196 00:07:41,377 --> 00:07:43,713 THE BLESSING FOR THIS PROGRAM OF 197 00:07:43,713 --> 00:07:45,782 EVENTS FOLLOWED BY GRAND 198 00:07:45,782 --> 00:07:46,015 OPENING. 199 00:07:46,015 --> 00:07:48,852 HE'S THE CO-FOUNDER OF THE 200 00:07:48,852 --> 00:07:50,920 NON-PROFIT CREATED TO PROVIDE 201 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:52,255 ESSENTIAL RESOURCES AND 202 00:07:52,255 --> 00:07:54,657 EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TO AT-RISK 203 00:07:54,657 --> 00:07:57,060 TRIBAL FAMILIES DURING HEIGHT OF 204 00:07:57,060 --> 00:07:59,596 THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC THROUGH 205 00:07:59,596 --> 00:08:02,665 PISCATAWAY EYES, HE'S THE CHIEF 206 00:08:02,665 --> 00:08:04,000 OF THE PISCATAWAY CONOY PEOPLE, 207 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:05,835 ONE OF THE FIRST TRIBES OF 208 00:08:05,835 --> 00:08:06,870 CONTACT IN WHAT WOULD LATER 209 00:08:06,870 --> 00:08:08,938 BECOME THE UNITED STATES, LIVING 210 00:08:08,938 --> 00:08:11,774 IN PRESENT-DAY MARYLAND, D.C., 211 00:08:11,774 --> 00:08:19,816 AND V. -- VIRGINIA. 212 00:08:19,816 --> 00:08:24,087 I PRESENT TO YOU CHIEF JESSE 213 00:08:24,087 --> 00:08:26,189 SWANN JR. 214 00:08:26,189 --> 00:08:28,524 >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 215 00:08:28,524 --> 00:08:34,297 I'M NOT CHIEF SWANN, I'M HIS SON 216 00:08:34,297 --> 00:08:36,599 KYLE SWANN WITH MY SISTER 217 00:08:36,599 --> 00:08:37,166 JESSICA SWANN. 218 00:08:37,166 --> 00:08:38,902 I CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR 219 00:08:38,902 --> 00:08:39,636 YOUR IMPORTANCE, I CANNOT THANK 220 00:08:39,636 --> 00:08:41,204 YOU ENOUGH FOR THE WORK YOU'RE 221 00:08:41,204 --> 00:08:42,405 DOING IN YOUR COMMUNITIES. 222 00:08:42,405 --> 00:08:43,840 EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU ARE 223 00:08:43,840 --> 00:08:47,777 DOING WORK THAT IS NEEDED, NOT 224 00:08:47,777 --> 00:08:49,512 JUST IN NARRATIVE PLACE UPON US 225 00:08:49,512 --> 00:08:50,480 BUT FOR THE FUTURE. 226 00:08:50,480 --> 00:08:52,815 I SAY THANK YOU TO EACH OF YOU. 227 00:08:52,815 --> 00:08:54,450 I ASK THAT EACH PERSON WILL 228 00:08:54,450 --> 00:08:57,086 STAND UP SO WE CAN BEGIN AN 229 00:08:57,086 --> 00:08:59,589 OPENING PRAYER. 230 00:08:59,589 --> 00:09:03,760 231 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:04,827 CREATOR, WE THANK YOU FOR 232 00:09:04,827 --> 00:09:06,896 BRINGINGS US HERE TODAY. 233 00:09:06,896 --> 00:09:08,865 WE THANK YOU FOR GUIDANCE AND 234 00:09:08,865 --> 00:09:10,733 KNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE BESTOWED 235 00:09:10,733 --> 00:09:12,936 TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US. 236 00:09:12,936 --> 00:09:14,237 WE THANK YOU FOR THE 237 00:09:14,237 --> 00:09:15,772 ADAPTABILITY TO BE ABLE TO 238 00:09:15,772 --> 00:09:17,974 STRIVE AND OF IN THE FACE OF 239 00:09:17,974 --> 00:09:19,042 ADVERSITY THROUGHOUT OUR 240 00:09:19,042 --> 00:09:19,943 HISTORIES. 241 00:09:19,943 --> 00:09:22,211 SO MANY OF OUR STORIES COINCIDE 242 00:09:22,211 --> 00:09:25,081 WITH WHAT WE HAVE GONE THROUGH. 243 00:09:25,081 --> 00:09:26,382 BUT TODAY WE CELEBRATE. 244 00:09:26,382 --> 00:09:29,118 WE THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE 245 00:09:29,118 --> 00:09:30,653 ABILITY TO CONTINUE ON IN OUR 246 00:09:30,653 --> 00:09:32,855 CULTURES, TO CONTINUE ON IN OUR 247 00:09:32,855 --> 00:09:33,923 COMMUNITIES, AND TO CONTINUE ON 248 00:09:33,923 --> 00:09:35,925 WITH THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING. 249 00:09:35,925 --> 00:09:39,228 WE THANK YOU FOR BEING ABLE TO 250 00:09:39,228 --> 00:09:40,763 GUIDE US THROUGH EVERY SINGLE 251 00:09:40,763 --> 00:09:42,065 THING TO A BRIGHTER FUTURE. 252 00:09:42,065 --> 00:09:44,033 WE THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY GIVING 253 00:09:44,033 --> 00:09:45,702 US LIFE BUT GIVING US A 254 00:09:45,702 --> 00:09:47,103 WONDERFUL PLACE TO LIVE. 255 00:09:47,103 --> 00:09:49,973 MOTHER EARTH, WE THANK YOU FOR 256 00:09:49,973 --> 00:09:51,941 THE VIABILITY TO LIFE THAT WE 257 00:09:51,941 --> 00:09:52,375 POSSESS TODAY. 258 00:09:52,375 --> 00:09:55,011 WE THANK YOU FOR PROVIDING US 259 00:09:55,011 --> 00:09:57,513 NOT JUST THROUGH TIME BUT INTO 260 00:09:57,513 --> 00:09:58,815 THE FUTURE. 261 00:09:58,815 --> 00:10:00,583 WE HOPE THAT THROUGH EVERYTHING 262 00:10:00,583 --> 00:10:02,018 THAT WE'VE GONE THROUGH, WE CAN 263 00:10:02,018 --> 00:10:04,087 REACH A BRIGHTER FUTURE FOR OUR 264 00:10:04,087 --> 00:10:06,222 CHILDREN, THAT OUR CHILDREN CAN 265 00:10:06,222 --> 00:10:07,657 HAVE NOT ONLY THE SAME PRIDE WE 266 00:10:07,657 --> 00:10:09,225 HAVE TODAY BUT MORE OF IT. 267 00:10:09,225 --> 00:10:11,761 WE HOPE THAT WITH THE CONTINUITY 268 00:10:11,761 --> 00:10:15,131 WE'RE TRYING TO SOW IN OUR 269 00:10:15,131 --> 00:10:16,132 COMMUNITIES ONE DAY WE'LL BE 270 00:10:16,132 --> 00:10:18,968 ABLE TO FULLY SAY THIS LAND IS 271 00:10:18,968 --> 00:10:19,836 OURS. 272 00:10:19,836 --> 00:10:22,038 WITH THE LAND STOLEN FROM MANY 273 00:10:22,038 --> 00:10:23,139 NATIVE PEOPLES WE'VE SHOWN NOT 274 00:10:23,139 --> 00:10:26,409 ONLY THAT WE ADAPT BUT THAT 275 00:10:26,409 --> 00:10:26,776 WE'RE RESILIENT. 276 00:10:26,776 --> 00:10:28,277 I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH AND 277 00:10:28,277 --> 00:10:30,246 I'M SO GRATEFUL TO BE HERE TODAY 278 00:10:30,246 --> 00:10:32,382 TO LOOK OUT IN THE CROWD AND SEE 279 00:10:32,382 --> 00:10:34,751 EVERY SINGLE PERSON, TO SEE 280 00:10:34,751 --> 00:10:36,919 EVERY SINGLE STORY, EVERY 281 00:10:36,919 --> 00:10:41,290 ANCESTOR THAT IS CARRIED ON NOT 282 00:10:41,290 --> 00:10:42,959 JUST THEIR LIFE BUT THE LIVES 283 00:10:42,959 --> 00:10:45,028 BEFORE THEM, TO THEIR 284 00:10:45,028 --> 00:10:45,328 DESCENDANTS. 285 00:10:45,328 --> 00:10:46,696 THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CREATOR. 286 00:10:46,696 --> 00:10:48,097 THANK YOU, MOTHER EARTH. 287 00:10:48,097 --> 00:10:49,932 WE CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH. 288 00:10:49,932 --> 00:10:55,738 AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK IN 289 00:10:55,738 --> 00:10:56,439 YOUR BEST EFFORTS. 290 00:10:56,439 --> 00:10:57,373 [ SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 291 00:10:57,373 --> 00:11:05,815 THANK YOU. 292 00:11:05,815 --> 00:11:15,858 293 00:11:18,728 --> 00:11:24,333 >> THANK YOU FOR THAT WONDERFUL 294 00:11:24,333 --> 00:11:29,572 BLESSING. 295 00:11:29,572 --> 00:11:30,873 AND THANK YOU FOR BLESSING OUR 296 00:11:30,873 --> 00:11:32,508 PROGRAM OF EVENTS AND OUR 297 00:11:32,508 --> 00:11:36,479 ATTENDEES, ALL OF THOSE HERE 298 00:11:36,479 --> 00:11:42,051 ONLINE AND IN PERSON. 299 00:11:42,051 --> 00:11:44,787 NEXT WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A 300 00:11:44,787 --> 00:11:46,222 GRAND OPENING SESSION TO 301 00:11:46,222 --> 00:11:49,759 RECOGNIZE THE TRIBAL LEADERS 302 00:11:49,759 --> 00:11:51,928 THAT ARE HERE BY ALLOWING THEM 303 00:11:51,928 --> 00:11:55,198 TO PLACE A FLAG IN A PLACE OF 304 00:11:55,198 --> 00:11:55,765 PROMINENCE AND RESPECT. 305 00:11:55,765 --> 00:11:58,067 WE PROCEED WITH THE PLACING OF 306 00:11:58,067 --> 00:11:59,769 THE TRIBAL NATION FLAGS ON THE 307 00:11:59,769 --> 00:12:03,423 STAGE. 308 00:12:09,284 --> 00:12:11,153 >> HI, EVERYBODY. 309 00:12:11,153 --> 00:12:15,857 I'M THE BRANCH DIRECTOR FOR THE 310 00:12:15,857 --> 00:12:17,325 PORTFOLIO AT THE OFFICE OF 311 00:12:17,325 --> 00:12:18,493 DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND 312 00:12:18,493 --> 00:12:18,760 INCLUSION. 313 00:12:18,760 --> 00:12:19,528 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 314 00:12:19,528 --> 00:12:23,031 I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF 315 00:12:23,031 --> 00:12:25,100 INTRODUCING DR. BRIAN LUCE, 316 00:12:25,100 --> 00:12:27,536 SECOND SPEAKER, ASSOCIATE 317 00:12:27,536 --> 00:12:28,603 DIRECTOR FOR UNIVERSITY OF 318 00:12:28,603 --> 00:12:30,572 ARIZONA FOX SCHOOL OF MUSIC, 319 00:12:30,572 --> 00:12:34,409 PROFESSOR OF THE FLUTE AT THE 320 00:12:34,409 --> 00:12:38,346 UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, YAMAHA 321 00:12:38,346 --> 00:12:39,014 PERFORMANCE ARTIST, ACCOMPLISHED 322 00:12:39,014 --> 00:12:39,781 SOLOIST, CHAMBER MUSICIAN. 323 00:12:39,781 --> 00:12:44,820 I PRESENT TO YOU NOW DR. BRIAN 324 00:12:44,820 --> 00:12:45,153 LUCE. 325 00:12:45,153 --> 00:12:47,889 [APPLAUSE] 326 00:12:47,889 --> 00:12:53,895 327 00:12:53,895 --> 00:13:03,939 328 00:13:06,775 --> 00:13:09,644 329 00:13:09,644 --> 00:13:11,680 >> GOOD MORNING. 330 00:13:11,680 --> 00:13:16,484 [ SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 331 00:13:16,484 --> 00:13:16,651 ♪ 332 00:13:16,651 --> 00:13:26,962 [ FLUTE MELODY ] 333 00:13:40,108 --> 00:13:40,742 >> GOOD MORNING. 334 00:13:40,742 --> 00:13:42,477 I WISH TO EXTEND MY GREETINGS 335 00:13:42,477 --> 00:13:44,045 FROM THE PEOPLE OF ARIZONA AND 336 00:13:44,045 --> 00:13:46,681 MY COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS AT THE 337 00:13:46,681 --> 00:13:48,216 UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. 338 00:13:48,216 --> 00:13:50,185 THESE GREETINGS INCLUDE WISHES 339 00:13:50,185 --> 00:13:55,457 AND BLESSINGS FROM THE EAST, 340 00:13:55,457 --> 00:13:56,224 LOOK TO THE FUTURE, 341 00:13:56,224 --> 00:13:58,526 POSSIBILITIES THAT BRINGS. 342 00:13:58,526 --> 00:14:00,161 FROM THE SOUTH, CELEBRATING 343 00:14:00,161 --> 00:14:02,597 CONTRIBUTIONS OF OUR FOREBEARS. 344 00:14:02,597 --> 00:14:04,132 FROM THE WEST, SEEKING AND 345 00:14:04,132 --> 00:14:05,100 REWARDING WORK AND EFFORTS THAT 346 00:14:05,100 --> 00:14:06,768 LED TO THIS MOMENT. 347 00:14:06,768 --> 00:14:09,404 AND FROM THE NORTH, WORKING TO 348 00:14:09,404 --> 00:14:11,239 INSTILL ALL EFFORTS PAST, 349 00:14:11,239 --> 00:14:11,606 PRESENT, FUTURE. 350 00:14:11,606 --> 00:14:15,176 FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL. 351 00:14:15,176 --> 00:14:18,146 SALUTATIONS TO DIRECTOR OF NIH, 352 00:14:18,146 --> 00:14:19,547 BOARD OF DIRECTORS, COLLEAGUES, 353 00:14:19,547 --> 00:14:20,949 FAMILY, FRIENDS. 354 00:14:20,949 --> 00:14:22,284 I'M HUMBLED TO BE ASKED TO SPEAK 355 00:14:22,284 --> 00:14:25,887 DURING THIS EVENT AND HOPE MY 356 00:14:25,887 --> 00:14:26,888 BACKGROUND AND PERSPECTIVE 357 00:14:26,888 --> 00:14:28,857 BRINGS UNDERSTANDING AND IMPACT 358 00:14:28,857 --> 00:14:31,459 FROM MUSICAL ENDEAVORS FROM THE 359 00:14:31,459 --> 00:14:32,694 INDIGENOUS CULTURE AS IT HAS 360 00:14:32,694 --> 00:14:35,430 DEVELOPED OVER THE MILENNIA. 361 00:14:35,430 --> 00:14:43,405 THIS EVOLUTION HAS ACCELERATED, 362 00:14:43,405 --> 00:14:49,110 I'M BIRACIAL IN EVIDENCE IN 363 00:14:49,110 --> 00:14:50,211 HYBRIDIZATION, REINVIGORATING 364 00:14:50,211 --> 00:14:53,281 CULTURE AND SHARING IT. 365 00:14:53,281 --> 00:14:56,885 PRIMARY OUTLETS OF MUSIC WERE 366 00:14:56,885 --> 00:14:58,186 INDIVIDUAL, NOW THE SOUND THAT 367 00:14:58,186 --> 00:14:59,287 WERE ISOLATED ARE NOW FINDING A 368 00:14:59,287 --> 00:15:01,623 PLACE IN THE LARGER GLOBAL 369 00:15:01,623 --> 00:15:02,824 MUSICAL WORLD. 370 00:15:02,824 --> 00:15:05,126 I RECENTLY TRAVELED TO CHINA FOR 371 00:15:05,126 --> 00:15:06,661 OUTREACH AND EXCHANGE, HUMBLED 372 00:15:06,661 --> 00:15:10,365 TO JOIN A COLLABORATIVE 373 00:15:10,365 --> 00:15:13,201 PERFORMANCE WITH A CONSERVATORY 374 00:15:13,201 --> 00:15:20,008 MUSIC ENSEMBLE, MATCHING 375 00:15:20,008 --> 00:15:22,844 PRAISING, AS WE KNOW FROM 376 00:15:22,844 --> 00:15:24,446 ARCHEOLOGY INDIGENOUS AMERICANS 377 00:15:24,446 --> 00:15:25,580 MIGRATED FROM SIBERIAN LAND 378 00:15:25,580 --> 00:15:28,316 BRIDGE AND BIOLOGICAL TRAITS AND 379 00:15:28,316 --> 00:15:31,720 CULTURE SOMEWHAT RELATED. 380 00:15:31,720 --> 00:15:33,922 HOWEVER, WITH THAT EXPERIENCE 381 00:15:33,922 --> 00:15:36,758 REVEALED TO ME WHAT SOME 382 00:15:36,758 --> 00:15:37,959 CONSIDER PALEOLITHIC MUSIC HAS 383 00:15:37,959 --> 00:15:39,694 ROOTS IN THE LARGER GLOBAL 384 00:15:39,694 --> 00:15:40,962 EXPERIENCE OF ALL PEOPLES. 385 00:15:40,962 --> 00:15:48,803 I CAN SAY AS A MUSICIAN MY MISS 386 00:15:48,803 --> 00:15:49,871 - INSTINCTS HAVE A COLLECTION TO 387 00:15:49,871 --> 00:15:53,308 A GROUP OF HUMANS. 388 00:15:53,308 --> 00:15:57,579 I WAS AN ORPHAN CHILD, PIMA, 389 00:15:57,579 --> 00:16:02,417 TRIBAL NATIVE CALL THEMSELVES 390 00:16:02,417 --> 00:16:04,819 FATHER AND IRISH WHITE MOTHER. 391 00:16:04,819 --> 00:16:06,788 AFTER MONTHS OF FOSTER CARE I 392 00:16:06,788 --> 00:16:11,292 WON THE LIFE LOTTERY, ADOPTED. 393 00:16:11,292 --> 00:16:17,732 RALPH AND ANN LUCE, MID WESTERN 394 00:16:17,732 --> 00:16:20,368 TRANSPLANTS WERE EAGER TO START 395 00:16:20,368 --> 00:16:21,269 A FAMILY. 396 00:16:21,269 --> 00:16:26,708 AFTER THE COPPER MINE AREA AND 397 00:16:26,708 --> 00:16:29,577 PHOENIX WE MOVED, MY EARLY 398 00:16:29,577 --> 00:16:35,383 CHILDHOOD IN TRADITIONAL ARIZONA 399 00:16:35,383 --> 00:16:39,254 COPPER WAS STILL KING. 400 00:16:39,254 --> 00:16:40,755 ALONG MY YOUNGER BROTHER AND 401 00:16:40,755 --> 00:16:43,725 SISTER GREW UP WITH ROUTINES OF 402 00:16:43,725 --> 00:16:45,460 ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, MY FAMILY NO 403 00:16:45,460 --> 00:16:48,096 DIFFERENT FROM ANY OTHERS OF THE 404 00:16:48,096 --> 00:16:49,764 VALLEY, ALL WHITES, LATINOS, 405 00:16:49,764 --> 00:16:56,204 MEXICANS, AS THEY PREFER TO BE 406 00:16:56,204 --> 00:16:57,105 CALLED, NAVAJOS, APACHES, ZUMIS, 407 00:16:57,105 --> 00:16:59,607 THE COMMON BOND BETWEEN THE 408 00:16:59,607 --> 00:17:02,010 PEOPLE WAS THE WORK A DAY 409 00:17:02,010 --> 00:17:04,946 TRAVAILS OF FEEDING, CLEANING 410 00:17:04,946 --> 00:17:05,580 AFTER, INOCULATING, SHIPPING, 411 00:17:05,580 --> 00:17:06,281 PROCESSING LIVE STOCK. 412 00:17:06,281 --> 00:17:07,916 DURING THE MANY TIMES WE WORKED 413 00:17:07,916 --> 00:17:11,186 TOGETHER TO HELP A NEIGHBOR MEND 414 00:17:11,186 --> 00:17:12,821 FENCES, REBUILD CORRALS, BUILD 415 00:17:12,821 --> 00:17:13,788 FEED TROUGHS, EACH ABLE-BODIED 416 00:17:13,788 --> 00:17:15,557 BOY WAS REQUIRED TO WORK HIS 417 00:17:15,557 --> 00:17:18,093 FAIR SHARE ALONGSIDE THE MEN. 418 00:17:18,093 --> 00:17:18,827 FOR THOSE DAY-LONG COMMUNAL 419 00:17:18,827 --> 00:17:22,230 EFFORTS EACH BOY HAD A NICKNAME. 420 00:17:22,230 --> 00:17:24,199 TINY FOR TALL BOY, SLIM FOR 421 00:17:24,199 --> 00:17:26,601 ROTUND FELLOW, SLICK FOR SHARP 422 00:17:26,601 --> 00:17:31,106 WITTED ONE, LIKE MANY OTHERS, 423 00:17:31,106 --> 00:17:37,011 HALF-BREED FOR ME. 424 00:17:37,011 --> 00:17:38,980 WITH THOSE TIMES, MORE THAN ANY 425 00:17:38,980 --> 00:17:40,715 OFFENSE TAKEN, WE ALL KNEW THE 426 00:17:40,715 --> 00:17:41,683 NICKNAMES GIVEN BY ELDERS WERE 427 00:17:41,683 --> 00:17:44,252 ALWAYS MEANT TO BE DIRECTLY 428 00:17:44,252 --> 00:17:45,320 IMMEDIATELY POINTING OUT 429 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:46,421 SENSITIVE SPOTS WE ALL HAD, BUT 430 00:17:46,421 --> 00:17:47,856 THAT WAS THE POINT. 431 00:17:47,856 --> 00:17:49,824 TO TOUGHEN US UP. 432 00:17:49,824 --> 00:17:53,294 AS MOTHER NATURE AND EARTH AND 433 00:17:53,294 --> 00:17:54,829 LIVESTOCK GAVE NO QUARTER IN THE 434 00:17:54,829 --> 00:17:56,598 DAILY SLOTH OF RANCHING AND 435 00:17:56,598 --> 00:17:57,132 FARMING. 436 00:17:57,132 --> 00:17:58,600 REGARDSLESS OF THE WORK 437 00:17:58,600 --> 00:18:00,768 ENVIRONMENT THESE DAYS -- THOSE 438 00:18:00,768 --> 00:18:03,505 DAYS ARE SOME OF MY AND MY 439 00:18:03,505 --> 00:18:04,606 FRIENDS' FONDEST MEMORIES. 440 00:18:04,606 --> 00:18:08,309 YOU SEE ON THOSE DAYS MEN FOLK 441 00:18:08,309 --> 00:18:09,844 WORKED, WOMEN FOLK COOKED, 442 00:18:09,844 --> 00:18:11,379 WORKED HARD, ATE WELL, AND IT 443 00:18:11,379 --> 00:18:14,549 FUN IN ALL MANNER OF HIJINKS, 444 00:18:14,549 --> 00:18:16,751 EACH SATURDAY ENDED IN CALF 445 00:18:16,751 --> 00:18:19,287 CHASING, PIG CHASING, WATER 446 00:18:19,287 --> 00:18:20,788 FIGHTS, AND MUSIC. 447 00:18:20,788 --> 00:18:26,494 MY FATHER WAS A GIFTED SINGER 448 00:18:26,494 --> 00:18:28,129 AND GUITAR PLAYER WHEN SOMEONE 449 00:18:28,129 --> 00:18:32,634 CALLS ON THE CB, BREAKER BREAKER 450 00:18:32,634 --> 00:18:35,136 ONE-NINE, WE DIDN'T HAVE PHONES 451 00:18:35,136 --> 00:18:38,306 IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS, ONLY THE 452 00:18:38,306 --> 00:18:44,245 OPEN AIRWAVES. 453 00:18:44,245 --> 00:18:45,947 THE COMMUNICATION, DON'T FORGET 454 00:18:45,947 --> 00:18:48,783 YOUR GUITAR. 455 00:18:48,783 --> 00:18:49,551 HE PERFORMED FOLK MUSIC 456 00:18:49,551 --> 00:18:50,218 FOLLOWING THE WORKDAY. 457 00:18:50,218 --> 00:18:52,420 THERE WAS NOTHING MORE HONEST, 458 00:18:52,420 --> 00:18:54,088 DIRECT, FORTHRIGHT THAN MAKING 459 00:18:54,088 --> 00:18:58,560 MUSIC FOR YOUR FAMILY, 460 00:18:58,560 --> 00:18:59,227 IMMEDIATE, EXTENDED, BROTHERLY, 461 00:18:59,227 --> 00:18:59,460 ADOPTED. 462 00:18:59,460 --> 00:19:03,598 IT'S THE REASON I BECAME A 463 00:19:03,598 --> 00:19:05,133 MUSICIAN, SO EVERYONE FEELS LIKE 464 00:19:05,133 --> 00:19:09,604 FAMILY AROUND THE CAMPFIRE LATE 465 00:19:09,604 --> 00:19:10,505 ON SATURDAY EVENING UNDER THE 466 00:19:10,505 --> 00:19:13,441 STARS AFTER A HARD DAY'S WORK. 467 00:19:13,441 --> 00:19:15,743 I TOOK UP THE FLUTE BECAUSE IT 468 00:19:15,743 --> 00:19:19,581 TOUCHED THAT WHITE PART OF MY 469 00:19:19,581 --> 00:19:19,948 ETHNICITY. 470 00:19:19,948 --> 00:19:22,984 LATE 1970s SAW AN IRISH 471 00:19:22,984 --> 00:19:25,820 FLUTIST ON THE JOHNNY CARSON 472 00:19:25,820 --> 00:19:32,160 SHOW, BLACK HAIR, COMMUNICATED 473 00:19:32,160 --> 00:19:34,896 LIKE MY FATHER, I TRIED TO PLAY 474 00:19:34,896 --> 00:19:36,231 GUITAR AND SING BUT WAS UNABLE 475 00:19:36,231 --> 00:19:37,865 TO MAKE IT WORK AND TOOK UP THE 476 00:19:37,865 --> 00:19:38,166 FLUTE. 477 00:19:38,166 --> 00:19:39,400 OVER MANY YEARS OF STRUGGLING TO 478 00:19:39,400 --> 00:19:41,369 GET IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY MY 479 00:19:41,369 --> 00:19:42,570 FATHER NEVER ONCE QUESTIONED MY 480 00:19:42,570 --> 00:19:44,205 DECISION TO BECOME A MUSICIAN. 481 00:19:44,205 --> 00:19:46,407 HIS FATHER WAS A TRAINED 482 00:19:46,407 --> 00:19:49,010 VIOLINIST, WHOSE CAREER WAS CUT 483 00:19:49,010 --> 00:19:50,545 SHORT BY WORLD WAR I. 484 00:19:50,545 --> 00:19:53,081 HE WAS THE MOST POPULAR FIDDLE 485 00:19:53,081 --> 00:19:54,916 PLAYER IN THE SOUTHWESTERN AREA 486 00:19:54,916 --> 00:19:56,017 OF WISCONSIN. 487 00:19:56,017 --> 00:19:57,318 I'M HAPPY TO BEAR HIS UNUSUAL 488 00:19:57,318 --> 00:19:58,987 MIDDLE NAME TO THIS DAY AS I WAS 489 00:19:58,987 --> 00:20:03,024 ABLE TO WORK IN HIS CHOSEN 490 00:20:03,024 --> 00:20:03,324 PROFESSION. 491 00:20:03,324 --> 00:20:05,326 I NEVER HOW MUCH MY BACKGROUND 492 00:20:05,326 --> 00:20:07,729 WOULD TEMPER MY BUT EVERY 493 00:20:07,729 --> 00:20:09,564 PERFORMER I KNEW EXPERIENCED 494 00:20:09,564 --> 00:20:10,265 CHILDHOOD STRUGGLE. 495 00:20:10,265 --> 00:20:13,401 FOR ME, IN A FAMILY OF DANISH 496 00:20:13,401 --> 00:20:15,069 CROATIAN AND GERMAN OFFSPRING 497 00:20:15,069 --> 00:20:17,672 WAS NOT EASY WHEN ARIZONA WAS 498 00:20:17,672 --> 00:20:18,573 COMING OUT OF ITS SEGREGATION 499 00:20:18,573 --> 00:20:19,440 EFFORTS. 500 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,075 BECAUSE I WAS OLDEST, OFTENTIMES 501 00:20:21,075 --> 00:20:23,478 THE MAN OF THE HOUSE, WHEN MY 502 00:20:23,478 --> 00:20:24,912 FATHER'S WORK TOOK HIM AWAY FROM 503 00:20:24,912 --> 00:20:26,781 HOME, MY WORK GAVE ME PURPOSE 504 00:20:26,781 --> 00:20:27,782 AND PLACE. 505 00:20:27,782 --> 00:20:32,053 I IDENTIFIED OVER THE YEARS AS 506 00:20:32,053 --> 00:20:33,454 RANCH HAND, APPRENTICE AUTO 507 00:20:33,454 --> 00:20:36,958 DIESEL MECHANIC. 508 00:20:36,958 --> 00:20:42,096 WELL DRILLER, NOW MUSICIAN. 509 00:20:42,096 --> 00:20:44,832 WE SHARE SOME VERY INTERESTING 510 00:20:44,832 --> 00:20:45,166 TRAITS. 511 00:20:45,166 --> 00:20:46,701 SINCE MY EARLIEST TRAINING I'VE 512 00:20:46,701 --> 00:20:49,103 WRITTEN MUSIC, STRANGELY MANY OF 513 00:20:49,103 --> 00:20:49,971 THOSE PIECES RECTIFY THEMSELVES 514 00:20:49,971 --> 00:20:54,575 IN THE KEY OF E, MAJOR, MINOR, 515 00:20:54,575 --> 00:20:55,977 OR MODALITY. 516 00:20:55,977 --> 00:21:02,884 I'VE BEEN TOURING WITH WORK BY 517 00:21:02,884 --> 00:21:03,885 DR. BLACKHORSE, LAKOTA SIOUX, 518 00:21:03,885 --> 00:21:05,420 ALSO IN THE KEY OF E MAJOR. 519 00:21:05,420 --> 00:21:07,722 HE AND I SPOKE ABOUT THAT 520 00:21:07,722 --> 00:21:10,725 WONDERED WHERE THE SOUNDS COME 521 00:21:10,725 --> 00:21:13,227 FROM, AND OFTENTIMES IT'S JUST A 522 00:21:13,227 --> 00:21:17,065 RECITER TONE THAT SEEMS TO 523 00:21:17,065 --> 00:21:18,700 PERMEATE OUR ESSENCE. 524 00:21:18,700 --> 00:21:21,336 FREQUENCIES ARE VERY SPECIFIC. 525 00:21:21,336 --> 00:21:23,304 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF WORKING 526 00:21:23,304 --> 00:21:24,839 WITH PROFESSORS AND STUDENTS IN 527 00:21:24,839 --> 00:21:30,211 A MUSIC PROGRAM AND FOUND MANY 528 00:21:30,211 --> 00:21:32,380 ANTECEDENTS TO NATIVE AMERICAN 529 00:21:32,380 --> 00:21:32,914 MUSIC. 530 00:21:32,914 --> 00:21:34,682 MY WORKS FOCUS ON PITCH SETS 531 00:21:34,682 --> 00:21:36,617 THAT INCORPORATE A MAJOR, MINOR 532 00:21:36,617 --> 00:21:39,487 PENTA TONIC SCALE, AT THE HEART 533 00:21:39,487 --> 00:21:41,556 OF INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN 534 00:21:41,556 --> 00:21:43,157 CHINESE MUSIC FREQUENCY SETTING. 535 00:21:43,157 --> 00:21:46,260 I CANNOT ESCAPE, TO THIS DAY, 536 00:21:46,260 --> 00:21:46,928 THAT FREQUENCY. 537 00:21:46,928 --> 00:21:51,632 AS MY CAREER BEGAN IN TEXAS AND 538 00:21:51,632 --> 00:21:52,633 DEVELOPED IN COLLEGIATE 539 00:21:52,633 --> 00:21:55,803 TEACHING, IT NOW APPEARS TO BE 540 00:21:55,803 --> 00:21:56,904 MORE THAN JUST COINCIDENCE THAT 541 00:21:56,904 --> 00:22:00,875 I RETURN TO MY BIRTH STATE TO 542 00:22:00,875 --> 00:22:02,944 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA. 543 00:22:02,944 --> 00:22:05,913 I RECONNECTED WITH MY ROOTS. 544 00:22:05,913 --> 00:22:11,152 NOW MANY BIRACIAL INDIGENOUS ARE 545 00:22:11,152 --> 00:22:13,788 CONSIDERED PART OF THE TRIBE. 546 00:22:13,788 --> 00:22:15,857 MY OUTREACH TO MANY NATIONS 547 00:22:15,857 --> 00:22:18,493 THROUGH TEACHING HELPED ME 548 00:22:18,493 --> 00:22:20,461 REFOCUS ON OUTDOOR LOVED ONES 549 00:22:20,461 --> 00:22:21,028 FOCUSED MUSICAL GOALS. 550 00:22:21,028 --> 00:22:23,631 ONE OF THE MOST STRIKING EVENTS 551 00:22:23,631 --> 00:22:26,367 TO AFFECT MY OUTPUT IN TEACHING 552 00:22:26,367 --> 00:22:28,002 WAS THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC. 553 00:22:28,002 --> 00:22:29,537 THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA WAS AT 554 00:22:29,537 --> 00:22:30,705 THE FOREFRONT OF TESTING AND 555 00:22:30,705 --> 00:22:32,173 THAT EFFORT HELPED ME AND 556 00:22:32,173 --> 00:22:33,508 STUDENTS RETURN TO LIVE 557 00:22:33,508 --> 00:22:34,575 INSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE LONG 558 00:22:34,575 --> 00:22:36,344 BEFORE MUCH OF OUR COLLEAGUES 559 00:22:36,344 --> 00:22:36,611 WORLDWIDE. 560 00:22:36,611 --> 00:22:37,779 HOWEVER, IT WAS THE LARGE 561 00:22:37,779 --> 00:22:39,947 DIFFERENTIAL BETWEEN MY STUDENTS 562 00:22:39,947 --> 00:22:42,784 AND NATIVE PEOPLES PRINCIPALLY 563 00:22:42,784 --> 00:22:44,352 THOSE FROM MY NATIVE APACHE 564 00:22:44,352 --> 00:22:46,988 COUNTIESY WHO SUFFERED MOST. 565 00:22:46,988 --> 00:22:51,025 WE HAD CONSTANT MONITORING OF 566 00:22:51,025 --> 00:22:53,661 STUDENTS, AFFORDING OPTION OF 567 00:22:53,661 --> 00:22:55,096 RETURNING TO DISTANCE LEARNING. 568 00:22:55,096 --> 00:22:56,831 MANY RANCHERS AND FARMERS FROM 569 00:22:56,831 --> 00:22:59,033 MY HOME COUNTIES COULD NOT. 570 00:22:59,033 --> 00:23:03,604 TO THAT END MY RANCH HAND MODUS 571 00:23:03,604 --> 00:23:05,673 OPERANDI TOOK OVER, ESTABLISHING 572 00:23:05,673 --> 00:23:09,210 A FORUM WITH TEACHERS FROM R-1 573 00:23:09,210 --> 00:23:13,147 AND LAND GRANT UNIVERSITIES WITH 574 00:23:13,147 --> 00:23:17,518 THOSE LONGSTANDING LONDON 575 00:23:17,518 --> 00:23:18,786 CONSERVATORIES, AND BEGAN TO 576 00:23:18,786 --> 00:23:28,796 BROADCAST ON ZOOM AND FACEBOOK 577 00:23:28,796 --> 00:23:30,565 LIVE, THE THE OUTGROWTH, 337,000 578 00:23:30,565 --> 00:23:32,834 CUBIC FOOT AUDITORIUM, VERY 579 00:23:32,834 --> 00:23:33,835 IMPORTANT, WAS MAKING THE 580 00:23:33,835 --> 00:23:34,602 AUDIENCE DISTANCE GOAL 581 00:23:34,602 --> 00:23:35,803 PERFORMANCE. 582 00:23:35,803 --> 00:23:38,873 I THOUGHT OF MY CHILDHOOD, 583 00:23:38,873 --> 00:23:39,640 FORTUNATELY VIDEO AND AUDIO 584 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:41,175 TECHNOLOGY CAUGHT UP WITH THAT 585 00:23:41,175 --> 00:23:42,176 CORE NEED. 586 00:23:42,176 --> 00:23:45,980 WE PLACE AUDIENCE AT THE CENTER 587 00:23:45,980 --> 00:23:49,817 OF 360 VR AND AMPASONIC AUDIO. 588 00:23:49,817 --> 00:23:52,119 THE AUDIENCE, OUR FAMILY, IS NOW 589 00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:53,855 BACK WHERE IT BEGAN, THOSE 590 00:23:53,855 --> 00:23:56,057 THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO, AT THE 591 00:23:56,057 --> 00:23:58,025 CENTER OF THE PERFORMANCE. 592 00:23:58,025 --> 00:23:59,894 WE SEE TIMELESS COMMUNITY OF 593 00:23:59,894 --> 00:24:01,095 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, COMMUNITY OF 594 00:24:01,095 --> 00:24:03,498 LESS SEPARATED FROM ONE ANOTHER 595 00:24:03,498 --> 00:24:04,699 CULTURALLY AND TECHNOLOGICALLY 596 00:24:04,699 --> 00:24:07,869 AND THEREFORE NEVER PLACED 597 00:24:07,869 --> 00:24:09,971 OBJECTS OF MUSICAL EFFORTS TO AN 598 00:24:09,971 --> 00:24:11,973 AUDIENCE SEPARATED BY DISTANCE 599 00:24:11,973 --> 00:24:14,242 OF 20 TO 200 FEET IN A CONCERT 600 00:24:14,242 --> 00:24:15,543 HALL, AUDIENCE IS ALWAYS A PART 601 00:24:15,543 --> 00:24:18,212 OF THE PERFORMANCE, UNITED 602 00:24:18,212 --> 00:24:23,084 STATES ADOPTED TRADITIONS, AND 603 00:24:23,084 --> 00:24:26,387 NOW THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IS 604 00:24:26,387 --> 00:24:28,256 REVEALING THE NEED TO ADOPT THIS 605 00:24:28,256 --> 00:24:29,891 CLOSE COMMUNITY THAT IS 606 00:24:29,891 --> 00:24:31,292 INTRINSIC TO OUR NATIVE NATIONS. 607 00:24:31,292 --> 00:24:34,262 FOR ME AND MY WORK I INVITE MY 608 00:24:34,262 --> 00:24:37,532 STUDENTS AND COLLEAGUES TO BRING 609 00:24:37,532 --> 00:24:38,232 AUDIENCES INTO MUSIC. 610 00:24:38,232 --> 00:24:40,601 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE 611 00:24:40,601 --> 00:24:42,136 INVITATION TO SPEAK. 612 00:24:42,136 --> 00:24:49,677 AND ESPECIALLY THE WORK OF 613 00:24:49,677 --> 00:24:50,545 PRINCIPAL STRATEGIST CLARISSA 614 00:24:50,545 --> 00:24:50,845 ALEXANDER. 615 00:24:50,845 --> 00:24:52,179 I HOPE THIS FURTHERS THE IMPACT 616 00:24:52,179 --> 00:24:53,080 OF MY COMMUNITY. 617 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:55,149 I LEAVE YOU WITH MY INNATE 618 00:24:55,149 --> 00:24:56,017 HONEST THOUGHTS THROUGH MUSIC, 619 00:24:56,017 --> 00:24:58,753 AS I BEGAN. 620 00:24:58,753 --> 00:25:01,055 THIS TIME, NOT FROM THE NATIVE 621 00:25:01,055 --> 00:25:04,325 INSTRUMENT THAT HAS BEEN HERE 622 00:25:04,325 --> 00:25:07,194 FOR WELL OVER 3,000 YEARS ON 623 00:25:07,194 --> 00:25:09,063 THIS CONTINENT, BUT SOMETHING 624 00:25:09,063 --> 00:25:11,299 NOVEL AND MORE NEW, BUT JUST AS 625 00:25:11,299 --> 00:25:15,436 OLD, FROM THE MIDDLE EAST, STILL 626 00:25:15,436 --> 00:25:17,605 TRANSDUCES AND CREATES SOUND BY 627 00:25:17,605 --> 00:25:17,939 AIR. 628 00:25:17,939 --> 00:25:23,644 I INVITE YOU TO BE PART OF MY 629 00:25:23,644 --> 00:25:23,878 FAMILY. 630 00:25:23,878 --> 00:25:26,581 [ FLUTE MELODY ] 631 00:25:26,581 --> 00:25:32,620 632 00:25:32,620 --> 00:25:42,663 633 00:26:42,156 --> 00:26:44,458 [APPLAUSE] 634 00:26:44,458 --> 00:26:50,498 635 00:26:50,498 --> 00:27:00,541 636 00:27:04,578 --> 00:27:06,280 637 00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:12,186 >> CAN WE GIVE HIM ANOTHER 638 00:27:12,186 --> 00:27:12,987 HAND-CLAP PLEASE. 639 00:27:12,987 --> 00:27:14,055 [APPLAUSE] 640 00:27:14,055 --> 00:27:14,822 THANK YOU FOR YOUR TOUCHING 641 00:27:14,822 --> 00:27:15,790 STORIES AND SOUND. 642 00:27:15,790 --> 00:27:16,457 WE'VE CHANGED THE PROGRAM. 643 00:27:16,457 --> 00:27:18,659 WE'LL NOW BE ABLE TO GO BACK TO 644 00:27:18,659 --> 00:27:21,729 THE PARTICIPATION OF THE TRIBAL 645 00:27:21,729 --> 00:27:22,396 NATIONS REPRESENTATIVES BY 646 00:27:22,396 --> 00:27:23,876 POSTING OF THE FLAGS. 647 00:27:25,332 --> 00:27:31,405 648 00:27:31,405 --> 00:27:41,449 649 00:27:25,581 --> 00:27:29,618 >> THANK I YOU VERY MUCH. 650 00:27:29,618 --> 00:27:30,285 WE APPRECIATE IT. 651 00:27:30,285 --> 00:27:35,658 KNOW WE HAVE -- NOW WE HAVE OUR 652 00:27:35,658 --> 00:27:36,825 SCHEDULED BREAK, STARTING AT 653 00:27:36,825 --> 00:27:39,762 10:45, IF YOU COULD BE BACK IN 654 00:27:39,762 --> 00:27:41,463 PLACE BY 11:00 WE WOULD 655 00:27:41,463 --> 00:27:41,797 APPRECIATE IT. 656 00:27:41,797 --> 00:27:43,729 THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. 657 00:27:43,729 --> 00:27:45,364 THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH AGAIN. 658 00:27:45,364 --> 00:27:50,836 WE'RE ABOUT TO GET STARTED WITH 659 00:27:50,836 --> 00:27:53,673 OUR NEXT PRESENTATION, THE 660 00:27:53,673 --> 00:27:55,107 INDIGENOUS CULTURE EXHIBITION, 661 00:27:55,107 --> 00:27:57,944 THE INDIGENOUS DANCER AND STORY 662 00:27:57,944 --> 00:27:58,778 TELLING EXHIBITION. 663 00:27:58,778 --> 00:28:02,081 WE'LL INVITE THEM TO THE STAGE 664 00:28:02,081 --> 00:28:02,982 RIGHT NOW. 665 00:28:02,982 --> 00:28:11,057 [APPLAUSE] 666 00:28:11,057 --> 00:28:21,100 667 00:28:23,336 --> 00:28:27,873 >> Y'ALL ARE IN MARYLAND. 668 00:28:27,873 --> 00:28:33,679 YOU GOT VOCAL CORDS. 669 00:28:33,679 --> 00:28:35,648 I'M KEN IT SHIRLEY WE'RE TO 670 00:28:35,648 --> 00:28:38,851 SHOWCASE THE NATIVE AMERICAN 671 00:28:38,851 --> 00:28:39,151 CULTURE. 672 00:28:39,151 --> 00:28:42,121 IT'S GOOD TO GIVE A PROPER LAND 673 00:28:42,121 --> 00:28:43,189 ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND LET 674 00:28:43,189 --> 00:28:44,223 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE KNOW AND FEEL 675 00:28:44,223 --> 00:28:47,493 OUR LAND IS STILL HERE. 676 00:28:47,493 --> 00:28:50,997 I INVITED A SPECIAL GUEST, HIS 677 00:28:50,997 --> 00:28:53,265 FIRST TIME IN MARYLAND, D.C., 678 00:28:53,265 --> 00:28:55,034 DMV, HE WILL BE SINGING A 679 00:28:55,034 --> 00:28:55,801 WELCOMING SONG. 680 00:28:55,801 --> 00:29:00,306 PLEASE WELCOME TO THE STAGE 681 00:29:00,306 --> 00:29:00,673 MR. MANNY HOLLY. 682 00:29:00,673 --> 00:29:07,546 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 683 00:29:07,546 --> 00:29:09,048 >> HELLO, EVERYBODY. 684 00:29:09,048 --> 00:29:17,590 I'LL BE SINGING A SONG COMPOSED 685 00:29:17,590 --> 00:29:21,694 BY JEREMY DEARY, TRANSLATING OUR 686 00:29:21,694 --> 00:29:23,295 BROTHERS AND SISTERS WILL BE 687 00:29:23,295 --> 00:29:28,567 HERE FOR ONE ANOTHER. 688 00:29:28,567 --> 00:29:33,372 IT'S IN THE OJIBWE LANGUAGE. 689 00:29:33,372 --> 00:29:43,449 ♪ 690 00:29:56,762 --> 00:30:06,772 ♪ 691 00:30:14,947 --> 00:30:23,322 [ SINGING IN OJIBWE LANGUAGE ] 692 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:33,399 ♪ 693 00:31:08,968 --> 00:31:11,403 >> MAKE SOME NOISE, LADIES AND 694 00:31:11,403 --> 00:31:13,272 GENTLEMEN, FOR MANNY! 695 00:31:13,272 --> 00:31:13,639 MAKE SOME NOISE! 696 00:31:13,639 --> 00:31:21,180 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 697 00:31:21,180 --> 00:31:31,557 [ SINGING CONTINUES ] 698 00:32:47,733 --> 00:32:48,100 >> MAKE SOME NOISE! 699 00:32:48,100 --> 00:32:50,402 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 700 00:32:50,402 --> 00:32:52,438 >> ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. 701 00:32:52,438 --> 00:32:57,042 SO WE'LL BE SHOWCASING 702 00:32:57,042 --> 00:32:58,811 INDIGENOUS CULTURE, WE STARTED 703 00:32:58,811 --> 00:33:02,414 THIS COMPANY IN 2015, JUST 704 00:33:02,414 --> 00:33:03,649 TURNED NINE YEARS OLD, LADIES 705 00:33:03,649 --> 00:33:03,983 AND GENTLEMEN. 706 00:33:03,983 --> 00:33:04,250 [APPLAUSE] 707 00:33:04,250 --> 00:33:06,151 STARTED WITH A MISSION TO BE 708 00:33:06,151 --> 00:33:07,987 ABLE TO UPLIFT INDIGENOUS 709 00:33:07,987 --> 00:33:09,955 CULTURE, TO BRING FORTH 710 00:33:09,955 --> 00:33:11,924 REPRESENTATION FROM ALL OVER THE 711 00:33:11,924 --> 00:33:12,291 WORLD. 712 00:33:12,291 --> 00:33:14,126 IT WASN'T LONG AGO OUR PEOPLE 713 00:33:14,126 --> 00:33:15,561 WERE BEING THROWN IN JAIL, 714 00:33:15,561 --> 00:33:16,528 PROSECUTED FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING 715 00:33:16,528 --> 00:33:16,829 TODAY. 716 00:33:16,829 --> 00:33:19,798 TO BE ABLE TO FAST FORWARD TO 717 00:33:19,798 --> 00:33:20,699 2024 AND WE'RE BEING CELEBRATED 718 00:33:20,699 --> 00:33:21,901 BY YOU WONDERFUL PEOPLE, 719 00:33:21,901 --> 00:33:22,935 ACKNOWLEDGED LIKE THIS ON THE 720 00:33:22,935 --> 00:33:24,737 PLATFORM MEANS A LOT TO US, A 721 00:33:24,737 --> 00:33:28,674 WHOLE LOT TO OUR ANCESTORS, SO 722 00:33:28,674 --> 00:33:29,241 MAKE SOME NOISE, LADIES AND 723 00:33:29,241 --> 00:33:29,508 GENTLEMEN. 724 00:33:29,508 --> 00:33:32,077 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 725 00:33:32,077 --> 00:33:37,216 SO, WITH THAT BEING SAID, WE'LL 726 00:33:37,216 --> 00:33:38,550 ACTUALLY HAVE MR. MANNY HOLLY, 727 00:33:38,550 --> 00:33:41,153 YEAH, HE'S GIVING ME A THUMBS 728 00:33:41,153 --> 00:33:42,121 UP. 729 00:33:42,121 --> 00:33:44,990 PLAY, BROTHER. 730 00:33:44,990 --> 00:33:45,658 THUMBS UP. 731 00:33:45,658 --> 00:33:45,858 YEAH. 732 00:33:45,858 --> 00:33:49,495 ALL RIGHT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 733 00:33:49,495 --> 00:33:52,431 WE'RE GOING RIGHT INTO OUR SOUND 734 00:33:52,431 --> 00:33:57,903 RIGHT QUICK. 735 00:33:57,903 --> 00:33:59,438 HIT PAUSE, BROTHER, HIT PAUSE. 736 00:33:59,438 --> 00:34:04,109 WITH THAT BEING SAID WE'LL 737 00:34:04,109 --> 00:34:05,244 ALREADY MR. MANNY HOLLY SHOWCASE 738 00:34:05,244 --> 00:34:06,545 MEN'S GRASS DANCE, THE ORIGIN 739 00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:08,314 STORY COMES FROM THE OMAHA 740 00:34:08,314 --> 00:34:08,714 PEOPLE. 741 00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:09,715 IT WAS SAID THIS DANCE WAS 742 00:34:09,715 --> 00:34:11,483 SUPPOSED TO BE THE FIRST DANCERS 743 00:34:11,483 --> 00:34:13,452 TO COME IN, WE'RE HAVING 744 00:34:13,452 --> 00:34:14,119 MR. MANNY GO FIRST. 745 00:34:14,119 --> 00:34:18,657 WHEN YOU SEE HIM DOING HIS 746 00:34:18,657 --> 00:34:21,760 MOVES, TO THE RIGHT, THE LEFT, 747 00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:23,629 KEEPING SYMMETRY AND BALANCE, 748 00:34:23,629 --> 00:34:25,831 FOOT WORK AND GRACE. 749 00:34:25,831 --> 00:34:27,232 HIT PLAY, BRO. 750 00:34:27,232 --> 00:34:29,301 I WANT TO BRING FORTH CHAMPION 751 00:34:29,301 --> 00:34:31,937 DANCERS, HIS FIRST TIME, SO MAKE 752 00:34:31,937 --> 00:34:33,906 SOME NOISE FOR MANNY ONE TIME. 753 00:34:33,906 --> 00:34:38,377 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 754 00:34:38,377 --> 00:34:40,779 ♪ 755 00:34:40,779 --> 00:34:41,080 >> HELLO. 756 00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:43,549 LIKE HE SAID, THIS IS A GRASS 757 00:34:43,549 --> 00:34:54,059 DANCE THAT CAME ORIGINALLY FROM 758 00:34:54,059 --> 00:34:55,461 THE OMAHA PEOPLE. 759 00:34:55,461 --> 00:34:59,064 IT GETS TO MY PEOPLE, FROM 760 00:34:59,064 --> 00:35:00,933 MONTANA WHERE I COME FROM, 761 00:35:00,933 --> 00:35:03,669 HONORED TO DANCE THE STILL THAT 762 00:35:03,669 --> 00:35:05,204 IDENTIFIES WHO I AM. 763 00:35:05,204 --> 00:35:10,776 AND I'LL BE DANCING ONE OF MY 764 00:35:10,776 --> 00:35:12,544 FAVORITE SONGS FROM ANDRIY 765 00:35:12,544 --> 00:35:12,778 SINGERS. 766 00:35:12,778 --> 00:35:13,746 >> TURN IT UP, BROTHER. 767 00:35:13,746 --> 00:35:15,814 WE CAN'T HEAR IT OVER THE BELLS. 768 00:35:15,814 --> 00:35:22,755 MAKE SOME NOISE, LADIES AND 769 00:35:22,755 --> 00:35:23,022 GENTLEMEN. 770 00:35:23,022 --> 00:35:33,098 ♪ 771 00:36:30,255 --> 00:36:30,923 >> HEY, MAKE SOME NOISE, LADIES 772 00:36:30,923 --> 00:36:32,357 AND GENTLEMEN. 773 00:36:32,357 --> 00:36:32,724 MAKE SOME NOISE! 774 00:36:32,724 --> 00:36:43,102 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 775 00:37:09,928 --> 00:37:12,264 ♪ 776 00:37:12,264 --> 00:37:18,303 777 00:37:18,303 --> 00:37:28,347 778 00:38:08,554 --> 00:38:08,820 >> AWESOME. 779 00:38:08,820 --> 00:38:10,822 I DON'T THINK HE CAN HEAR YOU 780 00:38:10,822 --> 00:38:11,557 GUYS. 781 00:38:11,557 --> 00:38:21,266 CAN YOU MAKE SOME MORE NOISE FOR 782 00:38:21,266 --> 00:38:21,633 MR. MANNY HOLLY? 783 00:38:21,633 --> 00:38:25,904 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 784 00:38:25,904 --> 00:38:26,505 WE'RE NOW SHOWCASING WHAT IS 785 00:38:26,505 --> 00:38:27,973 REPRESENTATIVE OF THE A HORSE, 786 00:38:27,973 --> 00:38:30,275 YOU'LL SEE ME DOING FAST FOOT 787 00:38:30,275 --> 00:38:31,677 WORK AND MORE UPBEAT. 788 00:38:31,677 --> 00:38:33,879 THE STORY I HEARD ABOUT THIS 789 00:38:33,879 --> 00:38:37,583 DANCE, LIKE IN THE EARLY 1900S, 790 00:38:37,583 --> 00:38:38,383 LATE 1800s, BUFFALO BILL 791 00:38:38,383 --> 00:38:40,018 BROUGHT DANCERS TO EUROPE. 792 00:38:40,018 --> 00:38:42,020 WHEN THEY WERE PERFORMING IN 793 00:38:42,020 --> 00:38:44,089 PARIS AND LONDON NOTICED 794 00:38:44,089 --> 00:38:45,290 AUDIENCES WERE GETTING SLEEPY 795 00:38:45,290 --> 00:38:47,359 LIKE THEY TOOK A MELATONIN OR 796 00:38:47,359 --> 00:38:47,693 SOMETHING. 797 00:38:47,693 --> 00:38:54,466 HE WENT TO THE DANCERS, THE 798 00:38:54,466 --> 00:38:55,701 AUDIENCE IS BORED, PEP IT UP A 799 00:38:55,701 --> 00:38:57,336 LITTLE BIT AND MAKE IT MORE 800 00:38:57,336 --> 00:38:57,636 FANCY. 801 00:38:57,636 --> 00:38:59,304 YOU SEE THE EVOLUTION FROM 802 00:38:59,304 --> 00:39:03,675 THERE, NOW YOU'RE SEEING FANCY 803 00:39:03,675 --> 00:39:05,877 DANCERS DOING CARTWHEELS, FLIPS, 804 00:39:05,877 --> 00:39:09,514 FOOT WORK, THE UPBEAT SHOWMAN 805 00:39:09,514 --> 00:39:11,149 TYPE DAYS, BUT IT'S A HEALING 806 00:39:11,149 --> 00:39:12,884 DANCE TO BRING A GOOD FEELING, 807 00:39:12,884 --> 00:39:13,986 GOOD MEDICINE. 808 00:39:13,986 --> 00:39:19,625 READY FOR SOME FANCY DANCING? 809 00:39:19,625 --> 00:39:21,393 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 810 00:39:21,393 --> 00:39:24,730 ♪ 811 00:39:24,730 --> 00:39:28,433 >> THEY GOT THE JUICE, LET'S 812 00:39:28,433 --> 00:39:30,302 TURN 'EM LOOSE, THUNDER HILL. 813 00:39:30,302 --> 00:39:35,007 LET'S BRING IT ON, BOYS. 814 00:39:35,007 --> 00:39:35,307 HERE WE GO! 815 00:39:35,307 --> 00:39:45,384 ♪ 816 00:40:58,323 --> 00:41:00,759 ♪ 817 00:41:00,759 --> 00:41:06,798 818 00:41:06,798 --> 00:41:16,842 819 00:41:25,317 --> 00:41:26,852 [ CHEERS AND APPLAUSE ] 820 00:41:26,852 --> 00:41:35,827 >> COME ON UP THE LINE. 821 00:41:35,827 --> 00:41:40,098 822 00:41:40,098 --> 00:41:40,932 >> HELLO. 823 00:41:40,932 --> 00:41:46,004 I'M REDBEAR CLOUD, MEN'S 824 00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:47,773 TRADITIONAL DANCE. 825 00:41:47,773 --> 00:41:49,007 I'M AN ENROLLED MEMBER OF THE 826 00:41:49,007 --> 00:41:52,477 TRIBE, GREW UP ON THE YAKIMA 827 00:41:52,477 --> 00:41:53,879 RESERVATION IN WASHINGTON STATE, 828 00:41:53,879 --> 00:41:55,547 YEAH, I'M THE MEN'S TRADITIONAL 829 00:41:55,547 --> 00:41:57,315 DANCER, THE OLDEST STYLE OF 830 00:41:57,315 --> 00:41:58,950 DANCE WE HAVE, THE AIM, THE 831 00:41:58,950 --> 00:42:01,787 PURPOSE OF IDENTIFY, IS TO TELL 832 00:42:01,787 --> 00:42:02,654 A STORY. 833 00:42:02,654 --> 00:42:03,855 AND THE STORY WE WANT TO TELL IS 834 00:42:03,855 --> 00:42:05,290 THE STORY OF OUR WARRIORS. 835 00:42:05,290 --> 00:42:06,691 WE HAVE DIFFERENT SONGS. 836 00:42:06,691 --> 00:42:11,963 WE HAVE THE CROW HOP, SECOND 837 00:42:11,963 --> 00:42:13,498 DIVE, EACH HAS DIFFERENT 838 00:42:13,498 --> 00:42:18,103 MOVEMENTS THAT TELL DIFFERENT 839 00:42:18,103 --> 00:42:18,336 STORIES. 840 00:42:18,336 --> 00:42:19,671 WE MIMIC MOVEMENTS OF WARRIORS 841 00:42:19,671 --> 00:42:22,374 IN A BATTLE, A HUNT, OR VICTORY. 842 00:42:22,374 --> 00:42:26,511 AND SO SOMETHING TO LOOK OUT FOR 843 00:42:26,511 --> 00:42:31,116 IS LIKE MEN'S TRADITIONAL 844 00:42:31,116 --> 00:42:33,418 DANCER, DUCK DOWN, COME BACK UP, 845 00:42:33,418 --> 00:42:34,419 LOOK OVER OUR SHOULDER. 846 00:42:34,419 --> 00:42:37,255 THAT'S TO EXPLAIN THE DANCE. 847 00:42:37,255 --> 00:42:40,492 ALSO THE OUTFIT MIMICS THE 848 00:42:40,492 --> 00:42:42,694 WARRIORS WITH THE HEADDRESS, THE 849 00:42:42,694 --> 00:42:42,961 FEATHERS. 850 00:42:42,961 --> 00:42:51,736 FOR US, TO TAKE CARE OF OUR 851 00:42:51,736 --> 00:42:52,904 FEATHERS, ALWAYS HAVE A GOOD 852 00:42:52,904 --> 00:42:58,944 HEART AND GOOD MIND. 853 00:42:58,944 --> 00:42:59,744 THANK YOU. 854 00:42:59,744 --> 00:42:59,911 ♪ 855 00:42:59,911 --> 00:43:02,514 [ NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC ] 856 00:43:02,514 --> 00:43:04,850 ♪ 857 00:43:04,850 --> 00:43:10,822 858 00:43:10,822 --> 00:43:20,866 859 00:46:13,405 --> 00:46:15,273 >> DO YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE US DO 860 00:46:15,273 --> 00:46:17,008 ONE MORE? 861 00:46:17,008 --> 00:46:17,942 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 862 00:46:17,942 --> 00:46:19,310 >> I DON'T THINK WE CAN HEAR 863 00:46:19,310 --> 00:46:19,544 YOU. 864 00:46:19,544 --> 00:46:20,745 THIS IS OUR FIRST TIME IN 865 00:46:20,745 --> 00:46:21,012 MARYLAND. 866 00:46:21,012 --> 00:46:22,981 DO YOU WANT TO SEE US DO ONE 867 00:46:22,981 --> 00:46:23,181 MORE? 868 00:46:23,181 --> 00:46:25,583 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 869 00:46:25,583 --> 00:46:27,318 I WANT TO EXTEND A HUGE THANK 870 00:46:27,318 --> 00:46:30,155 YOU TO NIH FOR BRINGING US. 871 00:46:30,155 --> 00:46:32,223 MAKE SOME NOISE FOR NIH ONE 872 00:46:32,223 --> 00:46:32,424 TIME. 873 00:46:32,424 --> 00:46:34,559 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 874 00:46:34,559 --> 00:46:37,028 TO BE ABLE TO BRING INDIGENOUS 875 00:46:37,028 --> 00:46:40,932 REPRESENTATION, YOU KNOW WHAT I 876 00:46:40,932 --> 00:46:41,766 MEAN, WE SAY NATIVE AMERICAN 877 00:46:41,766 --> 00:46:44,369 HERITAGE MONTH IS NOVEMBER BUT 878 00:46:44,369 --> 00:46:45,070 TO US INDIGENOUS PEOPLE THAT'S 879 00:46:45,070 --> 00:46:46,037 EVERY SINGLE DAY. 880 00:46:46,037 --> 00:46:48,206 IF YOU'RE HERE AND NATIVE, FEEL 881 00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:50,308 PROUD AND HAPPY, FEEL UPLIFTED. 882 00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:52,277 WE'RE JUST SO HAPPY TO SHOWCASE 883 00:46:52,277 --> 00:46:54,813 CULTURE AND BRING THIS WITH YOU 884 00:46:54,813 --> 00:46:56,114 GUYS TODAY, LITERALLY LIKE AFTER 885 00:46:56,114 --> 00:46:58,950 WE GET OUT WE'RE CATCHING A 886 00:46:58,950 --> 00:47:00,185 FLIGHT, GOING TO FRESNO, 887 00:47:00,185 --> 00:47:00,585 CALIFORNIA. 888 00:47:00,585 --> 00:47:02,787 WE WERE ONLY HERE FOR 17 HOURS 889 00:47:02,787 --> 00:47:06,925 BUT WANTED TO STOP HERE FOR 890 00:47:06,925 --> 00:47:07,125 Y'ALL. 891 00:47:07,125 --> 00:47:07,659 [APPLAUSE] 892 00:47:07,659 --> 00:47:09,994 YEAH, FOLLOW US ON INDIGENOUS 893 00:47:09,994 --> 00:47:11,529 ENTERPRISE IF YOU HAVE 894 00:47:11,529 --> 00:47:11,963 INSTAGRAM. 895 00:47:11,963 --> 00:47:14,599 WE GOT AN AGREEMENT FOR THE 896 00:47:14,599 --> 00:47:15,934 MACY'S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE 897 00:47:15,934 --> 00:47:16,801 IN TWO WEEKS. 898 00:47:16,801 --> 00:47:17,068 [APPLAUSE] 899 00:47:17,068 --> 00:47:17,869 WITH THAT BEING SAID WE'RE GOING 900 00:47:17,869 --> 00:47:22,073 TO GET OUT OF HERE. 901 00:47:22,073 --> 00:47:27,545 MAKE SOME NOISE WITH THE HAND, 902 00:47:27,545 --> 00:47:30,181 SIGN LANGUAGE PERSON. 903 00:47:30,181 --> 00:47:32,684 [ NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC ] 904 00:47:32,684 --> 00:47:35,220 ♪ 905 00:47:35,220 --> 00:47:41,259 906 00:47:41,259 --> 00:47:51,302 907 00:48:40,785 --> 00:48:41,152 [APPLAUSE] 908 00:48:41,152 --> 00:48:44,222 THANK YOU GUYS ONCE AGAIN. 909 00:48:44,222 --> 00:48:47,325 YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT DAY. 910 00:48:47,325 --> 00:48:57,235 [APPLAUSE] 911 00:48:57,235 --> 00:48:59,204 >> WOW, WHAT AN AMAZING 912 00:48:59,204 --> 00:49:00,705 PERFORMANCE, WHAT GOOD MEDICINE 913 00:49:00,705 --> 00:49:02,707 THAT WAS! 914 00:49:02,707 --> 00:49:04,943 THANK YOU, INDIGENOUS ENTERPRISE 915 00:49:04,943 --> 00:49:08,246 LLC FOR THE MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY 916 00:49:08,246 --> 00:49:11,649 OF TRUE INDIGENEITY AND HONORING 917 00:49:11,649 --> 00:49:12,750 OUR TRADITIONS. 918 00:49:12,750 --> 00:49:14,619 IT SEEMS TRULY FITTING TO FOLLOW 919 00:49:14,619 --> 00:49:17,655 A PERFORMANCE SUCH AS THAT WITH 920 00:49:17,655 --> 00:49:20,625 AN AWARD CEREMONY TO RECOGNIZE 921 00:49:20,625 --> 00:49:22,827 INDIVIDUALS WITHIN THE FEDERAL 922 00:49:22,827 --> 00:49:25,129 GOVERNMENT, TRIBAL COMMUNITIES, 923 00:49:25,129 --> 00:49:28,967 AND INDIGENOUS-RUN ENTITIES WHO 924 00:49:28,967 --> 00:49:31,035 PROGRESS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND 925 00:49:31,035 --> 00:49:33,238 INCLUSION, DEIA, WITHIN NATIVE 926 00:49:33,238 --> 00:49:34,739 COMMUNITIES AND BEYOND. 927 00:49:34,739 --> 00:49:37,242 TO HELP US RECOGNIZE THE 928 00:49:37,242 --> 00:49:37,909 ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THESE 929 00:49:37,909 --> 00:49:38,676 EXCEPTIONAL AWARDEES, I WOULD 930 00:49:38,676 --> 00:49:40,879 LIKE TO CALL TO THE STAGE THREE 931 00:49:40,879 --> 00:49:42,647 INDIVIDUALS WHO WORK IN THE 932 00:49:42,647 --> 00:49:46,918 FIELD OF DEIA HERE AT NIH. 933 00:49:46,918 --> 00:49:50,188 THE FIRST INDIVIDUAL IS A 934 00:49:50,188 --> 00:49:52,590 VETERAN WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY, 935 00:49:52,590 --> 00:49:57,262 AFFIRMATIVE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS 936 00:49:57,262 --> 00:50:00,331 AT EDI AT NIH, Ph.D. FROM 937 00:50:00,331 --> 00:50:03,234 KINGDOM BUILDERS SCHOOL OF 938 00:50:03,234 --> 00:50:06,337 THEOLOGY, THE DIRECTOR OF THE 939 00:50:06,337 --> 00:50:08,973 DIVISION OF DIVERSITY AND 940 00:50:08,973 --> 00:50:12,610 INCLUSION AT EDI, DR. DANNY 941 00:50:12,610 --> 00:50:13,011 DICKERSON. 942 00:50:13,011 --> 00:50:14,145 THE NEXT INDIVIDUAL WHO IS 943 00:50:14,145 --> 00:50:16,781 COMING TO THE STAGE IS A FORMER 944 00:50:16,781 --> 00:50:19,083 PRESIDENT OF DEAF IN GOVERNMENT, 945 00:50:19,083 --> 00:50:22,387 WHO WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN LEADING 946 00:50:22,387 --> 00:50:24,355 THE DEAF NIH EMPLOYEE RESOURCE 947 00:50:24,355 --> 00:50:26,991 GROUP, A GRADUATE OF CATHOLIC 948 00:50:26,991 --> 00:50:30,695 UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA, BRANCH 949 00:50:30,695 --> 00:50:33,097 DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EMPHASIS 950 00:50:33,097 --> 00:50:35,600 PORTFOLIOS AT EDI, MR. DAVID 951 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:35,833 RICE. 952 00:50:35,833 --> 00:50:39,404 AND NEXT WE HAVE THE CO-CHAIR OF 953 00:50:39,404 --> 00:50:41,973 THE NIH UNITE INITIATIVE TO END 954 00:50:41,973 --> 00:50:44,442 STRUCTURAL RACISM, THE EXECUTIVE 955 00:50:44,442 --> 00:50:45,476 OFFICER LEADING THE NATIONAL 956 00:50:45,476 --> 00:50:48,880 INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND 957 00:50:48,880 --> 00:50:50,048 INFECTIOUS DISEASES DEIA 958 00:50:50,048 --> 00:50:51,816 COUNCIL, SCIENTIFIC REVIEW 959 00:50:51,816 --> 00:50:52,817 OFFICER AT NIH, INTERNATIONAL 960 00:50:52,817 --> 00:50:57,622 SCHOLAR WITH A Ph.D. FROM 961 00:50:57,622 --> 00:50:58,923 VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY IN 962 00:50:58,923 --> 00:51:03,528 MICROBIOLOGY, DR. MOW HAMILTON 963 00:51:03,528 --> 00:51:03,761 AIYEGBO. 964 00:51:03,761 --> 00:51:05,163 DR. DANNY DICKERSON WILL BE 965 00:51:05,163 --> 00:51:07,065 GIVING THE AWARDS TO THE 966 00:51:07,065 --> 00:51:09,133 AWARDEES FOR EXCELLENCE IN 967 00:51:09,133 --> 00:51:09,767 GOVERNMENT SERVICE. 968 00:51:09,767 --> 00:51:12,070 MR. DAVID RICE WILL BE GIVING 969 00:51:12,070 --> 00:51:14,505 AWARDS TO AWARDEES FOR 970 00:51:14,505 --> 00:51:16,374 EXCELLENCE IN INDUSTRY. 971 00:51:16,374 --> 00:51:26,951 AND DR. MOHAMMED AIYEGBO FOR TE 972 00:51:35,493 --> 00:51:36,294 PISCATAWAY CONOY TRIBE. 973 00:51:36,294 --> 00:51:40,865 I PRESENT TO YOU OUR SPEAKERS. 974 00:51:40,865 --> 00:51:47,138 975 00:51:47,138 --> 00:51:48,539 >> THANK YOU, CLARISSA. 976 00:51:48,539 --> 00:51:49,640 WE APPRECIATE THAT. 977 00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,176 MY NAME IS DANNY DICKERSON, 978 00:51:52,176 --> 00:51:54,245 PRESENTING AWARDS TO GOVERNMENT 979 00:51:54,245 --> 00:51:58,616 EMPLOYEES AWARDEES, WHO HAVE 980 00:51:58,616 --> 00:52:00,485 SHOWN EXCELLENCE IN DEIA WITH 981 00:52:00,485 --> 00:52:01,986 RESPECT TO NATIVE AMERICAN 982 00:52:01,986 --> 00:52:03,554 COMMUNITIES THROUGH THEIR CAREER 983 00:52:03,554 --> 00:52:05,390 AND HERE AT NIH. 984 00:52:05,390 --> 00:52:06,624 EACH RECIPIENT HAS SHOWN A 985 00:52:06,624 --> 00:52:09,894 PASSION FOR THEIR WORK. 986 00:52:09,894 --> 00:52:15,133 TODAY WE STRIVE TO RECOGNIZE 987 00:52:15,133 --> 00:52:16,501 COMRADES AND ALLYSHIP WITH 988 00:52:16,501 --> 00:52:17,568 RESPECT TO DEIA IN THE NATIVE 989 00:52:17,568 --> 00:52:22,407 AMERICAN COMMUNITY. 990 00:52:22,407 --> 00:52:28,179 FIRST WE HAVE DR. KATRINA 991 00:52:28,179 --> 00:52:28,946 WALTERS. 992 00:52:28,946 --> 00:52:33,418 I'M SORRY, DR. KARINA WALTERS. 993 00:52:33,418 --> 00:52:35,953 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 994 00:52:35,953 --> 00:52:41,959 995 00:52:41,959 --> 00:52:45,196 996 00:52:45,196 --> 00:52:48,566 [APPLAUSE] 997 00:52:48,566 --> 00:52:54,572 998 00:52:54,572 --> 00:53:00,344 999 00:53:00,344 --> 00:53:08,486 AGAIN, CAN WE GIVE DR. WALTERS A 1000 00:53:08,486 --> 00:53:09,053 HANDCLAP. 1001 00:53:09,053 --> 00:53:09,353 [APPLAUSE] 1002 00:53:09,353 --> 00:53:13,624 I LOVE HER SPIRIT. 1003 00:53:13,624 --> 00:53:14,725 WHEN I ACCIDENTALLY SAID 1004 00:53:14,725 --> 00:53:15,893 KATRINA, SHE SAID IT'S ALL 1005 00:53:15,893 --> 00:53:16,894 RIGHT, I'VE BEEN KNOWN TO BE A 1006 00:53:16,894 --> 00:53:18,429 HURRICANE EVERY NOW AND THEN. 1007 00:53:18,429 --> 00:53:19,730 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 1008 00:53:19,730 --> 00:53:21,632 WE HAVE THE SECOND AWARDEE, A 1009 00:53:21,632 --> 00:53:25,436 MEMBER OF THE NAVAJO NATION, WHO 1010 00:53:25,436 --> 00:53:28,306 WAS APPOINTED AS POLICY ADVISER 1011 00:53:28,306 --> 00:53:29,607 TO WHITE HOUSE COUNCIL TO NATIVE 1012 00:53:29,607 --> 00:53:30,441 AMERICAN AFFAIRS, A PROFESSOR 1013 00:53:30,441 --> 00:53:32,877 AND INAUGURAL CHAIR OF THE 1014 00:53:32,877 --> 00:53:34,245 DEPARTMENT OF INDIGENOUS HEALTH 1015 00:53:34,245 --> 00:53:35,847 AT UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA, 1016 00:53:35,847 --> 00:53:39,383 WHERE HE ALSO SERVED AS VICE 1017 00:53:39,383 --> 00:53:40,551 PRESIDENT OF RESEARCH AND 1018 00:53:40,551 --> 00:53:42,019 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, A GOOD 1019 00:53:42,019 --> 00:53:43,654 FRIEND, DR. DAVID R. WILSON, A 1020 00:53:43,654 --> 00:53:45,289 GOOD FRIEND TO NIH. 1021 00:53:45,289 --> 00:53:46,724 COME ON UP, DR. WILSON. 1022 00:53:46,724 --> 00:53:48,926 [APPLAUSE] 1023 00:53:48,926 --> 00:53:54,932 1024 00:53:54,932 --> 00:54:04,976 1025 00:54:17,388 --> 00:54:20,057 [APPLAUSE] 1026 00:54:20,057 --> 00:54:23,427 CAN WE HAVE APPLAUSE FOR DR. 1027 00:54:23,427 --> 00:54:24,195 WILSON. 1028 00:54:24,195 --> 00:54:28,933 NEXT WE WANT TO RECOGNIZE DR. 1029 00:54:28,933 --> 00:54:32,069 RITA DEVINE. 1030 00:54:32,069 --> 00:54:37,241 WORKED MORE 27 YEARS IN DEIA, 1031 00:54:37,241 --> 00:54:40,144 RESPONSIBLE FOR EXPANSION AND 1032 00:54:40,144 --> 00:54:41,279 CREATION OF NINDS SUMMER INTERN 1033 00:54:41,279 --> 00:54:42,914 PROGRAM TO INCLUDE NATIVE 1034 00:54:42,914 --> 00:54:48,586 AMERICANS, ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR 1035 00:54:48,586 --> 00:54:49,587 CREATING NOTIFIES, A DISTANT 1036 00:54:49,587 --> 00:54:50,988 LEARNING PROGRAM WITH TRIBAL 1037 00:54:50,988 --> 00:54:52,823 COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITY, 1038 00:54:52,823 --> 00:55:01,632 DIRECTOR OF SCIENCE, 1039 00:55:01,632 --> 00:55:03,267 ADMINISTRATION, INTRAMURAL 1040 00:55:03,267 --> 00:55:03,801 RESEARCH, DR. RITA DEVINE. 1041 00:55:03,801 --> 00:55:08,739 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1042 00:55:08,739 --> 00:55:11,475 [APPLAUSE] 1043 00:55:11,475 --> 00:55:14,245 CAN WE GIVE ALL OUR AWARDEES IN 1044 00:55:14,245 --> 00:55:17,648 THAT CATEGORY ONE MORE 1045 00:55:17,648 --> 00:55:18,082 HAND-CLAP? 1046 00:55:18,082 --> 00:55:21,552 [APPLAUSE] 1047 00:55:21,552 --> 00:55:24,722 WE HAVE DR. MOHAMMED. 1048 00:55:24,722 --> 00:55:32,964 1049 00:55:32,964 --> 00:55:34,398 >> HELLO, GOOD MORNING, 1050 00:55:34,398 --> 00:55:34,665 EVERYONE. 1051 00:55:34,665 --> 00:55:37,902 THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR COMING 1052 00:55:37,902 --> 00:55:39,637 TO GRACE AND BEING PART OF THIS 1053 00:55:39,637 --> 00:55:42,506 CELEBRATION TODAY. 1054 00:55:42,506 --> 00:55:48,646 MY NAME IS MOHAMMED AIYEGBO, THE 1055 00:55:48,646 --> 00:55:49,614 DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION PERSON 1056 00:55:49,614 --> 00:55:51,616 AT NIAID AT THE NIH. 1057 00:55:51,616 --> 00:55:54,218 I WILL BE PRESENTING AWARDS 1058 00:55:54,218 --> 00:55:57,321 TODAY FOR TWO AWARDEE 1059 00:55:57,321 --> 00:55:57,755 CATEGORIES. 1060 00:55:57,755 --> 00:56:00,891 THE FIRST CATEGORY WILL BE 1061 00:56:00,891 --> 00:56:02,560 AWARDED TO EXCEPTIONAL 1062 00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,729 ORGANIZATIONS, WHO HAVE WORKED 1063 00:56:04,729 --> 00:56:07,465 AND USED DIVERSITY, EQUITY, 1064 00:56:07,465 --> 00:56:08,699 INCLUSION AND ACCESSIBILITY, 1065 00:56:08,699 --> 00:56:10,935 DEIA, TO ADVANCE NATIVE PEOPLES 1066 00:56:10,935 --> 00:56:14,138 IN THE FIELDS OF SCIENCE, 1067 00:56:14,138 --> 00:56:17,642 TECHNOLOGY, ENGINEERING, AND 1068 00:56:17,642 --> 00:56:18,409 MATHEMATICS. 1069 00:56:18,409 --> 00:56:18,743 SO STEM. 1070 00:56:18,743 --> 00:56:20,711 SECOND CATEGORY WILL BE 1071 00:56:20,711 --> 00:56:22,013 PRESENTED TO EXCEPTIONAL TRIBAL 1072 00:56:22,013 --> 00:56:23,781 COMMUNITIES IN THE EASTERN 1073 00:56:23,781 --> 00:56:26,484 REGION WHO HAVE USED DEIA TO 1074 00:56:26,484 --> 00:56:27,218 ADVANCE NATIVE PEOPLES. 1075 00:56:27,218 --> 00:56:32,189 I WILL NOW START WITH THE AWARDS 1076 00:56:32,189 --> 00:56:33,524 TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT HAVE 1077 00:56:33,524 --> 00:56:35,926 EMPOWERED NATIVE PEOPLES IN 1078 00:56:35,926 --> 00:56:36,127 STEM. 1079 00:56:36,127 --> 00:56:41,399 THE FIRST AWARDEE IS RUN BY 1080 00:56:41,399 --> 00:56:44,902 SARAH ECO-HAWK, PAWNEE NATION OF 1081 00:56:44,902 --> 00:56:46,937 OKLAHOMA, DEDICATED TWO DECADES 1082 00:56:46,937 --> 00:56:52,343 TO ADVOCATING FOR INDIGENOUS 1083 00:56:52,343 --> 00:56:52,576 PEOPLES. 1084 00:56:52,576 --> 00:56:53,544 ECHOHONK HAWK WAS EXECUTIVE 1085 00:56:53,544 --> 00:56:55,846 PRESIDENT OF FIRST NATIONS 1086 00:56:55,846 --> 00:56:56,314 DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, 1087 00:56:56,314 --> 00:56:58,916 CONTRIBUTOR TO AMERICAN INDIAN 1088 00:56:58,916 --> 00:57:00,451 COLLEGE FUND, PRINCIPAL 1089 00:57:00,451 --> 00:57:01,986 INVESTIGATOR AND CO-INVESTIGATOR 1090 00:57:01,986 --> 00:57:03,187 ON SEVERAL NATIONAL SCIENCE 1091 00:57:03,187 --> 00:57:09,860 FOUNDATION GRANTS, THE PRESIDENT 1092 00:57:09,860 --> 00:57:13,597 OF THE AAMERICAN INDIAN SCIENCE 1093 00:57:13,597 --> 00:57:15,533 AND ENGINEERING SOCIETY, FOUNDED 1094 00:57:15,533 --> 00:57:18,769 IN 1977 BY NATIVE AMERICAN 1095 00:57:18,769 --> 00:57:20,204 SCIENTISTS, ENGINEERS, EDUCATORS 1096 00:57:20,204 --> 00:57:22,707 TO REMOVE BARRIERS TO ACADEMIC 1097 00:57:22,707 --> 00:57:28,512 SUCCESS FOR NATIVE STUDENTS. 1098 00:57:28,512 --> 00:57:29,246 SARAH ECHO HAWK. 1099 00:57:29,246 --> 00:57:33,250 [APPLAUSE] 1100 00:57:33,250 --> 00:57:40,925 1101 00:57:40,925 --> 00:57:44,762 1102 00:57:44,762 --> 00:57:45,029 [APPLAUSE] 1103 00:57:45,029 --> 00:57:46,497 THANK YOU SO MUCH, SARAH, FOR 1104 00:57:46,497 --> 00:57:49,367 ALL THE WONDERFUL WORK. 1105 00:57:49,367 --> 00:57:52,536 1106 00:57:52,536 --> 00:57:57,108 THE SECOND AWARDEE IS RUN BY 1107 00:57:57,108 --> 00:58:01,278 ANGELIQUE ALBERT, MEMBER OF THE 1108 00:58:01,278 --> 00:58:03,280 CONFEDERATED SALISH AND KOOTENAI 1109 00:58:03,280 --> 00:58:03,814 TRIBES WHO DEDICATED 1110 00:58:03,814 --> 00:58:05,649 PROFESSIONAL CAREER TO SERVICE 1111 00:58:05,649 --> 00:58:07,084 TO TRIBAL COMMUNITIES. 1112 00:58:07,084 --> 00:58:09,053 ALBERT IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF 1113 00:58:09,053 --> 00:58:10,921 NATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND, 1114 00:58:10,921 --> 00:58:13,758 THE NATION'S LARGEST SCHOLARSHIP 1115 00:58:13,758 --> 00:58:16,494 PROVIDERS TO NATIVE STUDENTS. 1116 00:58:16,494 --> 00:58:19,463 NATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS FUND 1117 00:58:19,463 --> 00:58:22,933 PROVIDED OVER $350 MILLION IN 1118 00:58:22,933 --> 00:58:25,169 SCHOLARSHIPS TO STUDENTS FROM 1119 00:58:25,169 --> 00:58:27,571 OVER 500 TRIBES IN ALL 50 1120 00:58:27,571 --> 00:58:29,740 STATES. 1121 00:58:29,740 --> 00:58:33,677 THE NATIVE FORWARD SCHOLARS 1122 00:58:33,677 --> 00:58:34,111 FUND. 1123 00:58:34,111 --> 00:58:34,845 [APPLAUSE] 1124 00:58:34,845 --> 00:58:36,747 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 1125 00:58:36,747 --> 00:58:39,483 >> YOU'RE WELCOME. 1126 00:58:39,483 --> 00:58:45,523 1127 00:58:45,523 --> 00:58:51,529 1128 00:58:51,529 --> 00:58:56,167 [APPLAUSE] 1129 00:58:56,167 --> 00:58:57,935 THAT'S THE NATIVE FORWARD 1130 00:58:57,935 --> 00:58:59,670 SCHOLARS FUND. 1131 00:58:59,670 --> 00:59:03,073 THE THIRD AWARDEE IS A 1132 00:59:03,073 --> 00:59:04,175 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION FOUNDED 1133 00:59:04,175 --> 00:59:06,210 IN 1968 WITH THE MISSION TO 1134 00:59:06,210 --> 00:59:08,446 ASSIST AND SUPPORT AMERICAN 1135 00:59:08,446 --> 00:59:10,548 INDIAN AND ALASKA NATIVE 1136 00:59:10,548 --> 00:59:11,749 FAMILIES MOVING INTO URBAN 1137 00:59:11,749 --> 00:59:13,984 ENVIRONMENT AND ADJUSTING TO THE 1138 00:59:13,984 --> 00:59:17,421 CULTURAL CHANGE THAT THEY WILL 1139 00:59:17,421 --> 00:59:17,955 EXPERIENCE. 1140 00:59:17,955 --> 00:59:22,660 THE BALTIMORE AMERICAN INDIAN 1141 00:59:22,660 --> 00:59:24,094 CENTER, BAIC, LOCALLY KNOWN AS 1142 00:59:24,094 --> 00:59:27,598 THE RESERVATION, PROVIDES 1143 00:59:27,598 --> 00:59:30,034 SERVICES THAT INCLUDE EDUCATION, 1144 00:59:30,034 --> 00:59:31,335 SKILL TRAINING, WORKFORCE 1145 00:59:31,335 --> 00:59:32,970 DEVELOPMENT, CHILD CARE, AFTER 1146 00:59:32,970 --> 00:59:34,538 SCHOOL ARTS AND SENIORS 1147 00:59:34,538 --> 00:59:36,273 PROGRAMS, AS WELL AS HEALTH AND 1148 00:59:36,273 --> 00:59:39,443 HEALING SERVICES. 1149 00:59:39,443 --> 00:59:41,412 THE BAIC PRIORITIZES CULTURAL 1150 00:59:41,412 --> 00:59:46,317 HERITAGE AND EDUCATION PROGRAMS. 1151 00:59:46,317 --> 00:59:47,918 ANYBODY FROM THE BALTIMORE 1152 00:59:47,918 --> 00:59:48,619 AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER. 1153 00:59:48,619 --> 00:59:50,921 [APPLAUSE] 1154 00:59:50,921 --> 00:59:56,927 1155 00:59:56,927 --> 01:00:06,971 1156 01:00:31,061 --> 01:00:33,631 [APPLAUSE] 1157 01:00:33,631 --> 01:00:39,537 1158 01:00:39,537 --> 01:00:41,338 OUR FOURTH AWARDEE TODAY HAS 36 1159 01:00:41,338 --> 01:00:44,808 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN THE 1160 01:00:44,808 --> 01:00:46,777 FIELDS OF ENVIRONMENTAL 1161 01:00:46,777 --> 01:00:47,511 ENGINEERING, OVERSEEING 1162 01:00:47,511 --> 01:00:49,246 INDIGENOUS RUN AND OPERATED 1163 01:00:49,246 --> 01:00:51,482 COMPANY THAT USES INDIGENOUS 1164 01:00:51,482 --> 01:00:57,955 KNOW-HOW TO OVERSEE THE U.S. 1165 01:00:57,955 --> 01:00:59,456 ARMY SUPERFUND PROGRAM 1166 01:00:59,456 --> 01:01:00,558 MANAGEMENT AND LEAD 1167 01:01:00,558 --> 01:01:01,358 INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL 1168 01:01:01,358 --> 01:01:03,627 REMEDIATE EFFORTS FOR U.S. 1169 01:01:03,627 --> 01:01:05,396 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, PRESIDENT 1170 01:01:05,396 --> 01:01:10,301 AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF 1171 01:01:10,301 --> 01:01:13,037 BS ENVIRONMENTAL INCORPORATED, 1172 01:01:13,037 --> 01:01:15,005 CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER JUAN S. 1173 01:01:15,005 --> 01:01:15,372 BOSTON. 1174 01:01:15,372 --> 01:01:17,641 [APPLAUSE] 1175 01:01:17,641 --> 01:01:23,681 1176 01:01:23,681 --> 01:01:33,724 1177 01:01:35,025 --> 01:01:37,494 [APPLAUSE] 1178 01:01:37,494 --> 01:01:43,601 1179 01:01:43,601 --> 01:01:53,677 1180 01:01:53,677 --> 01:01:54,645 >> THE NEXT AWARD CATEGORY I 1181 01:01:54,645 --> 01:01:58,949 WILL BE PRESENTING IS AWARDS FOR 1182 01:01:58,949 --> 01:01:59,683 EXCEPTIONAL -- TO EXCEPTIONAL 1183 01:01:59,683 --> 01:02:01,018 TRIBAL COMMUNITIES WHO IN THE 1184 01:02:01,018 --> 01:02:03,220 EASTERN REGION HAVE WORKED AND 1185 01:02:03,220 --> 01:02:06,624 USED DEIA TO EMBODY THE SPIRIT 1186 01:02:06,624 --> 01:02:09,026 OF RESILIENCE AND OVERCOMING 1187 01:02:09,026 --> 01:02:10,260 BARRIERS BY WORKING TIRELESSLY 1188 01:02:10,260 --> 01:02:12,529 TO PROGRESS TO ADVANCE NATIVE 1189 01:02:12,529 --> 01:02:15,399 PEOPLES BY CREATING PROGRAMS 1190 01:02:15,399 --> 01:02:18,235 THAT HAVE WIDE-REACHING IMPACT. 1191 01:02:18,235 --> 01:02:20,971 THE FIRST AWARDEE IS PISCATAWAY 1192 01:02:20,971 --> 01:02:23,374 CONOY TRIBE WHO HAS WORKED TO 1193 01:02:23,374 --> 01:02:25,142 ENSURE PRESERVATION OF 1194 01:02:25,142 --> 01:02:26,343 PISCATAWAY CONOY CULTURE, 1195 01:02:26,343 --> 01:02:27,778 TRADITION, AND COMMUNITY LIFE, 1196 01:02:27,778 --> 01:02:29,313 WHILE WORKING TO ESTABLISH A 1197 01:02:29,313 --> 01:02:31,815 FOUNDATION TO SERVE AS A VITAL 1198 01:02:31,815 --> 01:02:34,752 SAFETY NET FOR LOW INCOME AND 1199 01:02:34,752 --> 01:02:35,953 AT-RISK TRIBAL FAMILIES AND 1200 01:02:35,953 --> 01:02:39,156 YOUTH THAT ALSO PROVIDE MEDICAL 1201 01:02:39,156 --> 01:02:44,595 CARE AND CONTINUED EDUCATION 1202 01:02:44,595 --> 01:02:45,162 RESOURCES, PISCATAWAY CONOY 1203 01:02:45,162 --> 01:02:45,362 TRIBE. 1204 01:02:45,362 --> 01:02:55,739 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1205 01:03:28,472 --> 01:03:30,808 [APPLAUSE] 1206 01:03:30,808 --> 01:03:36,814 1207 01:03:36,814 --> 01:03:42,519 1208 01:03:42,519 --> 01:03:48,425 THE SECOND AWARDEE IS THE SAPON 1209 01:03:48,425 --> 01:03:50,861 TRIBE TO BRING TRANSFORMATIONAL 1210 01:03:50,861 --> 01:03:51,361 TRANSFORMATIVE LEARNING 1211 01:03:51,361 --> 01:03:52,296 EXPERIENCES TO THE TRIBAL 1212 01:03:52,296 --> 01:03:56,133 SCHOOL, THE TRIBE HAS WORKED IN 1213 01:03:56,133 --> 01:03:58,202 COLLABORATIVE DOCUMENTARIES WITH 1214 01:03:58,202 --> 01:03:59,636 PUBLIC BROADCAST NETWORK PBS TO 1215 01:03:59,636 --> 01:04:01,505 USE ARTS TO BRING AWARENESS TO 1216 01:04:01,505 --> 01:04:03,807 NATIVE PEOPLES AND CONTINUE ON 1217 01:04:03,807 --> 01:04:14,351 PROJECTS WITH LASTING IMPACT TO 1218 01:04:19,056 --> 01:04:20,357 THE LOCAL COMMUNITY. 1219 01:04:20,357 --> 01:04:22,926 SEEMS WE DON'T HAVE A REP SO 1220 01:04:22,926 --> 01:04:26,897 WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE THIRD 1221 01:04:26,897 --> 01:04:27,798 AWARDEE. 1222 01:04:27,798 --> 01:04:38,208 THE THIRD AWARDEE IS THE 1223 01:04:39,443 --> 01:04:41,011 NANTICOKE COMMUNITY TO RAISE 1224 01:04:41,011 --> 01:04:42,112 AWARENESS OF CULTURE IN RURAL 1225 01:04:42,112 --> 01:04:44,181 AREAS, THE ASSOCIATION NOT ONLY 1226 01:04:44,181 --> 01:04:44,982 RUNS THE ONLY NATIVE AMERICAN 1227 01:04:44,982 --> 01:04:47,985 MUSEUM IN THE STATE OF DELAWARE, 1228 01:04:47,985 --> 01:04:54,258 THEY ALSO BUILD A CLINICAL 1229 01:04:54,258 --> 01:05:03,534 FACILITY TO PROVIDE CARE TO THE 1230 01:05:03,534 --> 01:05:04,968 LOCAL COMMUNITY. 1231 01:05:04,968 --> 01:05:13,844 THE NANTICOKE INDIAN ASSOCIATION 1232 01:05:13,844 --> 01:05:14,178 INCORPORATED. 1233 01:05:14,178 --> 01:05:14,444 [APPLAUSE] 1234 01:05:14,444 --> 01:05:16,680 [APPLAUSE] 1235 01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:22,519 1236 01:05:22,519 --> 01:05:29,526 1237 01:05:29,526 --> 01:05:31,728 THE FOURTH AWARDEE'S MISSION IS 1238 01:05:31,728 --> 01:05:36,633 TO HONOR THE PAST, BUILDING A 1239 01:05:36,633 --> 01:05:36,867 FUTURE. 1240 01:05:36,867 --> 01:05:39,136 WORKS TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY 1241 01:05:39,136 --> 01:05:40,704 ABOUT THE TRIBE'S ENVIRONMENTAL 1242 01:05:40,704 --> 01:05:46,443 AND CULTURAL RESOURCES AND 1243 01:05:46,443 --> 01:05:47,177 PROVIDES COMPREHENSIVE 1244 01:05:47,177 --> 01:05:52,983 HEALTHCARE SERVICES OFFERED FOR 1245 01:05:52,983 --> 01:05:53,917 FAMILY WELLNESS,UMIT HEALTH 1246 01:05:53,917 --> 01:05:55,986 SERVICE HAS A CLINIC THAT 1247 01:05:55,986 --> 01:05:56,620 PROVIDES FREE SERVICES TO NATIVE 1248 01:05:56,620 --> 01:06:01,558 AMERICAN FAMILIES IN THE AREAS 1249 01:06:01,558 --> 01:06:04,628 WHERE THE MATAPONY SHALL HEALING 1250 01:06:04,628 --> 01:06:11,201 EAGLE CLINIC. 1251 01:06:11,201 --> 01:06:14,371 HELP US CONGRATULATE THE UPPER 1252 01:06:14,371 --> 01:06:17,441 MATIPONY TRIBE FOR THIS AWARD. 1253 01:06:17,441 --> 01:06:17,708 [APPLAUSE] 1254 01:06:17,708 --> 01:06:18,742 IT APPEARS WE DON'T HAVE A REP 1255 01:06:18,742 --> 01:06:20,043 FROM THE TRIBE SO I WILL SAY 1256 01:06:20,043 --> 01:06:21,812 THANK YOU SO MUCH AND WELL DONE, 1257 01:06:21,812 --> 01:06:24,848 GREAT WORK TO ALL THE AWARDEES. 1258 01:06:24,848 --> 01:06:29,019 CAN WE HAVE ONE MORE ROUND OF 1259 01:06:29,019 --> 01:06:31,154 APPLAUSE CONGRATULATING ALL OF 1260 01:06:31,154 --> 01:06:31,521 THEM. 1261 01:06:31,521 --> 01:06:33,657 [APPLAUSE] 1262 01:06:33,657 --> 01:06:34,958 1263 01:06:34,958 --> 01:06:37,027 THANK YOU TO ALL THE AWARDEES 1264 01:06:37,027 --> 01:06:37,828 THAT WERE RECOGNIZED HERE TODAY 1265 01:06:37,828 --> 01:06:41,198 FOR THE WORK THAT YOU DO TO 1266 01:06:41,198 --> 01:06:42,299 ADVANCE NATIVE PEOPLES THROUGH 1267 01:06:42,299 --> 01:06:42,900 DEIA. 1268 01:06:42,900 --> 01:06:45,035 WE WILL NOW HAVE THE GRAND 1269 01:06:45,035 --> 01:06:46,203 CLOSING SESSION FOLLOWED BY 1270 01:06:46,203 --> 01:06:47,004 CLOSING REMARKS. 1271 01:06:47,004 --> 01:06:48,972 THANK YOU. 1272 01:06:48,972 --> 01:06:51,275 [APPLAUSE] 1273 01:06:51,275 --> 01:06:57,281 1274 01:06:57,281 --> 01:07:01,885 1275 01:07:01,885 --> 01:07:04,521 I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE KEVIN 1276 01:07:04,521 --> 01:07:06,924 WILLIAMS, DIRECTOR FOR THE 1277 01:07:06,924 --> 01:07:09,760 EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION 1278 01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:10,327 OFFICE, AT THE NIH. 1279 01:07:10,327 --> 01:07:12,763 [APPLAUSE] 1280 01:07:12,763 --> 01:07:18,769 1281 01:07:18,769 --> 01:07:23,807 1282 01:07:23,807 --> 01:07:26,310 >> THIS HAS BEEN GREAT. 1283 01:07:26,310 --> 01:07:30,047 THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TO JOIN 1284 01:07:30,047 --> 01:07:32,382 IN AN IMPORTANT CELEBRATION FOR 1285 01:07:32,382 --> 01:07:35,185 US AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF 1286 01:07:35,185 --> 01:07:35,652 HEALTH. 1287 01:07:35,652 --> 01:07:37,721 WE APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENCE. 1288 01:07:37,721 --> 01:07:41,458 MANY TIMES YOU CAN SAY ONE 1289 01:07:41,458 --> 01:07:42,426 THING, AND YOUR ACTIONS INDICATE 1290 01:07:42,426 --> 01:07:44,094 SOMETHING ELSE BUT YOUR PRESENCE 1291 01:07:44,094 --> 01:07:47,364 HERE TODAY LETS US KNOW THAT 1292 01:07:47,364 --> 01:07:50,634 WE'RE MODELING EXCELLENCE FOR 1293 01:07:50,634 --> 01:07:52,169 ALL OF OUR COLLEAGUES ACROSS THE 1294 01:07:52,169 --> 01:07:53,937 NIH, AND TO LET EVERYONE KNOW 1295 01:07:53,937 --> 01:07:56,306 THAT WE VALUE THE DIVERSITY OF 1296 01:07:56,306 --> 01:07:56,773 OUR EMPLOYEES. 1297 01:07:56,773 --> 01:08:01,244 SO THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN FOR 1298 01:08:01,244 --> 01:08:01,478 COMING. 1299 01:08:01,478 --> 01:08:05,649 I JOTTED DOWN A FEW REMARKS, AS 1300 01:08:05,649 --> 01:08:07,951 I WANTED TO PROVIDE AN 1301 01:08:07,951 --> 01:08:12,322 APPROPRIATE CLOSING FOR TODAY'S 1302 01:08:12,322 --> 01:08:12,823 EVENT. 1303 01:08:12,823 --> 01:08:15,192 RESILIENCE IS DEFINED AS THE 1304 01:08:15,192 --> 01:08:19,262 CAPACITY TO WITHSTAND OR TO 1305 01:08:19,262 --> 01:08:19,997 RECOVER QUICKLY FROM 1306 01:08:19,997 --> 01:08:20,464 DIFFICULTIES. 1307 01:08:20,464 --> 01:08:25,235 OR TO PUT IT DIFFERENTLY, A 1308 01:08:25,235 --> 01:08:27,904 SYNONYM FOR RESILIENCE IS 1309 01:08:27,904 --> 01:08:28,572 TOUGHNESS. 1310 01:08:28,572 --> 01:08:31,541 TODAY, AS WE CELEBRATE THE 1311 01:08:31,541 --> 01:08:33,810 TOUGHNESS OF NATIVE PEOPLES, WE 1312 01:08:33,810 --> 01:08:36,346 HONOR AND APPRECIATE THE NATIVE 1313 01:08:36,346 --> 01:08:38,315 AMERICANS FOR MODELING 1314 01:08:38,315 --> 01:08:39,282 RESILIENCE FOR HUNDREDS OF 1315 01:08:39,282 --> 01:08:44,087 YEARS, IN THE FACE OF COUNTLESS 1316 01:08:44,087 --> 01:08:45,856 HORRORS AND TRAGEDIES. 1317 01:08:45,856 --> 01:08:47,958 AS A CHILD, ONE OF THE MANY 1318 01:08:47,958 --> 01:08:52,129 THINGS THAT I ALWAYS WANTED FOR 1319 01:08:52,129 --> 01:08:56,833 CHRISTMAS WAS A WEEBIL-WOBBLE. 1320 01:08:56,833 --> 01:08:57,734 WHO REMEMBERS WEEBIL-WOBBLES? 1321 01:08:57,734 --> 01:09:01,104 ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. 1322 01:09:01,104 --> 01:09:03,840 1970s BABIES. 1323 01:09:03,840 --> 01:09:06,109 I WAS ALWAYS FASCINATED BY THIS 1324 01:09:06,109 --> 01:09:08,879 TOY BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT MY 1325 01:09:08,879 --> 01:09:10,747 HEIGHT. 1326 01:09:10,747 --> 01:09:11,114 [LAUGHTER] 1327 01:09:11,114 --> 01:09:13,784 AND CURIOUSLY, NO MATTER WHAT 1328 01:09:13,784 --> 01:09:17,854 WAS DONE TO IT, IT WOULD AS 1329 01:09:17,854 --> 01:09:21,792 STAND UPRIGHT. 1330 01:09:21,792 --> 01:09:23,326 MONIQUE, I CAN HEAR YOU 1331 01:09:23,326 --> 01:09:24,828 SPEAKING. 1332 01:09:24,828 --> 01:09:28,465 IN THE INSIDE OF THE 1333 01:09:28,465 --> 01:09:31,935 WEEBIL-WOBBLE, AT ITS BASE, WAS 1334 01:09:31,935 --> 01:09:32,936 A STABILIZING MECHANISM THAT WAS 1335 01:09:32,936 --> 01:09:37,307 THE SECRET TO THE 1336 01:09:37,307 --> 01:09:38,608 WEEBIL-WOBBLES'S ABILITY TO 1337 01:09:38,608 --> 01:09:39,910 STAND UPRIGHT REGARDLESS OF 1338 01:09:39,910 --> 01:09:41,711 ADVERSITY, THE NUMBER OF TIMES I 1339 01:09:41,711 --> 01:09:45,982 HIT IT, OR THE NUMBER OF TIMES I 1340 01:09:45,982 --> 01:09:47,717 PUSHED IT. 1341 01:09:47,717 --> 01:09:50,253 THE SECRET TO RESILIENCE IS 1342 01:09:50,253 --> 01:09:51,988 NURTURING AND DEVELOPING WHAT IS 1343 01:09:51,988 --> 01:09:55,725 ON THE INSIDE. 1344 01:09:55,725 --> 01:09:57,227 THIS FORMS THE FOUNDATION WHICH 1345 01:09:57,227 --> 01:09:59,896 WE NEED IN THE FACE OF ALL THE 1346 01:09:59,896 --> 01:10:02,866 THINGS THAT WILL SEEK TO PREVENT 1347 01:10:02,866 --> 01:10:06,470 US FROM MAKING PROGRESS AND EVEN 1348 01:10:06,470 --> 01:10:07,070 EXISTING. 1349 01:10:07,070 --> 01:10:10,307 AND SO TODAY, AS WE CLOSE THE 1350 01:10:10,307 --> 01:10:12,275 CELEBRATION OF RESILIENCE, I 1351 01:10:12,275 --> 01:10:14,344 CHALLENGE YOU TO REMEMBER WHAT 1352 01:10:14,344 --> 01:10:16,980 IS INSIDE EACH OF YOU AS 1353 01:10:16,980 --> 01:10:21,251 CHALLENGES WILL INEVITABLY ARISE 1354 01:10:21,251 --> 01:10:24,221 IN THE COMING DAYS, WEEKS, 1355 01:10:24,221 --> 01:10:27,491 MONTHS, AND YEARS. 1356 01:10:27,491 --> 01:10:30,193 AND AS THE HURRICANE FORCE WINDS 1357 01:10:30,193 --> 01:10:32,095 BLOW, THE HOPE IS THAT EVEN IF 1358 01:10:32,095 --> 01:10:33,497 YOU FALL DOWN, THAT YOU GET 1359 01:10:33,497 --> 01:10:36,433 RIGHT BACK UP LIKE THE 1360 01:10:36,433 --> 01:10:37,200 WEEBIL-WOBBLE. 1361 01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:39,503 THAT NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, YOU 1362 01:10:39,503 --> 01:10:41,037 NEVER GIVE UP. 1363 01:10:41,037 --> 01:10:43,206 THAT YOU WILL NOT EVEN CONSIDER 1364 01:10:43,206 --> 01:10:46,610 THROWING IN THE TOWEL OR WAVING 1365 01:10:46,610 --> 01:10:49,679 THE WHITE FLAG. 1366 01:10:49,679 --> 01:10:51,882 REMEMBER THE ANCESTORS. 1367 01:10:51,882 --> 01:10:54,918 REFLECT ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF 1368 01:10:54,918 --> 01:10:58,321 THE NATIVE CULTURES, AND DIAL 1369 01:10:58,321 --> 01:11:00,957 INTO YOUR CAPACITY TO WITHSTAND 1370 01:11:00,957 --> 01:11:03,059 ANY AND ALL DIFFICULTIES. 1371 01:11:03,059 --> 01:11:05,462 I PROMISE YOU THAT IS WHAT THE 1372 01:11:05,462 --> 01:11:08,965 OFFICE OF EQUITY, DIVERSITY, AND 1373 01:11:08,965 --> 01:11:10,267 INCLUSION WILL BE DOING. 1374 01:11:10,267 --> 01:11:12,135 THANK YOU FOR COMING. 1375 01:11:12,135 --> 01:11:12,602 AND BE WELL. 1376 01:11:12,602 --> 01:11:14,971 [APPLAUSE] 1377 01:11:14,971 --> 01:11:21,678 1378 01:11:21,678 --> 01:11:24,648 I WILL TURN THE PROGRAM OVER TO 1379 01:11:24,648 --> 01:11:25,949 CLARISSA ALEXANDER WHO WILL 1380 01:11:25,949 --> 01:11:29,352 CLOSE US OUT OFFICIALLY. 1381 01:11:29,352 --> 01:11:30,220 >> THANK YOU. 1382 01:11:30,220 --> 01:11:32,756 THANK YOU SO MUCH, KEVIN, FOR 1383 01:11:32,756 --> 01:11:35,692 THOSE VERY MOVING WORDS. 1384 01:11:35,692 --> 01:11:39,196 AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY 1385 01:11:39,196 --> 01:11:40,697 THAT THE NEXT SPEAKERS WE'RE 1386 01:11:40,697 --> 01:11:42,599 GOING TO BRING TO THE STAGE SO 1387 01:11:42,599 --> 01:11:46,436 WE CAN CLOSE THE NATIVE WAY TO 1388 01:11:46,436 --> 01:11:47,637 GIVE OUR CLOSING BLESSING, I 1389 01:11:47,637 --> 01:11:50,473 THINK THERE'S NO MORE 1390 01:11:50,473 --> 01:11:52,342 APPROPRIATE INDIVIDUALS THAN 1391 01:11:52,342 --> 01:11:55,312 KYLE SWANN AND JESSICA SWANN TO 1392 01:11:55,312 --> 01:11:57,747 GIVE US OUR CLOSING BLESSING AND 1393 01:11:57,747 --> 01:12:00,450 FOR THE GRAND CLOSING TO 1394 01:12:00,450 --> 01:12:01,117 PROCEED. 1395 01:12:01,117 --> 01:12:02,319 AND, AGAIN, WE'D LIKE TO THANK 1396 01:12:02,319 --> 01:12:05,088 YOU ALL FOR YOUR PARTICIPATION. 1397 01:12:05,088 --> 01:12:09,526 THANK YOU ALL THE AWARDEES AND 1398 01:12:09,526 --> 01:12:10,327 SPEAKERS FOR THE HARD WORK 1399 01:12:10,327 --> 01:12:12,262 YOU'VE DONE IN THIS FIELD TO 1400 01:12:12,262 --> 01:12:13,763 ADVANCE NATIVE PEOPLES. 1401 01:12:13,763 --> 01:12:16,666 WE ALSO HAVE AN AWARD FOR DR. 1402 01:12:16,666 --> 01:12:21,137 BRIAN LUCE FOR HIS CONTINUED 1403 01:12:21,137 --> 01:12:22,906 WORK AND CONTINUED DEMONSTRATION 1404 01:12:22,906 --> 01:12:25,742 OF HIS DEDICATION TO FURTHERING 1405 01:12:25,742 --> 01:12:28,144 NATIVE PEOPLES, BOTH IN HIS 1406 01:12:28,144 --> 01:12:29,879 LOCAL COMMUNITY AND GLOBALLY 1407 01:12:29,879 --> 01:12:33,950 WITH HIS MUSIC, AND WITH HIS 1408 01:12:33,950 --> 01:12:35,485 SPEAKING. 1409 01:12:35,485 --> 01:12:37,921 AND WITH THAT, WE'LL HAVE THE 1410 01:12:37,921 --> 01:12:40,523 FINAL AWARD PRESENTED, AND OUR 1411 01:12:40,523 --> 01:12:41,524 GRAND CLOSING AND CLOSING 1412 01:12:41,524 --> 01:12:49,699 PRAYER. 1413 01:12:49,699 --> 01:12:59,743 1414 01:13:04,114 --> 01:13:05,715 >> MAN, I'VE GOT SOME POWER IN 1415 01:13:05,715 --> 01:13:06,316 THIS ROOM. 1416 01:13:06,316 --> 01:13:06,683 [LAUGHTER] 1417 01:13:06,683 --> 01:13:08,084 I WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME TO 1418 01:13:08,084 --> 01:13:09,653 THANK YOU ALL FOR COMING TO 1419 01:13:09,653 --> 01:13:11,121 CELEBRATE NOT ONLY NATIVE 1420 01:13:11,121 --> 01:13:13,123 AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH BUT THE 1421 01:13:13,123 --> 01:13:16,726 RESILIENCE WITHIN THE LOCAL 1422 01:13:16,726 --> 01:13:19,129 TRIBES WITHIN THE REGION. 1423 01:13:19,129 --> 01:13:21,765 NATIVE PEOPLE ARE ONE THE ONLY 1424 01:13:21,765 --> 01:13:24,200 PEOPLE THAT STILL HAVE TO PROVE 1425 01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:26,269 THEY ARE DAY IN AND DAY OUT IN, 1426 01:13:26,269 --> 01:13:27,570 PROVE THEIR IDENTITY. 1427 01:13:27,570 --> 01:13:29,472 WE'RE EITHER NOT NATIVE ENOUGH 1428 01:13:29,472 --> 01:13:30,440 OR JUST SOME NATIVE. 1429 01:13:30,440 --> 01:13:31,408 IT'S VERY UNFORTUNATE WE HAVE 1430 01:13:31,408 --> 01:13:33,610 THAT GOING ON IN THE YEAR OF 1431 01:13:33,610 --> 01:13:34,110 2024. 1432 01:13:34,110 --> 01:13:37,347 BUT WE ARE WORKING OUT OF IT AND 1433 01:13:37,347 --> 01:13:38,782 APPRECIATE YOU GUYS' CELEBRATION 1434 01:13:38,782 --> 01:13:40,183 FOR RESILIENCE AND APPRECIATE 1435 01:13:40,183 --> 01:13:41,618 THE RESILIENCE OF OTHER TRIBES 1436 01:13:41,618 --> 01:13:42,152 PRESENT. 1437 01:13:42,152 --> 01:13:45,889 ON BEHALF OF CHIEF SWANN, 1438 01:13:45,889 --> 01:13:46,756 PISCATAWAY CONOY TRIBE AND MY 1439 01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:48,525 FAMILY I THANK YOU FOR JOINING 1440 01:13:48,525 --> 01:13:49,192 US TODAY. 1441 01:13:49,192 --> 01:13:51,594 AND EVERYBODY HAVE A GREAT 1442 01:13:51,594 --> 01:13:51,861 NOVEMBER. 1443 01:13:51,861 --> 01:13:54,130 THANKS FOR COMING OUT. 1444 01:13:54,130 --> 01:13:56,399 [APPLAUSE] 1445 01:13:56,399 --> 01:14:02,439 1446 01:14:02,439 --> 01:14:12,482 1447 01:14:18,988 --> 01:14:23,393 >> BEFORE WE LEAVE EVERYONE HERE 1448 01:14:23,393 --> 01:14:25,161 GO OUT THE DOOR, YOU'LL SEE A 1449 01:14:25,161 --> 01:14:27,764 SIGN TO THE RIGHT, WE HAVE 1450 01:14:27,764 --> 01:14:29,532 CULTURAL FESTIVAL FOOD SAMPLING 1451 01:14:29,532 --> 01:14:30,834 TO GIVE EVERYONE, SO PLEASE JOIN 1452 01:14:30,834 --> 01:14:32,268 US. THERE WE'LL ALL BE OVER 1453 01:14:32,268 --> 01:14:33,470 THERE IN A COUPLE MINUTES HERE. 1454 01:14:33,470 --> 01:14:35,638 THANK YOU. 1455 01:14:35,638 --> 01:14:45,749 HAVE