1 00:00:05,009 --> 00:00:05,809 GOOD MORNING AND WELCOME. 2 00:00:05,809 --> 00:00:12,916 WE'RE STARTING BACK UP TODAY. 3 00:00:12,916 --> 00:00:17,021 I UNDERSTAND EVERYBODY WAS AWAKE 4 00:00:17,021 --> 00:00:18,655 WITH A FIRE ALARM. 5 00:00:18,655 --> 00:00:21,558 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING 6 00:00:21,558 --> 00:00:22,426 HERE. 7 00:00:22,426 --> 00:00:25,963 WE'LL HAVE A GREAT DAY TODAY. 8 00:00:25,963 --> 00:00:28,098 THE THEME IS THRIVING AND 9 00:00:28,098 --> 00:00:29,033 CENTERING LOVE AND WE'LL LEAN 10 00:00:29,033 --> 00:00:30,934 INTO THAT AND TO GET STARTED IN 11 00:00:30,934 --> 00:00:32,169 A BEAUTIFUL WAY WE'LL HAVE A 12 00:00:32,169 --> 00:00:37,574 NUMBER OF SINGERS AND THEN OUR 13 00:00:37,574 --> 00:00:44,915 HAWAIIAN KANAKA MALE RELATIVES. 14 00:00:44,915 --> 00:00:49,253 FIRST MR. LANCE FISHER TO OPEN 15 00:00:49,253 --> 00:00:51,288 US UP AND MR. GEORGE AND ON THE 16 00:00:51,288 --> 00:00:53,023 OUR HAWAIIAN RELATIVES AFTER 17 00:00:53,023 --> 00:00:53,223 THAT. 18 00:00:53,223 --> 00:01:03,700 I WANT TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE 19 00:01:11,075 --> 00:01:13,310 TEEPEE IS SET UP AND THERE'S A 20 00:01:13,310 --> 00:01:15,212 HEATER IN THERE IF YOU WANT TO 21 00:01:15,212 --> 00:01:17,047 HEAL AND SMUDGE IT WILL BE IN 22 00:01:17,047 --> 00:01:17,247 C1-C2. 23 00:01:17,247 --> 00:01:27,424 THANK YOU. 24 00:01:35,099 --> 00:01:37,568 IT. 25 00:01:38,001 --> 00:01:48,312 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 26 00:01:56,086 --> 00:01:57,454 >> GOOD MORNING. 27 00:01:57,454 --> 00:01:59,356 MY NAME IS LANCE FISHER AND 28 00:01:59,356 --> 00:02:02,926 WANTED TO INTRODUCE MYSELF IN MY 29 00:02:02,926 --> 00:02:04,995 NATIVE TONGUE. 30 00:02:04,995 --> 00:02:08,765 IT TRANSLATES TO NATIVE BEAR AND 31 00:02:08,765 --> 00:02:11,969 THE SONG WAS EXPOSED BY A SENIOR 32 00:02:11,969 --> 00:02:13,770 THAT TALKS ABOUT WHEN YOU SING 33 00:02:13,770 --> 00:02:16,974 THIS SONG I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER 34 00:02:16,974 --> 00:02:17,141 ME. 35 00:02:17,141 --> 00:02:17,841 REMEMBER ME WHEN YOU SING THIS 36 00:02:17,841 --> 00:02:27,951 SONG. 37 00:06:26,323 --> 00:06:36,433 THANK YOU. 38 00:06:42,372 --> 00:06:52,549 >> THANK YOU. 39 00:07:01,625 --> 00:07:09,566 >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 40 00:07:09,566 --> 00:07:19,743 [OFF-MIC] 41 00:08:07,257 --> 00:08:09,092 WE CAME HOME FROM BOARDING 42 00:08:09,092 --> 00:08:11,728 SCHOOL OUR MISSION WAS MORE 43 00:08:11,728 --> 00:08:11,995 IMPORTANT. 44 00:08:11,995 --> 00:08:13,630 TO BE RAISED 12 MONTHS OUT OF 45 00:08:13,630 --> 00:08:16,733 THE YEAR I WAS IMMERSED INTO OUR 46 00:08:16,733 --> 00:08:17,567 CULTURE. 47 00:08:17,567 --> 00:08:20,871 TO ME MY CULTURE WAS FIRST AND 48 00:08:20,871 --> 00:08:29,446 I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT BECAUSE WE 49 00:08:29,446 --> 00:08:34,551 DIDN'T HAVE WHAT WE HAVE TODAY 50 00:08:34,551 --> 00:08:38,588 AND ELDERS DID WHAT WE COULD DO 51 00:08:38,588 --> 00:08:48,765 AND SING. 52 00:08:50,901 --> 00:08:56,706 AND BE STRONG ENOUGH TO EXPRESS 53 00:08:56,706 --> 00:09:01,578 THEMSELVES AND I SEE IT AND I 54 00:09:01,578 --> 00:09:05,582 PRAY FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE 55 00:09:05,582 --> 00:09:16,059 AND IT DOESN'T GO UNNOTICED. 56 00:09:19,863 --> 00:09:20,997 I'M REALLY GRATEFUL TO BE ABLE 57 00:09:20,997 --> 00:09:23,867 TO SHARE THIS TIME AND BE HERE. 58 00:09:23,867 --> 00:09:28,939 I THANK KARINA AND DEB PARKER, 59 00:09:28,939 --> 00:09:36,413 THOUGH SHE'S NOT HERE AND ALICIA 60 00:09:36,413 --> 00:09:40,016 AND GREAT TO SEE A BROTHER I 61 00:09:40,016 --> 00:09:41,818 GREW UP WITH, FREDDY LANE AND 62 00:09:41,818 --> 00:09:45,555 THANK YOU FOR REPRESENTING OUR 63 00:09:45,555 --> 00:09:47,991 PEOPLES. 64 00:09:47,991 --> 00:09:49,192 REALLY GIVING THANKS FOR THE 65 00:09:49,192 --> 00:09:51,528 OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO COME OVER 66 00:09:51,528 --> 00:09:53,563 HERE AND SHARE OUR COASTAL SONGS 67 00:09:53,563 --> 00:09:56,266 AND OUR PRAYERS AND HOW MUCH IT 68 00:09:56,266 --> 00:09:59,836 MEANS TO OUR PEOPLE OVER THERE 69 00:09:59,836 --> 00:10:03,173 AND WITH THAT THE SONG IS 70 00:10:03,173 --> 00:10:06,109 ENTITLED NOT FORGOTTEN. 71 00:10:06,109 --> 00:10:16,653 IT'S COMPOSED BY MY OLDEST SON. 72 00:13:35,118 --> 00:13:45,128 >> 73 00:13:46,262 --> 00:13:46,629 [SP 74 00:13:46,629 --> 00:13:57,006 [SINGING NON-ENGLISH] 75 00:14:25,501 --> 00:14:35,812 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 76 00:14:36,746 --> 00:14:42,185 WE COME BEFORE AND THEY ARE MADE 77 00:14:42,185 --> 00:14:44,854 OF TEA LEAF AND THANKS FOR BEING 78 00:14:44,854 --> 00:14:47,023 HERE IN THIS PLACE, IN THIS 79 00:14:47,023 --> 00:14:49,559 SPACE. 80 00:14:49,559 --> 00:14:52,829 THE CHANT THAT WE PROVIDED IS AN 81 00:14:52,829 --> 00:14:57,867 HONORING OF PRESENTING LEI TO 82 00:14:57,867 --> 00:15:01,237 OUR HOST AND OF THIS PLACE AND 83 00:15:01,237 --> 00:15:04,207 IT IS A GIFT. 84 00:15:04,207 --> 00:15:06,476 >> I'LL FURTHER EXPAND WHAT LEI 85 00:15:06,476 --> 00:15:10,179 MEANS FOR US IN HAWAI'I. 86 00:15:10,179 --> 00:15:12,815 IT'S INDIVIDUAL FLOWERS FOR US 87 00:15:12,815 --> 00:15:15,418 WHICH IS ANOTHER WORD FOR 88 00:15:15,418 --> 00:15:20,690 CHILDREN AND WHEN YOU WEAR A LEI 89 00:15:20,690 --> 00:15:22,058 OF FLOWERS IT'S REALLY YOU 90 00:15:22,058 --> 00:15:23,459 BRINGING AND WEARING WITH YOU 91 00:15:23,459 --> 00:15:25,428 YOUR FUTURE GENERATIONS AND YOUR 92 00:15:25,428 --> 00:15:26,629 PAST GENERATIONS. 93 00:15:26,629 --> 00:15:32,402 AND SO WE CALL IT OUR ANCESTORS 94 00:15:32,402 --> 00:15:34,570 AND THIS PARTICULAR WEAVING OF 95 00:15:34,570 --> 00:15:36,973 THIS LEI IS BRINGING THINGS 96 00:15:36,973 --> 00:15:38,608 TOGETHER AND BRAIDING AND 97 00:15:38,608 --> 00:15:39,709 REPRESENTS RELATIONSHIPS. 98 00:15:39,709 --> 00:15:41,878 THANK YOU GUYS FOR HAVING US AND 99 00:15:41,878 --> 00:15:44,447 WE LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY THE 100 00:15:44,447 --> 00:15:48,117 REST OF THE DAY AND TOMORROW AS 101 00:15:48,117 --> 00:15:51,354 WELL AND RIGHT NOW WE WANT TO 102 00:15:51,354 --> 00:15:55,358 BLESS ALL OF YOU AND SO WE HAVE 103 00:15:55,358 --> 00:15:58,895 AMAYA HERE WHO IS GOING TO PASS 104 00:15:58,895 --> 00:16:02,065 OUT PACKETS OF SALT AND FOR US 105 00:16:02,065 --> 00:16:03,166 WE'RE OCEAN PEOPLE SURROUNDED BY 106 00:16:03,166 --> 00:16:04,867 WATER AND THE WATER IS CLEANSING 107 00:16:04,867 --> 00:16:06,235 FOR US. 108 00:16:06,235 --> 00:16:08,838 WE HAVE CEREMONIAL PRACTICES IN 109 00:16:08,838 --> 00:16:11,708 THE WATERS SURROUNDING HAWAI'I 110 00:16:11,708 --> 00:16:13,977 AND SO WE BRING SALT, WE BRING 111 00:16:13,977 --> 00:16:14,844 THE WATER TO YOU. 112 00:16:14,844 --> 00:16:19,082 SO THIS IS HARVESTED IN HAWAI'I 113 00:16:19,082 --> 00:16:21,517 AND INSIDE THE PACKET -- SO IF 114 00:16:21,517 --> 00:16:24,320 YOU JUST TAKE A COUPLE GRAINS OF 115 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:28,691 SALT, OF MINERALS OF HAWAI'I AND 116 00:16:28,691 --> 00:16:32,095 INSIDE OF IT HAS BEEN HARVESTED 117 00:16:32,095 --> 00:16:36,933 WITH A SEAWEED THAT WE USE, 118 00:16:36,933 --> 00:16:39,202 PRACTITIONERS USE FOR BLESSINGS 119 00:16:39,202 --> 00:16:42,972 FOR HEALING AND FOR FORGIVENESS. 120 00:16:42,972 --> 00:16:45,575 WE DO CIRCLES AND HAVE A 121 00:16:45,575 --> 00:16:49,779 PRACTICE THAT WE BRING IN THIS 122 00:16:49,779 --> 00:16:52,048 WHAT WE CALL KALA AND WE INFUSE 123 00:16:52,048 --> 00:16:54,117 THE SALT WITH THE KALA TO BRING 124 00:16:54,117 --> 00:16:55,818 THAT HERE WITH YOU. 125 00:16:55,818 --> 00:16:57,553 WHEN WE CAN'T BE AROUND THE 126 00:16:57,553 --> 00:17:00,289 WATER, BOTH TONI AND I WORK IN 127 00:17:00,289 --> 00:17:01,724 PRISONS IN HAWAI'I WITH OUR 128 00:17:01,724 --> 00:17:02,859 NATIVE PEOPLE WE BRING THE WATER 129 00:17:02,859 --> 00:17:03,259 TO THEM. 130 00:17:03,259 --> 00:17:04,961 THIS IS WHAT WE'RE BRINGING FOR 131 00:17:04,961 --> 00:17:10,933 YOU TODAY TO PARTAKE IN THIS 132 00:17:10,933 --> 00:17:11,200 PRACTICE. 133 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:17,573 IT'S CALLED PI'KAI AND WE WILL 134 00:17:17,573 --> 00:17:19,342 CLEAR OUR MINES AND CLEANSE 135 00:17:19,342 --> 00:17:20,977 OURSELVES AND PREPARE OUR MINDS 136 00:17:20,977 --> 00:17:23,846 AND OUR SPIRITS AND WE HAVE WHAT 137 00:17:23,846 --> 00:17:26,382 WE CALL OUR ANCESTORS HERE IN 138 00:17:26,382 --> 00:17:29,085 THE ROOM AND WE'RE GOING TO SET 139 00:17:29,085 --> 00:17:31,354 OUR INTENTIONS FOR THE REST OF 140 00:17:31,354 --> 00:17:34,123 OUR TIME HERE AND IT IS TIME TO 141 00:17:34,123 --> 00:17:37,460 LET GO, TO RELEASE AND SO WE CAN 142 00:17:37,460 --> 00:17:40,696 FILL OURSELVES BACK UP AND ALSO 143 00:17:40,696 --> 00:17:42,999 PROVIDES PROTECTION AND 144 00:17:42,999 --> 00:17:49,439 SURROUNDS US WITH ALOHA. 145 00:17:49,439 --> 00:17:59,849 SO EVERYBODY'S GOT SOME. 146 00:18:05,121 --> 00:18:05,955 WE DID SOME EARLIER. 147 00:18:05,955 --> 00:18:07,590 WHEN YOU'RE READY, YOU CAN JUST 148 00:18:07,590 --> 00:18:10,059 CLOSE YOUR EYES AND JUST FEEL 149 00:18:10,059 --> 00:18:13,830 THE GROUNDING. 150 00:18:13,830 --> 00:18:17,567 THINK OF THAT SPACE THAT KEEPS 151 00:18:17,567 --> 00:18:20,470 YOU WHO YOU ARE AND PROVIDES 152 00:18:20,470 --> 00:18:23,039 THAT SAFETY AND YOU THINK OF 153 00:18:23,039 --> 00:18:25,608 YOUR ANCESTORS AND THINK OF YOUR 154 00:18:25,608 --> 00:18:31,013 FUTURE GENERATIONS AND YOU CAN 155 00:18:31,013 --> 00:18:33,049 PUT SOME OF THE SALT IN YOUR 156 00:18:33,049 --> 00:18:34,250 MOUTH AND LET IT MELT AND THINK 157 00:18:34,250 --> 00:18:36,486 OF IT AS CLEANSING AND WASHING 158 00:18:36,486 --> 00:18:40,022 AWAY AND AT THE SAME TIME 159 00:18:40,022 --> 00:18:42,558 NOURISHING YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR 160 00:18:42,558 --> 00:18:47,029 BODY AND BREATHE AND RELEASE AND 161 00:18:47,029 --> 00:18:57,573 THINK OF THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU. 162 00:19:07,450 --> 00:19:11,120 TONI AND I ARE HULA 163 00:19:11,120 --> 00:19:12,788 PRACTITIONERS AND WILL START US 164 00:19:12,788 --> 00:19:16,526 AND END WITH THAT SAYING WE DO 165 00:19:16,526 --> 00:19:26,903 IN OUR HULA PRACTICES. 166 00:19:42,151 --> 00:19:45,555 >> 167 00:19:45,555 --> 00:19:55,932 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 168 00:20:11,113 --> 00:20:12,715 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 169 00:20:12,715 --> 00:20:16,552 MY HAWAIIAN RELATIVES AND THE 170 00:20:16,552 --> 00:20:17,920 GEORGE FAMILY AND LANCE, THANK 171 00:20:17,920 --> 00:20:19,555 YOU FOR ALL YOUR SONGS AND 172 00:20:19,555 --> 00:20:21,557 BLESSINGS THIS MORNING TO GET US 173 00:20:21,557 --> 00:20:23,693 STARTED IN A BEAUTIFUL WAY. 174 00:20:23,693 --> 00:20:34,170 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME SELENA. 175 00:20:37,273 --> 00:20:47,216 PART OF OUR THRO OFFICE TRIBAL 176 00:20:47,216 --> 00:20:48,351 HEALTH RESEARCH OFFICE. 177 00:20:48,351 --> 00:20:50,386 >> GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE. 178 00:20:50,386 --> 00:20:56,859 MY NAME IS SELENA AND I'M A 179 00:20:56,859 --> 00:20:59,128 MEMBER OF THE NAVAJO NATION AND 180 00:20:59,128 --> 00:21:01,230 GOOD MORNING, RELATIVES. 181 00:21:01,230 --> 00:21:11,607 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 182 00:21:21,817 --> 00:21:22,818 I WORK IN THE TRIBAL HEALTH 183 00:21:22,818 --> 00:21:24,153 RESEARCH OFFICE. 184 00:21:24,153 --> 00:21:27,223 WE HAVE AN AWESOME TEAM WITH 185 00:21:27,223 --> 00:21:33,829 DR. CALDWELL AND DR. WALTERS AND 186 00:21:33,829 --> 00:21:35,698 I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE AND TO BE 187 00:21:35,698 --> 00:21:39,969 PART OF THE TEAM AND HAPPY YOU 188 00:21:39,969 --> 00:21:41,037 GUYS ARE ALL HERE. 189 00:21:41,037 --> 00:21:43,172 SO, YESTERDAY WE HAD A GROUP AND 190 00:21:43,172 --> 00:21:46,609 I WAS SO -- I DON'T KNOW HOW TO 191 00:21:46,609 --> 00:21:48,844 DESCRIBE THIS FEELING MAYBE 192 00:21:48,844 --> 00:21:52,381 INVIGORATED, ELATED, IT WAS THIS 193 00:21:52,381 --> 00:21:53,983 AMAZING FEELING YESTERDAY WHEN 194 00:21:53,983 --> 00:21:55,851 WE WERE SETTING UP THE TEEPEE 195 00:21:55,851 --> 00:21:58,254 AND IT'S A SACRED SPACE FOR US. 196 00:21:58,254 --> 00:22:01,524 IT WAS AMAZING JUST TO BE THERE 197 00:22:01,524 --> 00:22:03,859 AND TO WITNESS THE TEEPEE GOING 198 00:22:03,859 --> 00:22:06,462 UP ESPECIALLY HERE AT NIH 199 00:22:06,462 --> 00:22:06,729 CAMPUS. 200 00:22:06,729 --> 00:22:09,065 IT'S A HISTORICAL MOMENT FOR US 201 00:22:09,065 --> 00:22:10,399 AND THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED. 202 00:22:10,399 --> 00:22:12,034 AND I'M REALLY PROUD TO BE PART 203 00:22:12,034 --> 00:22:13,302 OF THAT. 204 00:22:13,302 --> 00:22:20,176 I WANT TO THANK OUR SPIRITUAL 205 00:22:20,176 --> 00:22:20,710 LEADERS. 206 00:22:20,710 --> 00:22:26,449 THERE'S TWO IT SPIRITUAL 207 00:22:26,449 --> 00:22:27,750 LEADERS, MR. JASPER PABLO, CAN 208 00:22:27,750 --> 00:22:30,486 YOU STAND FOR ME, PLEASE. 209 00:22:30,486 --> 00:22:32,188 [APPLAUSE] 210 00:22:32,188 --> 00:22:36,158 AND HE'S OUR PROFESSOR AND OUR 211 00:22:36,158 --> 00:22:37,893 OTHER IS AVERY DENNY. 212 00:22:37,893 --> 00:22:43,199 HE MAY HAVE STEPPED OUT. 213 00:22:43,199 --> 00:22:48,504 AND THEN ALSO MYRA MEDRANO OR 214 00:22:48,504 --> 00:22:59,048 EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT FOR IT THRO 215 00:23:00,182 --> 00:23:01,617 AND TOM HINLY PART OF THE LUMI 216 00:23:01,617 --> 00:23:06,055 NATION. 217 00:23:06,055 --> 00:23:07,356 WE HELPED US. 218 00:23:07,356 --> 00:23:10,359 WE HAD HIS MUSCLE AND OUR 219 00:23:10,359 --> 00:23:20,903 HAWAIIAN SISTERS, DR. MAHEALANI 220 00:23:21,937 --> 00:23:26,308 MILLER AND THEY'RE STRONG WOMEN. 221 00:23:26,308 --> 00:23:29,578 AND THEN ALSO KEN JENSON THE ONE 222 00:23:29,578 --> 00:23:30,746 WHO BROUGHT HIS TEEPEE. 223 00:23:30,746 --> 00:23:31,814 HE WAS AMAZING. 224 00:23:31,814 --> 00:23:33,682 THAT GUY WAS CLIMBING THOSE 225 00:23:33,682 --> 00:23:35,317 POLES AND PUTTING THAT TEEPEE 226 00:23:35,317 --> 00:23:35,818 TOGETHER. 227 00:23:35,818 --> 00:23:37,119 BUT IF YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY 228 00:23:37,119 --> 00:23:43,492 TO GO SEE IT, IT'S JUST SITTING 229 00:23:43,492 --> 00:23:51,033 OUTSIDE AND IT'S HEALING AND 230 00:23:51,033 --> 00:23:53,836 IT'S MEDICINE AND GO VISIT THE 231 00:23:53,836 --> 00:24:01,544 TEEPEE. 232 00:24:01,544 --> 00:24:06,215 [NO AUDIO] 233 00:24:06,215 --> 00:24:07,950 >> THANK YOU. 234 00:24:07,950 --> 00:24:12,621 AND MS. JACKIE REARDON IS PART 235 00:24:12,621 --> 00:24:17,059 OF OUR THRO TEAM AND WE'RE 236 00:24:17,059 --> 00:24:17,293 GROWING. 237 00:24:17,293 --> 00:24:19,462 NEXT I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE 238 00:24:19,462 --> 00:24:21,363 DR. SAM TORRES. 239 00:24:21,363 --> 00:24:26,902 HE'LL OPEN US UP TODAY ON BEHALF 240 00:24:26,902 --> 00:24:37,279 OF NAVS SO THANK YOU. 241 00:24:39,448 --> 00:24:40,483 >> 242 00:24:40,483 --> 00:24:44,153 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 243 00:24:44,153 --> 00:24:44,887 WELCOME RELATIVES. 244 00:24:44,887 --> 00:24:46,055 SENDING YOU GOOD ENERGY. 245 00:24:46,055 --> 00:24:48,624 IT'S AN HONOR TO CONTINUE THIS 246 00:24:48,624 --> 00:24:51,360 CONVENING TODAY AS WAS MENTIONED 247 00:24:51,360 --> 00:24:53,562 A VERY HISTORIC CONVENING. 248 00:24:53,562 --> 00:24:56,499 WE'RE HONORED AND PRIVILEGED TO 249 00:24:56,499 --> 00:24:59,134 BE A PART OF IT AND TO HELP AND 250 00:24:59,134 --> 00:25:00,402 HOLD SPACE AND FURTHER THE 251 00:25:00,402 --> 00:25:04,607 DIALOGUES THAT OF COURSE AS WE 252 00:25:04,607 --> 00:25:05,608 HAVE SEEN ALREADY THIS WEEK ARE 253 00:25:05,608 --> 00:25:06,842 MUCH NEEDED. 254 00:25:06,842 --> 00:25:10,179 I WANT TO JUST OFFER SOME BRIEF 255 00:25:10,179 --> 00:25:10,946 REFLECTIONS AND WON'T MAKE 256 00:25:10,946 --> 00:25:11,580 EXTENDED REMARKS. 257 00:25:11,580 --> 00:25:16,285 I DO WANT TO HONOR THE OFFERINGS 258 00:25:16,285 --> 00:25:19,088 OF THE SONGS AND THE PRAYERS 259 00:25:19,088 --> 00:25:19,288 TODAY. 260 00:25:19,288 --> 00:25:20,623 THANK YOU TO THE GEORGE FAMILY, 261 00:25:20,623 --> 00:25:25,961 TO LANCE, TO DR. MILLER, DR 262 00:25:25,961 --> 00:25:28,297 DR. BISSETTE FOR HONORING THE 263 00:25:28,297 --> 00:25:30,799 SPACE AND FOR RECOGNIZING THIS 264 00:25:30,799 --> 00:25:32,167 IS A SACRED SPACE. 265 00:25:32,167 --> 00:25:35,704 WHEN WE GATHER AS RELATIVES AND 266 00:25:35,704 --> 00:25:38,140 BRING OUR SONGS TOGETHER AND OUR 267 00:25:38,140 --> 00:25:39,141 LANGUAGES AND ALREADY WE HEARD 268 00:25:39,141 --> 00:25:41,076 SEVERAL OF OUR TRADITIONAL 269 00:25:41,076 --> 00:25:41,977 LANGUAGES THAT HAVE COME FROM 270 00:25:41,977 --> 00:25:45,080 THESE LANDS, THE LANDS WE CALL 271 00:25:45,080 --> 00:25:47,082 HOME SO I'LL JUST INTRODUCE 272 00:25:47,082 --> 00:25:49,385 MYSELF ONCE MORE. 273 00:25:49,385 --> 00:25:52,354 I KNOW WE HAVE SOME FOLKS 274 00:25:52,354 --> 00:25:52,855 JOINING US TODAY. 275 00:25:52,855 --> 00:25:55,324 TODAY MAY BE YOUR DAY ONE BUT WE 276 00:25:55,324 --> 00:25:57,159 HAD A BEAUTIFUL DAY ONE 277 00:25:57,159 --> 00:25:57,560 YESTERDAY. 278 00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:02,765 THOSE JOINING US TODAY, WE GREAT 279 00:26:02,765 --> 00:26:06,135 YOU AS RELATIVES. 280 00:26:06,135 --> 00:26:16,512 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 281 00:26:20,950 --> 00:26:23,218 IN MY LANGUAGE I WANTED TO SHARE 282 00:26:23,218 --> 00:26:26,121 WITH YOU THE NAME I WAS BORN 283 00:26:26,121 --> 00:26:28,591 WITH. 284 00:26:28,591 --> 00:26:32,194 DANIEL TORRES. 285 00:26:32,194 --> 00:26:33,362 I'M IRISH AND FRENCH ON ANY 286 00:26:33,362 --> 00:26:36,432 MOTHER'S SIDE AND IT'S IMPORTANT 287 00:26:36,432 --> 00:26:38,701 TO BRING ALL OUR ANCESTORS INTO 288 00:26:38,701 --> 00:26:40,035 THE SPACE AND LIKE TO REMIND 289 00:26:40,035 --> 00:26:42,504 MYSELF AND OTHERS IN MY CIRCLES 290 00:26:42,504 --> 00:26:47,076 THAT WE ALL DO INDEED COME FROM 291 00:26:47,076 --> 00:26:48,177 PLACE-BASED CULTURES. 292 00:26:48,177 --> 00:26:51,614 THAT THE WEDGE IMPACT OF 293 00:26:51,614 --> 00:26:52,881 COLONIALISM THOUGH IT FEELS VERY 294 00:26:52,881 --> 00:26:56,018 DEEP AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE THESE 295 00:26:56,018 --> 00:26:58,253 ENCOUNTERS WITH COLONIALISM THAT 296 00:26:58,253 --> 00:27:00,122 ARE HARD TO FORGET ABOUT BECAUSE 297 00:27:00,122 --> 00:27:03,125 THEY'RE SO IN OUR FACE. 298 00:27:03,125 --> 00:27:06,362 THEY HAVE PROVOKED THOSE TRAUMAS 299 00:27:06,362 --> 00:27:09,131 THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH ON A 300 00:27:09,131 --> 00:27:13,168 DAILY BASIS AND GENERATIONALLY. 301 00:27:13,168 --> 00:27:15,471 BUT WITHOUT CENTERING THOSE 302 00:27:15,471 --> 00:27:17,339 EXPERIENCES, WE CAN'T EXPECT TO 303 00:27:17,339 --> 00:27:21,110 HEAL FROM THEM AS WE'VE HEARD 304 00:27:21,110 --> 00:27:21,377 YESTERDAY. 305 00:27:21,377 --> 00:27:23,112 IN ORDER TO CENTER ANCESTRAL 306 00:27:23,112 --> 00:27:24,813 LOVE WE HAVE SEEN WE ALSO NEED 307 00:27:24,813 --> 00:27:26,181 TO CENTER THE TRUTH. 308 00:27:26,181 --> 00:27:28,751 AND NOT TO PUT OUR TRAUMAS ON 309 00:27:28,751 --> 00:27:28,984 DISPLAY. 310 00:27:28,984 --> 00:27:30,452 WE SAW SOMETHING COMPLETELY 311 00:27:30,452 --> 00:27:33,055 DIFFERENT YESTERDAY AND THE WORK 312 00:27:33,055 --> 00:27:35,924 THAT NABS ENDEAVORS TO BE A PART 313 00:27:35,924 --> 00:27:45,934 OF IS TO HONOR THOSE EXPERIENCES 314 00:27:45,934 --> 00:27:49,138 TO REMIND US OF THE ANCESTRAL 315 00:27:49,138 --> 00:27:53,308 LOVE AND THE RELATIVES WHO 316 00:27:53,308 --> 00:27:54,209 SHARED SO MUCH COURAGE FOR BEING 317 00:27:54,209 --> 00:27:57,046 HERE MIKED UP ON A STAGE WHICH 318 00:27:57,046 --> 00:27:59,348 HAS ALL ITS LIMITATIONS OF BEING 319 00:27:59,348 --> 00:28:01,050 CENTERED AND UNDER THE SPOTLIGHT 320 00:28:01,050 --> 00:28:02,751 AND WE KNOW THE THREATS THAT GO 321 00:28:02,751 --> 00:28:07,456 INTO THAT BUT WE ARE A COMMUNITY 322 00:28:07,456 --> 00:28:08,891 OF RELATIVES. 323 00:28:08,891 --> 00:28:10,492 THIS IS AN HISTORIC EVENT INDEED 324 00:28:10,492 --> 00:28:12,194 BECAUSE OF THE PLACE WE'RE ON 325 00:28:12,194 --> 00:28:14,363 AND THE ORGANIZATIONAL 326 00:28:14,363 --> 00:28:18,033 PARTNERSHIPS AND THE ENTITIES 327 00:28:18,033 --> 00:28:20,135 HERE REPRESENTED BUT ULTIMATELY 328 00:28:20,135 --> 00:28:21,070 DEEPER THAN THAT RELATIVES FROM 329 00:28:21,070 --> 00:28:23,205 DIFFERENT NATIONS, YES. 330 00:28:23,205 --> 00:28:27,076 BUT OUR KINSHIP AND OUR SHARED 331 00:28:27,076 --> 00:28:28,944 STRUGGLES AND SHARED JOY UNITES 332 00:28:28,944 --> 00:28:29,111 US. 333 00:28:29,111 --> 00:28:33,549 I WAS REMINDED BY THE COURAGE 334 00:28:33,549 --> 00:28:41,090 AND VULNERABILITY OF OUR AUNTI 335 00:28:41,090 --> 00:28:48,430 S -- AUNTIES AND UNCLES AND THE 336 00:28:48,430 --> 00:28:51,100 EFFECT ON THESE LANDS BY 337 00:28:51,100 --> 00:28:52,067 COLONIALISM AND IN CONVERSATION 338 00:28:52,067 --> 00:28:54,470 THIS MORNING WAS REMINDED THAT 339 00:28:54,470 --> 00:28:58,207 WE SHARE THESE STORIES ALSO TO 340 00:28:58,207 --> 00:29:00,042 INVITE EACH OTHER, TO LOVE ONE 341 00:29:00,042 --> 00:29:01,310 ANOTHER MORE DEEPLY. 342 00:29:01,310 --> 00:29:03,712 WHEN WE SHARE ABOUT THOSE 343 00:29:03,712 --> 00:29:05,514 EXPERIENCES IT'S NOT JUST TO SAY 344 00:29:05,514 --> 00:29:07,449 THIS HAPPENED TO ME AND IT HELPS 345 00:29:07,449 --> 00:29:12,955 TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HEAL 346 00:29:12,955 --> 00:29:14,757 GOING FORWARD WHATEVER THAT PATH 347 00:29:14,757 --> 00:29:16,458 AND JOURNEY MAY BE AND IT LOOKS 348 00:29:16,458 --> 00:29:17,593 DIFFERENT OF COURSE BUT WHEN YOU 349 00:29:17,593 --> 00:29:20,395 SHARE THOSE EXPERIENCES WITH ME, 350 00:29:20,395 --> 00:29:23,732 EYE TO EYE, PERSON TO PERSON AND 351 00:29:23,732 --> 00:29:26,835 IN A CONTEXT LIKE THIS WE'RE 352 00:29:26,835 --> 00:29:29,271 HERE YES TO LISTEN, WE'RE HEAR 353 00:29:29,271 --> 00:29:31,273 TO LEARN BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, 354 00:29:31,273 --> 00:29:34,209 WHEN THOSE STORIES ARE SHARED WE 355 00:29:34,209 --> 00:29:39,515 OFFER AN INVITATION TO LOVE ONE 356 00:29:39,515 --> 00:29:41,550 ANOTHER MORE DEEPLY. 357 00:29:41,550 --> 00:29:44,052 THAT'S WHAT I SAW YESTERDAY AND 358 00:29:44,052 --> 00:29:45,287 WHAT WE SAW TOGETHER. 359 00:29:45,287 --> 00:29:47,790 AS WE ENGAGE IN THE PROCESS AND 360 00:29:47,790 --> 00:29:50,359 CONTINUE TO WORK MORE DEEPLY 361 00:29:50,359 --> 00:29:52,060 TOGETHER ON SEEING EACH OTHER 362 00:29:52,060 --> 00:29:55,430 AND RECOGNIZING AND HONORING 363 00:29:55,430 --> 00:29:56,865 EACH OTHER, I INVITE US TO SIT 364 00:29:56,865 --> 00:29:58,467 WITH THAT AND HOW CAN WE LOVE 365 00:29:58,467 --> 00:30:00,169 EACH OTHER MORE DEEPLY. 366 00:30:00,169 --> 00:30:02,871 AND THE PROCESS, THE METHOD, IF 367 00:30:02,871 --> 00:30:05,407 YOU WILL, RIGHT, BUT THE 368 00:30:05,407 --> 00:30:06,642 ANCESTRAL TEACHINGS OF LISTENING 369 00:30:06,642 --> 00:30:09,711 AND BEING MOTIVATED AND MOVED BY 370 00:30:09,711 --> 00:30:11,780 OUR STORIES. 371 00:30:11,780 --> 00:30:14,550 LET'S CONTINUE TO CENTER THAT 372 00:30:14,550 --> 00:30:15,517 ANCESTRAL LOVE BECAUSE IT'S ONLY 373 00:30:15,517 --> 00:30:18,187 THROUGH THAT LOVE THAT WE CAN 374 00:30:18,187 --> 00:30:21,089 WALK ON A PATH THAT LIBERATES US 375 00:30:21,089 --> 00:30:23,125 FROM THOSE TRAUMAS AND OFFERS A 376 00:30:23,125 --> 00:30:24,326 PATHWAY FOR OUR CHILDREN TO BE 377 00:30:24,326 --> 00:30:25,427 FREE OF THOSE BURDENS THAT WERE 378 00:30:25,427 --> 00:30:28,096 PLACED ON US. 379 00:30:28,096 --> 00:30:30,599 AND I WANT TO JUST CLOSE IN 380 00:30:30,599 --> 00:30:33,569 TRANSITION BY OFFERING THE WORDS 381 00:30:33,569 --> 00:30:42,010 AND REFLECTIONS OF OUR AUNTIE 382 00:30:42,010 --> 00:30:42,778 HARDEN YESTERDAY. 383 00:30:42,778 --> 00:30:46,448 WE CAN NEVER KNOW THE EXPERIENCE 384 00:30:46,448 --> 00:30:47,883 OF THE BOARDING SCHOOL UNLESS 385 00:30:47,883 --> 00:30:49,751 YOU WERE THERE OURSELVES. 386 00:30:49,751 --> 00:30:52,154 WE HAVE OUR OWN BURDENS AND 387 00:30:52,154 --> 00:30:53,422 TRAUMAS AND TRY TO HOLD THAT 388 00:30:53,422 --> 00:30:55,023 SPACE TOGETHER WITH ONE ANOTHER. 389 00:30:55,023 --> 00:31:00,195 BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN OPEN UP THE 390 00:31:00,195 --> 00:31:01,396 INVITATION TO SEE EACH OTHER 391 00:31:01,396 --> 00:31:03,098 MORE DEEPLY AND LOVE EACH OTHER 392 00:31:03,098 --> 00:31:06,668 MORE PASSIONATELY AND FIERCELY 393 00:31:06,668 --> 00:31:09,238 AND IN THE SAME LIGHT PROTECT 394 00:31:09,238 --> 00:31:11,673 OUR PEOPLE AND TO CARVE A NEW 395 00:31:11,673 --> 00:31:15,210 PATH FORWARD GUIDED BY OUR 396 00:31:15,210 --> 00:31:16,111 ANCESTRAL TRADITIONS AND 397 00:31:16,111 --> 00:31:17,179 TEACHINGS BUT WE HAVE TO CENTER 398 00:31:17,179 --> 00:31:19,715 THAT LOVE. 399 00:31:19,715 --> 00:31:20,883 SO THANK YOU FOR BEING ALONG 400 00:31:20,883 --> 00:31:22,618 THIS JOURNEY WITH US AND I LOOK 401 00:31:22,618 --> 00:31:23,919 FORWARD TO CONNECTING WITH YOU 402 00:31:23,919 --> 00:31:25,687 ALL MORE DEEPLY. 403 00:31:25,687 --> 00:31:33,562 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 404 00:31:33,562 --> 00:31:35,898 >> THANK YOU, DR. TORRES. 405 00:31:35,898 --> 00:31:37,299 I'LL INVITE OUR FIRST PANEL UP 406 00:31:37,299 --> 00:31:40,168 TO COME UP AND GET SITUATED. 407 00:31:40,168 --> 00:31:41,570 THE PATHWAYS TO THRIVING LOVE, 408 00:31:41,570 --> 00:31:49,544 LAND AND WATER WITH MODERATOR 409 00:31:49,544 --> 00:31:56,518 DR. DIANE HIRSHBERG AND 410 00:31:56,518 --> 00:32:01,690 DR. JOHNSON-JENNINGS AND SHARON 411 00:32:01,690 --> 00:32:04,426 DAY AND DR. SUINA. 412 00:32:04,426 --> 00:32:06,094 WE'RE RUNNING A LITTLE BIT OF 413 00:32:06,094 --> 00:32:08,597 TIME BUT WE'LL STILL GIVE 414 00:32:08,597 --> 00:32:09,998 PANELISTS THEIR FULL TIME BUT IF 415 00:32:09,998 --> 00:32:11,800 YOU NEED A MINUTE FOR A LITTLE 416 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:16,805 BREAK OR WHATEVER WHEN WE'RE 417 00:32:16,805 --> 00:32:18,273 TRANSITIO 418 00:32:18,273 --> 00:32:19,675 TRANSITIONING BETWEEN PANELS 419 00:32:19,675 --> 00:32:22,477 GRAB A COFFEE OR WHATEVER AND 420 00:32:22,477 --> 00:32:23,679 COME ON BACK. 421 00:32:23,679 --> 00:32:24,880 THAT WOULD BE GREAT. 422 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:29,551 WELCOME, PANELISTS. 423 00:32:29,551 --> 00:32:32,487 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY 424 00:32:32,487 --> 00:32:33,555 COLLABORATORS. 425 00:32:33,555 --> 00:32:37,459 I'M DIANE HIRSHBERG AND I'M 426 00:32:37,459 --> 00:32:40,329 HONORED TO BE HERE AND FOR US TO 427 00:32:40,329 --> 00:32:44,299 BE PART OF THIS DAY THAT BEGINS 428 00:32:44,299 --> 00:32:46,868 TO HELP US DIG DEEP INTO THE 429 00:32:46,868 --> 00:32:48,170 IDEA OF THRIVING AND WHAT DOES 430 00:32:48,170 --> 00:32:51,173 IT MEAN NOW THAT WE HAVE HEARD 431 00:32:51,173 --> 00:32:55,010 SOME PROFOUND AND DEEP SHARING 432 00:32:55,010 --> 00:32:56,578 OF TO THE EXPERIENCES PEOPLE 433 00:32:56,578 --> 00:32:59,214 HAVE HAD THROUGH BOARDING 434 00:32:59,214 --> 00:33:03,485 SCHOOLS AND AS DESCENDANTS OF 435 00:33:03,485 --> 00:33:05,153 SURVIVORS AND WHAT ARE THE NEXT 436 00:33:05,153 --> 00:33:10,492 STEPS AS WE MOVE FORWARD IN 437 00:33:10,492 --> 00:33:10,692 THIS. 438 00:33:10,692 --> 00:33:12,394 I ASKED THE PANELISTS TO 439 00:33:12,394 --> 00:33:14,830 INTRODUCE THEMSELVES AND SHARE 440 00:33:14,830 --> 00:33:17,599 SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE WRITTEN 441 00:33:17,599 --> 00:33:22,371 DESCRIPTIONS OF OURSELVES BUT 442 00:33:22,371 --> 00:33:25,574 THE BIOS ARE KIND OF TYPICAL 443 00:33:25,574 --> 00:33:27,342 BIOS AND WE DON'T NECESSARILY 444 00:33:27,342 --> 00:33:28,810 SHARE SOMETHING ABOUT WHY WE'RE 445 00:33:28,810 --> 00:33:29,077 HERE. 446 00:33:29,077 --> 00:33:34,683 AND AS WE GET STARTED TO SHARE A 447 00:33:34,683 --> 00:33:39,187 BIT THAT I AM IN THE LANGUAGE OF 448 00:33:39,187 --> 00:33:43,558 SOME OF MY FRIENDS I'M NON 449 00:33:43,558 --> 00:33:44,893 INDIGENOUS AND ON THE 450 00:33:44,893 --> 00:33:48,263 TRADITIONAL AND UNCEDED LANDS OF 451 00:33:48,263 --> 00:33:52,034 THE DINAH PEOPLE OF THE UPPER 452 00:33:52,034 --> 00:33:57,806 COOK INLAND AND THANKFULLY 453 00:33:57,806 --> 00:34:00,175 WELCOMED TO THE BEAUTIFUL LANDS 454 00:34:00,175 --> 00:34:05,147 AND I COME TO THIS PLACE BECAUSE 455 00:34:05,147 --> 00:34:07,649 OF THE WISDOM OF COLLEAGUES OF 456 00:34:07,649 --> 00:34:12,154 MINE IN ANCHORAGE AS I WAS DOING 457 00:34:12,154 --> 00:34:13,889 RESEARCH AMONG SCHOOLS AND 458 00:34:13,889 --> 00:34:16,058 MOVING TO ALASKA A BIT MORE THAN 459 00:34:16,058 --> 00:34:17,159 20 YEARS AGO LOOKED AT ME AND 460 00:34:17,159 --> 00:34:19,694 SOME OF YOU IN THE ROOM PROBABLY 461 00:34:19,694 --> 00:34:24,099 KNOW PAUL ONTAKUK WHO SAID TO ME 462 00:34:24,099 --> 00:34:25,600 YOU NEED TO STUDY THE BOARDING 463 00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:26,868 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES BECAUSE THEY 464 00:34:26,868 --> 00:34:28,837 COME UP IN MY DOCTORAL WORK AND 465 00:34:28,837 --> 00:34:32,174 SAID YOU NEED TO STUDY IT NOW. 466 00:34:32,174 --> 00:34:37,546 AND THAT SAYING WAS ECHOED BY A 467 00:34:37,546 --> 00:34:39,948 NON-INDIGENOUS EDUCATOR, 468 00:34:39,948 --> 00:34:43,819 DR. BILL MAUL WHO HEARD THE SAME 469 00:34:43,819 --> 00:34:46,221 THING AND SAID YOU NEED TO STUDY 470 00:34:46,221 --> 00:34:47,589 BOARDING SCHOOL. 471 00:34:47,589 --> 00:34:53,562 WE BEGAN THAT WORK 20 YEARS AGO 472 00:34:53,562 --> 00:34:57,933 AND JIM LEBELLE WAS PART OF THAT 473 00:34:57,933 --> 00:35:02,504 AND OTHER FOLK STARTED THE 474 00:35:02,504 --> 00:35:03,505 CONVERSATION ABOUT EXPERIENCES. 475 00:35:03,505 --> 00:35:06,274 BEING TOLD AS WE BEGAN THAT WORK 476 00:35:06,274 --> 00:35:09,544 THAT PEOPLE WEREN'T READY TO 477 00:35:09,544 --> 00:35:10,479 TALK. 478 00:35:10,479 --> 00:35:12,681 SO I'M HERE AND I FEEL HONORED 479 00:35:12,681 --> 00:35:17,085 AND OVERWHELMED BY WHAT HAS BEEN 480 00:35:17,085 --> 00:35:18,687 SHARED AND LEARNED AND THE 481 00:35:18,687 --> 00:35:19,621 PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AND THE 482 00:35:19,621 --> 00:35:20,689 PROFOUND WISDOM YOU BRING TO 483 00:35:20,689 --> 00:35:21,223 THIS CONVERSATION. 484 00:35:21,223 --> 00:35:22,424 I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS 485 00:35:22,424 --> 00:35:27,863 MORNING'S CONVERSATION. 486 00:35:27,863 --> 00:35:31,333 I'D LIKE TO PASS THIS ON TO 487 00:35:31,333 --> 00:35:39,040 DR. MICHELLE JOHNSON-JENNINGS TO 488 00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:41,176 START THE CONVERSATION. 489 00:35:41,176 --> 00:35:46,581 >> 490 00:35:46,581 --> 00:35:48,617 >> I LIKE TO USE VISUALS BECAUSE 491 00:35:48,617 --> 00:35:53,822 IT SEEMS TO KEEP ME ON TASK A 492 00:35:53,822 --> 00:35:57,526 LITTLE BIT BETTER. 493 00:35:57,526 --> 00:35:58,894 ALL RIGHT. 494 00:35:58,894 --> 00:35:59,861 SO 495 00:35:59,861 --> 00:36:03,231 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 496 00:36:03,231 --> 00:36:05,333 >> I'M MICHELLE JOHNSON-JENNINGS 497 00:36:05,333 --> 00:36:09,104 AND FROM THE CHOCTAW FLATION OF 498 00:36:09,104 --> 00:36:10,705 -- NATION OF OKLAHOMA AND BORN 499 00:36:10,705 --> 00:36:12,541 AND RAISED THERE AND FROM THE 500 00:36:12,541 --> 00:36:13,675 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. 501 00:36:13,675 --> 00:36:14,876 BEFORE I TALK TO YOU MORE ABOUT 502 00:36:14,876 --> 00:36:16,878 MYSELF I WANT TO SAY I'M SO 503 00:36:16,878 --> 00:36:18,013 HONORED TO BE HERE AS WELL. 504 00:36:18,013 --> 00:36:20,215 I'M GRATEFUL TO BE ASKED TO 505 00:36:20,215 --> 00:36:22,050 SPEAK AND TO BE AMONGST ALL OF 506 00:36:22,050 --> 00:36:23,685 YOU HERE TODAY. 507 00:36:23,685 --> 00:36:28,023 YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE 508 00:36:28,023 --> 00:36:30,025 ORGANIZERS AND I WANT TO TAKE A 509 00:36:30,025 --> 00:36:32,027 MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE OUR 510 00:36:32,027 --> 00:36:32,761 ANCESTORS WITH US TODAY AND 511 00:36:32,761 --> 00:36:34,629 GREET THEM. 512 00:36:34,629 --> 00:36:36,164 I FEEL THEM STRONGLY HERE WITH 513 00:36:36,164 --> 00:36:38,700 ME AND TO GREAT MY OWN ANCESTORS 514 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,937 AS WE SIT AND DISCUSS TODAY. 515 00:36:41,937 --> 00:36:42,704 I'LL GIVE THE CAVEAT AS WELL 516 00:36:42,704 --> 00:36:48,743 MOST OF THE PAINTINGS, IMAGES I 517 00:36:48,743 --> 00:36:50,145 HAVE IN THE PRESENTATION ARE 518 00:36:50,145 --> 00:36:50,445 MINE. 519 00:36:50,445 --> 00:36:52,914 I EITHER PAINTED IT AND THE 520 00:36:52,914 --> 00:36:54,416 FIRST IS NOT MINE SO I'LL POINT 521 00:36:54,416 --> 00:36:55,650 OUT THE ODDITY. 522 00:36:55,650 --> 00:36:58,820 THIS IS A CREE ARTIST I JUST 523 00:36:58,820 --> 00:37:00,689 LOVE THE DESIGN AND CONNECTIONS 524 00:37:00,689 --> 00:37:01,756 AND REMINDS ME OF MY GRANDMOTHER 525 00:37:01,756 --> 00:37:06,561 ACTUALLY. 526 00:37:06,561 --> 00:37:08,163 SO, IT WHO I AM. 527 00:37:08,163 --> 00:37:11,399 I'M SORRY, YOU KNOW HOW THINGS 528 00:37:11,399 --> 00:37:15,770 GET GARBLED. 529 00:37:15,770 --> 00:37:17,138 I'M CHOCTAW AND BORN AND RAISED 530 00:37:17,138 --> 00:37:20,475 IN OKLAHOMA AND WE CAME FROM THE 531 00:37:20,475 --> 00:37:23,278 MOUNTAIN REGIONS GROWING UP 532 00:37:23,278 --> 00:37:25,647 HOWEVER, I HAVE FAMILY ACROSS 533 00:37:25,647 --> 00:37:30,986 CHOCTAW NATION IN OKLAHOMA AND 534 00:37:30,986 --> 00:37:33,121 ONE SISTER WHO CAME WITH ME BUT 535 00:37:33,121 --> 00:37:34,923 MY HUNDREDS OF COUSINS AND 536 00:37:34,923 --> 00:37:38,660 NIECES AND NEPHEWS ALL RESIDE 537 00:37:38,660 --> 00:37:39,194 THERE. 538 00:37:39,194 --> 00:37:42,130 I AM ALSO A CLINICAL HEALTH 539 00:37:42,130 --> 00:37:42,897 PSYCHOLOGIST BY TRAINING. 540 00:37:42,897 --> 00:37:45,467 I SAY THAT AS A CAVEAT. 541 00:37:45,467 --> 00:37:47,269 I'VE BEEN WESTERN TRAINED FOR 542 00:37:47,269 --> 00:37:48,770 MANY YEARS. 543 00:37:48,770 --> 00:37:50,672 I HAVE BEEN ENTRENCHED IN 544 00:37:50,672 --> 00:37:51,306 WESTERN MEDICINE AND A LOT OF 545 00:37:51,306 --> 00:37:53,275 TIMES I COME BACK TO MY FAMILY 546 00:37:53,275 --> 00:37:56,311 AND MY GRANDMOTHER IN PARTICULAR 547 00:37:56,311 --> 00:37:59,581 AND HAVE TO RELEARN HOW TO HEAL 548 00:37:59,581 --> 00:38:00,849 AND HOW TO APPROACH HEALING 549 00:38:00,849 --> 00:38:01,549 WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY. 550 00:38:01,549 --> 00:38:05,820 WITHIN MY SISTERS AND MY OTHER 551 00:38:05,820 --> 00:38:08,323 FAMILY, I'M A FIRST GENERATION 552 00:38:08,323 --> 00:38:10,225 HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE HOWEVER, I 553 00:38:10,225 --> 00:38:13,228 ALWAYS SAY MY FAMILY IS FAR MORE 554 00:38:13,228 --> 00:38:14,129 INTELLIGENT THAN I AM. 555 00:38:14,129 --> 00:38:15,930 THEY DO THINGS I CANNOT DO. 556 00:38:15,930 --> 00:38:18,133 I CAN READ BOOKS AND READ WELL 557 00:38:18,133 --> 00:38:19,200 AND SO THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE 558 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:23,905 ENCOURAGED ME TO DO AS A CHILD. 559 00:38:23,905 --> 00:38:26,875 AND MY CAREER HAS TAKEN ME 560 00:38:26,875 --> 00:38:28,376 ACROSS THE CONTINENT. 561 00:38:28,376 --> 00:38:31,279 I'M FOLLOWING THE FOOTSTEPS OF 562 00:38:31,279 --> 00:38:38,453 OUR CHOCTAW ANCESTORS WHO WORE 563 00:38:38,453 --> 00:38:41,790 SUPPOSEDLY IN THE BIG FLOOD AND 564 00:38:41,790 --> 00:38:44,025 WE HAD TOO LITTLE FOOD AND MOVED 565 00:38:44,025 --> 00:38:47,095 BACK AND THE PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT 566 00:38:47,095 --> 00:38:49,831 TO GIVE UP THE LAND THEY HAD AND 567 00:38:49,831 --> 00:38:52,834 WE KEPT TRAVELLING TO THE 568 00:38:52,834 --> 00:38:55,370 YUCATAN AND CROSSED THE WATERS 569 00:38:55,370 --> 00:38:56,271 OF SOUTHEASTERN U.S. 570 00:38:56,271 --> 00:38:59,374 MYSELF I STARTED IN OKLAHOMA, 571 00:38:59,374 --> 00:39:03,178 WENT TO MONTANA, MINNESOTA THEN 572 00:39:03,178 --> 00:39:08,350 TO CANADA AND NOW IN WASHINGTON. 573 00:39:08,350 --> 00:39:10,852 SO ALSO NEW ZEALAND FOR A YEAR 574 00:39:10,852 --> 00:39:13,188 SO WE'RE TAKING A LITTLE TRIP 575 00:39:13,188 --> 00:39:14,689 AROUND BUT WE'LL SEE. 576 00:39:14,689 --> 00:39:17,192 VERY GRATEFUL TO BE THERE RIGHT 577 00:39:17,192 --> 00:39:19,627 NOW AS CO-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF 578 00:39:19,627 --> 00:39:22,163 THE INSTITUTE AND DIRECTOR OF 579 00:39:22,163 --> 00:39:23,598 OUR DIVISION ON INDIGENOUS 580 00:39:23,598 --> 00:39:27,669 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND 581 00:39:27,669 --> 00:39:28,837 LAND-BASED HEALING. 582 00:39:28,837 --> 00:39:31,473 ALL IN ALL BEING A PSYCHOLOGIST 583 00:39:31,473 --> 00:39:33,308 GIFT I WOULD SAY I SEE MYSELF 584 00:39:33,308 --> 00:39:36,010 MORE OF A STORY TELLING. 585 00:39:36,010 --> 00:39:37,545 TELLING STORIES, RENARRATING THE 586 00:39:37,545 --> 00:39:40,115 STORIES JUST AS I LEARNED 587 00:39:40,115 --> 00:39:41,583 STORIES AS A CHILD. 588 00:39:41,583 --> 00:39:47,222 I CONTINUE TO TELL MY CHILDREN 589 00:39:47,222 --> 00:39:47,455 STORIES. 590 00:39:47,455 --> 00:39:50,325 I HAVE FOUR DAUGHTERS, TWO SONS 591 00:39:50,325 --> 00:39:53,161 AND THEY ARE ARE TRULY AMAZING. 592 00:39:53,161 --> 00:39:54,162 I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE 593 00:39:54,162 --> 00:39:55,964 ABOUT THEM AS WE GO ALONG. 594 00:39:55,964 --> 00:40:00,368 I HAVE ALSO MY GRANDMOTHER'S 595 00:40:00,368 --> 00:40:02,170 HERE AS WELL. 596 00:40:02,170 --> 00:40:08,910 I WANT TO PAY HONOR TO MY 597 00:40:08,910 --> 00:40:11,312 GRANDMOTHER AS THE ANNIVERSARY 598 00:40:11,312 --> 00:40:16,885 OF HER PASSING AND WAS A 599 00:40:16,885 --> 00:40:18,520 BOARDING SCHOOL SURVIVOR AND 600 00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:25,193 LEFT AND WAS FORCED TO GO TO AN 601 00:40:25,193 --> 00:40:27,095 INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL AND THEN 602 00:40:27,095 --> 00:40:28,830 MY GRANDFATHER I DON'T HAVE UP 603 00:40:28,830 --> 00:40:29,597 HERE YET. 604 00:40:29,597 --> 00:40:34,803 SOMETIMES WE TALK ABOUT TRAUMA. 605 00:40:34,803 --> 00:40:36,871 I THINK ABOUT THE TRAUMA IN MY 606 00:40:36,871 --> 00:40:38,907 FAMILY WE OFTEN SKIRT AROUND. 607 00:40:38,907 --> 00:40:41,075 WE DON'T SEE THE FOREST THROUGH 608 00:40:41,075 --> 00:40:42,076 THE TREES. 609 00:40:42,076 --> 00:40:43,711 I KNOW WITH OUR TRIBAL COMMUNITY 610 00:40:43,711 --> 00:40:45,580 IN PARTICULAR THE TRAIL OF TEARS 611 00:40:45,580 --> 00:40:47,582 WAS OFTEN DISCUSSED BY MYSELF 612 00:40:47,582 --> 00:40:50,251 EVEN AS A CHILD AND BY MY OWN 613 00:40:50,251 --> 00:40:53,021 CHILDREN LATER AS A PRESENT-DAY 614 00:40:53,021 --> 00:40:55,089 EVENT AS BEING FORCED REMOVED BY 615 00:40:55,089 --> 00:40:58,460 THE GOVERNMENT WITH MASS LOSS OF 616 00:40:58,460 --> 00:41:00,328 LIFE AS WE WALKED WITH THE FIRST 617 00:41:00,328 --> 00:41:02,297 TRIBE TO BE REMOVED AND LAD TO 618 00:41:02,297 --> 00:41:03,598 ASSEMBLE IN MISSISSIPPI AND 619 00:41:03,598 --> 00:41:08,470 THREE WAVES OF REMOVAL AND THIS 620 00:41:08,470 --> 00:41:09,537 SEVERELY IMPACTED OUR COMMUNITY 621 00:41:09,537 --> 00:41:13,441 AND THEN TO HAVE GENERATIONS 622 00:41:13,441 --> 00:41:16,110 JUST BEGINNING TO SURVIVE AND 623 00:41:16,110 --> 00:41:17,579 THEN PLACED IN BOARDING SCHOOLS 624 00:41:17,579 --> 00:41:19,714 AND I LOOK AT MY 7-YEAR-OLD NOW 625 00:41:19,714 --> 00:41:21,516 AND THINK IF HE WERE RIPPED AWAY 626 00:41:21,516 --> 00:41:24,118 FROM ME EVEN AT AGE 7 I COULDN'T 627 00:41:24,118 --> 00:41:25,620 IMAGINE THE PAIN AND LOSS THAT 628 00:41:25,620 --> 00:41:26,788 WOULD HAVE OCCURRED. 629 00:41:26,788 --> 00:41:30,091 AND SO A LOT OF TIMES THIS 630 00:41:30,091 --> 00:41:33,094 TRAUMA DOES GET US I THINK 631 00:41:33,094 --> 00:41:34,696 RIGHTFULLY SO FEELING VERY DOWN. 632 00:41:34,696 --> 00:41:37,599 AS I HAVE MOVED FORWARD IN MY 633 00:41:37,599 --> 00:41:41,636 OWN JOURNEY AND THROUGH WORKING 634 00:41:41,636 --> 00:41:42,871 WITHIN COMMUNITY I'VE USED ART 635 00:41:42,871 --> 00:41:49,577 AS A WAY TO ILLUSTRATE IT HOW TO 636 00:41:49,577 --> 00:41:51,045 RE-NARRATE AND TRANSFORM THE 637 00:41:51,045 --> 00:41:51,346 NARRATIVES. 638 00:41:51,346 --> 00:41:54,082 THIS IS A PAINTING OF MINE AND 639 00:41:54,082 --> 00:41:55,683 THAT IS MY GRANDMOTHER HOLDING 640 00:41:55,683 --> 00:42:01,155 HER FIRST BORN CHILD. 641 00:42:01,155 --> 00:42:05,426 I LOVE THIS IMAGE BECAUSE OUR 642 00:42:05,426 --> 00:42:10,932 CHOCTAW WAS SO STRONG AND 643 00:42:10,932 --> 00:42:15,270 POWERFUL AND SHE WAS DEFINITELY 644 00:42:15,270 --> 00:42:18,740 OUR MATRIARCH AND TOOK IN HER 645 00:42:18,740 --> 00:42:20,041 GRANDKIDS WHENEVER SHE COULD. 646 00:42:20,041 --> 00:42:21,476 SHE CARED FOR THEM AND LOVED 647 00:42:21,476 --> 00:42:27,715 THEM AND TOLD US THE BEAUTIFUL 648 00:42:27,715 --> 00:42:31,019 STORIES ONCE BEING A DOCTORAL 649 00:42:31,019 --> 00:42:34,055 STUDENT I SAID GRANDMA I TALK 650 00:42:34,055 --> 00:42:36,190 ABOUT HOW I LIST TO BE HEALTHY 651 00:42:36,190 --> 00:42:37,892 IN A CHOCTAW WAY AND TELL ME 652 00:42:37,892 --> 00:42:39,961 WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HEALTHY TO 653 00:42:39,961 --> 00:42:42,130 YOU IN A CHOCTAW WAY AND SAID 654 00:42:42,130 --> 00:42:44,332 THE STORIES ABOUT THE ANIMALS 655 00:42:44,332 --> 00:42:46,734 AND I SAID YEAH THE KID STORIES, 656 00:42:46,734 --> 00:42:49,971 NO, SHE WAS IN A COMMUNITY WHERE 657 00:42:49,971 --> 00:42:51,773 THEY ONLY SPOKE CHOCTAW AND WE 658 00:42:51,773 --> 00:42:54,175 SAT AROUND THE FIRE AND TELL THE 659 00:42:54,175 --> 00:42:56,444 CHILDREN THE FIRE. 660 00:42:56,444 --> 00:42:58,613 SHE SAID THOSE STORIES TELL YOU 661 00:42:58,613 --> 00:43:00,715 ALL YOU NEED TO BE WELL AND I 662 00:43:00,715 --> 00:43:03,151 FOCUSSED ON HE STORIES FROM HER 663 00:43:03,151 --> 00:43:04,152 AND HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS WOULD 664 00:43:04,152 --> 00:43:05,420 SHARE STORIES AND COLLEGE 665 00:43:05,420 --> 00:43:07,055 FRIENDS IN OKLAHOMA WE WOULD 666 00:43:07,055 --> 00:43:09,757 SHARE STORIES AND TRYING TO 667 00:43:09,757 --> 00:43:12,360 DECODE WHAT ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS 668 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:13,695 FOR LIVING IN A GOOD WAY. 669 00:43:13,695 --> 00:43:15,730 IN THAT IMAGE I PLACED HER IN 670 00:43:15,730 --> 00:43:17,031 THE CENTER BECAUSE SHE IS 671 00:43:17,031 --> 00:43:20,134 SOMEONE I SEE AS MY ROLE MODEL, 672 00:43:20,134 --> 00:43:23,204 AS MY MENTOR AND THE FLICKER 673 00:43:23,204 --> 00:43:24,439 BIRD FOR US REPRESENTS HEALING. 674 00:43:24,439 --> 00:43:26,407 SO I HAVE THE HEALING OF THE 675 00:43:26,407 --> 00:43:30,278 FLICKA BIRD COMING THROUGH BUT 676 00:43:30,278 --> 00:43:33,948 THE COLUMNS ARE PASTED AS THE 677 00:43:33,948 --> 00:43:35,049 TREATY OF DANCING RABBIT CREEK 678 00:43:35,049 --> 00:43:37,318 THAT ARE MOVED US FROM OUR 679 00:43:37,318 --> 00:43:37,585 HOMELANDS. 680 00:43:37,585 --> 00:43:40,054 SO I PUT HER IN THE MIDDLE THERE 681 00:43:40,054 --> 00:43:42,423 ONE OF HEALING, A SPACE OF 682 00:43:42,423 --> 00:43:45,226 HEALING OF BEING REMOVED AND 683 00:43:45,226 --> 00:43:46,661 TAKEN THE BOARDING SCHOOL AND 684 00:43:46,661 --> 00:43:48,630 THROUGH THE WAVE OF THE WATER OF 685 00:43:48,630 --> 00:43:49,464 GENERATION AND RENEWAL. 686 00:43:49,464 --> 00:43:53,201 BEING ABLE TO CROSS INTO AN AREA 687 00:43:53,201 --> 00:43:54,369 OF HEALTH AND WELL BEING DRAWN 688 00:43:54,369 --> 00:43:57,238 UPON OUR SACRED MEDICINES I 689 00:43:57,238 --> 00:43:59,007 PAINTED HERE AND OUR TOBACCO 690 00:43:59,007 --> 00:44:01,142 BROTHER TO OUR COMMUNITY AND HOW 691 00:44:01,142 --> 00:44:03,444 WE CAN GIVE PRAYER AND RENEW AND 692 00:44:03,444 --> 00:44:10,051 HEAL AS WE MOVE FORWARD TODAY. 693 00:44:10,051 --> 00:44:11,819 NOW, WE HAVE THIS IMPACT OF 694 00:44:11,819 --> 00:44:13,388 TRAUMA AND IT IS THERE AND IT'S 695 00:44:13,388 --> 00:44:15,123 TRUE AND WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE 696 00:44:15,123 --> 00:44:20,094 THAT AND SEE THAT AS A TRUTH WE 697 00:44:20,094 --> 00:44:23,197 MUST BRING TO THE FOREFRONT. 698 00:44:23,197 --> 00:44:25,266 AT THE SAME TIME THERE'S THE 699 00:44:25,266 --> 00:44:26,300 IMPACT OF LOVE ACROSS 700 00:44:26,300 --> 00:44:26,601 GENERATIONS. 701 00:44:26,601 --> 00:44:30,605 I HAVE HERE MY FAMILY IN THE 702 00:44:30,605 --> 00:44:31,706 UPPER RIGHT HERE. 703 00:44:31,706 --> 00:44:34,542 THAT'S THE HOTEL THEY HAD IN 704 00:44:34,542 --> 00:44:34,809 OKLAHOMA. 705 00:44:34,809 --> 00:44:37,612 I SAY HOTEL LOOSELY BECAUSE IN 706 00:44:37,612 --> 00:44:39,614 OKLAHOMA BACK THEN WAS JUST A 707 00:44:39,614 --> 00:44:41,516 TWO STORY HOUSE BUT THIS IS 708 00:44:41,516 --> 00:44:44,419 WHERE THEY WOULD HOST PEOPLE AND 709 00:44:44,419 --> 00:44:46,688 ONLY SPOKE CHOCTAW AND THE 710 00:44:46,688 --> 00:44:48,556 RAILROAD CAME THROUGH AND THOSE 711 00:44:48,556 --> 00:44:52,293 ARE MY GRANDPARENTS THERE. 712 00:44:52,293 --> 00:44:56,297 I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST MY 713 00:44:56,297 --> 00:45:00,001 GRANDFATHER YOU BUT WAS A 714 00:45:00,001 --> 00:45:02,904 PREACHER AND MEDICINE HEALER AND 715 00:45:02,904 --> 00:45:04,305 PEOPLE CAME TO TO BE HEALED AND 716 00:45:04,305 --> 00:45:09,277 HE WAS ABLE TO TREAT THEM IN A 717 00:45:09,277 --> 00:45:10,778 DISCREET THEM BECAUSE IT WAS 718 00:45:10,778 --> 00:45:11,779 ILLEGAL BACK THEN AND MY 719 00:45:11,779 --> 00:45:16,084 GRANDMOTHER WAS ALSO A HEALER. 720 00:45:16,084 --> 00:45:18,386 MY FATHER SPEAKS CASUALLY IN HIS 721 00:45:18,386 --> 00:45:20,354 ELDER YEARS ABOUT THE PEOPLE ON 722 00:45:20,354 --> 00:45:21,656 THE BED AT THE HOSPITAL AS SHE 723 00:45:21,656 --> 00:45:22,990 WAS PASSING AND EVERYBODY SAW IT 724 00:45:22,990 --> 00:45:25,359 AND THE NURSES SAW IT AND THE 725 00:45:25,359 --> 00:45:28,262 DOCTOR SAW IT, THE LITTLE PERSON 726 00:45:28,262 --> 00:45:29,597 WAS RIGHT THERE AS FAR AS HE 727 00:45:29,597 --> 00:45:31,733 KNEW HELPING HER HE'LL BEFORE 728 00:45:31,733 --> 00:45:33,401 SHE PASSED AND PASS IN A GOOD 729 00:45:33,401 --> 00:45:33,568 WAY. 730 00:45:33,568 --> 00:45:35,636 I THINK OF HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO 731 00:45:35,636 --> 00:45:37,638 MOVE FORWARD DESPITE THE 732 00:45:37,638 --> 00:45:38,272 TRAUMAS. 733 00:45:38,272 --> 00:45:40,675 WE HAVE THE BOARDING SCHOOL THAT 734 00:45:40,675 --> 00:45:42,376 MY FAMILY WENT TO IS JONES 735 00:45:42,376 --> 00:45:43,878 ACADEMY AND MY BROTHER AND 736 00:45:43,878 --> 00:45:45,947 SISTER HAD A SHORT STINT THERE 737 00:45:45,947 --> 00:45:49,217 AS WELL AND IT CHANGED INTO THE 738 00:45:49,217 --> 00:45:53,621 CHOCTAW NATION'S HAND AND 739 00:45:53,621 --> 00:45:58,059 THERE'S A SCHOOL AND THE PHOTO 740 00:45:58,059 --> 00:46:02,430 OF THE TRAIL OF TEARS IS A STOCK 741 00:46:02,430 --> 00:46:04,565 PHOTO NOT MINE. 742 00:46:04,565 --> 00:46:06,167 I HAVE ANY GRANDFATHER HERE A 743 00:46:06,167 --> 00:46:08,503 BOARDING SCHOOL SURVIVOR AND HIS 744 00:46:08,503 --> 00:46:08,970 SIBLINGS. 745 00:46:08,970 --> 00:46:11,472 I NOTICED THEY DON'T EVEN LIST 746 00:46:11,472 --> 00:46:12,774 THE MOTHER'S NAME BECAUSE 747 00:46:12,774 --> 00:46:13,741 THEY'RE NOT SURE WHO THEIR 748 00:46:13,741 --> 00:46:16,310 MOTHER WAS AND THEIR FATHER ALSO 749 00:46:16,310 --> 00:46:17,044 PASSED. 750 00:46:17,044 --> 00:46:18,513 IT'S A HEARTACHE ON THAT SIDE OF 751 00:46:18,513 --> 00:46:20,248 THE FAMILY AS WELL BUT YET HE 752 00:46:20,248 --> 00:46:22,483 STILL LOVED US WITH A FIERCE 753 00:46:22,483 --> 00:46:25,586 LOVE AND HE WOULD TAKE ME ASIDE 754 00:46:25,586 --> 00:46:28,923 AND TEACH ME CHOCTAW AS A CHILD 755 00:46:28,923 --> 00:46:33,861 AND THAT LOVE JUST OOZED OUT OF 756 00:46:33,861 --> 00:46:36,297 HIM AND SAID I LOVE YOU IN HIS 757 00:46:36,297 --> 00:46:37,732 CHOCTAW WAY AND MY GRANDMOTHER 758 00:46:37,732 --> 00:46:39,100 AS WELL AND WE HAVE THE NATION 759 00:46:39,100 --> 00:46:39,300 THERE. 760 00:46:39,300 --> 00:46:40,268 I PUT THAT AS A REPRESENTATION 761 00:46:40,268 --> 00:46:43,771 THAT WE MOVE FORWARD AS A 762 00:46:43,771 --> 00:46:47,408 COMMUNITY EVEN IF MY FAMILY 763 00:46:47,408 --> 00:46:49,310 WASN'T INVOLVED IN THE DIRECT 764 00:46:49,310 --> 00:46:50,945 POLITICS OF THE NATION THE 765 00:46:50,945 --> 00:46:51,946 COMMUNITY WAS THERE FOR EACH 766 00:46:51,946 --> 00:46:52,446 OTHER. 767 00:46:52,446 --> 00:46:54,315 DURING THE TIME OF HARDSHIP AND 768 00:46:54,315 --> 00:46:55,950 TURMOIL WE HAD FAMILY. 769 00:46:55,950 --> 00:46:57,151 WE HAD COMMUNITY PUSHING US 770 00:46:57,151 --> 00:46:58,586 FORWARD AND WE HAD OUR MEDICINES 771 00:46:58,586 --> 00:47:00,988 AND WAYS TO GET AROUND WHAT WAS 772 00:47:00,988 --> 00:47:01,589 IMPOSED UPON US. 773 00:47:01,589 --> 00:47:03,457 AND I THINK BACK TO THAT 774 00:47:03,457 --> 00:47:05,426 RESILIENCE AND STRENGTH AND THAT 775 00:47:05,426 --> 00:47:09,230 POWER THAT'S WITHIN THAT AND 776 00:47:09,230 --> 00:47:11,566 WHERE MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER 777 00:47:11,566 --> 00:47:14,368 HOLDING ME ON HER LAP AS A BABY 778 00:47:14,368 --> 00:47:16,304 AND CHILD AND MY BROTHER AND 779 00:47:16,304 --> 00:47:17,705 SISTER IT JUST TWO OF MY 780 00:47:17,705 --> 00:47:19,574 BROTHERS AND SISTERS, IS A GREAT 781 00:47:19,574 --> 00:47:21,943 POWER TO ME TO HAVE THAT BEHIND 782 00:47:21,943 --> 00:47:23,945 ME AS A MOVE FORWARD AND PASS 783 00:47:23,945 --> 00:47:24,979 THAT ON TO MY CHILDREN AS WELL 784 00:47:24,979 --> 00:47:30,218 AS THEY MOVE FORWARD. 785 00:47:30,218 --> 00:47:31,919 NOW, IT'S A DIFFICULT TIGHT ROPE 786 00:47:31,919 --> 00:47:33,020 TO WALK. 787 00:47:33,020 --> 00:47:34,188 THIS IS MY YOUNGEST. 788 00:47:34,188 --> 00:47:37,425 BUT WE HAVE TO BALANCE THIS. 789 00:47:37,425 --> 00:47:40,528 THE TRAUMA WITH THE IDEA OF LOVE 790 00:47:40,528 --> 00:47:43,231 THAT COMES FROM ABOVE YOU CAN 791 00:47:43,231 --> 00:47:44,465 REACH UP AND GRAB WHEN WE'RE 792 00:47:44,465 --> 00:47:46,667 FEELING DOWN IS CRITICAL AND 793 00:47:46,667 --> 00:47:46,934 IMPORTANT. 794 00:47:46,934 --> 00:47:49,570 AND OUR ANCESTORS HAVE DONE THIS 795 00:47:49,570 --> 00:47:51,472 ALL ALONG. 796 00:47:51,472 --> 00:47:53,241 FOR MYSELF I JUST GOT OFF A 797 00:47:53,241 --> 00:47:55,509 PLANE FROM IRELAND AND I DON'T 798 00:47:55,509 --> 00:47:58,679 KNOW IF IT'S BEEN 24 HOURS AND 799 00:47:58,679 --> 00:47:59,881 THIS IS A PURCHASE FROM MY 800 00:47:59,881 --> 00:48:03,150 CHILDREN FOR MYSELF AND MY 801 00:48:03,150 --> 00:48:05,219 HUSBAND AND IT WAS ASHORT TRIP 802 00:48:05,219 --> 00:48:07,021 BUT AFTER THE TRAIL OF TEARS 803 00:48:07,021 --> 00:48:08,422 THIS LONG WALK WHERE OUR 804 00:48:08,422 --> 00:48:10,625 COMMUNITY WAS DESOLATE AND TRIED 805 00:48:10,625 --> 00:48:14,328 TO SURVIVE AN STARVING, LATER ON 806 00:48:14,328 --> 00:48:16,998 THE NEXT THEIR CHILDREN HAIRED 807 00:48:16,998 --> 00:48:18,466 OF PEOPLE STARVING AS WELL 808 00:48:18,466 --> 00:48:19,867 AND -- HEARD OF PEOPLE STARVING 809 00:48:19,867 --> 00:48:22,803 AS WELL AND I HEARD FROM AUNTIES 810 00:48:22,803 --> 00:48:23,471 AND GRANDMOTHERS THEY ARE SO 811 00:48:23,471 --> 00:48:25,072 MUCH LIKE US WE HAD TO GIVE. 812 00:48:25,072 --> 00:48:26,807 WE HAD TO HELP. 813 00:48:26,807 --> 00:48:28,910 NOBODY ELSE WOULD SEND MONEY BUT 814 00:48:28,910 --> 00:48:36,417 THE CHOCTAW NATION WOULD AND THE 815 00:48:36,417 --> 00:48:38,986 EQUIVALENT OF $250,000 TODAY AND 816 00:48:38,986 --> 00:48:40,321 I MET A PRESIDENT WHO CAME IN 817 00:48:40,321 --> 00:48:41,255 AND THEY ARE DANCED FOR US AND 818 00:48:41,255 --> 00:48:43,224 WE DANCED FOR THEM AND I'LL 819 00:48:43,224 --> 00:48:45,459 NEVER FORGET THAT BECAUSE WHEN I 820 00:48:45,459 --> 00:48:46,961 SHOOK HER HAND, SHE SAID PLEASED 821 00:48:46,961 --> 00:48:48,562 COME VISIT SO MY WHOLE ADULT 822 00:48:48,562 --> 00:48:50,798 LIFE I'VE BEEN WANTING TO GO 823 00:48:50,798 --> 00:48:52,433 VISIT AND THEY ARE HAVE DONE 824 00:48:52,433 --> 00:48:53,701 SUCH WONDERFUL WORK AND 825 00:48:53,701 --> 00:48:55,970 RECIPROCITY OF OFFERING FULL 826 00:48:55,970 --> 00:48:57,905 RIDES TO THEIR UNIVERSITY, THEY 827 00:48:57,905 --> 00:49:00,508 HAVE DONE A SCULPTURE TO HONOR 828 00:49:00,508 --> 00:49:03,511 US AND SO I WAS ABLE TO GO. 829 00:49:03,511 --> 00:49:08,516 AND I CANNOT TELL YOU THE LOVE 830 00:49:08,516 --> 00:49:13,587 AND THE GENUINENESS I 831 00:49:13,587 --> 00:49:15,756 ENCOUNTERED AS PEOPLE HELD MY 832 00:49:15,756 --> 00:49:16,857 HAND AND SAID THANK YOU FOR WHAT 833 00:49:16,857 --> 00:49:17,925 YOU DID FOR US AND THANK YOU FOR 834 00:49:17,925 --> 00:49:19,360 YOUR ANCESTORS. 835 00:49:19,360 --> 00:49:22,129 AND I THINK I WONDER IF MY 836 00:49:22,129 --> 00:49:23,631 ANCESTORS KNEW WHEN THEY SAT AND 837 00:49:23,631 --> 00:49:24,865 WALKED THE TRAIL OF TEARS, THEY 838 00:49:24,865 --> 00:49:26,534 ARE FOCUSSED ON THE SEVEN 839 00:49:26,534 --> 00:49:27,902 GENERATIONS FORWARD TO GET THEM 840 00:49:27,902 --> 00:49:28,436 THROUGH. 841 00:49:28,436 --> 00:49:31,205 ONE OF MY GRANDMOTHERS I READ AN 842 00:49:31,205 --> 00:49:33,140 ACCOUNT AND SHE SAID SHE CARRIED 843 00:49:33,140 --> 00:49:38,946 HER LITTLE BROTHER ON HER BACK 844 00:49:38,946 --> 00:49:42,650 ON THE TRAIL OF TEARS BEAR FOOT 845 00:49:42,650 --> 00:49:49,590 IN THE SNOW AND SHE CARRIED HIM 846 00:49:49,590 --> 00:49:52,259 BECAUSE HE WOULDN'T MAKE IT 847 00:49:52,259 --> 00:49:53,527 THROUGH AND SHE SAID WITH EVERY 848 00:49:53,527 --> 00:49:55,262 STEP I TOOK I THOUGHT ABOUT MY 849 00:49:55,262 --> 00:49:59,233 LOVE FOR THE SEVEN GENERATIONS 850 00:49:59,233 --> 00:50:00,735 FORWARD FOR EVERY STEP. 851 00:50:00,735 --> 00:50:01,802 I THOUGHT WHO IS THAT? 852 00:50:01,802 --> 00:50:05,106 WHO IS THE SEVENTH GENERATION 853 00:50:05,106 --> 00:50:08,009 AFTER HER AND I COUNTED IT AND 854 00:50:08,009 --> 00:50:11,145 IT'S MY CHILDREN AND I GET TO 855 00:50:11,145 --> 00:50:14,248 THEM YOU WERE LOVED SO MUCH 856 00:50:14,248 --> 00:50:15,950 BEFORE YOU WERE BORN BY HER AND 857 00:50:15,950 --> 00:50:17,485 THAT GOT HER THROUGH THAT 858 00:50:17,485 --> 00:50:17,752 TRAUMA. 859 00:50:17,752 --> 00:50:21,188 WHEN I WENT TO IRELAND AND SAT 860 00:50:21,188 --> 00:50:23,224 IN THE SPOT WHEN THEY'RE 861 00:50:23,224 --> 00:50:24,492 HONORING US AND I THOUGHT MOVING 862 00:50:24,492 --> 00:50:26,193 THAT FORWARD AND HOW POWERFUL 863 00:50:26,193 --> 00:50:29,196 THAT IS FOR HEALING AND HOW OUR 864 00:50:29,196 --> 00:50:30,264 ANCESTORS HEALED BY GIVING THE 865 00:50:30,264 --> 00:50:32,700 GIFT OF A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY 866 00:50:32,700 --> 00:50:33,334 AND A LITTLE BIT OF SUPPORT TO 867 00:50:33,334 --> 00:50:36,037 SOMEONE ELSE. 868 00:50:36,037 --> 00:50:38,839 NOW, IN INDIGENOUS FRAMEWORK 869 00:50:38,839 --> 00:50:40,908 I'LL TRY TO HURRY BECAUSE I 870 00:50:40,908 --> 00:50:43,244 DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH TIME BUT 871 00:50:43,244 --> 00:50:45,179 HAPPY TO DISCUSS LATER FOR 872 00:50:45,179 --> 00:50:45,613 ANYONE INTERESTED. 873 00:50:45,613 --> 00:50:47,715 WE HAVE FRAMEWORKS AND I'M A 874 00:50:47,715 --> 00:50:49,583 CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGIST AND 875 00:50:49,583 --> 00:50:51,752 INSTEAD OF BRINGING WHAT 876 00:50:51,752 --> 00:50:52,953 STRENGTHS YOU BRING AND WHAT 877 00:50:52,953 --> 00:50:54,622 BEAUTY AND STORIES AND 878 00:50:54,622 --> 00:50:55,556 TEACHINGS, THE FIRST THING I'D 879 00:50:55,556 --> 00:50:58,592 WALK IN AND SAY IS WHAT DO YOUR 880 00:50:58,592 --> 00:51:00,061 ANCESTORS CURSE YOU WITH? 881 00:51:00,061 --> 00:51:03,998 DO THEY CURSE YOU WITH DIABETES 882 00:51:03,998 --> 00:51:04,198 RISK? 883 00:51:04,198 --> 00:51:05,299 MENTAL HEALTH RISK? 884 00:51:05,299 --> 00:51:07,234 WHAT DID THEY DO TO YOU INSTEAD 885 00:51:07,234 --> 00:51:09,937 OF FOR YOU AND FROM AN 886 00:51:09,937 --> 00:51:11,072 INDIGENOUS VIEW THAT'S VERY 887 00:51:11,072 --> 00:51:12,006 DIFFERENT. 888 00:51:12,006 --> 00:51:14,608 I'VE BEEN PRIVILEGED AND HONORED 889 00:51:14,608 --> 00:51:16,143 TO WORK WITH COMMUNITIES ACROSS 890 00:51:16,143 --> 00:51:17,311 NORTH AMERICA FOCUSSING ON WHAT 891 00:51:17,311 --> 00:51:21,182 OUR ANCESTORS HAVE GIFTED US TO 892 00:51:21,182 --> 00:51:24,585 BE WELL TODAY AND HOW TO HEAL 893 00:51:24,585 --> 00:51:26,253 FROM THE TRAUMA BECAUSE TRAUMA 894 00:51:26,253 --> 00:51:28,823 AND LOVE ARE BOTH IMPORTANT. 895 00:51:28,823 --> 00:51:31,292 WE HAVE DR. VOLKOW HAS DONE 896 00:51:31,292 --> 00:51:33,594 PRELIMINARY WORK AT EPIGENETICS 897 00:51:33,594 --> 00:51:35,329 AND LOOKING AT HOW WHEN TWO WINS 898 00:51:35,329 --> 00:51:38,099 SEPARATED AT THE BIRTH THE ONE 899 00:51:38,099 --> 00:51:39,300 AT THE LESS LOVED HOUSEHOLD 900 00:51:39,300 --> 00:51:41,235 STILL HAS SWITCHES TURNED ON TO 901 00:51:41,235 --> 00:51:45,372 PUT THEM AT RISK FOR SUBSTANCE 902 00:51:45,372 --> 00:51:48,175 USE OR OTHER CHRONIC DISEASES, 903 00:51:48,175 --> 00:51:48,976 DIABETES, ETCETERA. 904 00:51:48,976 --> 00:51:54,281 WE KNOW IF THE OTHER TWIN GOES 905 00:51:54,281 --> 00:51:57,084 TO A LOVING HOUSEHOLD THE 906 00:51:57,084 --> 00:52:01,255 SWITCHES GET TURNED OFF BY AGE 5 907 00:52:01,255 --> 00:52:04,258 AND EVEN AS ADULTS WE CAN TURN 908 00:52:04,258 --> 00:52:06,994 THOSE OFF BY LOVING INTERACTIONS 909 00:52:06,994 --> 00:52:10,231 AND POWERFUL, COLLECTIVE 910 00:52:10,231 --> 00:52:10,698 INTERACTIONS. 911 00:52:10,698 --> 00:52:17,238 JUST AS OUR ANCESTORS TAUGHT US, 912 00:52:17,238 --> 00:52:19,740 MY GRANDMOTHER ESCAPED FROM 913 00:52:19,740 --> 00:52:21,308 BOARDING SCHOOL AND WE GET 914 00:52:21,308 --> 00:52:23,043 STORIES HOW YOU NEVER STRIKE A 915 00:52:23,043 --> 00:52:23,244 CHILD. 916 00:52:23,244 --> 00:52:25,246 YOU NEVER UPSET A PREGNANT 917 00:52:25,246 --> 00:52:25,913 WOMAN. 918 00:52:25,913 --> 00:52:28,482 YOU ALWAYS SPEAK LOVINGLY TO A 919 00:52:28,482 --> 00:52:30,184 CHILD AND IN CULTURAL WAYS 920 00:52:30,184 --> 00:52:32,653 THERE'S UNCLE WHO WILL GUIDE 921 00:52:32,653 --> 00:52:34,588 THEM AND DO POSITIVE 922 00:52:34,588 --> 00:52:35,222 REINFORCEMENT. 923 00:52:35,222 --> 00:52:37,191 THOSE ACTIONS ARE SO CRITICAL TO 924 00:52:37,191 --> 00:52:39,326 PROTECT AND MOVE US FORWARD AND 925 00:52:39,326 --> 00:52:40,995 BEING AUNTIES IN THE COMMUNITY, 926 00:52:40,995 --> 00:52:44,165 AS A COMMUNITY AT LARGE CAN ALSO 927 00:52:44,165 --> 00:52:45,399 OFFER THAT LOVING SUPPORT. 928 00:52:45,399 --> 00:52:47,234 IT'S SO CRITICAL FOR OUR WELL 929 00:52:47,234 --> 00:52:49,170 BEING AND ALTERS NOT ONLY THE 930 00:52:49,170 --> 00:52:51,572 GENERATION THAT WE'RE ABLE TO DO 931 00:52:51,572 --> 00:52:53,574 THAT FOR BUT THE SUBSEQUENT 932 00:52:53,574 --> 00:52:53,874 GENERATIONS. 933 00:52:53,874 --> 00:52:55,609 AS I TELL MY FOUR CHILDREN WE 934 00:52:55,609 --> 00:52:57,111 TRY TO DO WHAT WE CAN FOR YOU. 935 00:52:57,111 --> 00:53:01,582 YOU KEEP IT GOING AND DOING MORE 936 00:53:01,582 --> 00:53:02,416 FOR MY GRANDCHILDREN AND MORE 937 00:53:02,416 --> 00:53:03,551 FOR THEM. 938 00:53:03,551 --> 00:53:05,452 IT'S A SHORT BLIP IN OUR HISTORY 939 00:53:05,452 --> 00:53:07,955 AS DR. SMITH SAYS. 940 00:53:07,955 --> 00:53:09,590 COLONIZATION IS A SHORT BLIP 941 00:53:09,590 --> 00:53:10,824 ACROSS THOUSANDS OF YEARS WE'VE 942 00:53:10,824 --> 00:53:12,293 BEEN NATIVE PEOPLE. 943 00:53:12,293 --> 00:53:14,695 IF WE CAN INTERRUPT THAT AND GET 944 00:53:14,695 --> 00:53:17,231 BACK ON TRACK AT BEING THE 945 00:53:17,231 --> 00:53:17,731 LOVING KIND WONDERFUL 946 00:53:17,731 --> 00:53:24,371 COMMUNITIES WE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN. 947 00:53:24,371 --> 00:53:27,208 OF COURSE IT'S NOT A MAGIC WAND. 948 00:53:27,208 --> 00:53:30,578 THAT'S MY ELDERLY THERE. 949 00:53:30,578 --> 00:53:33,314 WE KNOW WE CAN TAKE THE EFFORTS 950 00:53:33,314 --> 00:53:35,349 AND THAT IT MEANS A LOT TO EACH 951 00:53:35,349 --> 00:53:36,650 OF US. 952 00:53:36,650 --> 00:53:38,586 NOW, MY CHARGE IS TO TALK MORE 953 00:53:38,586 --> 00:53:40,521 ABOUT LAND AND SO I THINK LAND 954 00:53:40,521 --> 00:53:43,023 IS A CRITICAL FACTOR IN HEALTH. 955 00:53:43,023 --> 00:53:45,593 IT DEFINITELY REALIGNS US WITH 956 00:53:45,593 --> 00:53:47,461 OUR ANCESTORS. 957 00:53:47,461 --> 00:53:49,697 WE GET BACK IN TOUCH WITH LOVE 958 00:53:49,697 --> 00:53:50,798 BOND THE LAND. 959 00:53:50,798 --> 00:53:53,234 AS YOU WALK UPON THE LAND YOU 960 00:53:53,234 --> 00:53:56,003 WAN CAN FEEL THE LOVE THERE AND 961 00:53:56,003 --> 00:53:57,238 ANY WORK CENTERS AROUND 962 00:53:57,238 --> 00:53:58,739 COMMUNITY AND GOING BACK TO 963 00:53:58,739 --> 00:54:00,074 SITES OF TRAUMA AND CALLING ON 964 00:54:00,074 --> 00:54:01,408 THE ANCESTRAL LOVE THAT CALLED 965 00:54:01,408 --> 00:54:02,843 THEM THROUGH. 966 00:54:02,843 --> 00:54:04,645 WHEN I WORK WITH COMMUNITIES 967 00:54:04,645 --> 00:54:06,780 THEY'LL OFTEN SPONTANEOUSLY 968 00:54:06,780 --> 00:54:09,049 DESIGN THEIR OWN CEREMONIES UPON 969 00:54:09,049 --> 00:54:09,683 THE LAND. 970 00:54:09,683 --> 00:54:12,219 WE DON'T HAVE OUR CEREMONIES 971 00:54:12,219 --> 00:54:15,322 ANYMORE AND WHAT DO WE DO AND I 972 00:54:15,322 --> 00:54:16,924 SAY A NEW CEREMONY WILL EMERGE 973 00:54:16,924 --> 00:54:21,495 BECAUSE THE LAND SPEAKS TO THEM 974 00:54:21,495 --> 00:54:22,029 AND WE SPEAK TO THE LAND. 975 00:54:22,029 --> 00:54:23,030 KNOW, WE KNOW THERE'S SCIENTIFIC 976 00:54:23,030 --> 00:54:24,298 BENEFITS OF LAND-BASED 977 00:54:24,298 --> 00:54:24,732 INTERVENTIONS. 978 00:54:24,732 --> 00:54:27,334 I HAVE TO SAY WESTERN SCIENCE IS 979 00:54:27,334 --> 00:54:29,837 JUST NOW CATCHING UP IN A LOT OF 980 00:54:29,837 --> 00:54:31,772 WAYS BUT OUR ANCESTORS ALREADY 981 00:54:31,772 --> 00:54:33,240 KNEW THIS AND I WAS TALKING 982 00:54:33,240 --> 00:54:34,675 OUTSIDE I'D BE MORE LIKELY TO 983 00:54:34,675 --> 00:54:37,978 REMEMBER ALL THAT I SAY RIGHT 984 00:54:37,978 --> 00:54:38,145 NOW. 985 00:54:38,145 --> 00:54:44,118 WE KNOW YOU HAVE MORE ACADEMIC 986 00:54:44,118 --> 00:54:45,286 LONG-TERM CLARNG CHANGES IF YOU 987 00:54:45,286 --> 00:54:47,154 GO OUTSIDE AND REMEMBER 988 00:54:47,154 --> 00:54:48,789 ANCESTRAL WAYS OUTSIDE. 989 00:54:48,789 --> 00:54:51,392 THE CEREMONIES ARE HELD OUTSIDE 990 00:54:51,392 --> 00:54:53,160 AND THERE'S GOOD REASON. 991 00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:55,896 WE'RE AMAZING SCIENTISTS AND OUR 992 00:54:55,896 --> 00:54:56,730 ANCESTORS KNEW THIS AND KNEW 993 00:54:56,730 --> 00:55:00,234 WHAT WAS BEST FOR US. 994 00:55:00,234 --> 00:55:04,004 TO DO THAT WE HAVE TO GET DIRTY 995 00:55:04,004 --> 00:55:06,707 FIRST AND HAVE TO DECOLONIZE AND 996 00:55:06,707 --> 00:55:13,580 LOOK AT OUR WAYS AND IS IT 997 00:55:13,580 --> 00:55:19,420 SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN IMPORTANT 998 00:55:19,420 --> 00:55:20,854 TO US AND GO BACK TO WHAT'S 999 00:55:20,854 --> 00:55:21,155 INDIGENOUS. 1000 00:55:21,155 --> 00:55:23,257 WE DON'T HAVE TO RECREATE 1001 00:55:23,257 --> 00:55:25,326 CEREMONIES WE NO LONGER DO, WE 1002 00:55:25,326 --> 00:55:26,226 CAN CREATE NEW ONES. 1003 00:55:26,226 --> 00:55:36,804 IT'S SUCH A RELEASE AND A--HA 1004 00:55:46,413 --> 00:55:48,182 MOMENT AND WE HAVE ELDERS THERE 1005 00:55:48,182 --> 00:55:49,316 AND YOUTH THERE AND COLLECTIVELY 1006 00:55:49,316 --> 00:55:50,517 COME TOGETHER. 1007 00:55:50,517 --> 00:55:55,723 IT'S NOT ABOUT PERSONAL GLORY 1008 00:55:55,723 --> 00:55:58,025 OR ABOUT BEING A LEADER OR THIS 1009 00:55:58,025 --> 00:55:59,326 OR THAT BUT GIVING AND STEPPING 1010 00:55:59,326 --> 00:56:00,494 ASIDE AS NEEDED. 1011 00:56:00,494 --> 00:56:03,997 WE NEED TO REVITALIZE AND THEN 1012 00:56:03,997 --> 00:56:06,166 ENTER A SPACE OF THRIVANCE AND 1013 00:56:06,166 --> 00:56:07,701 WE BOTH HAVE DISCUSSED THIS MORE 1014 00:56:07,701 --> 00:56:13,574 THOROUGHLY IN A CHAPTER RECENTLY 1015 00:56:13,574 --> 00:56:14,775 BUT THRIVING IS GROWING 1016 00:56:14,775 --> 00:56:16,076 ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE AND WISDOM 1017 00:56:16,076 --> 00:56:18,579 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT SURVIVING. 1018 00:56:18,579 --> 00:56:21,415 WE SURVIVED AND WE'RE HERE BUT 1019 00:56:21,415 --> 00:56:23,016 HOW DO WE SET TO THE FUTURE 1020 00:56:23,016 --> 00:56:24,585 COURSE TO THRIVE IN TODAY'S 1021 00:56:24,585 --> 00:56:25,619 WORLD AND MOVE FORWARD IN A GOOD 1022 00:56:25,619 --> 00:56:30,624 WAY? 1023 00:56:30,624 --> 00:56:33,927 LAND-BASED HEALING IT'S JUST 1024 00:56:33,927 --> 00:56:35,262 HEALING UPON THE LAND. 1025 00:56:35,262 --> 00:56:37,498 IT'S NOTHING NEW IN TERMS OF 1026 00:56:37,498 --> 00:56:38,165 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. 1027 00:56:38,165 --> 00:56:41,068 THEY'RE DOING IT ALL THE TIME. 1028 00:56:41,068 --> 00:56:42,669 BUT IN TERMS OF SCIENTIFIC 1029 00:56:42,669 --> 00:56:43,170 RESEARCH. 1030 00:56:43,170 --> 00:56:45,539 WHAT WE'VE DONE IS INTEGRATED 1031 00:56:45,539 --> 00:56:47,074 WAYS TO APPROACH IT IN A 1032 00:56:47,074 --> 00:56:49,176 SCIENTIFIC WAY TO GET GRANT 1033 00:56:49,176 --> 00:56:53,180 MONEY TO UTILIZE THIS TO ADDRESS 1034 00:56:53,180 --> 00:56:55,282 SOME OF THE ILLS UPON US THROUGH 1035 00:56:55,282 --> 00:56:56,750 COLONIZATION AND OPPRESSION. 1036 00:56:56,750 --> 00:56:58,318 WE TWO THAT BY HEALING 1037 00:56:58,318 --> 00:56:59,553 INTERVENTIONS UPON THE LAND 1038 00:56:59,553 --> 00:57:01,789 BASED ON ANCESTRAL PRACTICES AND 1039 00:57:01,789 --> 00:57:02,055 TEACHINGS. 1040 00:57:02,055 --> 00:57:04,858 TO DO SO WE ALSO NEED A 1041 00:57:04,858 --> 00:57:05,259 REVOLUTION. 1042 00:57:05,259 --> 00:57:07,394 WE NEED TO CENTER THE LOVE AND 1043 00:57:07,394 --> 00:57:08,796 PACKET IN THERE. 1044 00:57:08,796 --> 00:57:11,231 WE KNOW THERE'S HISTORICAL 1045 00:57:11,231 --> 00:57:14,401 TRAUMA BUT IF WE CAN FIND THE 1046 00:57:14,401 --> 00:57:17,237 LOVE THAT GOT US THROUGH, THAT'S 1047 00:57:17,237 --> 00:57:19,039 OUR KEY TO DOING WELL TODAY. 1048 00:57:19,039 --> 00:57:22,409 AND OF COURSE AS WE CENTER OUR 1049 00:57:22,409 --> 00:57:23,377 HEALING UPON THE LAND AND GET 1050 00:57:23,377 --> 00:57:26,780 BACK TO OUR ANCESTRAL TEACHINGS 1051 00:57:26,780 --> 00:57:28,949 WE CAN HAVE NARRATIVE 1052 00:57:28,949 --> 00:57:29,883 TRANSFORMATION AND THRIVANCE. 1053 00:57:29,883 --> 00:57:31,952 THAT'S MY SON WHO WILL PROBABLY 1054 00:57:31,952 --> 00:57:34,455 NEVER WIN A COMPETITION BUT BOY 1055 00:57:34,455 --> 00:57:37,291 DOES HE LOVE FANCY DANCE. 1056 00:57:37,291 --> 00:57:38,492 AND WE KNOW LAND FACILITATES 1057 00:57:38,492 --> 00:57:42,763 LOVE AND WELLNESS AND THAT'S MY 1058 00:57:42,763 --> 00:57:44,097 GRANDMOTHER BACK WITH MY 1059 00:57:44,097 --> 00:57:45,499 YOUNGEST BEFORE SHE PASSED. 1060 00:57:45,499 --> 00:57:49,336 IT'S BEING ABLE TO TOUCH THE 1061 00:57:49,336 --> 00:57:53,574 EARTH LITERALLY AND MADE A PAIR 1062 00:57:53,574 --> 00:57:59,079 OF MOCCASINS FOR MY FIRST SON 1063 00:57:59,079 --> 00:58:01,048 AND MY HUSBAND TOLD ME TO CUT A 1064 00:58:01,048 --> 00:58:04,518 HOLE AND I SAID I'M NOT CUTTING 1065 00:58:04,518 --> 00:58:11,325 A WHOLE IN THESE MOCCASINS I 1066 00:58:11,325 --> 00:58:13,560 SPENT 10 MONTHS BEADING AND HE 1067 00:58:13,560 --> 00:58:16,196 SAID THEY HAVE TO TOUCH THE 1068 00:58:16,196 --> 00:58:17,364 EARTH AND I ASKED MY GRANDMOTHER 1069 00:58:17,364 --> 00:58:19,900 AND SHE SAID, YES, HE'S RIGHT. 1070 00:58:19,900 --> 00:58:21,335 YOU HAVE TO DRILL A HOLE IN 1071 00:58:21,335 --> 00:58:25,606 THESE, THE BABY HAS TO TOUCH THE 1072 00:58:25,606 --> 00:58:27,941 EARTH AND FEEL THE DIRT AND KNOW 1073 00:58:27,941 --> 00:58:29,109 WESTERN SCIENCE IS CATCHING UP 1074 00:58:29,109 --> 00:58:31,378 AND NOW WE HAVE GROUNDING AND 1075 00:58:31,378 --> 00:58:33,580 RUNNING A WIRE TO THE OFFICE AND 1076 00:58:33,580 --> 00:58:36,683 LETTING SOMEONE WEAR A BRACELET 1077 00:58:36,683 --> 00:58:43,757 AND IT CHANGES THE DOPAMINE AND 1078 00:58:43,757 --> 00:58:48,862 ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS WALK 1079 00:58:48,862 --> 00:58:51,064 BAREFOOT ON THE GROUND AND WE 1080 00:58:51,064 --> 00:58:52,799 CAN DO THIS THROUGH WE ENVISION 1081 00:58:52,799 --> 00:58:54,735 RESEARCH AND SCIENCE AND WE HAVE 1082 00:58:54,735 --> 00:58:56,303 A LOT OF INDIGENOUS SCIENTISTS 1083 00:58:56,303 --> 00:58:57,571 AND TODAY HAVE AMAZING 1084 00:58:57,571 --> 00:58:58,138 COLLEAGUES OF MINE. 1085 00:58:58,138 --> 00:59:01,508 IT'S BEEN A PRIVILEGE SEEING 1086 00:59:01,508 --> 00:59:05,612 THEM TAKE ON PROFESSORSHIPS AND 1087 00:59:05,612 --> 00:59:06,613 SCIENTIFIC ROLES AND THEY ARE 1088 00:59:06,613 --> 00:59:08,115 KNOW THEIR COMMUNITY AND CULTURE 1089 00:59:08,115 --> 00:59:09,850 AND NOW WE'RE IN A PLACE TO HAVE 1090 00:59:09,850 --> 00:59:11,218 INDIGENOUS SCIENTISTS DOING THE 1091 00:59:11,218 --> 00:59:12,653 WORK WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, WITH 1092 00:59:12,653 --> 00:59:16,690 THEIR AUNTIES AND COUSINS, 1093 00:59:16,690 --> 00:59:17,758 WORKING TOGETHER BEING 1094 00:59:17,758 --> 00:59:18,625 KNOWLEDGEABLE AND APPROPRIATE 1095 00:59:18,625 --> 00:59:20,027 AND RESPECTFUL AS WELL AND WE 1096 00:59:20,027 --> 00:59:22,496 CAN DO THIS THROUGH NOT JUST 1097 00:59:22,496 --> 00:59:23,163 LOOKING THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL 1098 00:59:23,163 --> 00:59:25,599 BUT INTERVENTIONS AND THROUGH A 1099 00:59:25,599 --> 00:59:28,902 NEW GAZE LOOKING AT THE LAND, 1100 00:59:28,902 --> 00:59:31,271 EARTH, MOON, SKY, SUN AND 1101 00:59:31,271 --> 00:59:32,873 RELATIVES AND HOW IT AFFECTS OUR 1102 00:59:32,873 --> 00:59:34,875 HEALTH AND WELL BEING. 1103 00:59:34,875 --> 00:59:42,149 NOW WE KNOW LAND IS AN INANIMATE 1104 00:59:42,149 --> 00:59:45,619 HEALING AND WE LOOK AT LAND ONE 1105 00:59:45,619 --> 00:59:47,688 DIRECTION HUMANS GO IN THE 1106 00:59:47,688 --> 00:59:49,556 FOREST AND FEEL BETTER, GREAT. 1107 00:59:49,556 --> 00:59:51,592 BUT LAND BENEFITS FROM US BEING 1108 00:59:51,592 --> 00:59:51,792 THERE. 1109 00:59:51,792 --> 00:59:54,561 AS I SPEAK WITH MY 1110 00:59:54,561 --> 00:59:55,128 NON-INDIGENOUS COLLEAGUES 1111 00:59:55,128 --> 00:59:57,564 THEY'RE STARTING TO FIND THAT. 1112 00:59:57,564 --> 01:00:01,134 IN AREAS WHERE THERE'S HUNTERS 1113 01:00:01,134 --> 01:00:04,871 THERE'S A BETTER MICROBIOME FOR 1114 01:00:04,871 --> 01:00:07,941 THE EARTH AND TREES GROW BETTER 1115 01:00:07,941 --> 01:00:11,478 AND A COLLABORATIVE BENEFIT AND 1116 01:00:11,478 --> 01:00:13,580 MOTHER EARTH BENEFITS AS WELL SO 1117 01:00:13,580 --> 01:00:15,649 BOTH ARE NEEDED. 1118 01:00:15,649 --> 01:00:18,885 I BELIEVE I'M PRETTY MUCH OUT OF 1119 01:00:18,885 --> 01:00:22,823 TIME BUT WE HAD OUR PIVOTAL WORK 1120 01:00:22,823 --> 01:00:25,058 WITH ONE OF THE FIRST LAND-BASED 1121 01:00:25,058 --> 01:00:26,727 HEALING CLINICAL TRIALS. 1122 01:00:26,727 --> 01:00:27,861 I CAN'T FIND AN EARLIER ONE SO I 1123 01:00:27,861 --> 01:00:31,331 THINK WE WERE ONE OF THE FIRST 1124 01:00:31,331 --> 01:00:36,403 ONES DR. WALTERS AND I DID AND 1125 01:00:36,403 --> 01:00:41,575 WE PILOTED THIS TWICE AND IT WAS 1126 01:00:41,575 --> 01:00:49,282 AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE AND 1127 01:00:49,282 --> 01:00:52,486 RE-NARRATE OUR STORIES AND WHEN 1128 01:00:52,486 --> 01:00:55,155 I CRY MY NOSE GOES RED AND 1129 01:00:55,155 --> 01:00:57,557 SWELLS AND I'LL BEING CRYING THE 1130 01:00:57,557 --> 01:00:58,058 WHOLE TIME. 1131 01:00:58,058 --> 01:00:59,292 BUT THE POWER OF BEING IN THE 1132 01:00:59,292 --> 01:01:02,529 PLACE AND FOOT STEPS OF MY 1133 01:01:02,529 --> 01:01:03,864 ANCESTORS, I CANNOT TELL YOU 1134 01:01:03,864 --> 01:01:05,799 WHAT THAT MEANT TO ME. 1135 01:01:05,799 --> 01:01:10,871 IT FELT LIKE A WARM BLANKET UPON 1136 01:01:10,871 --> 01:01:13,473 ME WHEN I KNEW THEY STOOD IN THE 1137 01:01:13,473 --> 01:01:14,741 SAME SPOT AND MADE ME FELL 1138 01:01:14,741 --> 01:01:15,542 WONDERFUL AND CENTER THE 1139 01:01:15,542 --> 01:01:16,677 RESPONSIBILITY FOR ME TO DO THE 1140 01:01:16,677 --> 01:01:19,146 SAME FOR THE SEVEN GENERATIONS 1141 01:01:19,146 --> 01:01:19,813 FORWARD. 1142 01:01:19,813 --> 01:01:21,081 BECAUSE WHATEVER WE DO TODAY 1143 01:01:21,081 --> 01:01:21,848 AFFECTS THEM. 1144 01:01:21,848 --> 01:01:23,984 EVEN IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY 1145 01:01:23,984 --> 01:01:25,352 CHILDREN, WE ARE THE ANCESTORS 1146 01:01:25,352 --> 01:01:34,061 IN THE MAKING RIGHT NOW. 1147 01:01:34,061 --> 01:01:37,864 WE HAD A FRAMEWORK I'M HAPPY TO 1148 01:01:37,864 --> 01:01:39,966 TALK ABOUT WITH ANY OF YOU LATER 1149 01:01:39,966 --> 01:01:43,837 ON BUT THIS IS NOT ONLY RESEARCH 1150 01:01:43,837 --> 01:01:47,507 PROJECTS WITH THE NATION BUT OUR 1151 01:01:47,507 --> 01:01:50,444 NEW PROJECT WITH KIA RIEFRG UP 1152 01:01:50,444 --> 01:01:51,344 AND THE QUESTIONS EVOLVED FROM 1153 01:01:51,344 --> 01:01:53,280 OUR FIRST PILOT. 1154 01:01:53,280 --> 01:01:57,350 IT WAS OUR FACILITATORS WALKING 1155 01:01:57,350 --> 01:01:59,052 AND WE BROUGHT OUR CHILDREN WING 1156 01:01:59,052 --> 01:02:00,220 US AND OUR CHILDREN DID 1157 01:02:00,220 --> 01:02:01,855 INTERVIEWS AND I'M HAPPY TOE 1158 01:02:01,855 --> 01:02:03,824 SHARE A LINK OF MY DAUGHTER AND 1159 01:02:03,824 --> 01:02:06,093 SHE SAID THAT WAS FINE WHEN SHE 1160 01:02:06,093 --> 01:02:07,694 WAS 12 SHE CAME WITH US. 1161 01:02:07,694 --> 01:02:09,563 AS WE COMPLETED THE FIRST PILOT 1162 01:02:09,563 --> 01:02:13,567 WE SOLIDIFIED THE QUESTIONS OF 1163 01:02:13,567 --> 01:02:16,269 WHAT KIND OF ANCESTOR DO I WANT 1164 01:02:16,269 --> 01:02:18,872 TO BE AND WHAT MESSAGE DO I 1165 01:02:18,872 --> 01:02:21,074 ENVISION FUTURE GENERATIONS TO 1166 01:02:21,074 --> 01:02:21,408 BE? 1167 01:02:21,408 --> 01:02:23,076 WE FOCUS ON THESE AND DO 1168 01:02:23,076 --> 01:02:25,479 EXTENDED WALKS AND DO CAMPING 1169 01:02:25,479 --> 01:02:28,115 OUT AND TAKE TIME TO KNOW THE 1170 01:02:28,115 --> 01:02:29,549 LAND AND GET TO BE IN THE SPACES 1171 01:02:29,549 --> 01:02:31,351 AND REFLECT WHAT ANCESTOR WE 1172 01:02:31,351 --> 01:02:32,886 WANT TO BE KNOWN AS AND HOW WE 1173 01:02:32,886 --> 01:02:34,554 WANT OTHERS TO SEE US TODAY. 1174 01:02:34,554 --> 01:02:40,727 AND THAT HAS ACTUALLY 1175 01:02:40,727 --> 01:02:44,598 INTERRUPTED MY CHILDREN ENGAGES 1176 01:02:44,598 --> 01:02:51,671 IN SUBSTANCE USE BEHAVIORS AND I 1177 01:02:51,671 --> 01:02:57,310 SAY CALL ME IF YOU DRINK NO 1178 01:02:57,310 --> 01:02:58,845 QUESTIONS ASKED AND MY ELDEST 1179 01:02:58,845 --> 01:03:02,649 SAID HOW CAN I POSSIBLY DRINK 1180 01:03:02,649 --> 01:03:06,419 AFTER ALL MY ANCESTORS DID FOR 1181 01:03:06,419 --> 01:03:08,488 ME AND SHE OWES THEM BECAUSE 1182 01:03:08,488 --> 01:03:11,358 THEY DID THAT FOR HER AND THAT'S 1183 01:03:11,358 --> 01:03:11,825 REALLY POWERFUL. 1184 01:03:11,825 --> 01:03:16,329 WE'RE ALSO ABLE TO DO THE WAKAYA 1185 01:03:16,329 --> 01:03:19,933 PROJECT AND HAVE A COUPLE 1186 01:03:19,933 --> 01:03:20,934 COHORTS AGAIN AND INTERESTING TO 1187 01:03:20,934 --> 01:03:23,870 SEE THE YOUTH OUT ON THE LAND 1188 01:03:23,870 --> 01:03:27,507 AND BEING WITH US AND A HEAD NOD 1189 01:03:27,507 --> 01:03:29,109 TO OUR STAFF COULDN'T DO IT 1190 01:03:29,109 --> 01:03:30,944 WITHOUT THEM AND UNFORTUNATELY 1191 01:03:30,944 --> 01:03:41,288 WHILE WE LOST DR. WALTERS TO NIH 1192 01:03:41,288 --> 01:03:48,094 AND SOON LOSE JESSIE WE HAVE AN 1193 01:03:48,094 --> 01:03:50,397 ALL INDIGENOUS STAFF AND WHEN I 1194 01:03:50,397 --> 01:03:53,033 IT FIRST STARTED I COULDN'T 1195 01:03:53,033 --> 01:03:55,602 IMAGINE AND THE MAJORITY OF THE 1196 01:03:55,602 --> 01:03:59,306 OKLAHOMA ARE CHOCTAW AND EVEN TO 1197 01:03:59,306 --> 01:04:00,807 THE SITE P.I. IS CHOCTAW. 1198 01:04:00,807 --> 01:04:02,042 I THINK ABOUT THE REVOLUTION 1199 01:04:02,042 --> 01:04:08,548 WE'VE BEEN CREATING BY DESIGNING 1200 01:04:08,548 --> 01:04:11,284 AND RE-ENVISIONING AND 1201 01:04:11,284 --> 01:04:12,419 TRANSLATING THE TRAUMA TO HOPE 1202 01:04:12,419 --> 01:04:13,253 AND RESILIENCE. 1203 01:04:13,253 --> 01:04:21,561 WITH THAT I'LL STOP AND LET MY 1204 01:04:21,561 --> 01:04:29,236 COLLEAGUE AND I'LL SHARE THIS 1205 01:04:29,236 --> 01:04:33,340 WITH ANYONE INTERESTED AND WE'RE 1206 01:04:33,340 --> 01:04:37,277 HOSTING AN INTERNATIONAL 1207 01:04:37,277 --> 01:04:47,621 CONFERENCE RECALLING INDIGENOUS 1208 01:04:47,621 --> 01:04:49,422 CALLINGS OF LOVE. 1209 01:04:49,422 --> 01:04:54,861 >> THAT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 1210 01:04:54,861 --> 01:05:02,702 WE HAVE DR. SUINA. 1211 01:05:02,702 --> 01:05:13,046 >> I'M DR. IS SUINA. 1212 01:05:16,516 --> 01:05:19,185 I PREVIOUSLY SERVED ON THE BOARD 1213 01:05:19,185 --> 01:05:21,087 OF DIRECTORS BEING LEADING IN 1214 01:05:21,087 --> 01:05:22,856 DIFFERENT POSITIONS FROM 1215 01:05:22,856 --> 01:05:24,291 PRESIDENT, TREASURER TO 1216 01:05:24,291 --> 01:05:26,459 SECRETARY AND HAVE SEEN THE 1217 01:05:26,459 --> 01:05:29,129 ORGANIZATION GROW FROM $300,000 1218 01:05:29,129 --> 01:05:31,131 BUDGET TO NOW WELL OVER $4 1219 01:05:31,131 --> 01:05:31,364 MILLION. 1220 01:05:31,364 --> 01:05:36,703 SO IT'S BEEN AMAZING PROGRESSION 1221 01:05:36,703 --> 01:05:37,938 AND ADVANCEMENT. 1222 01:05:37,938 --> 01:05:40,707 AS MY SLIDES ARE LOADING I'LL 1223 01:05:40,707 --> 01:05:47,681 CONTINUE TO REFLECT ON OUR 1224 01:05:47,681 --> 01:05:47,914 MORNING. 1225 01:05:47,914 --> 01:05:53,520 I THINK PINNING BACK OF THE 1226 01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:56,623 THEME OF SPEAK LOVE AND I WAS 1227 01:05:56,623 --> 01:05:57,624 THINKING ABOUT HOW NUMBER ONE TO 1228 01:05:57,624 --> 01:05:58,992 THE CREATOR DOESN'T WANT ME TO 1229 01:05:58,992 --> 01:06:07,067 WAKE UP ON TIME SO I WAS LATE. 1230 01:06:07,067 --> 01:06:11,838 THE CREATOR DOESN'T WANT ME TO 1231 01:06:11,838 --> 01:06:16,609 DO MY SLIDES SO AFFECTED WI-FI 1232 01:06:16,609 --> 01:06:17,978 AND CREATOR DOESN'T WANT US TO 1233 01:06:17,978 --> 01:06:20,780 GATHER AND THERE WAS A FIRE AND 1234 01:06:20,780 --> 01:06:25,051 LASTLY CREATOR WANTED ME TO DO 1235 01:06:25,051 --> 01:06:26,052 YOGA THIS MORNING. 1236 01:06:26,052 --> 01:06:28,655 I DON'T THE IF ANYBODY SAW ME 1237 01:06:28,655 --> 01:06:30,423 THIS MORNING BUT I HAD TO HOP IN 1238 01:06:30,423 --> 01:06:33,593 THE BACK OF AN SUV FROM MY 1239 01:06:33,593 --> 01:06:34,427 COLLEAGUES WHO OFFERED THE SUV 1240 01:06:34,427 --> 01:06:37,597 UP AND I WAS CONTORTING IN THE 1241 01:06:37,597 --> 01:06:48,074 BACK AND CRUNCHED IN THERE. 1242 01:06:57,250 --> 01:07:07,560 THEY'RE WORKING ON IT. 1243 01:07:11,364 --> 01:07:13,166 ONCE THE IMAGE LOADS YOU'LL SEE 1244 01:07:13,166 --> 01:07:18,605 A PHOTOGRAPH OF MY GREAT GREAT 1245 01:07:18,605 --> 01:07:18,905 GRANDMOTHER. 1246 01:07:18,905 --> 01:07:21,941 HER NAME IS THALHANIA. 1247 01:07:21,941 --> 01:07:24,878 IN MY INTRODUCTION I SHARED WITH 1248 01:07:24,878 --> 01:07:30,383 YOU MY NAME WHICH TRANSLATES TO 1249 01:07:30,383 --> 01:07:33,119 POLLEN WOMAN AND ALSO AM A 1250 01:07:33,119 --> 01:07:34,721 CARRIER OF THE FOX CLAN AND I 1251 01:07:34,721 --> 01:07:36,489 HAVE FOUR TEENAGERS YOU'LL SEE 1252 01:07:36,489 --> 01:07:37,424 THROUGHOUT MY PRESENTATION AS 1253 01:07:37,424 --> 01:07:43,129 WELL AND I REALLY APPRECIATE HOW 1254 01:07:43,129 --> 01:07:45,565 DR. MICHELLE REALLY FOCUSSED ON 1255 01:07:45,565 --> 01:07:46,533 LAND-BODY SPIRITUAL CONNECTION 1256 01:07:46,533 --> 01:07:49,135 AND FOR ME THE WORK I'VE BEEN 1257 01:07:49,135 --> 01:07:52,872 DOING WITH NABS HAS BEEN A 1258 01:07:52,872 --> 01:07:54,274 CURATION OF STORIES AND WHAT I'D 1259 01:07:54,274 --> 01:07:57,911 LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL 1260 01:07:57,911 --> 01:08:03,149 TODAY. 1261 01:08:03,149 --> 01:08:05,785 SO HOW DO WE CENTER THIS WORK? 1262 01:08:05,785 --> 01:08:08,655 BRINGING OUR ANCESTORS INTO THIS 1263 01:08:08,655 --> 01:08:09,756 SPACE AND BRINGING THEM WHEREVER 1264 01:08:09,756 --> 01:08:20,233 WE GO TO WHERE WE VISIT AND 1265 01:08:29,976 --> 01:08:31,478 FINDING OUR PATHWAYS AS HUMAN 1266 01:08:31,478 --> 01:08:33,446 BEINGS AND TRYING TO LEARN OUR 1267 01:08:33,446 --> 01:08:33,713 LANGUAGES. 1268 01:08:33,713 --> 01:08:37,951 TRYING TO RAISE OUR CHILDREN TO 1269 01:08:37,951 --> 01:08:39,352 WALK GOOD PATHS AND FOR ME I 1270 01:08:39,352 --> 01:08:43,690 THINK OF ALL THE BABIES THAT 1271 01:08:43,690 --> 01:08:45,925 WERE TAKEN TO PLACES. 1272 01:08:45,925 --> 01:08:48,294 AS AN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I 1273 01:08:48,294 --> 01:08:52,966 ESPECIALLY WANT TO CALL ON THIS 1274 01:08:52,966 --> 01:08:56,936 FEMALE LINEAGE AS PART OF MY DNA 1275 01:08:56,936 --> 01:08:59,539 AS FOX CARRIER OF OUR WAYS OF 1276 01:08:59,539 --> 01:09:01,975 KNOWING IN OUR PUBLIC 1277 01:09:01,975 --> 01:09:04,244 COMMUNITIES AND HOW WE RECOGNIZE 1278 01:09:04,244 --> 01:09:05,211 EACH OTHER. 1279 01:09:05,211 --> 01:09:08,915 HERE'S TO OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS 1280 01:09:08,915 --> 01:09:13,319 MAY WE KNOW THEM AND MAY WE BE 1281 01:09:13,319 --> 01:09:14,387 THEM AND RAISE THEM AND YOU'LL 1282 01:09:14,387 --> 01:09:16,523 SEE A COLLECTION OF DIFFERENT 1283 01:09:16,523 --> 01:09:20,593 PHOTOS WE PRINTED AS PART OF OUR 1284 01:09:20,593 --> 01:09:21,161 WORK AS NABS AND TRIED TO 1285 01:09:21,161 --> 01:09:23,029 CONTRIBUTE TO SHARING MORE WHAT 1286 01:09:23,029 --> 01:09:25,598 THE NARRATIVE STORY TELLING 1287 01:09:25,598 --> 01:09:28,668 ASPECT LOOKS LIKE VISUALLY. 1288 01:09:28,668 --> 01:09:34,541 AND THE PHOTO YOU SEE BEFORE YOU 1289 01:09:34,541 --> 01:09:38,378 IS ARE THESE GIRLS AS THEY 1290 01:09:38,378 --> 01:09:40,079 ENTERED IN 1884. 1291 01:09:40,079 --> 01:09:41,080 MORE ABOUT MY FOX KITS. 1292 01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:42,382 ON THE RIGHT SIDE THERE'S A 1293 01:09:42,382 --> 01:09:45,785 PHOTO OF MY CHILDREN AND I HAVE 1294 01:09:45,785 --> 01:09:48,688 A 16-YEAR-OLD SON. 1295 01:09:48,688 --> 01:09:54,294 TWINS WHO ARE 14 AND 14 RA AND E 1296 01:09:54,294 --> 01:09:56,429 YOUNGEST IS 12 AND YOU SEE MY 1297 01:09:56,429 --> 01:09:57,830 DAUGHTERS AND NIECES AND 1298 01:09:57,830 --> 01:09:59,365 BEAUTIFUL COLLECTION OF WOMEN IN 1299 01:09:59,365 --> 01:10:00,833 MY FAMILY THAT WILL CONTINUE TO 1300 01:10:00,833 --> 01:10:06,072 CARRY OUR CLAN FORWARD. 1301 01:10:06,072 --> 01:10:07,941 I ALSO CENTER MYSELF IN THE WORK 1302 01:10:07,941 --> 01:10:10,543 AS A SURVIVOR OF SEXUAL ASSAULT 1303 01:10:10,543 --> 01:10:11,344 AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. 1304 01:10:11,344 --> 01:10:13,713 THE NARRATIVES OF MY OWN HEART 1305 01:10:13,713 --> 01:10:16,316 STORY CURATIONS COME TO THIS 1306 01:10:16,316 --> 01:10:18,551 WORK AND COME THROUGH MY GRAPHIC 1307 01:10:18,551 --> 01:10:21,254 DESIGN AS WELL. 1308 01:10:21,254 --> 01:10:22,555 LIKE DR. MICHELLE MENTIONED 1309 01:10:22,555 --> 01:10:27,160 EARLIER THE THEME OF MOVING FROM 1310 01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:32,599 SURVIVANCE TO THRIVANCE IS HOW 1311 01:10:32,599 --> 01:10:33,700 WE COME TOGETHER IN SOLIDARITY 1312 01:10:33,700 --> 01:10:35,335 TO SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER. 1313 01:10:35,335 --> 01:10:38,271 HOW TO BEGIN IN THE WORK FOR THE 1314 01:10:38,271 --> 01:10:39,973 NATIONAL NATIVE BOARDING SCHOOL 1315 01:10:39,973 --> 01:10:40,873 HEALING COALITION? 1316 01:10:40,873 --> 01:10:41,608 SOME OF MY COLLEAGUES PRESENT 1317 01:10:41,608 --> 01:10:44,310 TODAY MAY NOT KNOW THIS BUT BACK 1318 01:10:44,310 --> 01:10:49,182 IN 2017 AS I WAS COMPLETING MY 1319 01:10:49,182 --> 01:10:50,783 MASTER'S DEGREE AT THE TULSA 1320 01:10:50,783 --> 01:10:57,090 COLLEGE OF LAW, MY NEPHEW WAS IN 1321 01:10:57,090 --> 01:10:59,626 A HORRIFIC CAR ACCIDENT WITH MY 1322 01:10:59,626 --> 01:11:01,794 SISTER AND NIECE AND 1323 01:11:01,794 --> 01:11:03,830 UNFORTUNATELY DIDN'T SURVIVE. 1324 01:11:03,830 --> 01:11:07,667 MY SISTER WAS MAKING A LEFT LAND 1325 01:11:07,667 --> 01:11:09,202 TURN IN ALBUQUERQUE ON A STREET 1326 01:11:09,202 --> 01:11:15,275 THAT'S NOT SUPER BUSY SUNDAY 1327 01:11:15,275 --> 01:11:24,017 MORNING AND THE OFFICER T-BONED 1328 01:11:24,017 --> 01:11:28,054 THEM AND HER SON WAS IN A COMA 1329 01:11:28,054 --> 01:11:31,157 FOR ABOUT A WEEK AND WHEN I 1330 01:11:31,157 --> 01:11:35,361 HEARD THE NEWS OF THE ACCIDENT I 1331 01:11:35,361 --> 01:11:39,966 FOUND MYSELF STRUGGLING WITH THE 1332 01:11:39,966 --> 01:11:44,570 LOSS AND TRYING TO HELP AND AS I 1333 01:11:44,570 --> 01:11:49,842 DUG DEEPER IN MY RESEARCH AND 1334 01:11:49,842 --> 01:11:55,882 CONTINUING WITH INDIAN EDUCATION 1335 01:11:55,882 --> 01:12:01,387 AND I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO 1336 01:12:01,387 --> 01:12:03,756 PARTICIPATE IN A PROGRAM AND I 1337 01:12:03,756 --> 01:12:07,960 WAS ONE OF TWO PEOPLE FROM THE 1338 01:12:07,960 --> 01:12:10,963 SOUTHWEST TO DIG INTO THE 1339 01:12:10,963 --> 01:12:13,132 ARCHIVES AND PUT IN CURRICULA SO 1340 01:12:13,132 --> 01:12:15,501 THE RESEARCHERS CAN TEACH ABOUT 1341 01:12:15,501 --> 01:12:17,737 BOARDING SCHOOL AND INDIAN LAW 1342 01:12:17,737 --> 01:12:22,108 AND POLICY. 1343 01:12:22,108 --> 01:12:24,677 AS I WAS DOING SO I CONTINUED TO 1344 01:12:24,677 --> 01:12:26,746 LOOK AT THE LINEAGE OF SOME OF 1345 01:12:26,746 --> 01:12:30,350 OUR RELATIVES THAT HAD ATTENDED 1346 01:12:30,350 --> 01:12:33,486 AND I MADE THIS VERY REMARKABLE 1347 01:12:33,486 --> 01:12:35,555 DISCOVERY WHICH I'LL SHARE IN 1348 01:12:35,555 --> 01:12:37,323 SEVERAL SLIDES HERE NOW BUT I 1349 01:12:37,323 --> 01:12:40,259 ALSO WANT TO COME BACK TO 1350 01:12:40,259 --> 01:12:41,761 CENTERING OUR SURVIVOR RELATIVES 1351 01:12:41,761 --> 01:12:43,663 AND HOW WE KNOW THAT IT'S SO 1352 01:12:43,663 --> 01:12:44,497 IMPORTANT TO CAPTURE THEIR 1353 01:12:44,497 --> 01:12:48,501 STORIES BECAUSE MANY OF THEM ARE 1354 01:12:48,501 --> 01:12:49,569 PASSING ON. 1355 01:12:49,569 --> 01:12:51,371 SO YOU MAY RECOGNIZE OUR 1356 01:12:51,371 --> 01:12:52,772 GRANDMOTHER WHO HAS SINCE 1357 01:12:52,772 --> 01:12:57,310 JOURNEYED ON BUT THIS IS BACK IN 1358 01:12:57,310 --> 01:13:01,414 2018 AT THE HUNDRED YEAR 1359 01:13:01,414 --> 01:13:05,385 ANNIVERSARY CLOSING OF CARLYLE. 1360 01:13:05,385 --> 01:13:10,923 IT WAS HELD AT THE COMFORT INN 1361 01:13:10,923 --> 01:13:16,429 IN DOWNTOWN CARLYLE AT THE 1362 01:13:16,429 --> 01:13:26,739 BEGINNING WHEN I NABS HAD FULLY 1363 01:13:26,739 --> 01:13:37,283 MOVED TO OUR 5013C STATUS AND IS 1364 01:13:45,892 --> 01:13:53,399 AND THIS IS WHEN LIEUTENANT 1365 01:13:53,399 --> 01:13:59,038 GOVERNOR FLANIGAN HAD A 1366 01:13:59,038 --> 01:14:00,807 DECLARATION FOR THE RECOGNITION 1367 01:14:00,807 --> 01:14:02,008 IN MIN AND AS PART OF THE 1368 01:14:02,008 --> 01:14:03,342 INSTRUMENTAL WAYS THE STORIES 1369 01:14:03,342 --> 01:14:08,147 COME TO THE DESKS AND TO THE 1370 01:14:08,147 --> 01:14:10,016 TABLES OUR ALLIES AND SUPPORTERS 1371 01:14:10,016 --> 01:14:13,085 AND PARTNERS TO CARRY THE WORK 1372 01:14:13,085 --> 01:14:13,753 FORWARD IT'S IMPORTANT WE 1373 01:14:13,753 --> 01:14:17,557 CONTINUE THESE KIND OF 1374 01:14:17,557 --> 01:14:23,963 CONVERSATIONS. 1375 01:14:23,963 --> 01:14:28,434 THIS IS JULY 2022 AND FIRST PART 1376 01:14:28,434 --> 01:14:29,702 OF THE APOLOGY TOUR IN ALBERTA, 1377 01:14:29,702 --> 01:14:30,636 CANADA. 1378 01:14:30,636 --> 01:14:38,444 I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO ATTEND 1379 01:14:38,444 --> 01:14:41,414 THIS VERY MOMENTOUS EVENT WITH 1380 01:14:41,414 --> 01:14:51,958 OUR CEO DEBORAH PARKER AND STILL 1381 01:14:55,728 --> 01:14:56,729 REFLECTING AND HOW THE WORK HAS 1382 01:14:56,729 --> 01:14:59,432 CONTINUED TO MANIFEST ITSELF IN 1383 01:14:59,432 --> 01:15:02,235 DIFFERENT SPACES TO ALLOW US TO 1384 01:15:02,235 --> 01:15:03,769 COME TOGETHER AS RELATIVES AND 1385 01:15:03,769 --> 01:15:07,540 HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS TO PRAY 1386 01:15:07,540 --> 01:15:09,775 TOGETHER AND CRY TOGETHER AND 1387 01:15:09,775 --> 01:15:10,643 LAUGH TOGETHER. 1388 01:15:10,643 --> 01:15:14,714 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HEARD OF 1389 01:15:14,714 --> 01:15:16,682 OF THE LADIES CACKLING YESTERDAY 1390 01:15:16,682 --> 01:15:19,418 DURING THE BREAK AND MY STOMACH 1391 01:15:19,418 --> 01:15:22,255 HURT SO MUCH IT'S THE BEAUTY OF 1392 01:15:22,255 --> 01:15:24,090 HOW WE ALLOW THIS TRANSCENDING 1393 01:15:24,090 --> 01:15:30,563 OF HUMOR AND GRIEF TO MEET US IN 1394 01:15:30,563 --> 01:15:33,799 PLACES WHERE WE KNOW THAT OUR 1395 01:15:33,799 --> 01:15:34,567 ANCESTOR SPIRIT CONTINUES TO 1396 01:15:34,567 --> 01:15:35,835 LIVE ON AND THAT CONTINUES TO BE 1397 01:15:35,835 --> 01:15:36,536 FEED THAT FIRE FOR ME IN THIS 1398 01:15:36,536 --> 01:15:46,646 WORK. 1399 01:15:58,224 --> 01:15:59,659 SO A LITTLE BIT MORE TOWARD THE 1400 01:15:59,659 --> 01:16:02,361 ACADEMIC SITE AND WHAT I FOCUS 1401 01:16:02,361 --> 01:16:05,398 ON AS THE UNIVERSITY OF 1402 01:16:05,398 --> 01:16:06,632 WASHINGTON, TACOMA WAS TO 1403 01:16:06,632 --> 01:16:13,172 [NO AUDIO] 1404 01:16:13,172 --> 01:16:15,675 TOE HAVE EMBODIMENT OF LAND, 1405 01:16:15,675 --> 01:16:17,410 BODY AND SPIRIT AND THEY SPOKE 1406 01:16:17,410 --> 01:16:20,713 TO IT THIS MORNING AND HOW WE 1407 01:16:20,713 --> 01:16:21,714 COME TOGETHER THROUGH OUR 1408 01:16:21,714 --> 01:16:25,117 RELATIVES OUR KINSHIP AND WAYS 1409 01:16:25,117 --> 01:16:25,918 OF NOBODY. 1410 01:16:25,918 --> 01:16:29,555 IN OUR PUEBLO COMMUNITIES AND 1411 01:16:29,555 --> 01:16:31,624 MANY LIKE OURS THE CONNECTION 1412 01:16:31,624 --> 01:16:33,392 WITH CORNMEAL AND WE PRAY WITH 1413 01:16:33,392 --> 01:16:33,593 CORN. 1414 01:16:33,593 --> 01:16:34,827 CORN IS LIFE FOR US. 1415 01:16:34,827 --> 01:16:37,396 AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON ALL 1416 01:16:37,396 --> 01:16:39,565 MY CORNY JOKES BUT I HAVE A LOT. 1417 01:16:39,565 --> 01:16:41,400 I'VE COLLECTED A LOT OVER THE 1418 01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:48,674 YEARS. 1419 01:16:48,674 --> 01:16:51,611 IN TERMS OF THE SPIRITUAL 1420 01:16:51,611 --> 01:16:53,613 KINSHIP AND KNOW WHEN BABIES ARE 1421 01:16:53,613 --> 01:16:59,151 BORN, FOR EXAMPLE, THEY'RE TAKEN 1422 01:16:59,151 --> 01:17:02,788 OUT TO GREET ON THE FORTH DAY OF 1423 01:17:02,788 --> 01:17:06,626 LIFE AND THIS IS WHERE I GAINED 1424 01:17:06,626 --> 01:17:09,028 MY NAME, CORN POLLEN WOMAN. 1425 01:17:09,028 --> 01:17:13,099 IN THIS WORK THE POLLINATION 1426 01:17:13,099 --> 01:17:14,367 COMES TOGETHER IN MANY WAYS TO 1427 01:17:14,367 --> 01:17:21,140 SPEAK TO LOGIC MODELS LIKE THIS. 1428 01:17:21,140 --> 01:17:23,643 THE IDEA THAT OUR ANCESTORS 1429 01:17:23,643 --> 01:17:28,914 PRAYED US INTO EXISTENCE. 1430 01:17:28,914 --> 01:17:33,653 WE KNOW WITHIN WESTERN SCIENCE 1431 01:17:33,653 --> 01:17:36,956 IS THAT OUR GRANDMOTHERS WERE 1432 01:17:36,956 --> 01:17:39,492 CARRYING THE SEEDS OF US WITHIN 1433 01:17:39,492 --> 01:17:40,393 THEM AND INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE 1434 01:17:40,393 --> 01:17:41,594 TELLS US AND WE'VE KNOWN THIS 1435 01:17:41,594 --> 01:17:42,962 FOR TIME AND MEMORIAL. 1436 01:17:42,962 --> 01:17:44,697 AND I THINK THAT THE BEAUTY OF 1437 01:17:44,697 --> 01:17:46,332 THE WAYS THAT THIS COMES 1438 01:17:46,332 --> 01:17:50,803 TOGETHER REALLY SPEAKS TO HOW 1439 01:17:50,803 --> 01:17:53,172 IT'S AN ALTRUISTIC RESPONSE TO 1440 01:17:53,172 --> 01:17:54,940 WANT TO CREATE HEALING PATHWAYS 1441 01:17:54,940 --> 01:17:59,412 FOR OUR COMMUNITIES, TO HEAR 1442 01:17:59,412 --> 01:18:06,719 THOSE TRAUMAS TO HEAR AND THIS 1443 01:18:06,719 --> 01:18:07,386 IS THE INTERGENERATIONAL FUTURE 1444 01:18:07,386 --> 01:18:09,555 WE CONTINUE TO MANIFEST AND LOOK 1445 01:18:09,555 --> 01:18:19,265 FORWARD TO IT. 1446 01:18:19,265 --> 01:18:21,367 MY MOST RECENT TRIP TO CARLYLE 1447 01:18:21,367 --> 01:18:27,506 WAS LAST MONTH AND THE CEMETERY 1448 01:18:27,506 --> 01:18:30,976 LOOKS DIFFERENT AND A SHOUT OUT 1449 01:18:30,976 --> 01:18:33,846 TO MANDI AND BEING A CARETAKER 1450 01:18:33,846 --> 01:18:35,848 TO OUR RELATIVES THERE. 1451 01:18:35,848 --> 01:18:39,285 AND FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, 1452 01:18:39,285 --> 01:18:43,022 OUR PUEBLO NATION, OUR 19 1453 01:18:43,022 --> 01:18:47,259 PUEBLOS WITHIN THE STATE OF 1454 01:18:47,259 --> 01:18:47,827 NATUNEW 1455 01:18:47,827 --> 01:18:48,494 MEXICO WE'RE THE TOP FIVE OF 1456 01:18:48,494 --> 01:18:52,231 CHILDREN WHO ATTENDED CARLYLE 1457 01:18:52,231 --> 01:18:54,433 FROM ITS INCEPTION IN 1879 TO 1458 01:18:54,433 --> 01:18:56,736 1918. 1459 01:18:56,736 --> 01:18:59,405 AS I WAS CONTINUING TO DIVE 1460 01:18:59,405 --> 01:19:04,310 DEEPER INTO MY OWN RESEARCH AND 1461 01:19:04,310 --> 01:19:07,346 DIG INTO THE ARCHIVES OF 2017 I 1462 01:19:07,346 --> 01:19:11,417 ALSO MADE THE DISCOVERY OF A 1463 01:19:11,417 --> 01:19:15,521 RELATIVE BY THE NAME OF PEDRO 1464 01:19:15,521 --> 01:19:23,062 SANCHEZ BURIED IN THE CARLYLE 1465 01:19:23,062 --> 01:19:23,562 CREM 1466 01:19:23,562 --> 01:19:24,263 CEMETERY AND IT STRUCK ME THIS 1467 01:19:24,263 --> 01:19:27,700 IS ONLY FIVE GENERATIONS REMOVED 1468 01:19:27,700 --> 01:19:29,401 AND WHAT HAPPEN WHEN OUR 1469 01:19:29,401 --> 01:19:30,269 CHILDREN DON'T HAVE THOSE 1470 01:19:30,269 --> 01:19:32,872 HEALING ELEMENTS OF HOW WE 1471 01:19:32,872 --> 01:19:35,708 PROCESS AND SEND OUR RELATIVES 1472 01:19:35,708 --> 01:19:41,413 AND WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE IN 1473 01:19:41,413 --> 01:19:43,516 OUR SALING AND HOW DO THE RIPPLE 1474 01:19:43,516 --> 01:19:44,917 EFFECTS PLAY OUT TODAY? 1475 01:19:44,917 --> 01:19:47,153 I WAS SEEING THIS IN THE GRIEF I 1476 01:19:47,153 --> 01:19:51,490 WAS EXPERIENCIE IING TRYING TO 1477 01:19:51,490 --> 01:19:52,858 MY CHILDREN COPE WITH LOSING 1478 01:19:52,858 --> 01:19:55,961 THEIR 7-YEAR-OLD COUSIN. 1479 01:19:55,961 --> 01:20:01,367 MUCH LIKE THESE CHILDREN HAVE 1480 01:20:01,367 --> 01:20:11,343 ALSO CRIED THE SAME TEARS. 1481 01:20:11,343 --> 01:20:18,450 YOU'LL SEE AT AGE 16 HE WAS 1482 01:20:18,450 --> 01:20:18,651 4'10". 1483 01:20:18,651 --> 01:20:25,591 I KNOW WE'RE SHORT BUT NOT 1484 01:20:25,591 --> 01:20:26,826 HOPI -- 1485 01:20:26,826 --> 01:20:28,160 [LAUGHTER] 1486 01:20:28,160 --> 01:20:29,895 AND PEOPLE SAY YOU'RE SHORT AND 1487 01:20:29,895 --> 01:20:40,439 I SAY YEAH, I'M PUEBLO HEIGHT, 1488 01:20:41,106 --> 01:20:42,508 4'10" AGE 16 AND HIS CAUSE OF 1489 01:20:42,508 --> 01:20:52,818 DISCHARGE, DEATH. 1490 01:20:56,555 --> 01:20:57,823 IN BRINGING TOGETHER THE WAYS 1491 01:20:57,823 --> 01:20:59,258 WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO SHARE SPACE 1492 01:20:59,258 --> 01:21:05,464 LIKE THIS, I THINK IT'S SO 1493 01:21:05,464 --> 01:21:06,866 BEAUTIFUL KNOWING THAT OUR 1494 01:21:06,866 --> 01:21:07,900 RESPECTIVE PLACES WE'RE COMING 1495 01:21:07,900 --> 01:21:09,568 FROM WE'RE BRINGING OUR 1496 01:21:09,568 --> 01:21:11,637 SPIRITUAL OFFERINGS AND BRINGING 1497 01:21:11,637 --> 01:21:13,606 OUR PRAYERS AND BRINGING THE 1498 01:21:13,606 --> 01:21:17,409 STORIES OF OUR ANCESTORS AND SUR 1499 01:21:17,409 --> 01:21:19,912 IS SURVIVING RELATIVES AND HOW 1500 01:21:19,912 --> 01:21:21,413 THE WORK HAS CONTINUED TO 1501 01:21:21,413 --> 01:21:26,352 MANIFEST ITSELF FROM A POLICY 1502 01:21:26,352 --> 01:21:27,853 STANDPOINT HAS BEEN WITH SUCH 1503 01:21:27,853 --> 01:21:35,261 TREMENDOUS MOVEMENT AT NABS AND 1504 01:21:35,261 --> 01:21:37,229 WHERE WE WERE AND LOOKING AT 1505 01:21:37,229 --> 01:21:39,598 WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY I GIVE 1506 01:21:39,598 --> 01:21:40,733 TOTAL SHOUT OUT COMMENDING MY 1507 01:21:40,733 --> 01:21:45,871 COLLEAGUES FOR ALL OF THEIR WORK 1508 01:21:45,871 --> 01:21:47,773 BECAUSE IT IS ALL OF OUR HARD 1509 01:21:47,773 --> 01:21:50,309 WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN ABLE TO 1510 01:21:50,309 --> 01:21:52,578 GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT WHO WE 1511 01:21:52,578 --> 01:21:56,415 ARE AND THIS IS A PHOTO OF US 1512 01:21:56,415 --> 01:22:05,457 EARLIER THIS YEAR AND SISTER 1513 01:22:05,457 --> 01:22:06,725 DAVID'S OFFICE THIS PAST 1514 01:22:06,725 --> 01:22:13,565 FEBRUARY AND CONTINUE TO LOBBY 1515 01:22:13,565 --> 01:22:18,938 ON CAPITOL HILL AND OUR BROTHER 1516 01:22:18,938 --> 01:22:20,706 WHO HELPED TO GET THE MESSAGE 1517 01:22:20,706 --> 01:22:21,907 OUT AND MORE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS OF 1518 01:22:21,907 --> 01:22:27,346 OUR COLLEAGUES AND THE WAY WE'VE 1519 01:22:27,346 --> 01:22:29,281 CONTINUED TO COME TOGETHER THE 1520 01:22:29,281 --> 01:22:31,383 PHOTO ON THE LEFT IS MY ELDEST 1521 01:22:31,383 --> 01:22:38,057 MY SON AND ONE OF MY TWINS AT 1522 01:22:38,057 --> 01:22:39,558 THE RIVER AND COMING FROM THE 1523 01:22:39,558 --> 01:22:41,527 PERSPECTIVE OF WORKING WITH 1524 01:22:41,527 --> 01:22:42,561 NATIVE YOUTH AND KNOWING WHAT 1525 01:22:42,561 --> 01:22:48,801 IT'S LIKE TO BE IN A CLASSROOM 1526 01:22:48,801 --> 01:22:50,369 WITHIN K-12 I MISS THAT IN MANY 1527 01:22:50,369 --> 01:22:53,472 WAYS AND BEING THE MOTHER OF 1528 01:22:53,472 --> 01:22:54,173 FOUR TEENAGERS I THINK OUR YOUTH 1529 01:22:54,173 --> 01:22:57,743 ARE GOING TO BE THE ONES THAT 1530 01:22:57,743 --> 01:23:06,852 ARE GOING TO LEAD US FORWARD AND 1531 01:23:06,852 --> 01:23:10,089 SEE THE CONTINUED WAYS YOU'RE 1532 01:23:10,089 --> 01:23:13,025 WORK HAS RIPPLE EFFECTS FROM 1533 01:23:13,025 --> 01:23:16,862 INDIAN LAW AND POLICY AND HEALTH 1534 01:23:16,862 --> 01:23:19,331 AND HEALING TRAUMAS. 1535 01:23:19,331 --> 01:23:21,000 THOUGH SOMETIMES MY KIDS DON'T 1536 01:23:21,000 --> 01:23:25,104 NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT I DO THEY 1537 01:23:25,104 --> 01:23:26,405 SAY I LOVE YOU FOR THE WORK 1538 01:23:26,405 --> 01:23:27,539 YOU'RE DOING AND IT'S A 1539 01:23:27,539 --> 01:23:30,142 SACRIFICE TO BE IN THIS LINE OF 1540 01:23:30,142 --> 01:23:34,980 WORK AND CONSTANTLY HANDLING 1541 01:23:34,980 --> 01:23:36,782 TRAUMA AND HEARING STORIES THAT 1542 01:23:36,782 --> 01:23:39,318 COULD BE RETRIGGERING TO US BUT 1543 01:23:39,318 --> 01:23:41,453 IN CONCLUSION I'M GRATEFUL FOR 1544 01:23:41,453 --> 01:23:45,858 ALL THE WAYS WE'VE CONTINUED TO 1545 01:23:45,858 --> 01:23:48,494 PUSH ME MOVEMENT FORWARD. 1546 01:23:48,494 --> 01:23:49,828 A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT ME IF 1547 01:23:49,828 --> 01:23:51,230 YOU'RE INTERESTED. 1548 01:23:51,230 --> 01:23:53,465 MY DISSERTATION FOCUSSED ON 1549 01:23:53,465 --> 01:23:54,566 HEALING EFFORTS DURING THE TIME 1550 01:23:54,566 --> 01:23:57,836 OF COVID AND LOOKING AT 1551 01:23:57,836 --> 01:24:01,373 TRUST-BASED PHILANTHROPY BECAUSE 1552 01:24:01,373 --> 01:24:04,743 GOING FROM INDIAN ED TO SMALL 1553 01:24:04,743 --> 01:24:05,611 BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT I'VE SEEN 1554 01:24:05,611 --> 01:24:07,813 SO MANY OF US CREATING OUR OWN 1555 01:24:07,813 --> 01:24:13,318 PROJECTS AND NARRATIVES AND 1556 01:24:13,318 --> 01:24:14,887 NONPROFITS GEARED TOWARDS THE 1557 01:24:14,887 --> 01:24:15,954 HEALING EFFORTS TO HELP HEAL OUR 1558 01:24:15,954 --> 01:24:21,960 COMMUNITIES. 1559 01:24:21,960 --> 01:24:27,866 YOU'LL FIND MORE IN THE NABS AND 1560 01:24:27,866 --> 01:24:29,835 INTERVIEWS TO SHARE MORE OF MY 1561 01:24:29,835 --> 01:24:31,703 VIEW POINTS. 1562 01:24:31,703 --> 01:24:33,572 AND WITH THAT, THANK YOU SO MUCH 1563 01:24:33,572 --> 01:24:41,146 FOR YOUR TIME. 1564 01:24:41,146 --> 01:24:41,513 >> THANK YOU. 1565 01:24:41,513 --> 01:24:45,584 I KNOW WE STARTED THE DAY A BIT 1566 01:24:45,584 --> 01:24:47,586 LATE -- 1567 01:24:47,586 --> 01:24:52,357 >> WE'RE BACK ON TIME. 1568 01:24:52,357 --> 01:24:54,226 MAYBE SAY THAT WE COULD CONTINUE 1569 01:24:54,226 --> 01:24:55,494 THE CONVERSATIONS AFTER. 1570 01:24:55,494 --> 01:25:00,265 I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PLANS ARE 1571 01:25:00,265 --> 01:25:01,567 FOR IF WE'RE MOVING STRAIGHT TO 1572 01:25:01,567 --> 01:25:03,302 THE NEXT SESSION OR -- HOW WOULD 1573 01:25:03,302 --> 01:25:05,471 YOU LIKE US TO PROCEED? 1574 01:25:05,471 --> 01:25:06,538 WE CERTAINLY CAN TALK? 1575 01:25:06,538 --> 01:25:12,211 >> I THINK IF PEOPLE HAVE 1576 01:25:12,211 --> 01:25:18,217 QUESTIONS WE KCAN -- OR WE COUL 1577 01:25:18,217 --> 01:25:24,256 STRETCH AND TAKE A QUICK BREAK 1578 01:25:24,256 --> 01:25:25,891 OR -- 1579 01:25:25,891 --> 01:25:33,899 >> WE HAVE QUESTIONS TOO BUT WE 1580 01:25:33,899 --> 01:25:40,873 WANT TO RESPECT TIME. 1581 01:25:40,873 --> 01:25:42,407 WE'RE CLOSE TO ON TIME. 1582 01:25:42,407 --> 01:25:43,308 >> COOL. 1583 01:25:43,308 --> 01:25:46,445 SO WE CAN DO THAT. 1584 01:25:46,445 --> 01:25:49,014 SO THE PRESENTATIONS WERE BOTH 1585 01:25:49,014 --> 01:25:54,920 REALLY POWERFUL JOURNEYS THROUGH 1586 01:25:54,920 --> 01:25:58,924 HOW OUR COLLEAGUES ARE THINKING 1587 01:25:58,924 --> 01:26:02,161 ABOUT THE BROAD TOPIC WE WERE 1588 01:26:02,161 --> 01:26:05,230 ASSIGNED WHICH IS -- 1589 01:26:05,230 --> 01:26:09,334 >> I KNOW. 1590 01:26:09,334 --> 01:26:11,770 PATHWAYS TO THRIVING: LOVE, LAND 1591 01:26:11,770 --> 01:26:12,804 AND WATER. 1592 01:26:12,804 --> 01:26:19,845 BUT IN MY FINEST REDUCTIONIST 1593 01:26:19,845 --> 01:26:21,246 WAY TO THINK ABOUT IF SOMEONE 1594 01:26:21,246 --> 01:26:23,982 WERE TO WALK UP TO YOU ON THE 1595 01:26:23,982 --> 01:26:26,218 STREET AND SAY SO WHAT DOES 1596 01:26:26,218 --> 01:26:26,952 THRIVING MEAN TO YOU, HOW WOULD 1597 01:26:26,952 --> 01:26:37,162 YOU ANSWER? 1598 01:26:41,500 --> 01:26:44,303 SO FOR ME I WOULD SAY WHAT DOES 1599 01:26:44,303 --> 01:26:45,003 THRIVING LOOK LIKE? 1600 01:26:45,003 --> 01:26:47,239 IT'S SPEAKING LANGUAGES. 1601 01:26:47,239 --> 01:26:49,575 IT'S OUR WOMEN AND OUR MEN 1602 01:26:49,575 --> 01:26:53,545 TENDING TO OUR FIRES, HUNTING ON 1603 01:26:53,545 --> 01:26:56,348 OUR TRADITIONAL HOMELANDS. 1604 01:26:56,348 --> 01:26:58,650 MOVING THROUGHOUT OUR LANDS WITH 1605 01:26:58,650 --> 01:27:00,185 ACCESS AND NOT HAVING TO BE 1606 01:27:00,185 --> 01:27:01,520 BURDENED WITH THE CHALLENGES 1607 01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:03,088 THAT WE'VE SEEN WITH TRYING TO 1608 01:27:03,088 --> 01:27:05,791 REGAIN OUR LANDS. 1609 01:27:05,791 --> 01:27:09,328 IT'S OUR BABIES COMING HOME FROM 1610 01:27:09,328 --> 01:27:11,330 PLACES THEY WEREN'T MEANT TO BE 1611 01:27:11,330 --> 01:27:21,640 BURIED. 1612 01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:25,310 I IMAGINE A FUTURE WHERE OUR 1613 01:27:25,310 --> 01:27:26,845 PUEBLO WAYS IN PARTICULAR 1614 01:27:26,845 --> 01:27:27,980 BECAUSE THAT'S THE WORLD VIEW I 1615 01:27:27,980 --> 01:27:33,252 COME FROM WILL CONTINUE ON AND I 1616 01:27:33,252 --> 01:27:37,055 THINK BEING A WITNESS TO THE 1617 01:27:37,055 --> 01:27:39,157 BEAUTIFUL WAYS THAT WE COME 1618 01:27:39,157 --> 01:27:40,659 TOGETHER AS COMMUNITY FOLLOWING 1619 01:27:40,659 --> 01:27:42,694 OUR TRADITIONAL CALENDARS THAT 1620 01:27:42,694 --> 01:27:45,831 THOSE WAYS WILL CONTINUE, THAT 1621 01:27:45,831 --> 01:27:50,636 THOSE CONTRACTS THAT WE HAVE 1622 01:27:50,636 --> 01:27:53,905 WILL CONTINUE TO PAVE THEIR WAY 1623 01:27:53,905 --> 01:27:54,973 FORWARD AND OUR CHILDREN WILL BE 1624 01:27:54,973 --> 01:27:56,908 ABLE TO CONNECT WITH OUR 1625 01:27:56,908 --> 01:27:59,611 ANCESTORS BECAUSE THEY'RE 1626 01:27:59,611 --> 01:28:01,179 SPEAKING THE SAME BREATH AND 1627 01:28:01,179 --> 01:28:07,586 PRAYER IN SYNC. 1628 01:28:07,586 --> 01:28:09,788 >> WHEN I THINK OF THRIVANCE 1629 01:28:09,788 --> 01:28:11,490 ADDS MY COLLEAGUE THINK OF THE 1630 01:28:11,490 --> 01:28:13,091 WONDERFUL UNDER PINNINGS OF WHO 1631 01:28:13,091 --> 01:28:13,892 WE ARE. 1632 01:28:13,892 --> 01:28:16,161 ADDS I LOOK AT MY CHILDREN I 1633 01:28:16,161 --> 01:28:17,229 THINK THEY ARE THRIVING RIGHT 1634 01:28:17,229 --> 01:28:17,396 NOW. 1635 01:28:17,396 --> 01:28:19,498 THEY'RE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD 1636 01:28:19,498 --> 01:28:21,133 KNOWING WHO THEY ARE AND LOVING 1637 01:28:21,133 --> 01:28:25,070 WHO THEY ARE. 1638 01:28:25,070 --> 01:28:26,838 AND KNOWING THEIR LOVE AND WE'RE 1639 01:28:26,838 --> 01:28:27,806 ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD IN THE 1640 01:28:27,806 --> 01:28:29,541 STATE OF MIND AND FRAMEWORK THAT 1641 01:28:29,541 --> 01:28:31,176 WE ARE THRIVING. 1642 01:28:31,176 --> 01:28:32,678 WE'RE ABLE TO REIMAGINE WHAT WE 1643 01:28:32,678 --> 01:28:34,146 WANT IN THE FUTURE AND ABLE TO 1644 01:28:34,146 --> 01:28:37,382 TAKE STEPS VEEP IF THEY'RE JUST 1645 01:28:37,382 --> 01:28:40,085 SMALL STEPS AND OF COURSE WE ALL 1646 01:28:40,085 --> 01:28:42,454 GET DOWN WHEN WE TAKE ONE STEP 1647 01:28:42,454 --> 01:28:43,355 FORWARD SOMETIMES IT FEELS LIKE 1648 01:28:43,355 --> 01:28:45,557 WE'RE TAKING TWO STEPS BACK. 1649 01:28:45,557 --> 01:28:48,260 AT THE SAME TIME WE'RE ABLE TO 1650 01:28:48,260 --> 01:28:51,963 GRAB AND FEEL BOLSTERED BY OUR 1651 01:28:51,963 --> 01:28:53,198 ANCESTRAL LOVE AND KEEP REACHING 1652 01:28:53,198 --> 01:28:55,300 FOR MORE FOR THE NEXT SEVEN 1653 01:28:55,300 --> 01:28:56,601 GENERATIONS TO ME IT'S A STATE 1654 01:28:56,601 --> 01:28:59,538 OF THRIVANCE OPPOSED TO JUST 1655 01:28:59,538 --> 01:29:01,573 MERELY ADVISERING. 1656 01:29:01,573 --> 01:29:07,879 -- SURVIVING. 1657 01:29:07,879 --> 01:29:10,649 >> I HAVE TO SAY AS WE FOCUS ON 1658 01:29:10,649 --> 01:29:12,384 YOUTH I HAVE SEEN SUCH A 1659 01:29:12,384 --> 01:29:14,419 TRANSFORMATION IN THE COUPLE OF 1660 01:29:14,419 --> 01:29:20,025 DECADES I'VE BEEN IN ALASKA IN 1661 01:29:20,025 --> 01:29:25,597 TERMS OF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND 1662 01:29:25,597 --> 01:29:26,998 OWNERSHIP WHETHER IT'S THE YOUNG 1663 01:29:26,998 --> 01:29:31,470 PEOPLE STANDING ON THE STAGE AT 1664 01:29:31,470 --> 01:29:34,573 AFN ASKING PEOPLE TO THEY WILL 1665 01:29:34,573 --> 01:29:41,480 THE STORIES OR SOME OF THE YOUTH 1666 01:29:41,480 --> 01:29:46,518 MOVEMENTS ARE POWERFUL THAT 1667 01:29:46,518 --> 01:29:52,891 YOUTH ARE REALLY TRANSFORMING 1668 01:29:52,891 --> 01:29:54,192 THE DIRECTION WE'RE HEADING AS A 1669 01:29:54,192 --> 01:29:56,361 STATE AND IT'S EXCITING TO SEE 1670 01:29:56,361 --> 01:30:02,067 AND I THINK THAT IS THRIVING. 1671 01:30:02,067 --> 01:30:05,537 WE HAVE YOUTH AND ELDERS LEADING 1672 01:30:05,537 --> 01:30:09,341 TOGETHER. 1673 01:30:09,341 --> 01:30:10,275 SO YESTERDAY WE TALKED A LOT 1674 01:30:10,275 --> 01:30:13,945 ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 1675 01:30:13,945 --> 01:30:15,247 RELATIONSHIPS. 1676 01:30:15,247 --> 01:30:17,382 AND RELATIONS, THE PLANT, THE 1677 01:30:17,382 --> 01:30:20,786 TREES, THE ANIMALS BEING 1678 01:30:20,786 --> 01:30:21,286 RELATIONS. 1679 01:30:21,286 --> 01:30:23,822 SO I KNOW YOU TALKED A BIT ABOUT 1680 01:30:23,822 --> 01:30:27,492 THIS BUT HOW IS YOUR 1681 01:30:27,492 --> 01:30:33,365 RELATIONSHIP WITH LAND AND WATER 1682 01:30:33,365 --> 01:30:35,367 CONTRIBUTING TO YOUR THRIVING? 1683 01:30:35,367 --> 01:30:38,837 YOU'VE TALKED A BIT ABOUT YOUR 1684 01:30:38,837 --> 01:30:39,905 FAMILY'S THRIVING AND DON'T KNOW 1685 01:30:39,905 --> 01:30:41,506 IF YOU HAVE MORE YOU'D LIKE TO 1686 01:30:41,506 --> 01:30:42,774 SHARE ABOUT THAT. 1687 01:30:42,774 --> 01:30:45,544 >> I'LL LET YOU GO FIRST. 1688 01:30:45,544 --> 01:30:49,681 >> I THINK IT'S HOW WE SITUATE 1689 01:30:49,681 --> 01:30:50,882 OURSELVES AND BEING IN A STATE 1690 01:30:50,882 --> 01:30:54,286 OF THRIVANCE AND HOW WE RELATE. 1691 01:30:54,286 --> 01:30:57,122 ANYTIME I GO INTO A NEW AREA WE 1692 01:30:57,122 --> 01:30:59,090 GO AND GREET THE WATER. 1693 01:30:59,090 --> 01:31:01,226 WE GREET THE WATER AND PRAY AND 1694 01:31:01,226 --> 01:31:05,230 TREAT THE LAND AND PRAY AND 1695 01:31:05,230 --> 01:31:07,833 GREET THE TREES, THE SKY, THE 1696 01:31:07,833 --> 01:31:08,166 EARTH. 1697 01:31:08,166 --> 01:31:09,668 IT'S SAYING HELLO TO YOUR 1698 01:31:09,668 --> 01:31:11,303 RELATIVES AND RECOGNIZING YOUR 1699 01:31:11,303 --> 01:31:13,438 PART OF IT IS REALLY CRITICAL 1700 01:31:13,438 --> 01:31:16,441 AND IMPORTANT I THINK FOR ALL 1701 01:31:16,441 --> 01:31:18,477 HUMANS TO KNOW WE'RE ALL IN THIS 1702 01:31:18,477 --> 01:31:19,911 TOGETHER AND CONNECTED AND THE 1703 01:31:19,911 --> 01:31:21,546 EARTH IS WITH US AND WE'RE PART 1704 01:31:21,546 --> 01:31:22,447 OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH HEALTH 1705 01:31:22,447 --> 01:31:24,616 AND WELL BEING IF WE EXPECT TO 1706 01:31:24,616 --> 01:31:28,820 BE WELL, THE EARTH MUST BE WELL 1707 01:31:28,820 --> 01:31:30,989 AND ANIMALS AND RELATIVES AND 1708 01:31:30,989 --> 01:31:34,493 INSECTS HAVE TO BE WELL AND KEEP 1709 01:31:34,493 --> 01:31:36,394 THAT IN MIND AS WE MOVE FORWARD 1710 01:31:36,394 --> 01:31:37,562 AND ACT UPON THAT. 1711 01:31:37,562 --> 01:31:39,197 I THINK IT INFORMS OUR WORK. 1712 01:31:39,197 --> 01:31:41,199 ANYTIME I WORK WITH YOUTH IT'S A 1713 01:31:41,199 --> 01:31:43,034 VERY COMMON PHRASE IN MY 1714 01:31:43,034 --> 01:31:45,136 RESEARCH WE FIND IN OUR 1715 01:31:45,136 --> 01:31:46,538 INTERVIEWS WITH THEM THEY ALWAYS 1716 01:31:46,538 --> 01:31:48,206 SAY HOW CAN I BE WELL IF THE 1717 01:31:48,206 --> 01:31:50,775 LAND IS NOT WELL AND IT'S SAID 1718 01:31:50,775 --> 01:31:53,445 AGAIN AND AGAIN ACROSS DIFFERENT 1719 01:31:53,445 --> 01:31:56,548 COMMUNITIES AND I WORK A LOT IN 1720 01:31:56,548 --> 01:31:59,518 CANADA, U.S., NEW ZEALAND WE SEE 1721 01:31:59,518 --> 01:32:01,786 IT REPEATEDLY SO IT'S CRITICAL 1722 01:32:01,786 --> 01:32:02,254 FOR OUR WELL BEING. 1723 01:32:02,254 --> 01:32:04,155 >> DID WE HAVE A QUESTION FROM 1724 01:32:04,155 --> 01:32:04,756 THE AUDIENCE? 1725 01:32:04,756 --> 01:32:09,561 >> HI, THANK YOU. 1726 01:32:09,561 --> 01:32:10,295 FREDDY LANE. 1727 01:32:10,295 --> 01:32:12,931 I WANTED TO MORE THAN ANYTHING A 1728 01:32:12,931 --> 01:32:13,565 COMMENT. 1729 01:32:13,565 --> 01:32:20,071 THANK YOU FOR YOUR 1730 01:32:20,071 --> 01:32:20,405 PRESENTATIONS. 1731 01:32:20,405 --> 01:32:22,707 I DO THE GATHERING OF EAGLES AND 1732 01:32:22,707 --> 01:32:26,845 THIS IS OUR FIFTH ANNUAL COMING 1733 01:32:26,845 --> 01:32:30,015 UP MAY 17-26 IN LOMI AND I 1734 01:32:30,015 --> 01:32:33,552 INVITED EVERYBODY AND ALSO 1735 01:32:33,552 --> 01:32:34,853 INVITED EVERYBODY TO MAUI AND WE 1736 01:32:34,853 --> 01:32:37,556 DO A GATHERING OF EAGLES. 1737 01:32:37,556 --> 01:32:42,727 I JUST GOT BACK. 1738 01:32:42,727 --> 01:32:45,196 THAT CONNECTION TO THE LAND AN 1739 01:32:45,196 --> 01:32:47,666 OUR TRADITIONAL WATERS WHEN WE 1740 01:32:47,666 --> 01:32:50,869 HOST THE CANOE JOURNEY IT WAS 1741 01:32:50,869 --> 01:32:52,203 IMPORTANT WE TALKED ABOUT 1742 01:32:52,203 --> 01:32:54,306 TRAVELLING OUR ANCESTRAL 1743 01:32:54,306 --> 01:32:54,573 HIGHWAYS. 1744 01:32:54,573 --> 01:32:59,644 I THINK YOUR PRESENTATION HIT IT 1745 01:32:59,644 --> 01:33:02,047 RIGHT ON THAT THAT CONNECTION 1746 01:33:02,047 --> 01:33:04,416 WITH THE LAND AND ANCESTRAL 1747 01:33:04,416 --> 01:33:05,517 SACRED SITES. 1748 01:33:05,517 --> 01:33:09,554 PEOPLE CALL THEM CITIES WHERE WE 1749 01:33:09,554 --> 01:33:13,124 ARE, SEATTLE, HARPER, THEIR ALL 1750 01:33:13,124 --> 01:33:18,830 OUR ANCIENT VILLAGES AND HAVE TO 1751 01:33:18,830 --> 01:33:29,341 REMIND OUR RELATIVES THAT AND 1752 01:33:29,641 --> 01:33:32,177 OUR ANCESTORS AND OUR NAME IS 1753 01:33:32,177 --> 01:33:35,313 SCOTTISH AND I BEGAN TO 1754 01:33:35,313 --> 01:33:36,514 RECOGNIZE MY GREAT GREAT 1755 01:33:36,514 --> 01:33:37,916 GRANDFATHER. 1756 01:33:37,916 --> 01:33:40,151 I THINK RECOGNIZING THAT AND THE 1757 01:33:40,151 --> 01:33:41,953 CONNECTION TO THE LAND IS SPOT 1758 01:33:41,953 --> 01:33:45,557 ON WHEN YOU -- WE ALWAYS MAKE 1759 01:33:45,557 --> 01:33:49,060 EVERYBODY TOUCH THE EARTH AND DO 1760 01:33:49,060 --> 01:33:51,563 WATER BLESSING CEREMONIES AND 1761 01:33:51,563 --> 01:33:55,266 SEEING MORE OF OUR CUSTOMS, 1762 01:33:55,266 --> 01:33:57,302 TRADITIONS, RITES OF PASSAGE AND 1763 01:33:57,302 --> 01:34:01,473 COMING OF AGE CEREMONIES. 1764 01:34:01,473 --> 01:34:04,342 I ENCOURAGE ALL OF US WE HELP 1765 01:34:04,342 --> 01:34:08,546 PRACTICE THAT BECAUSE YOU KNOW 1766 01:34:08,546 --> 01:34:10,949 WHAT, THOSE ANCIENT TRADITIONS 1767 01:34:10,949 --> 01:34:15,053 IN SOME OF OUR CULTURES MAY BE 1768 01:34:15,053 --> 01:34:18,256 GONE BUT LIKE MY LATE CHIEF MADE 1769 01:34:18,256 --> 01:34:22,127 MY HAT, HE SAYS, YOU WILL 1770 01:34:22,127 --> 01:34:23,662 REMEMBER THEM BECAUSE IT'S IN 1771 01:34:23,662 --> 01:34:25,330 OUR DNA SO I JUST WANTED TO 1772 01:34:25,330 --> 01:34:29,567 SHARE THAT AND THANK YOU FOR 1773 01:34:29,567 --> 01:34:30,235 YOUR PRESENTATION. 1774 01:34:30,235 --> 01:34:37,642 >> THANK YOU, THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 1775 01:34:37,642 --> 01:34:38,376 >> HI. 1776 01:34:38,376 --> 01:34:40,378 MY NAME IS RITA. 1777 01:34:40,378 --> 01:34:45,550 I'M NOT NATIVE BUT I WONDERED 1778 01:34:45,550 --> 01:34:51,389 AND KARINA SAID EARLIER HOT 1779 01:34:51,389 --> 01:34:52,490 MIKE. 1780 01:34:52,490 --> 01:34:54,693 I AM WITH NIH, THE NATIONAL 1781 01:34:54,693 --> 01:34:56,127 INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL 1782 01:34:56,127 --> 01:34:58,329 DISORDERS AND STROKE. 1783 01:34:58,329 --> 01:35:00,865 I'M HOPING MY QUESTION ISN'T 1784 01:35:00,865 --> 01:35:01,833 INAPPROPRIATE BECAUSE I'M NOT 1785 01:35:01,833 --> 01:35:03,802 SURE IF I SAID THAT I'M WHITE 1786 01:35:03,802 --> 01:35:07,238 BUT I'M WHITE BUT KARINA SAID 1787 01:35:07,238 --> 01:35:11,843 EARLIER THAT THE HOT MIKE 1788 01:35:11,843 --> 01:35:13,244 AWKWARDNESS AND I PUT MY FOOT IN 1789 01:35:13,244 --> 01:35:15,313 IT MOST DAYS. 1790 01:35:15,313 --> 01:35:18,216 I DO WORK WITH AND RUN A PROGRAM 1791 01:35:18,216 --> 01:35:21,052 WITH OTHER COLLEAGUES FROM OTHER 1792 01:35:21,052 --> 01:35:22,987 INSTITUTES WHERE WE BRING NATIVE 1793 01:35:22,987 --> 01:35:27,992 YOUNGSTERS IN TO DO RESEARCH FOR 1794 01:35:27,992 --> 01:35:32,997 THE SUMMER AND THEY'RE AMAZING, 1795 01:35:32,997 --> 01:35:34,632 IF YOU CAN IMAGINE BUT SOME OF 1796 01:35:34,632 --> 01:35:37,202 THEM ARE VERY ANGRY. 1797 01:35:37,202 --> 01:35:39,070 AND I'M NOT SAYING IT'S NOT 1798 01:35:39,070 --> 01:35:43,708 MISPLACED ANGER AT ALL BUT I'M 1799 01:35:43,708 --> 01:35:49,380 WONDERING HOW THE LAND COULD 1800 01:35:49,380 --> 01:35:55,520 HELP -- HOW THE LAND CAN HELP 1801 01:35:55,520 --> 01:35:58,757 WITH FORGIVENESS AND I'M NOT 1802 01:35:58,757 --> 01:35:59,557 SAYING FORGET WHAT'S HAPPENED 1803 01:35:59,557 --> 01:36:02,393 AND I'M NOT SAYING FORGET THE 1804 01:36:02,393 --> 01:36:04,929 TRAUMA OR IGNORE THE 1805 01:36:04,929 --> 01:36:06,331 PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAUMA THAT 1806 01:36:06,331 --> 01:36:08,133 CONTINUES ON GENERATION TO 1807 01:36:08,133 --> 01:36:18,343 GENERATION BUT I JUST WONDER HOW 1808 01:36:18,343 --> 01:36:19,811 THE LAND CAN PLAY AN APART WHICH 1809 01:36:19,811 --> 01:36:21,980 IS LIKE A FORGIVENESS WHICH IS 1810 01:36:21,980 --> 01:36:23,681 LIKE WAY CLOUD SOME DAYS FOR 1811 01:36:23,681 --> 01:36:25,016 THESE YOUNGSTERS. 1812 01:36:25,016 --> 01:36:31,389 ANYWAY. 1813 01:36:31,389 --> 01:36:35,693 >> WHEN YOU SAY FOR FORGIVENESS 1814 01:36:35,693 --> 01:36:36,995 FOR? 1815 01:36:36,995 --> 01:36:40,298 >> FOR SOME OF THEM BECAUSE OF 1816 01:36:40,298 --> 01:36:46,304 THE TREATMENT OF THEIR ANCESTORS 1817 01:36:46,304 --> 01:36:48,573 BY THE COLONIST AND COLONIZING 1818 01:36:48,573 --> 01:36:52,577 AND SETTLERS AND ALL THE HORROR 1819 01:36:52,577 --> 01:36:59,217 AND THE BOARDING SCHOOLS THERE'S 1820 01:36:59,217 --> 01:37:03,121 BEEN THE TRAUMA PASSED ON 1821 01:37:03,121 --> 01:37:05,557 GENERATIONALLY TO THEIR PARENTS 1822 01:37:05,557 --> 01:37:08,293 AND GRANDPARENTS SO MAYBE 1823 01:37:08,293 --> 01:37:09,427 THERE'S VIOLENCE, DOMESTIC 1824 01:37:09,427 --> 01:37:10,695 VIOLENCE THAT'S CONTINUED ON 1825 01:37:10,695 --> 01:37:11,729 BECAUSE OF THE TREATMENT OF 1826 01:37:11,729 --> 01:37:17,135 THEIR ANCESTORS WHEN THEY ARE 1827 01:37:17,135 --> 01:37:20,772 WERE YOUNG AND SO THERE'S ANGER 1828 01:37:20,772 --> 01:37:22,674 WITH THEIR RELATIVES SOMETIMES 1829 01:37:22,674 --> 01:37:24,008 BECAUSE OF HOW THEY'VE BEEN 1830 01:37:24,008 --> 01:37:29,280 TREATED AND HOW THAT'S MOVED ON 1831 01:37:29,280 --> 01:37:36,154 AND THEN THERE'S ANGER 1832 01:37:36,154 --> 01:37:38,890 APPROPRIATELY, FRUSTRATION AND 1833 01:37:38,890 --> 01:37:40,291 DEEP SEEDED ANGER THEIR FAMILIES 1834 01:37:40,291 --> 01:37:46,364 HAVE PUT IN BECAUSE OF THE 1835 01:37:46,364 --> 01:37:46,698 COLONIZATION. 1836 01:37:46,698 --> 01:37:52,470 I FEEL LIKE IF THERE WAS A WAY 1837 01:37:52,470 --> 01:37:54,372 TO BETTER EXPRESS -- AND I DON'T 1838 01:37:54,372 --> 01:37:57,542 WANT TO SAY HANDLE IT LIKE IT'S 1839 01:37:57,542 --> 01:38:00,111 SOME EASY THING TO DO BUT I FEEL 1840 01:38:00,111 --> 01:38:04,482 LIKE THEY CARRY THIS HUGE BURDEN 1841 01:38:04,482 --> 01:38:07,285 AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT -- I'M 1842 01:38:07,285 --> 01:38:14,659 CURIOUS IF THERE'S WAYS FOR IT 1843 01:38:14,659 --> 01:38:18,229 BECOME LESS OF A BURDEN? 1844 01:38:18,229 --> 01:38:19,097 I DON'T KNOW. 1845 01:38:19,097 --> 01:38:20,231 IF SOMEONE WANTS TO FORGIVE 1846 01:38:20,231 --> 01:38:24,836 THEIR PARENTS FOR THE ABUSE THAT 1847 01:38:24,836 --> 01:38:28,773 HAPPENED TO THEM CAN THE LAND 1848 01:38:28,773 --> 01:38:31,876 HELP WITH THAT HEALING? 1849 01:38:31,876 --> 01:38:32,710 HAD DOES THAT --? 1850 01:38:32,710 --> 01:38:34,746 >> I THINK SO. 1851 01:38:34,746 --> 01:38:38,583 I THINK I UNDERSTAND. 1852 01:38:38,583 --> 01:38:42,787 YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT HEALING 1853 01:38:42,787 --> 01:38:45,623 OPPORTUNITIES UPON TRAUMA POND 1854 01:38:45,623 --> 01:38:46,991 UPON THE LAND? 1855 01:38:46,991 --> 01:38:50,795 >> YES. 1856 01:38:51,095 --> 01:38:51,696 CAN THE LAND HELP IN THE 1857 01:38:51,696 --> 01:38:56,601 HEALING OF A YOUNGSTER WHO MAYBE 1858 01:38:56,601 --> 01:39:02,774 WAS HURT BADLY BY A RELATIVE AND 1859 01:39:02,774 --> 01:39:04,175 I'M NOT SAYING -- I'M NOT DOING 1860 01:39:04,175 --> 01:39:05,543 THIS WELL. 1861 01:39:05,543 --> 01:39:07,312 I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD LET IT 1862 01:39:07,312 --> 01:39:09,981 GO LIKE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN BUT I 1863 01:39:09,981 --> 01:39:11,582 ALSO FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES IT 1864 01:39:11,582 --> 01:39:15,586 BECOMES VERY ALL CONSUMING AND 1865 01:39:15,586 --> 01:39:16,754 THEN THEY TURN TO UNHEALTHY 1866 01:39:16,754 --> 01:39:22,093 PRACTICES. 1867 01:39:22,093 --> 01:39:24,462 >> I THINK THE LAND WAS ALWAYS 1868 01:39:24,462 --> 01:39:25,763 HEALING AND BREATHING AND 1869 01:39:25,763 --> 01:39:30,868 THERE'S DIFFERENT WAYS WE CAN 1870 01:39:30,868 --> 01:39:37,208 PARTAKE IN AND EMBRACE NATURE 1871 01:39:37,208 --> 01:39:42,046 AND FOR THE INDIVIDUAL YOUTH 1872 01:39:42,046 --> 01:39:49,554 WHETHER IT'S -- TO THE 1873 01:39:49,554 --> 01:39:51,189 MOUNTAINS, TAKING A HIKE OR 1874 01:39:51,189 --> 01:39:55,126 GOING IN THEIR BACK YARD AND 1875 01:39:55,126 --> 01:39:57,195 SCOOPING UP THE EARTH, EMBRACING 1876 01:39:57,195 --> 01:39:57,895 IT. 1877 01:39:57,895 --> 01:39:59,597 THERE'S SO MANY WAYS THAT 1878 01:39:59,597 --> 01:40:01,532 HEALING CAN CONTRIBUTE TO THAT. 1879 01:40:01,532 --> 01:40:03,267 WE CAN TALK A LITTLE BIT LATER. 1880 01:40:03,267 --> 01:40:06,104 I WANT TO HONOR WE HAVE A 1881 01:40:06,104 --> 01:40:08,239 SURVIVOR WITH A QUESTION AS WELL 1882 01:40:08,239 --> 01:40:10,108 SO I'LL BE SURE TO CONNECT WITH 1883 01:40:10,108 --> 01:40:10,274 YOU. 1884 01:40:10,274 --> 01:40:11,709 I KNOW WE STARTED A CONVERSATION 1885 01:40:11,709 --> 01:40:22,086 THIS MORNING SO YEAH. 1886 01:40:23,421 --> 01:40:25,490 >> I KNOW IT -- 1887 01:40:25,490 --> 01:40:27,191 >> THE MIKE'S NOT ON. 1888 01:40:27,191 --> 01:40:28,726 >> CAN WE POSSIBLY GET THE MIKE 1889 01:40:28,726 --> 01:40:38,803 ON? 1890 01:40:51,849 --> 01:40:56,521 >> WITH YOUR FAMILIES IT'S 1891 01:40:56,521 --> 01:40:56,788 WONDERFUL. 1892 01:40:56,788 --> 01:40:59,524 I LOVE LEARNING ABOUT OTHER 1893 01:40:59,524 --> 01:41:09,467 PEOPLE HOW THEY WERE RAISED, THE 1894 01:41:09,467 --> 01:41:11,736 WAY THEY WERE FOLLOWED AND WHEN 1895 01:41:11,736 --> 01:41:14,472 I WAS SENT TO DALLAS, TEXAS, I 1896 01:41:14,472 --> 01:41:16,541 HAVE TWO IN MY FAMILY I CALL 1897 01:41:16,541 --> 01:41:17,708 PEOPLE WATCHERS. 1898 01:41:17,708 --> 01:41:19,811 I WAS A PEOPLE WATCHER. 1899 01:41:19,811 --> 01:41:22,180 AND I SIMULATED WHAT OTHER 1900 01:41:22,180 --> 01:41:24,015 PEOPLE DID AND I THINK THAT WAS 1901 01:41:24,015 --> 01:41:27,185 ONE OF MY SURVIVAL SKILLS BUT 1902 01:41:27,185 --> 01:41:32,924 WITHIN OUR RESERVATIONS 1903 01:41:32,924 --> 01:41:36,494 ESPECIALLY MY RESERVATION ROSE 1904 01:41:36,494 --> 01:41:40,731 BUD, PINE RIDGE, EAGLE BUTTE, 1905 01:41:40,731 --> 01:41:43,367 DOWN IN FORT THOMPSON, THESE ARE 1906 01:41:43,367 --> 01:41:45,670 RESERVATIONS THAT OUR PEOPLE 1907 01:41:45,670 --> 01:41:47,538 WERE PLACED ON. 1908 01:41:47,538 --> 01:41:48,773 WE KNOW ABOUT HUNTING, NUMBER 1909 01:41:48,773 --> 01:41:56,514 ONE THING, WATER IS LIFE. 1910 01:41:56,514 --> 01:41:59,083 WE ALWAYS KNOW ABOUT OUR THREE 1911 01:41:59,083 --> 01:42:00,985 SISTERS BECAUSE THAT'S PART OF 1912 01:42:00,985 --> 01:42:02,753 OUR SURVIVAL. 1913 01:42:02,753 --> 01:42:03,321 STAYING GROUNDED, VERY 1914 01:42:03,321 --> 01:42:04,822 IMPORTANT. 1915 01:42:04,822 --> 01:42:06,891 BUT WE HAVE A FRACTURE THERE 1916 01:42:06,891 --> 01:42:09,427 AMONGST OUR PEOPLE THAT WE WERE 1917 01:42:09,427 --> 01:42:10,928 NOT TAUGHT BECAUSE OUR 1918 01:42:10,928 --> 01:42:13,564 ANCESTORS -- I HAVE SIX 1919 01:42:13,564 --> 01:42:15,333 RELATIVES THAT WENT TO CARLYLE. 1920 01:42:15,333 --> 01:42:17,435 EVERY TIME I LOOK AT THESE 1921 01:42:17,435 --> 01:42:18,936 PICTURES I'M WONDERING IF I'M 1922 01:42:18,936 --> 01:42:22,273 LOOKING AT MY MOTHER, MY 1923 01:42:22,273 --> 01:42:23,608 AUNTIES, MY UNCLES. 1924 01:42:23,608 --> 01:42:26,911 AM I LOOKING AT MY RELATIVES 1925 01:42:26,911 --> 01:42:27,145 THERE? 1926 01:42:27,145 --> 01:42:29,547 I DON'T KNOW. 1927 01:42:29,547 --> 01:42:34,218 WE DIDN'T HAVE THE FINANCIAL 1928 01:42:34,218 --> 01:42:36,787 STABILITY AND EVEN TODAY A LOT 1929 01:42:36,787 --> 01:42:40,825 OF OUR PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THAT 1930 01:42:40,825 --> 01:42:42,326 FRACTURE, THE HURT WE SUFFER 1931 01:42:42,326 --> 01:42:45,563 WITH, ALCOHOLISM, DRUG 1932 01:42:45,563 --> 01:42:48,933 ADDICTIONS, IT'S A FRACTURE THAT 1933 01:42:48,933 --> 01:42:53,871 WE'RE STRUGGLING TO HEAL FROM. 1934 01:42:53,871 --> 01:42:56,140 IF WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO LOVE OR 1935 01:42:56,140 --> 01:42:57,742 CARE OR OURSELVES AND OUR 1936 01:42:57,742 --> 01:42:59,677 SIBLINGS AND CHILDREN AND 1937 01:42:59,677 --> 01:43:00,678 GRANDCHILDREN, THEN THAT 1938 01:43:00,678 --> 01:43:02,980 FRACTURE WILL REMAIN THERE. 1939 01:43:02,980 --> 01:43:07,885 SO, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE 1940 01:43:07,885 --> 01:43:08,619 WONDERFUL IF WE COULD SOMEHOW 1941 01:43:08,619 --> 01:43:14,058 TEACH OUR CHILDREN, OUR 1942 01:43:14,058 --> 01:43:17,595 GRANDCHILDREN TO GO BACK TO 1943 01:43:17,595 --> 01:43:21,566 HUNTING AND GATHERING. 1944 01:43:21,566 --> 01:43:27,572 I HAD THE ABILITY WHEN I WAS 1945 01:43:27,572 --> 01:43:32,944 YOUNG HOW TO PICK BERRIES AND 1946 01:43:32,944 --> 01:43:37,014 HOW TO PICK A TURNIP AND THE 1947 01:43:37,014 --> 01:43:38,115 DELICIOUSNESS OF A TURNIP AND I 1948 01:43:38,115 --> 01:43:39,550 WAS RAISED ON THAT BUT OUR 1949 01:43:39,550 --> 01:43:42,620 PEOPLE ARE SO FRACTURED, YES, I 1950 01:43:42,620 --> 01:43:43,888 KNOW HOW TO LOVE MYSELF NOW. 1951 01:43:43,888 --> 01:43:46,657 I KNOW HOW TO LOVE MY CHILDREN 1952 01:43:46,657 --> 01:43:48,960 AND MY GRANDCHILDREN BUT THERE'S 1953 01:43:48,960 --> 01:43:52,430 STILL THAT GENERATIONAL TRAUMA 1954 01:43:52,430 --> 01:43:52,630 THERE. 1955 01:43:52,630 --> 01:43:54,432 SO HOW DO WE GET BACK TO WHERE 1956 01:43:54,432 --> 01:43:57,602 WE CAN CLEAN OUT THAT WOUND AND 1957 01:43:57,602 --> 01:43:59,003 START HEALING AS A PEOPLES 1958 01:43:59,003 --> 01:44:01,572 BECAUSE I WAS TALKING WITH A 1959 01:44:01,572 --> 01:44:02,673 YOUNG PERSON YESTERDAY AND EVEN 1960 01:44:02,673 --> 01:44:07,979 WITH OUR LANGUAGE THEY SAID 1961 01:44:07,979 --> 01:44:09,847 BRING IT BACK TO LEARN OUR 1962 01:44:09,847 --> 01:44:10,648 LANGUAGES AGAIN. 1963 01:44:10,648 --> 01:44:13,117 WE HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE MY 1964 01:44:13,117 --> 01:44:15,586 CHILDREN'S AGE THAT ARE ARGUING 1965 01:44:15,586 --> 01:44:20,524 WHAT IS RIGHT AND THE RIGHT 1966 01:44:20,524 --> 01:44:23,594 PRONUNCIA 1967 01:44:23,594 --> 01:44:23,928 PRONUNCIATION. 1968 01:44:23,928 --> 01:44:25,596 IN THE LANGUAGE WE ALL HAVE 1969 01:44:25,596 --> 01:44:26,597 DIFFERENT DIALECTS. 1970 01:44:26,597 --> 01:44:29,066 IT'S LIKE WHAT IS WRITE AND WHAT 1971 01:44:29,066 --> 01:44:29,333 IS WRONG? 1972 01:44:29,333 --> 01:44:36,140 THERE'S SO MUCH CONFUSION THERE. 1973 01:44:36,140 --> 01:44:37,408 WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS 1974 01:44:37,408 --> 01:44:38,276 CAUSING THE CONFUSION AND START 1975 01:44:38,276 --> 01:44:38,909 FROM THERE. 1976 01:44:38,909 --> 01:44:45,283 I COULD BE WRONG BUT I JUST 1977 01:44:45,283 --> 01:44:49,820 WANTED TO MENTION THAT. 1978 01:44:49,820 --> 01:44:52,823 >> THERE'S MANY COMMUNITIES TAKE 1979 01:44:52,823 --> 01:44:55,426 IT AND SOME CLINICAL CAN 1980 01:44:55,426 --> 01:44:57,595 INTERVENTION IS TAKING THEM OUT 1981 01:44:57,595 --> 01:45:04,769 TO BE ON THE LAND AND WHAT TO 1982 01:45:04,769 --> 01:45:10,808 PICK AND EAT AND NOT BECAUSE 1983 01:45:10,808 --> 01:45:12,143 THEIR FAULT BY ANY MEANS BUT 1984 01:45:12,143 --> 01:45:13,678 BEING REMOVED AND GETTING 1985 01:45:13,678 --> 01:45:16,514 TOGETHER AS A GROUP I WOULD SAY 1986 01:45:16,514 --> 01:45:18,282 AND A GREAT THING COMMUNITIES 1987 01:45:18,282 --> 01:45:19,083 ARE DOING THIS. 1988 01:45:19,083 --> 01:45:26,891 I'M SO EXCITED TO HEAR IT'S 1989 01:45:26,891 --> 01:45:28,826 HAPPENING ALL OVER AND NATIONAL 1990 01:45:28,826 --> 01:45:29,794 INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ARE FUNDING 1991 01:45:29,794 --> 01:45:32,229 PROGRAMS AND PEOPLE ARE GOING 1992 01:45:32,229 --> 01:45:33,931 OUT ON THE EARTH AND TAKING 1993 01:45:33,931 --> 01:45:34,865 CHILDREN AND RECONNECTING 1994 01:45:34,865 --> 01:45:37,435 THROUGH THE LAND AND WATERS AND 1995 01:45:37,435 --> 01:45:38,202 RELEARNING HOW TO BE A 1996 01:45:38,202 --> 01:45:40,838 COMMUNITY. 1997 01:45:40,838 --> 01:45:42,606 >> ARE THEY GOING TO THE 1998 01:45:42,606 --> 01:45:43,007 RESERVATIONS? 1999 01:45:43,007 --> 01:45:43,974 >> YES. 2000 01:45:43,974 --> 01:45:46,477 WE HAVE ONE PROJECT GOING 15 2001 01:45:46,477 --> 01:45:50,214 HOURS FROM ANY COMMUNITY IN THE 2002 01:45:50,214 --> 01:45:51,248 ARCTIC AREA. 2003 01:45:51,248 --> 01:45:53,584 IT'S PRETTY WILD. 2004 01:45:53,584 --> 01:45:55,786 VERY WISE WORDS. 2005 01:45:55,786 --> 01:45:56,787 THANK YOU. 2006 01:45:56,787 --> 01:45:58,422 >> I HAD A QUESTION. 2007 01:45:58,422 --> 01:46:08,933 >> THIS WILL BE OUR LAST ONE. 2008 01:46:13,471 --> 01:46:19,243 >> I WORK IN AN URBAN DENSE 2009 01:46:19,243 --> 01:46:21,045 POPULATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 2010 01:46:21,045 --> 01:46:21,445 MINNEAPOLIS. 2011 01:46:21,445 --> 01:46:23,748 WE HAVE ABOUT 134 DIFFERENT 2012 01:46:23,748 --> 01:46:26,083 TRIBES REPRESENTED AND 11 TRIBES 2013 01:46:26,083 --> 01:46:26,684 IN THE STATE. 2014 01:46:26,684 --> 01:46:27,885 ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES 2015 01:46:27,885 --> 01:46:33,157 I'M SEEING AND TRYING TO DO SOME 2016 01:46:33,157 --> 01:46:34,658 OF THE WORK IS JUST STRUCTURAL 2017 01:46:34,658 --> 01:46:35,726 LEVEL THINGS THAT PREVENT US 2018 01:46:35,726 --> 01:46:37,361 FROM BEING ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM 2019 01:46:37,361 --> 01:46:40,664 THESE THINGS. 2020 01:46:40,664 --> 01:46:42,600 SO IT'S LIKE YEARS AGO WHEN I 2021 01:46:42,600 --> 01:46:44,769 WAS A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST WE 2022 01:46:44,769 --> 01:46:45,636 HAD PEOPLE COME AND VISIT A 2023 01:46:45,636 --> 01:46:47,571 TRIBE I WAS WORKING FOR 2024 01:46:47,571 --> 01:46:51,642 ENCOURAGING US TO USE WILDERNESS 2025 01:46:51,642 --> 01:46:52,543 THERAPY TO HELP OUR YOUNG 2026 01:46:52,543 --> 01:46:52,777 PEOPLE. 2027 01:46:52,777 --> 01:46:56,414 I SAW VALUE IN THAT BUT IT WAS 2028 01:46:56,414 --> 01:46:58,649 DEVOID OF ANY CULTURE, RIGHT. 2029 01:46:58,649 --> 01:47:01,519 SO IT LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR ME 2030 01:47:01,519 --> 01:47:03,721 TO BEGIN TO THINK ABOUT HOW DO I 2031 01:47:03,721 --> 01:47:05,189 FIND A WAY TO INTEGRATE IN THE 2032 01:47:05,189 --> 01:47:07,758 WORK WE DO IN AN URBAN 2033 01:47:07,758 --> 01:47:08,058 ENVIRONMENT. 2034 01:47:08,058 --> 01:47:09,527 IT'S REALLY CHALLENGE IF YOU 2035 01:47:09,527 --> 01:47:11,395 DON'T HAVE LAND AND REALLY 2036 01:47:11,395 --> 01:47:14,165 CHALLENGING IF YOU WORK WITH A 2037 01:47:14,165 --> 01:47:17,101 COMMUNITY WITH DEEP POVERTY AND 2038 01:47:17,101 --> 01:47:17,368 HOUSELESS. 2039 01:47:17,368 --> 01:47:19,470 JUST WONDERING IF YOU HAVE ANY 2040 01:47:19,470 --> 01:47:21,172 IDEAS OR HAVE YOU WORKED IN 2041 01:47:21,172 --> 01:47:22,706 URBAN POPULATIONS LIKE HOW YOU 2042 01:47:22,706 --> 01:47:24,175 SORT OF CREATED THE 2043 01:47:24,175 --> 01:47:25,643 OPPORTUNITIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2044 01:47:25,643 --> 01:47:26,744 TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE. 2045 01:47:26,744 --> 01:47:29,580 BECAUSE I THINK IT'S REALLY THE 2046 01:47:29,580 --> 01:47:31,782 FOUNDATION FOR A CERTAIN KIND OF 2047 01:47:31,782 --> 01:47:34,618 BUILDING THE STRENGTH AND 2048 01:47:34,618 --> 01:47:40,391 RESILIENCE FOR THEM TO PUSH 2049 01:47:40,391 --> 01:47:41,625 AGAINST THE TOXIC STRESS OF 2050 01:47:41,625 --> 01:47:45,496 BOARDING SCHOOL AND OTHER ACTS 2051 01:47:45,496 --> 01:47:48,499 OF COLONIZATION BUT IT'S A 2052 01:47:48,499 --> 01:47:48,799 LIMITATION. 2053 01:47:48,799 --> 01:47:57,608 >> WELL, WE HAVE DONE A PROJECT 2054 01:47:57,608 --> 01:47:59,677 WITH YOUTH AND THEY DID A 2055 01:47:59,677 --> 01:48:01,612 ROOFTOP GARDEN AND GOT THE KIDS 2056 01:48:01,612 --> 01:48:03,314 UP WITH PLANTERS AND GROWING AND 2057 01:48:03,314 --> 01:48:05,416 INVOLVED THE WHOLE FAMILY WHICH 2058 01:48:05,416 --> 01:48:06,750 IS REALLY EFFECTIVE AGAIN 2059 01:48:06,750 --> 01:48:07,485 TOUCHING THE EARTH AND BEING 2060 01:48:07,485 --> 01:48:09,920 OUTSIDE AND CARE TAKING AND THEN 2061 01:48:09,920 --> 01:48:12,223 THEY RAISED THEIR TRADITIONAL 2062 01:48:12,223 --> 01:48:13,958 MEDICINES AS WELL AS TRADITIONAL 2063 01:48:13,958 --> 01:48:15,526 FOODS ON TOP OF THE ROOF AND WE 2064 01:48:15,526 --> 01:48:16,560 SAW GREAT HEALTH RESULTS FROM 2065 01:48:16,560 --> 01:48:20,297 THAT BUT YOU'RE RIGHT, LAND IS 2066 01:48:20,297 --> 01:48:21,232 REALLY CRITICAL. 2067 01:48:21,232 --> 01:48:23,334 THEN ENERGY WAS IN AN URBAN 2068 01:48:23,334 --> 01:48:25,603 SETTING WE DID A WRAP-AROUND 2069 01:48:25,603 --> 01:48:27,471 AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM. 2070 01:48:27,471 --> 01:48:31,008 WE UTILIZED THE OUTDOORS TREES 2071 01:48:31,008 --> 01:48:32,076 BUT ALSO PARKS. 2072 01:48:32,076 --> 01:48:33,577 A LOT OF GOING TO THE PARKS AND 2073 01:48:33,577 --> 01:48:37,214 DIFFERENT AREAS. 2074 01:48:37,214 --> 01:48:40,150 I THINK URBAN AREAS HAVE 2075 01:48:40,150 --> 01:48:41,986 CHALLENGES, SAFETY AND TRANSPORT 2076 01:48:41,986 --> 01:48:42,953 AND HOW YOU GET KIDS THERE AND 2077 01:48:42,953 --> 01:48:45,422 BACK AND AS I TALKED TO 2078 01:48:45,422 --> 01:48:46,257 COMMUNITY MEMBERS WHO DON'T HAVE 2079 01:48:46,257 --> 01:48:47,758 THE CONNECTION OR ABLE TO GO 2080 01:48:47,758 --> 01:48:50,661 BACK TO THEIR TRADITIONAL LANDS, 2081 01:48:50,661 --> 01:48:51,896 WE OFTEN TALK ABOUT MOTHER EARTH 2082 01:48:51,896 --> 01:48:52,830 AS A WHOLE. 2083 01:48:52,830 --> 01:48:54,365 WE ALWAYS HAVE TERRITORIES THAT 2084 01:48:54,365 --> 01:48:56,934 CHANGED OVER TIME OR MOST 2085 01:48:56,934 --> 01:48:58,102 COMMUNITIES HAVE SOME TRIBES 2086 01:48:58,102 --> 01:49:00,204 THAT HAVE BEEN IN AN AREA MUCH 2087 01:49:00,204 --> 01:49:01,372 LONGER BUT A LOT OF COMMUNITIES 2088 01:49:01,372 --> 01:49:02,239 HAVE TERRITORIES THAT CHANGE 2089 01:49:02,239 --> 01:49:03,240 OVER TIME. 2090 01:49:03,240 --> 01:49:06,510 AS WE THINK OF MOTHER EARTH 2091 01:49:06,510 --> 01:49:09,046 BEING A WHOLE ANYTIME BEGO 2092 01:49:09,046 --> 01:49:11,482 OUTSIDE THE LAND DOESN'T CHANGE. 2093 01:49:11,482 --> 01:49:12,750 RECONNECTING ANY PLACE YOU CAN I 2094 01:49:12,750 --> 01:49:14,818 THINK IS CRITICAL. 2095 01:49:14,818 --> 01:49:15,853 AND ANYWAY YOU CAN. 2096 01:49:15,853 --> 01:49:18,088 BE INNOVATIVE. 2097 01:49:18,088 --> 01:49:20,190 >> I APPRECIATE YOUR QUESTION 2098 01:49:20,190 --> 01:49:22,793 AND COMMENT, BROTHER. 2099 01:49:22,793 --> 01:49:25,496 FOR US AT NABS I WOULD SAY BEING 2100 01:49:25,496 --> 01:49:28,766 IN THE TWIN CITIES IT WOULD BE 2101 01:49:28,766 --> 01:49:34,238 AWESOME FOR OUR WORK TO CONNECT 2102 01:49:34,238 --> 01:49:35,372 AND SHARE A LITTLE BIT MORE 2103 01:49:35,372 --> 01:49:37,575 INFORMATION HAND OUT SOME SWAG 2104 01:49:37,575 --> 01:49:40,010 AND THINKING TO OUR 2025 WE'LL 2105 01:49:40,010 --> 01:49:43,547 BE UPDATING OUR STRATEGIC PLAN 2106 01:49:43,547 --> 01:49:47,117 AS PART OF MANY PLANS TO UNRAVEL 2107 01:49:47,117 --> 01:49:50,321 AND UNLEASH OUR CURRICULUM AND 2108 01:49:50,321 --> 01:49:53,157 OTHER RESOURCE LOCALLY TO NEW 2109 01:49:53,157 --> 01:49:54,358 MEXICO WE COULD SHARE IS THROUGH 2110 01:49:54,358 --> 01:49:59,863 THE CULTURE CENTER THERE'S AN 2111 01:49:59,863 --> 01:50:04,835 INDIGENOUS WISDOM CURRICULUM AND 2112 01:50:04,835 --> 01:50:09,573 THERE'S A SECTIONAL MAP AND 2113 01:50:09,573 --> 01:50:12,743 MIDDLEAL AND -- MIDDLE SCHOOL 2114 01:50:12,743 --> 01:50:13,510 AND CONCERN OPPORTUNITIES FOR 2115 01:50:13,510 --> 01:50:14,478 KNOWLEDGE SHARING THAT MAY BRING 2116 01:50:14,478 --> 01:50:15,713 SOME IDEAS. 2117 01:50:15,713 --> 01:50:16,313 >> THANK YOU. 2118 01:50:16,313 --> 01:50:21,585 CAN WE GIVE ONE MORE ROUND OF 2119 01:50:21,585 --> 01:50:23,721 APPLAUSE? 2120 01:50:23,721 --> 01:50:26,557 THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 2121 01:50:26,557 --> 01:50:30,694 >> WE'LL TAKE A FIVE MINUTE 2122 01:50:30,694 --> 01:50:32,863 BREAK, WATER BREAK, FOOD, QUICK, 2123 01:50:32,863 --> 01:50:35,499 EAT AND I SAY FIVE MINUTES BUT I 2124 01:50:35,499 --> 01:50:37,568 KNOW HOW Y'ALL ARE, RIGHT, 2125 01:50:37,568 --> 01:50:40,838 INDIAN TIME AND COME RIGHT BACK. 2126 01:50:40,838 --> 01:50:41,939 WE'LL KEEP GOING OUR HAWAI'I 2127 01:50:41,939 --> 01:50:42,339 SISTERS ARE NEXT. 2128 01:50:42,339 --> 01:50:44,529 THANK YOU. 2129 01:50:44,529 --> 01:50:44,930 ALL RIGHT. 2130 01:50:44,930 --> 01:50:49,301 IT'S MY PLEASURE AND HONOR TO BE 2131 01:50:49,301 --> 01:50:50,702 ABLE TO INTRODUCE TO YOU 2132 01:50:50,702 --> 01:50:53,672 DR. MONICA BERTAGNOLLI WHO IS 2133 01:50:53,672 --> 01:50:56,775 OUR DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL 2134 01:50:56,775 --> 01:50:58,277 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH AND HAS 2135 01:50:58,277 --> 01:51:02,214 BEEN A TRUE CHAMPION FOR 2136 01:51:02,214 --> 01:51:03,882 AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKAN 2137 01:51:03,882 --> 01:51:06,918 NATIVE AND NATIVE HAWAIIAN 2138 01:51:06,918 --> 01:51:09,621 HEALTH AND WAS FORMERLY HEAD OF 2139 01:51:09,621 --> 01:51:11,056 THE NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE 2140 01:51:11,056 --> 01:51:13,525 AND COMES WITH AN AMAZING 2141 01:51:13,525 --> 01:51:15,160 BACKGROUND AS PRACTITIONER AND 2142 01:51:15,160 --> 01:51:19,464 RESEARCHER AND NOW AS DIRECTOR. 2143 01:51:19,464 --> 01:51:21,667 WE'RE HONORED THAT SHE'S HERE 2144 01:51:21,667 --> 01:51:24,036 AND WILL SHARE WORDS WITH US AND 2145 01:51:24,036 --> 01:51:26,305 WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I'D LIKE TO 2146 01:51:26,305 --> 01:51:29,474 INTRODUCE DR. BERTAGNOLLI. 2147 01:51:29,474 --> 01:51:29,741 THANK YOU. 2148 01:51:29,741 --> 01:51:31,710 >> WELL, LET ME START AND BE 2149 01:51:31,710 --> 01:51:32,944 VERY CLEAR ABOUT ONE THING, THE 2150 01:51:32,944 --> 01:51:40,719 HONOR IS ALL MINE. 2151 01:51:40,719 --> 01:51:42,554 BEFORE I EVEN START I WANT IT 2152 01:51:42,554 --> 01:51:44,256 EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE FOR ALL OF 2153 01:51:44,256 --> 01:51:45,857 YOU BEING HERE. 2154 01:51:45,857 --> 01:51:50,162 YOUR COMING HERE FIRST IS SO 2155 01:51:50,162 --> 01:51:52,664 MEANINGFUL FOR US. 2156 01:51:52,664 --> 01:51:57,502 I HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND AND KNOW 2157 01:51:57,502 --> 01:52:08,213 THAT NIH IS OPEN TO YOU ALWAYS. 2158 01:52:08,213 --> 01:52:11,783 I'M SO GRATEFUL YOU'RE ALL HERE. 2159 01:52:11,783 --> 01:52:14,286 I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE 2160 01:52:14,286 --> 01:52:17,489 TO THE BOARDING SCHOOL SURVIVORS 2161 01:52:17,489 --> 01:52:19,691 AND DESCENDANTS AND COMMUNITY 2162 01:52:19,691 --> 01:52:22,094 MEMBERS WHO JOINED US TO 2163 01:52:22,094 --> 01:52:22,728 UNDERTAKE THIS TRULY IMPORTANT 2164 01:52:22,728 --> 01:52:30,702 WORK. 2165 01:52:30,702 --> 01:52:36,942 YOUR REMARKABLE CONTRIBUTIONS 2166 01:52:36,942 --> 01:52:39,945 AND STRENGTH CRITICAL AS WE TAKE 2167 01:52:39,945 --> 01:52:41,646 THIS ON. 2168 01:52:41,646 --> 01:52:43,014 THE SUBJECT OF INDIGENOUS 2169 01:52:43,014 --> 01:52:45,183 BOARDING SCHOOL REPRESENTS ONE 2170 01:52:45,183 --> 01:52:46,251 OF THE DARKEST CHAPTERS IN 2171 01:52:46,251 --> 01:52:48,620 AMERICAN HISTORY. 2172 01:52:48,620 --> 01:52:52,190 THROUGH THE INDIAN CIVILIZATION 2173 01:52:52,190 --> 01:53:00,699 ACT OF 1819 AND BOARDING SCHOOL 2174 01:53:00,699 --> 01:53:02,234 POLICY AND THOSE REMOVED FROM 2175 01:53:02,234 --> 01:53:02,968 THEIR FAMILIES AND STRIPPED OF 2176 01:53:02,968 --> 01:53:05,971 THEIR LANGUAGES, CULTURES AND 2177 01:53:05,971 --> 01:53:12,177 IDENTITIES, I JUST WANT TO TAKE 2178 01:53:12,177 --> 01:53:17,816 A MOMENT TO THINK ABOUT THE 2179 01:53:17,816 --> 01:53:19,918 CHILDREN FORCIBLY REMOVED FROM 2180 01:53:19,918 --> 01:53:21,653 THEIR FAMILIES. 2181 01:53:21,653 --> 01:53:24,923 SO A MOMENT OF SILENCE AND 2182 01:53:24,923 --> 01:53:25,624 SADNESS AS FOR THOSE CHILDREN 2183 01:53:25,624 --> 01:53:35,967 AND THEIR FAMILIES. 2184 01:53:48,213 --> 01:53:50,816 >> THANK YOU. 2185 01:53:50,816 --> 01:53:54,786 THE TRAUMA CAUSED BY THESE 2186 01:53:54,786 --> 01:54:00,225 POLICIES REVERBERATES AFFECTING 2187 01:54:00,225 --> 01:54:01,126 THE SOCIAL AND WELL BEING OF 2188 01:54:01,126 --> 01:54:03,261 THOSE LIVING TODAY. 2189 01:54:03,261 --> 01:54:07,566 WE HAVE TO GO FORWARD WITH WHAT 2190 01:54:07,566 --> 01:54:14,272 WE HAVE TODAY IS THE TERRIBLE 2191 01:54:14,272 --> 01:54:22,280 LEGACY AND DARKNESS CAN HIDE 2192 01:54:22,280 --> 01:54:23,515 MUCH BUT ERASES NOTHING. 2193 01:54:23,515 --> 01:54:25,283 WE CANNOT LIVE IN DARKNESS. 2194 01:54:25,283 --> 01:54:28,587 WE HAVE TO DIRECTLY CONFRONT 2195 01:54:28,587 --> 01:54:32,757 WHAT HAS GONE ON BEFORE. 2196 01:54:32,757 --> 01:54:34,726 BY CONFRONTING THIS PAINFUL 2197 01:54:34,726 --> 01:54:36,895 HISTORY HEAD ON WE CREATE THE 2198 01:54:36,895 --> 01:54:38,163 FOUNDATION FOR HEALING, 2199 01:54:38,163 --> 01:54:39,698 UNDERSTANDING AND MEANINGFUL 2200 01:54:39,698 --> 01:54:40,098 CHANGE. 2201 01:54:40,098 --> 01:54:42,634 THIS SUMMIT REFLECTS OUR SHARED 2202 01:54:42,634 --> 01:54:45,070 COMMITMENT TO SHINING A LIGHT ON 2203 01:54:45,070 --> 01:54:48,406 THESE INJUSTICES AND TAKING 2204 01:54:48,406 --> 01:54:49,908 ACTION TO ADDRESS THEIR ENDURING 2205 01:54:49,908 --> 01:54:54,279 IMPACTS. 2206 01:54:54,279 --> 01:54:55,947 WE, THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY ARE 2207 01:54:55,947 --> 01:54:56,815 HERE TO LISTEN. 2208 01:54:56,815 --> 01:54:58,550 WE HONOR THE VOICES OF 2209 01:54:58,550 --> 01:55:00,619 SURVIVORS, THEIR FAMILIES AND 2210 01:55:00,619 --> 01:55:08,159 THEIR COMMUNITIES WHO HAVE 2211 01:55:08,159 --> 01:55:09,127 COURAGEOUSLY SHARED STORIES AND 2212 01:55:09,127 --> 01:55:10,829 YOUR ACCOUNT IS CENTRAL AND THEY 2213 01:55:10,829 --> 01:55:11,963 GUIDE US IN THE WORK TO 2214 01:55:11,963 --> 01:55:15,100 UNDERSTAND HOW TO HEAL THE 2215 01:55:15,100 --> 01:55:15,800 INTERGENERATIONAL WOUNDS CAUSED 2216 01:55:15,800 --> 01:55:21,273 BY OUR GOVERNMENT'S POLICIES. 2217 01:55:21,273 --> 01:55:22,407 WE ARE THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES 2218 01:55:22,407 --> 01:55:23,375 OF HEALTH. 2219 01:55:23,375 --> 01:55:28,380 OUR MISSION IS RESEARCH. 2220 01:55:28,380 --> 01:55:30,715 WHAT DOES RESEARCH MEAN? 2221 01:55:30,715 --> 01:55:36,788 IT CAN'T BE A STERILE SCIENTIFIC 2222 01:55:36,788 --> 01:55:38,290 THING. 2223 01:55:38,290 --> 01:55:40,792 RESEARCH HAS TO BE ABOUT HEALTH. 2224 01:55:40,792 --> 01:55:47,966 AND WHEN WE HAVE TRAUMA AND 2225 01:55:47,966 --> 01:55:51,670 ABSENCE OF EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL, 2226 01:55:51,670 --> 01:55:52,337 CULTURAL HEALTH THEN 2227 01:55:52,337 --> 01:55:56,408 UNDERSTANDING HAS TO BE GROUNDED 2228 01:55:56,408 --> 01:56:00,111 IN THE THINGS THAT UNDER LIE AND 2229 01:56:00,111 --> 01:56:02,380 BRING SOCIAL, CULTURAL AND 2230 01:56:02,380 --> 01:56:03,214 SPIRITUAL HEALTH. 2231 01:56:03,214 --> 01:56:06,284 IN THIS ONE WE NEED YOU. 2232 01:56:06,284 --> 01:56:10,288 WE WILL BE COMPLETELY 2233 01:56:10,288 --> 01:56:13,158 INEFFECTIVE IF WE DON'T START 2234 01:56:13,158 --> 01:56:16,094 YOU FIRST AND FOREMOST WITH YOU 2235 01:56:16,094 --> 01:56:25,337 AND SIDE BY SIDE WITH YOU. 2236 01:56:25,337 --> 01:56:26,605 THAT'S WHICH THE RESEARCH MEANS 2237 01:56:26,605 --> 01:56:28,940 TO US BRINGING THE UNDERSTANDING 2238 01:56:28,940 --> 01:56:30,542 AND THAT MEANS WE HAVE TO TAKE 2239 01:56:30,542 --> 01:56:36,715 OUR GUIDE FROM YOU. 2240 01:56:36,715 --> 01:56:39,451 WE'RE STEADFAST IN OUR 2241 01:56:39,451 --> 01:56:40,885 COMMITMENT TO ADDRESSING ANOTHER 2242 01:56:40,885 --> 01:56:45,090 THING, THE DISPARITIES IN HEALTH 2243 01:56:45,090 --> 01:56:46,291 THAT DISPROPORTIONATELY IMPACT 2244 01:56:46,291 --> 01:56:49,160 NATIVE COMMUNITIES. 2245 01:56:49,160 --> 01:56:52,263 POORER HEALTH IN EVERY WAY NOT 2246 01:56:52,263 --> 01:56:56,001 JUST THE INTERGENERATIONAL 2247 01:56:56,001 --> 01:56:57,235 TRAUMA FROM THE BOARDING SCHOOLS 2248 01:56:57,235 --> 01:57:02,273 BUT ALSO THE ACCESS TO CARE. 2249 01:57:02,273 --> 01:57:05,343 THE INTEGRATION MUCH CARE WITH 2250 01:57:05,343 --> 01:57:07,112 NATIVE CULTURAL PRACTICES. 2251 01:57:07,112 --> 01:57:10,215 I THINK WE'VE TRIED TO KEEP THEM 2252 01:57:10,215 --> 01:57:10,482 SEPARATE. 2253 01:57:10,482 --> 01:57:11,149 THAT DOESN'T HELP. 2254 01:57:11,149 --> 01:57:18,289 WE HAVE TO BRING THEM TOGETHER. 2255 01:57:18,289 --> 01:57:22,127 AND TO THINK OF THE SYSTEMIC 2256 01:57:22,127 --> 01:57:23,161 INJUSTICES INCLUDING HISTORIC 2257 01:57:23,161 --> 01:57:26,531 TRAUMA THAT LED TO THE FACT THAT 2258 01:57:26,531 --> 01:57:29,200 OUR FIRST NATIONS PEOPLES HAVE 2259 01:57:29,200 --> 01:57:29,601 POORER HEALTH. 2260 01:57:29,601 --> 01:57:33,872 WE AIM TO IDENTIFY RESEARCH TO 2261 01:57:33,872 --> 01:57:35,206 IDENTIFY THE DISPARITIES AND 2262 01:57:35,206 --> 01:57:36,808 WORK TO IDENTIFY SOLUTIONS THAT 2263 01:57:36,808 --> 01:57:40,979 ARE CULTURALLY RELEVANT AND 2264 01:57:40,979 --> 01:57:41,780 PROVIDE WHAT YOUR COMMUNITIES 2265 01:57:41,780 --> 01:57:43,548 NEED NOT WHAT WE THINK YOUR 2266 01:57:43,548 --> 01:57:45,617 COMMUNITIES NEED. 2267 01:57:45,617 --> 01:57:47,419 WE MUST ADDRESS NOT ONLY THE 2268 01:57:47,419 --> 01:57:51,189 CHALLENGES OF NATIVE COMMUNITIES 2269 01:57:51,189 --> 01:58:01,733 BUT ALSO CELEBRATE AND LEARN AND 2270 01:58:04,703 --> 01:58:09,841 I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PRIVILEGED 2271 01:58:09,841 --> 01:58:20,385 THROUGHOUT MY ENTIRE LIFE AND I 2272 01:58:23,154 --> 01:58:26,324 KNOW PERSONALLY HOW MANY GIFTS I 2273 01:58:26,324 --> 01:58:27,525 HAVE BEEN GIVEN WE MY 2274 01:58:27,525 --> 01:58:29,761 ASSOCIATION WITH THESE CULTURES. 2275 01:58:29,761 --> 01:58:32,931 I AM PROFOUNDLY GRATEFUL. 2276 01:58:32,931 --> 01:58:36,501 I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE 2277 01:58:36,501 --> 01:58:40,739 THOSE GIFTS. 2278 01:58:40,739 --> 01:58:42,707 THIS RESILIENCE IS FORTIFIED BY 2279 01:58:42,707 --> 01:58:48,513 THE VALUES OF COMMUNITY AND 2280 01:58:48,513 --> 01:58:51,483 INTER DEDEPENDENCE AND REMINDER 2281 01:58:51,483 --> 01:58:54,819 OUR WELL BEING IS NOT JUST AN 2282 01:58:54,819 --> 01:58:55,453 INDIVIDUAL PURSUIT BUT 2283 01:58:55,453 --> 01:58:57,455 COLLECTIVE ONE. 2284 01:58:57,455 --> 01:59:00,191 WE HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN THE 2285 01:59:00,191 --> 01:59:00,825 COMMUNITY-CENTERED APPROACH. 2286 01:59:00,825 --> 01:59:02,594 IF MY COMMUNITY IS NOT WELL, I 2287 01:59:02,594 --> 01:59:04,295 AM NOT WELL. 2288 01:59:04,295 --> 01:59:06,297 THIS MUST GUIDE OUR EFFORTS AS 2289 01:59:06,297 --> 01:59:07,899 WE PRIORITIZE COLLABORATION WITH 2290 01:59:07,899 --> 01:59:10,635 OUR INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES 2291 01:59:10,635 --> 01:59:12,570 RESPECTING THEIR SOVEREIGNTY AND 2292 01:59:12,570 --> 01:59:15,006 ENSURING THAT ALL RESEARCH IS 2293 01:59:15,006 --> 01:59:15,673 MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL AND INFORMED 2294 01:59:15,673 --> 01:59:18,877 BY YOUR WISDOM. 2295 01:59:18,877 --> 01:59:20,545 WHILE WE NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE 2296 01:59:20,545 --> 01:59:23,014 PAST JUSTICES, ACTION IS 2297 01:59:23,014 --> 01:59:23,715 CRITICAL. 2298 01:59:23,715 --> 01:59:27,685 NIH IS COMMITTED TO CO-CREATING 2299 01:59:27,685 --> 01:59:29,087 A FUTURE WITH YOU WHERE NATIVE 2300 01:59:29,087 --> 01:59:30,388 CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND 2301 01:59:30,388 --> 01:59:32,824 COMMUNITIES THRIVE. 2302 01:59:32,824 --> 01:59:35,026 THIS WEEK'S SUMMIT IS A VITAL 2303 01:59:35,026 --> 01:59:38,496 STEP IN THIS JOURNEY. 2304 01:59:38,496 --> 01:59:39,831 SURVIVORS, COMMUNITY 2305 01:59:39,831 --> 01:59:41,166 PRACTITIONERS AND SCIENTIFIC 2306 01:59:41,166 --> 01:59:41,933 LEADERS HAVE BEEN BROUGHT 2307 01:59:41,933 --> 01:59:45,270 TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY GAPS IN 2308 01:59:45,270 --> 01:59:47,672 KNOWLEDGE, TO ALIGN PRIORITIES 2309 01:59:47,672 --> 01:59:52,443 FOR DEVELOPING A WHOLE OF 2310 01:59:52,443 --> 01:59:54,846 GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY 2311 01:59:54,846 --> 01:59:56,514 INFORMED APPROACH TO ADDRESSING 2312 01:59:56,514 --> 01:59:58,283 THE ONGOING TRAUMA FROM OUR 2313 01:59:58,283 --> 02:00:02,120 HISTORY. 2314 02:00:02,120 --> 02:00:08,493 BY SYNC ROW SYNCHRONIZING WE 2315 02:00:08,493 --> 02:00:11,396 MAKE SURE OUR WORK IS HOLISTIC 2316 02:00:11,396 --> 02:00:11,896 AND IMPACTFUL. 2317 02:00:11,896 --> 02:00:14,265 WE, THE REPRESENTS OF THE 2318 02:00:14,265 --> 02:00:17,735 U.S. FEDERAL GOVERNMENT MUST 2319 02:00:17,735 --> 02:00:20,972 APPROACH THIS WORK WITH GREAT 2320 02:00:20,972 --> 02:00:21,840 HUMILITY. 2321 02:00:21,840 --> 02:00:23,241 OUR PARTNERSHIPS WITH TRIBAL 2322 02:00:23,241 --> 02:00:24,242 NATIONS, INDIGENOUS 2323 02:00:24,242 --> 02:00:26,010 ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMUNITY 2324 02:00:26,010 --> 02:00:28,780 LEADERS WILL CONTINUE TO GUIDE 2325 02:00:28,780 --> 02:00:32,684 US SO OUR EFFORTS ARE 2326 02:00:32,684 --> 02:00:34,552 SUSTAINABLE AND MEANINGFUL 2327 02:00:34,552 --> 02:00:38,289 TOGETHER WITH OPEN HEARTS AND 2328 02:00:38,289 --> 02:00:42,293 WE'LL PROMOTE HEALING AND LEATH 2329 02:00:42,293 --> 02:00:48,833 THIS WILL FUTURE FOR NATIVE 2330 02:00:48,833 --> 02:00:56,708 COMMUNITIES YOUR DIGNITY, YOUR 2331 02:00:56,708 --> 02:00:57,842 COURAGE, YOUR LEGACIES AND YOUR 2332 02:00:57,842 --> 02:01:01,412 COMMITMENT TO MAKING THE WORLD 2333 02:01:01,412 --> 02:01:02,780 BETTER IS AN INSPIRATION FOR ALL 2334 02:01:02,780 --> 02:01:03,481 OF US. 2335 02:01:03,481 --> 02:01:04,949 I LOOK FORWARD TO THE REMAINDER 2336 02:01:04,949 --> 02:01:05,316 OF THE MEETING. 2337 02:01:05,316 --> 02:01:15,493 THANK YOU. 2338 02:01:24,035 --> 02:01:32,677 >> NEXT I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE 2339 02:01:32,677 --> 02:01:36,781 DR. JANE SIMONI. 2340 02:01:36,781 --> 02:01:38,583 THE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF 2341 02:01:38,583 --> 02:01:39,217 BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 2342 02:01:39,217 --> 02:01:39,817 RESEARCH WHO WILL SHARE SOME 2343 02:01:39,817 --> 02:01:40,018 WORDS. 2344 02:01:40,018 --> 02:01:50,194 THANK YOU. 2345 02:01:52,430 --> 02:01:53,164 >> THANK YOU. 2346 02:01:53,164 --> 02:01:55,700 IT IS A PLEASURE TO BE HERE 2347 02:01:55,700 --> 02:01:55,967 TODAY. 2348 02:01:55,967 --> 02:01:58,269 REALLY AN HONOR TO WELCOME 2349 02:01:58,269 --> 02:02:00,004 ESPECIALLY ALL OF YOU BUT MANY 2350 02:02:00,004 --> 02:02:02,206 OF YOU WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN TO 2351 02:02:02,206 --> 02:02:03,541 THE NIH CAMPUS BEFORE AND I HAVE 2352 02:02:03,541 --> 02:02:06,611 TO SAY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW 2353 02:02:06,611 --> 02:02:10,782 IT BUT YOU'RE REALLY 2354 02:02:10,782 --> 02:02:12,116 RADICALIZING THE PLACE AND THE 2355 02:02:12,116 --> 02:02:13,885 DIRECTORS WERE SAYING LOOK AT 2356 02:02:13,885 --> 02:02:18,289 THE TEEPEE AND IT WAS BEAUTIFUL 2357 02:02:18,289 --> 02:02:26,297 IN THE SUNSET LAST NIGHT AND 2358 02:02:26,297 --> 02:02:30,301 SUNS IN RISE THIS MORNING AND I 2359 02:02:30,301 --> 02:02:32,570 FINALLY BEGAN TO PUT MY FINGER 2360 02:02:32,570 --> 02:02:36,007 ON IT AT NIH ALL THE TIME WE 2361 02:02:36,007 --> 02:02:36,874 SPEAK TO THE MIND AND 2362 02:02:36,874 --> 02:02:38,276 INTELLECTUAL SCIENCE-BASED TALKS 2363 02:02:38,276 --> 02:02:42,914 BUT HERE IN THE TALK EVERY ONE 2364 02:02:42,914 --> 02:02:45,149 THERE'S INTELLECTUAL AND 2365 02:02:45,149 --> 02:02:45,984 METHODOLOGICALLY RIGOROUS AND 2366 02:02:45,984 --> 02:02:47,185 BEYOND THAT A SPEAKING TO THE 2367 02:02:47,185 --> 02:02:52,023 HEART AND TO THE SPIRIT. 2368 02:02:52,023 --> 02:02:53,891 SOW IT'S LIKE A MULTIMODAL 2369 02:02:53,891 --> 02:02:54,859 PRESENTATION I JUST CAN'T LOOK 2370 02:02:54,859 --> 02:02:56,060 AWAY FROM. 2371 02:02:56,060 --> 02:02:59,697 AND I FEEL SO APPRECIATIVE TO BE 2372 02:02:59,697 --> 02:03:01,566 ABLE TO HEAR AND WITNESS SO I 2373 02:03:01,566 --> 02:03:02,700 HOPE YOU APPRECIATE WHAT YOUR 2374 02:03:02,700 --> 02:03:03,434 DOING TO THE CAMPUS TODAY. 2375 02:03:03,434 --> 02:03:07,939 I WANT TO THANK THE LEADERS WHO 2376 02:03:07,939 --> 02:03:12,977 HAD THE IMAGINATION TO BRING 2377 02:03:12,977 --> 02:03:20,518 THIS EVENT AND DR. HOLLAND AND 2378 02:03:20,518 --> 02:03:22,887 THE NATIONAL NATIVE AMERICAN 2379 02:03:22,887 --> 02:03:23,755 BOARDING SCHOOL COALITION HERE 2380 02:03:23,755 --> 02:03:26,724 TO ADDRESS US AND OF COURSE ALL 2381 02:03:26,724 --> 02:03:31,496 THE STAFF, THE VOLUNTEERS, THE 2382 02:03:31,496 --> 02:03:31,796 VOLUNTOLDS. 2383 02:03:31,796 --> 02:03:34,966 YOU DRIVE EVERYTHING AT NIH AND 2384 02:03:34,966 --> 02:03:36,801 I THANK YOU. 2385 02:03:36,801 --> 02:03:38,936 FOR EVERY DETAIL THANK YOU IT'S 2386 02:03:38,936 --> 02:03:41,172 BEAUTIFUL AN I APPRECIATE YOUR 2387 02:03:41,172 --> 02:03:42,407 EFFORTS. 2388 02:03:42,407 --> 02:03:44,409 CERTAIN SPEAKERS MENTIONED 2389 02:03:44,409 --> 02:03:51,416 PRESIDENT BIDEN'S APOLOGY FOR 2390 02:03:51,416 --> 02:03:54,986 THE BOARDING SCHOOL AND ERASURE 2391 02:03:54,986 --> 02:03:56,421 OF THE TRIBAL COMMUNITIES. 2392 02:03:56,421 --> 02:03:59,323 I WAS ATTENDING A SOCIAL WORK 2393 02:03:59,323 --> 02:04:00,458 CONFERENCE APPROPRIATELY AND 2394 02:04:00,458 --> 02:04:04,362 WITH A PANEL WITH AN AMERICAN 2395 02:04:04,362 --> 02:04:06,964 NATIVE TRIBAL MEMBER AND PULLED 2396 02:04:06,964 --> 02:04:09,000 UP THE LIVE STREAM ON OUR PHONE 2397 02:04:09,000 --> 02:04:14,872 AND KARINA WAS THERE IN PERSON 2398 02:04:14,872 --> 02:04:18,443 AND WE WERE MESMERIZED, AMAZED 2399 02:04:18,443 --> 02:04:21,913 AND IN AWE AND OVERCOME WITH 2400 02:04:21,913 --> 02:04:24,148 NEGATIVE SADNESS REALLY OF IT 2401 02:04:24,148 --> 02:04:24,315 ALL. 2402 02:04:24,315 --> 02:04:24,849 AND WE WENT THERE AT THE 2403 02:04:24,849 --> 02:04:29,420 CONFERENCE. 2404 02:04:29,420 --> 02:04:30,822 -- WE WEPT THERE AT THE 2405 02:04:30,822 --> 02:04:31,122 CONFERENCE. 2406 02:04:31,122 --> 02:04:33,624 WE WERE SO GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO 2407 02:04:33,624 --> 02:04:35,126 SEE THAT LIVE STREAM. 2408 02:04:35,126 --> 02:04:36,794 AS PART OF A NATIVE FAMILY AND 2409 02:04:36,794 --> 02:04:39,864 HAVING THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK 2410 02:04:39,864 --> 02:04:41,265 WITH NATIVE AMERICAN COLLEAGUES 2411 02:04:41,265 --> 02:04:44,635 I'VE LEARNED FIRST LAND FROM 2412 02:04:44,635 --> 02:04:46,037 PERSONAL SURVIVE OF BOARDING 2413 02:04:46,037 --> 02:04:47,371 SCHOOLS AND ONE COLLEAGUE SPOKE 2414 02:04:47,371 --> 02:04:48,272 OF THE TRAUMA HE EXPERIENCED AT 2415 02:04:48,272 --> 02:04:51,342 THE AGE OF 12. 2416 02:04:51,342 --> 02:04:53,444 HE RECALLED THE FEDERAL AGENTS 2417 02:04:53,444 --> 02:04:54,946 COMING TO HIS HOME AND RUNNING 2418 02:04:54,946 --> 02:04:58,883 AND HIDING IN THE BACK ROOM 2419 02:04:58,883 --> 02:05:03,054 TREMBLING HOPING TO BECOME IN. 2420 02:05:03,054 --> 02:05:04,956 VISUAL BUT WASN'T ABLE TO 2421 02:05:04,956 --> 02:05:05,256 ESCAPE. 2422 02:05:05,256 --> 02:05:07,358 TO THE BOARDING SCHOOL SURVIVE 2423 02:05:07,358 --> 02:05:13,531 AND DESCENDANTS I WANT TO OFFER 2424 02:05:13,531 --> 02:05:18,269 A SPECIAL WELCOME AND YOUR 2425 02:05:18,269 --> 02:05:22,673 GENEROSITY OF SHARING YOUR 2426 02:05:22,673 --> 02:05:23,074 INSIGHTS. 2427 02:05:23,074 --> 02:05:25,076 YESTERDAY THERE WAS HOPE AND 2428 02:05:25,076 --> 02:05:28,045 SHARE AND OPTIMISM EVEN IN THE 2429 02:05:28,045 --> 02:05:29,447 SHARING OF A LOT OF DIFFICULT 2430 02:05:29,447 --> 02:05:29,714 EMOTIONS. 2431 02:05:29,714 --> 02:05:32,116 I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE PATH 2432 02:05:32,116 --> 02:05:33,351 FORWARD AND THE OFFICE ON 2433 02:05:33,351 --> 02:05:33,985 BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 2434 02:05:33,985 --> 02:05:36,954 RESEARCH HAS AN IMPORTANT ROLE 2435 02:05:36,954 --> 02:05:39,790 IN HELPING DISCOVER STRATEGIES 2436 02:05:39,790 --> 02:05:41,592 FOR HEALING. 2437 02:05:41,592 --> 02:05:46,664 AS IN OUR RECENTLY SUBMITTED 2438 02:05:46,664 --> 02:05:48,399 PLAN WE'RE COMMITTED TO VALUES 2439 02:05:48,399 --> 02:05:50,034 THAT HAVEN'T ALWAYS BEEN 2440 02:05:50,034 --> 02:05:50,935 REFLECTED IN RESEARCH BUT 2441 02:05:50,935 --> 02:05:52,103 IMPORTANT TO FOCUS ON. 2442 02:05:52,103 --> 02:05:53,037 FIRST IS HEALTH EQUITY. 2443 02:05:53,037 --> 02:05:54,372 IT'S A CROSS-CUTTING THEME OF 2444 02:05:54,372 --> 02:05:54,972 OUR OFFICE. 2445 02:05:54,972 --> 02:05:58,176 THAT MEANS HEALTH FOR ALL. 2446 02:05:58,176 --> 02:06:01,179 EVERYONE HAS A FAIR AND JUST 2447 02:06:01,179 --> 02:06:02,213 COMMUNITY FOR COMPLETE HEALTH 2448 02:06:02,213 --> 02:06:02,647 AND WELL BEING. 2449 02:06:02,647 --> 02:06:04,115 WE HAVE A COMMITMENT TO TRAINING 2450 02:06:04,115 --> 02:06:05,516 THE NEXT GENERATION OF 2451 02:06:05,516 --> 02:06:07,351 RESEARCHERS WHICH NEEDS FRANKLY 2452 02:06:07,351 --> 02:06:08,920 TO BE MORE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE 2453 02:06:08,920 --> 02:06:11,622 COMMUNITIES WE SERVE AND THIS 2454 02:06:11,622 --> 02:06:13,457 INCLUDES NATIVE SCHOLARS, VERSED 2455 02:06:13,457 --> 02:06:16,360 IN INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES WITH 2456 02:06:16,360 --> 02:06:17,528 TRADITIONAL CULTURAL VALUES 2457 02:06:17,528 --> 02:06:20,231 WE'LL LOOK UPON FOR THE HEALING 2458 02:06:20,231 --> 02:06:20,531 STRATEGIES. 2459 02:06:20,531 --> 02:06:22,300 WE ALSO VALUE COLLABORATIVE 2460 02:06:22,300 --> 02:06:23,334 PARTNERSHIPS LIKE YOU'RE SEEING 2461 02:06:23,334 --> 02:06:26,137 TODAY WITH COMMUNITY ENGAGED AND 2462 02:06:26,137 --> 02:06:27,004 BETTER, COMMUNITY-LED 2463 02:06:27,004 --> 02:06:27,371 INVESTIGATIONS. 2464 02:06:27,371 --> 02:06:28,773 THE RESEARCH WE SUPPORT HAS 2465 02:06:28,773 --> 02:06:30,274 MEANING AND RELEVANCE FOR 2466 02:06:30,274 --> 02:06:31,642 INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. 2467 02:06:31,642 --> 02:06:33,110 WE DON'T YET FULLY UNDERSTAND 2468 02:06:33,110 --> 02:06:35,346 THE DEPTH OF THE HEALTH IMPACTS 2469 02:06:35,346 --> 02:06:38,182 FROM BOARDING SCHOOL TRAUMA 2470 02:06:38,182 --> 02:06:42,019 WHICH WAS LONG-TERM, SEVERE AND 2471 02:06:42,019 --> 02:06:43,721 ENDURED AT A DEVELOPMENTALLY 2472 02:06:43,721 --> 02:06:46,224 SENSITIVE AGE AND NEED TO BETTER 2473 02:06:46,224 --> 02:06:50,795 UNDERSTAND HOW, AS THE ELDERS 2474 02:06:50,795 --> 02:06:52,196 POINT THE OUT YESTERDAY, HOW TO 2475 02:06:52,196 --> 02:06:59,604 HAD HEAL THE INTERGENERATIONAL 2476 02:06:59,604 --> 02:07:01,072 S. 2477 02:07:01,072 --> 02:07:02,273 AND SOCIAL SCIENCE HAS FOCUSSED 2478 02:07:02,273 --> 02:07:04,342 ON THE INDIVIDUAL BUT WE NEED TO 2479 02:07:04,342 --> 02:07:06,143 FOCUS ON THE FAMILY, THE 2480 02:07:06,143 --> 02:07:07,411 COMMUNITY, TRIBE, 2481 02:07:07,411 --> 02:07:08,045 POPULATION-LEVEL HEALING THAT 2482 02:07:08,045 --> 02:07:09,914 NEEDS TO BE DONE. 2483 02:07:09,914 --> 02:07:12,950 OUR OFFICE IS DEDICATED TO 2484 02:07:12,950 --> 02:07:14,919 UNDERSTANDING LARGER SOCIAL AND 2485 02:07:14,919 --> 02:07:16,921 STRUCTURAL DETERMINATES OF 2486 02:07:16,921 --> 02:07:18,956 HEALTH AND THE POLICIES AND 2487 02:07:18,956 --> 02:07:19,657 SYSTEMS AFFECTING THE CONDITIONS 2488 02:07:19,657 --> 02:07:22,260 OF DAILY LIFE. 2489 02:07:22,260 --> 02:07:27,698 SO OFTEN WE'VE IMPEDED HEALTH 2490 02:07:27,698 --> 02:07:29,367 AND THERE'S THE INDIAN 2491 02:07:29,367 --> 02:07:31,269 CIVILIZATION ACT AND POSITIVE 2492 02:07:31,269 --> 02:07:32,136 SOCIAL DETERMINATES INCLUDING 2493 02:07:32,136 --> 02:07:35,139 THE STRENGTH OF THE NATIVE 2494 02:07:35,139 --> 02:07:35,906 COMMUNITIES, ACCESS TO 2495 02:07:35,906 --> 02:07:37,275 INDIGENOUS CULTURAL PRACTICES 2496 02:07:37,275 --> 02:07:39,210 AND KNOWLEDGE WHICH CAN LEAD TO 2497 02:07:39,210 --> 02:07:45,650 HEALING AND RESILIENCE AND AS 2498 02:07:45,650 --> 02:07:47,918 DR. TORRES MENTIONED THE 2499 02:07:47,918 --> 02:07:48,953 ANCESTRAL LOVE THE RECEIVING AND 2500 02:07:48,953 --> 02:07:51,455 GIVING IT AND THAT'S PART OF THE 2501 02:07:51,455 --> 02:07:51,689 HEALING. 2502 02:07:51,689 --> 02:07:54,959 FINALLY, OBSSR WE'RE EAGER TO 2503 02:07:54,959 --> 02:07:56,460 FUND IMPLEMENTATION AND 2504 02:07:56,460 --> 02:07:58,529 DISSEMINATION SCIENCE SO THAT 2505 02:07:58,529 --> 02:08:00,698 OUR RESEARCH ON RESILIENCE, 2506 02:08:00,698 --> 02:08:02,600 SUCCESSFUL COPING WITH TRAUMA 2507 02:08:02,600 --> 02:08:03,768 LEADS TO REAL WORLD 2508 02:08:03,768 --> 02:08:06,337 INTERVENTIONS AND EQUITABLE 2509 02:08:06,337 --> 02:08:07,071 HEALTH OUTCOMES. 2510 02:08:07,071 --> 02:08:08,706 OUR WORK'S NOT DONE IN THE LAB 2511 02:08:08,706 --> 02:08:12,710 UNTIL WE FEEL THE EFFECTS IN THE 2512 02:08:12,710 --> 02:08:13,678 CLINIC AND IN THE COMMUNITY. 2513 02:08:13,678 --> 02:08:17,348 I'LL END BY REINFORCING THAT OUR 2514 02:08:17,348 --> 02:08:19,684 WORK IN IDENTIFYING GAPS IN 2515 02:08:19,684 --> 02:08:22,286 KNOWLEDGE SURROUNDING 2516 02:08:22,286 --> 02:08:23,487 INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND 2517 02:08:23,487 --> 02:08:26,290 HEALTH MUST BE CONDUCTED WITH 2518 02:08:26,290 --> 02:08:30,995 THE UTMOST HUMILITY AS DR 2519 02:08:30,995 --> 02:08:34,732 DR. BERTAGNOLLI EMPHASIZED. 2520 02:08:34,732 --> 02:08:36,634 WE'RE POISED TO LISTEN AND LEARN 2521 02:08:36,634 --> 02:08:39,270 FROM THE RESILIENCE AND WISDOM 2522 02:08:39,270 --> 02:08:41,072 NATIVE PEOPLE TODAY ARE 2523 02:08:41,072 --> 02:08:44,508 DEMONSTRATING AND ADDRESSING 2524 02:08:44,508 --> 02:08:46,944 PAST INJUSTICES. 2525 02:08:46,944 --> 02:08:50,448 I THANK YOU AND LACK LOOK 2526 02:08:50,448 --> 02:08:51,415 FORWARD -- LOOK FORWARD TO THE 2527 02:08:51,415 --> 02:08:55,853 REST OF THE SUMMIT.CK LOOK 2528 02:08:55,853 --> 02:08:56,487 FORWARD -- LOOK FORWARD TO THE 2529 02:08:56,487 --> 02:08:57,088 REST OF THE SUMMIT.CK LOOK 2530 02:08:57,088 --> 02:08:57,722 FORWARD -- LOOK FORWARD TO THE 2531 02:08:57,722 --> 02:08:58,289 REST OF THE SUMMIT.K LOOK 2532 02:08:58,289 --> 02:08:58,923 FORWARD -- LOOK FORWARD TO THE 2533 02:08:58,923 --> 02:08:59,623 REST OF THE SUMMIT. LOOK FORWAR- 2534 02:08:59,623 --> 02:09:00,257 LOOK FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE 2535 02:09:00,257 --> 02:09:00,758 SUMMIT.LOOK FORWARD -- 2536 02:09:00,758 --> 02:09:01,392 LOOK FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE 2537 02:09:01,392 --> 02:09:01,892 SUMMIT.OOK FORWARD -- 2538 02:09:01,892 --> 02:09:02,526 LOOK FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE 2539 02:09:02,526 --> 02:09:02,960 SUMMIT.K FORWARD -- 2540 02:09:02,960 --> 02:09:03,594 LOOK FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE 2541 02:09:03,594 --> 02:09:04,028 SUMMIT.ARD -- LOOK 2542 02:09:04,028 --> 02:09:04,595 FORWARD TO THE REST OF THE 2543 02:09:04,595 --> 02:09:05,062 SUMMIT.- LOOK FORWARD 2544 02:09:05,062 --> 02:09:05,863 TO THE REST OF THE SUMMIT. LOOKO 2545 02:09:05,863 --> 02:09:06,630 THE REST OF THE SUMMIT.LOOK FOR 2546 02:09:06,630 --> 02:09:07,131 THE REST OF THE SUMMIT. 2547 02:09:07,131 --> 02:09:07,465 >> THANK YOU. 2548 02:09:07,465 --> 02:09:08,165 WE'RE GOING TO TRANSITION TO OUR 2549 02:09:08,165 --> 02:09:09,400 NATIVE HAWAIIAN RELATIVES COMING 2550 02:09:09,400 --> 02:09:11,035 UP AND WE'RE STARTING TO GET ON 2551 02:09:11,035 --> 02:09:11,235 TRACK. 2552 02:09:11,235 --> 02:09:13,871 DO YOU HAVE A CORE QUESTION, 2553 02:09:13,871 --> 02:09:14,271 STEVEN? 2554 02:09:14,271 --> 02:09:24,482 COUNCILMAN? 2555 02:09:31,389 --> 02:09:36,694 >> I'VE ALMOST GIVEN UP AND I 2556 02:09:36,694 --> 02:09:38,529 HAD BEEN DISTRACTED BY COVID. 2557 02:09:38,529 --> 02:09:44,001 WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO GET NIH AND 2558 02:09:44,001 --> 02:09:46,270 SAM AND OTHERS TO LISTEN, 2559 02:09:46,270 --> 02:09:47,171 LISTEN, WE'RE TIRED OF THE 2560 02:09:47,171 --> 02:09:48,939 GRANTS COMING DOWN FROM THE 2561 02:09:48,939 --> 02:09:53,611 STATES SAYING WE NEED TO UTILIZE 2562 02:09:53,611 --> 02:09:54,945 RESEARCH-BASED INTERVENTIONS. 2563 02:09:54,945 --> 02:09:57,181 BECAUSE WE KNOW OUR 2564 02:09:57,181 --> 02:09:58,849 INTERVENTIONS WORK AND WE'VE 2565 02:09:58,849 --> 02:10:02,553 BEEN ASKING FOR GRANTS AND MONEY 2566 02:10:02,553 --> 02:10:04,355 SO WE COULD SHOW AND DEMONSTRATE 2567 02:10:04,355 --> 02:10:07,658 WHAT WE ALREADY KNOW THAT OUR 2568 02:10:07,658 --> 02:10:13,831 CULTURAL-BASED PRACTICES ARE 2569 02:10:13,831 --> 02:10:16,734 ACTUALLY EVIDENCE-BASED 2570 02:10:16,734 --> 02:10:17,001 PRACTICES. 2571 02:10:17,001 --> 02:10:19,403 SO I'M JUST GOING TO TALK THE 2572 02:10:19,403 --> 02:10:22,206 OPPORTUNITY TO PUT A PLUG IN YOU 2573 02:10:22,206 --> 02:10:23,240 GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY OR NOT BUT 2574 02:10:23,240 --> 02:10:29,113 MAYBE YOU CAN EMBED IT IN YOUR 2575 02:10:29,113 --> 02:10:31,449 STAFF HERE THAT'S SOMETHING 2576 02:10:31,449 --> 02:10:33,050 WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A LONG 2577 02:10:33,050 --> 02:10:34,985 TIME TO HAVE MONEY TO BE ABLE TO 2578 02:10:34,985 --> 02:10:38,289 DO THOSE TYPE OF THINGS. 2579 02:10:38,289 --> 02:10:40,090 THANKS. 2580 02:10:40,090 --> 02:10:42,259 >> I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE 2581 02:10:42,259 --> 02:10:45,629 COUNCIL FOR THE NATIONAL 2582 02:10:45,629 --> 02:10:47,965 INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. 2583 02:10:47,965 --> 02:10:50,267 THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. 2584 02:10:50,267 --> 02:10:50,701 OKAY. 2585 02:10:50,701 --> 02:10:55,773 WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, WE'RE CLOSE 2586 02:10:55,773 --> 02:10:59,210 TO GETTING ON TIME. 2587 02:10:59,210 --> 02:11:01,212 I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE FIRST, I 2588 02:11:01,212 --> 02:11:03,013 WANT TO SAY ALOHA. 2589 02:11:03,013 --> 02:11:05,082 THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 2590 02:11:05,082 --> 02:11:15,626 I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE DR. JAIME 2591 02:11:18,329 --> 02:11:25,035 PLA MAHEALANI MILLER AND 2592 02:11:25,035 --> 02:11:27,905 DR. BISSEN AND THANK YOU FOR 2593 02:11:27,905 --> 02:11:32,610 SPEAKING TO THESE ISSUES AND 2594 02:11:32,610 --> 02:11:37,047 THRIVING AND MOVING FORWARD. 2595 02:11:37,047 --> 02:11:39,350 THE STAGE IS YOURS. 2596 02:11:39,350 --> 02:11:42,286 >> 2597 02:11:42,286 --> 02:11:52,663 [SINGING NON-ENGLISH] 2598 02:13:26,357 --> 02:13:36,667 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 2599 02:14:03,560 --> 02:14:06,797 >> WE CONTINUE TO BRING OUR 2600 02:14:06,797 --> 02:14:08,298 ANCESTORS IN EVERY DAY, EVERY 2601 02:14:08,298 --> 02:14:10,034 TIME, EVERY MOMENT. 2602 02:14:10,034 --> 02:14:13,137 THAT WAS JUST HONORING WHO WE 2603 02:14:13,137 --> 02:14:17,908 ARE, WHERE WE COME FROM AND TO 2604 02:14:17,908 --> 02:14:20,010 CONTINUE TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS 2605 02:14:20,010 --> 02:14:21,445 AND STRENGTHEN THE WORK WE DO IN 2606 02:14:21,445 --> 02:14:26,950 HEALING AND THRIVING. 2607 02:14:26,950 --> 02:14:30,120 WE'RE GOING TO JUST SIT DOWN AND 2608 02:14:30,120 --> 02:14:34,024 TALK STORY AND WANT TO FIRST 2609 02:14:34,024 --> 02:14:36,060 INTRODUCE MYSELF. 2610 02:14:36,060 --> 02:14:44,401 JAIME MAHEALANI MILLER, FROM THE 2611 02:14:44,401 --> 02:14:48,839 LEFT HAND OF OAHU THE NORTH 2612 02:14:48,839 --> 02:14:50,574 SHORE SIDE BEFORE THE BIG WAVES 2613 02:14:50,574 --> 02:14:51,975 START TO HAPPEN. 2614 02:14:51,975 --> 02:14:58,282 I COME FROM A PLACE THAT IS 2615 02:14:58,282 --> 02:15:00,017 ABUNDANCE OF WATER. 2616 02:15:00,017 --> 02:15:01,819 THE WATER WHERE I COME FROM 2617 02:15:01,819 --> 02:15:04,922 PROVIDES WATER FOR MOST OF THE 2618 02:15:04,922 --> 02:15:10,594 ISLAND ON OAHU AND KNOWN AS A 2619 02:15:10,594 --> 02:15:12,863 PLACE OF VIBRANCY AND LOTS OF 2620 02:15:12,863 --> 02:15:16,033 LAND AND WAS USED TO FEED MOST 2621 02:15:16,033 --> 02:15:18,969 OF THE PEOPLE ON THAT SIDE OF 2622 02:15:18,969 --> 02:15:20,404 THE ISLAND TRADITIONALLY JUST 2623 02:15:20,404 --> 02:15:25,175 FROM A SMALL LITTLE AREA. 2624 02:15:25,175 --> 02:15:25,876 I'M MARRIED. 2625 02:15:25,876 --> 02:15:28,612 I HAVE TWO CHILDREN AND I HAVE 2626 02:15:28,612 --> 02:15:31,548 SIX GRANDCHILDREN AND THE WORK 2627 02:15:31,548 --> 02:15:35,252 THAT I DO IS FOR THE FUTURE 2628 02:15:35,252 --> 02:15:35,819 GENERATIONS. 2629 02:15:35,819 --> 02:15:38,322 I'M A TRAINED SOCIAL WORKER AND 2630 02:15:38,322 --> 02:15:38,589 EDUCATOR. 2631 02:15:38,589 --> 02:15:44,495 I WORK FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF 2632 02:15:44,495 --> 02:15:47,898 HAWAI'I PART-TIME AND I HAVE A 2633 02:15:47,898 --> 02:15:48,932 NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT WAS 2634 02:15:48,932 --> 02:15:52,736 A RESPONSE TO THE TRAUMA THAT 2635 02:15:52,736 --> 02:15:56,907 OUR FAMILY EXPERIENCED OF BEING 2636 02:15:56,907 --> 02:16:01,145 A JUSTICE INVOLVED FAMILY. 2637 02:16:01,145 --> 02:16:02,279 I'M -- WE HAVE SO MUCH SLIDES 2638 02:16:02,279 --> 02:16:03,914 BUT WE'RE NOT GOING TO SPEAK TO 2639 02:16:03,914 --> 02:16:05,115 ALL THE SLIDES SO WE'LL JUST 2640 02:16:05,115 --> 02:16:09,853 KIND OF GO THROUGH ALL THE 2641 02:16:09,853 --> 02:16:12,055 THINGS THAT SPEAK TO THRIVING 2642 02:16:12,055 --> 02:16:13,657 AND WHERE WE ARE AND THE STATUS 2643 02:16:13,657 --> 02:16:20,831 OF HAWAI'I AND SO THIS IS OUR 2644 02:16:20,831 --> 02:16:24,668 ORGANIZATION AND THIS IS SOME OF 2645 02:16:24,668 --> 02:16:26,737 THE MISSION AND GOALS THAT WE 2646 02:16:26,737 --> 02:16:37,147 ASPIRE TO ON THE DAILY. 2647 02:16:41,418 --> 02:16:45,155 AIM JUST CAN GOING TO CLICK 2648 02:16:45,155 --> 02:16:50,260 THROUGH AND TONI WILL SPEAK AND 2649 02:16:50,260 --> 02:16:52,996 THESE LIZARDS ARE BEAUTIFUL 2650 02:16:52,996 --> 02:16:58,302 BEINGS THAT ARE BIGGER AND 2651 02:16:58,302 --> 02:17:03,874 GREATER THAN WE ARE AND THAT'S 2652 02:17:03,874 --> 02:17:10,380 HOW WE TRACK OUR GENEALOGY OR 2653 02:17:10,380 --> 02:17:19,022 ARE WE COME FROM AND WITH THAT. 2654 02:17:19,022 --> 02:17:20,691 >> 2655 02:17:20,691 --> 02:17:31,101 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 2656 02:17:40,110 --> 02:17:43,947 I'M FROM THE ISLAND OF MAUI. 2657 02:17:43,947 --> 02:17:46,083 MY MOTHER IS FROM THE LEFT HAND 2658 02:17:46,083 --> 02:17:48,352 OF OAHU. 2659 02:17:48,352 --> 02:17:49,319 I BRING THEM INTO THIS SPACE AS 2660 02:17:49,319 --> 02:17:52,155 OUR ANCESTORS AND IT'S WONDERFUL 2661 02:17:52,155 --> 02:17:53,290 TO BE HERE WITH YOU ALL. 2662 02:17:53,290 --> 02:17:56,026 AND I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT 2663 02:17:56,026 --> 02:17:58,128 SOME OF OUR OTHER ANCESTORS NEXT 2664 02:17:58,128 --> 02:17:58,662 TO US. 2665 02:17:58,662 --> 02:18:03,300 THESE ARE SOME WORK THAT WE DO 2666 02:18:03,300 --> 02:18:08,205 AT THE PUA FOUNDATION BUT THE 2667 02:18:08,205 --> 02:18:11,441 ONE FEMALE LEADER HERE PICTURED 2668 02:18:11,441 --> 02:18:14,344 AND SHE'S SITTING NEXT TO US IS 2669 02:18:14,344 --> 02:18:16,813 OUR FORMER QUEEN. 2670 02:18:16,813 --> 02:18:19,883 I AM AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF AN 2671 02:18:19,883 --> 02:18:26,123 ORGANIZATION CALLED PUA 2672 02:18:26,123 --> 02:18:27,591 FOUNDATION AND IT'S CREATED OUT 2673 02:18:27,591 --> 02:18:35,232 OF RECONCILIATION ON THE PART OF 2674 02:18:35,232 --> 02:18:38,268 CHURCH OF CHRIST AND THERE WAS A 2675 02:18:38,268 --> 02:18:40,437 LARGE APOLOGY INITIATIVE AND 2676 02:18:40,437 --> 02:18:41,738 PART OF THE LARGER INITIATIVE 2677 02:18:41,738 --> 02:18:44,141 WAS TO CREATE AN ORGANIZATION IN 2678 02:18:44,141 --> 02:18:46,276 THE COMMUNITY AND THAT'S THE 2679 02:18:46,276 --> 02:18:47,678 ORGANIZATION THAT I WORK FOR. 2680 02:18:47,678 --> 02:18:51,148 IT IS CALLED PUA PUA A HAWAIIAN 2681 02:18:51,148 --> 02:18:52,716 WORD FOR FEEDING, NURSING AND 2682 02:18:52,716 --> 02:18:56,520 STRENGTHENS. 2683 02:18:56,520 --> 02:18:58,488 I POINT OUT OUR QUEEN HERE 2684 02:18:58,488 --> 02:19:01,458 BECAUSE THE FOCUS OF THE WORK 2685 02:19:01,458 --> 02:19:03,660 THAT WE DO IN THE FOUNDATION NOW 2686 02:19:03,660 --> 02:19:08,298 ABOUT HISTORICAL TRAUMA AND 2687 02:19:08,298 --> 02:19:10,434 THINGS LIKE THAT YOU FOCUS ON 2688 02:19:10,434 --> 02:19:13,303 WOMEN AND GIRLS AND THE JUSTICE 2689 02:19:13,303 --> 02:19:16,473 INVOLVEMENT AND OUR TAGLINE IS 2690 02:19:16,473 --> 02:19:17,741 TRAUMA TO TRANSFORMATION. 2691 02:19:17,741 --> 02:19:21,311 THE CIRCLE ASPECT OF HAWAI'I IS 2692 02:19:21,311 --> 02:19:24,214 OUR QUEEN WAS IMPRISONED IN HER 2693 02:19:24,214 --> 02:19:25,115 OWN PALACE. 2694 02:19:25,115 --> 02:19:28,218 ANOTHER OF THE CLASS TEACH AT 2695 02:19:28,218 --> 02:19:31,154 THE WOMEN CORRECTIONAL HEALING 2696 02:19:31,154 --> 02:19:33,256 CENTER IS A CULTURAL HEALING AND 2697 02:19:33,256 --> 02:19:34,324 WELL BEING CLASS AND WE USE 2698 02:19:34,324 --> 02:19:37,160 THESE RESOURCES TO UPLIFT OUR 2699 02:19:37,160 --> 02:19:39,162 HISTORY AND STORIES AND WE TELL 2700 02:19:39,162 --> 02:19:44,134 THE STORY ABOUT OUR QUEEN AND 2701 02:19:44,134 --> 02:19:44,634 OUR WOMEN. 2702 02:19:44,634 --> 02:19:46,837 WHEN THEY ARE LEAR ABOUT THE 2703 02:19:46,837 --> 02:19:48,238 QUEEN BEING IMPRISONED THEY'RE 2704 02:19:48,238 --> 02:19:50,640 JUST LIKE, THAT'S JUST LIKE ME 2705 02:19:50,640 --> 02:19:53,643 RAND THE THRIVING OF HER 2706 02:19:53,643 --> 02:19:55,112 LEADERSHIP RAND THEY ARE SAY WE 2707 02:19:55,112 --> 02:19:57,647 CAN BEING LIKE THAT. 2708 02:19:57,647 --> 02:19:59,916 THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT US AND 2709 02:19:59,916 --> 02:20:01,084 THERE'S ANOTHER WONDERFUL 2710 02:20:01,084 --> 02:20:03,286 INITIATIVE WE HAVE CALLED THE 2711 02:20:03,286 --> 02:20:06,223 PUA IT INITIATIVE FOREST AND I 2712 02:20:06,223 --> 02:20:07,924 APPRECIATE DR. MICHELLE TALKING 2713 02:20:07,924 --> 02:20:13,330 ABOUT LAND CAN BE HEALING. 2714 02:20:13,330 --> 02:20:19,970 WE STORED 2,000 ACRES OF FOREST 2715 02:20:19,970 --> 02:20:21,938 LAND AND CONNECT AND TAKE CARE 2716 02:20:21,938 --> 02:20:31,581 OF OURSELVES AND THE LAND. 2717 02:20:31,581 --> 02:20:35,118 >> SO TO THE WORK WE DO TONI AND 2718 02:20:35,118 --> 02:20:37,387 I DO WITH THE INCARCERATION OR 2719 02:20:37,387 --> 02:20:39,489 JUSTICE IMPACTED FAMILIES AND 2720 02:20:39,489 --> 02:20:41,358 PEOPLES OF NATIVE ANCESTRY IN 2721 02:20:41,358 --> 02:20:46,496 HAWAI'I IS THE RESIDUALS OF THE 2722 02:20:46,496 --> 02:20:48,198 ASSIMILATION AND THE BOARDING 2723 02:20:48,198 --> 02:20:50,200 SCHOOL MOVEMENT IN HAWAI'I. 2724 02:20:50,200 --> 02:20:54,304 AND I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO 2725 02:20:54,304 --> 02:20:56,973 ACKNOWLEDGE TO THE STORIES THAT 2726 02:20:56,973 --> 02:20:58,008 HAVE BEEN TOLD AND CONTINUE TO 2727 02:20:58,008 --> 02:21:00,811 BE SPOKEN HERE AT THE CONFERENCE 2728 02:21:00,811 --> 02:21:02,012 AND AT HOME. 2729 02:21:02,012 --> 02:21:03,346 AT THE HOMES WHERE YOU FOLKS ALL 2730 02:21:03,346 --> 02:21:05,649 COME FROM AND THE PLACES YOU 2731 02:21:05,649 --> 02:21:09,419 COME FROM AND FOR BEING 2732 02:21:09,419 --> 02:21:10,921 INCLUSIVE TO US, HAWAI'I. 2733 02:21:10,921 --> 02:21:13,023 THOUGH OUR EXPERIENCE AND THE 2734 02:21:13,023 --> 02:21:18,261 HISTORY OF THIS IN HAWAI'I IS 2735 02:21:18,261 --> 02:21:21,498 SOMEWHAT SIMILAR BUT THERE'S ALL 2736 02:21:21,498 --> 02:21:22,732 THIS FEEDBACK -- SHOULD I MOVE? 2737 02:21:22,732 --> 02:21:29,406 >> MAYBE. 2738 02:21:29,406 --> 02:21:29,706 WE'RE CLOSE. 2739 02:21:29,706 --> 02:21:32,976 >> I THINK THIS IS ON AT THE 2740 02:21:32,976 --> 02:21:34,578 SAME TIME BECAUSE THAT'S HOW 2741 02:21:34,578 --> 02:21:35,645 WE'RE DOING OUR PRESENTATION. 2742 02:21:35,645 --> 02:21:37,147 NOT ONE AT A TIME. 2743 02:21:37,147 --> 02:21:45,622 I CAN GO OVER THERE. 2744 02:21:45,622 --> 02:21:47,090 ANYWAY OUR EXPERIENCES ARE 2745 02:21:47,090 --> 02:21:49,860 SIMILAR AND UNIQUE IN THAT WE 2746 02:21:49,860 --> 02:21:54,598 HAVE NOT HAD ANY STUDENT DEATHS 2747 02:21:54,598 --> 02:21:58,235 OCCUR IN THE HAWAIIAN EXPERIENCE 2748 02:21:58,235 --> 02:22:02,038 BUT DEFINITELY DAMAGE AND TRAUMA 2749 02:22:02,038 --> 02:22:03,707 SOCIALLY, PHYSICALLY, 2750 02:22:03,707 --> 02:22:06,276 EMOTIONALLY AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY 2751 02:22:06,276 --> 02:22:09,813 AND SPIRITUALLY. 2752 02:22:09,813 --> 02:22:20,257 WE DO HAVE A SEVEN NAMED 2753 02:22:20,524 --> 02:22:21,491 SCHOOLS AND INSTITUTIONS AND 2754 02:22:21,491 --> 02:22:26,863 IT'S BEGINNING IN HAWAI'I AND 2755 02:22:26,863 --> 02:22:30,333 WITHOUT US BEING INCLUDED IN THE 2756 02:22:30,333 --> 02:22:40,844 INITIATIVE IT WOULD HAVE BEEN 2757 02:22:41,578 --> 02:22:41,912 DMR 2758 02:22:41,912 --> 02:22:47,083 GLOSSED OVER AND MAHALO SO THE 2759 02:22:47,083 --> 02:22:53,890 DEPARTMENT OF ENTINTERIOR AND F 2760 02:22:53,890 --> 02:22:55,425 THE VISIT AND ALLOWING OUR 2761 02:22:55,425 --> 02:22:58,061 PEOPLE TO SHARE THEIR HISTORY 2762 02:22:58,061 --> 02:23:04,301 AND MAHALO AND THE CURRENT WORK 2763 02:23:04,301 --> 02:23:07,637 WE'LL TALK ABOUT IS OUR 2764 02:23:07,637 --> 02:23:10,273 GRANDPARENTS. 2765 02:23:10,273 --> 02:23:13,677 MY GA GRANDPARENTS BOARDED SCHOS 2766 02:23:13,677 --> 02:23:17,047 AND CAME TO OAHU AND I DID NOT 2767 02:23:17,047 --> 02:23:18,281 MEET THEM. 2768 02:23:18,281 --> 02:23:23,386 THEY DIED YOUNG. 2769 02:23:23,386 --> 02:23:25,422 THEY ARE CHOSE SOW THAT IS 2770 02:23:25,422 --> 02:23:27,924 ANOTHER DIFFERENCE FOR US IN 2771 02:23:27,924 --> 02:23:28,325 HAWAI'I. 2772 02:23:28,325 --> 02:23:31,161 WAS AN HONOR TO GO TO THE 2773 02:23:31,161 --> 02:23:34,831 SCHOOLS THE BOARDING SCHOOL. 2774 02:23:34,831 --> 02:23:37,167 TO IF YOU'RE CHILD GOT IN AND IT 2775 02:23:37,167 --> 02:23:41,438 WAS SELECTIVE IT GAVE YOUR 2776 02:23:41,438 --> 02:23:42,606 FAMILY MORE AND FAMILIES WANTED 2777 02:23:42,606 --> 02:23:45,775 THEIR CHILDREN TO GO TO THESE 2778 02:23:45,775 --> 02:23:48,111 BOARDING SCHOOLS. 2779 02:23:48,111 --> 02:23:49,646 IF YOU WERE SELECTED AND GOT TO 2780 02:23:49,646 --> 02:23:54,284 GO IN THAT WAS SOMETHING THOUGHT 2781 02:23:54,284 --> 02:23:57,954 TO HAVE BEEN GOOD. 2782 02:23:57,954 --> 02:23:59,189 MY GRANDPARENTS WENT TO BOARDING 2783 02:23:59,189 --> 02:24:02,792 SCHOOL AND WHAT WE SEE IN OUR IT 2784 02:24:02,792 --> 02:24:07,731 FRAM LIZ WAS BECAUSE OF TO THE 2785 02:24:07,731 --> 02:24:08,565 DISCONNECTION AND WHAT OCCURRED 2786 02:24:08,565 --> 02:24:10,267 SO THERE WERE SPEAKERS. 2787 02:24:10,267 --> 02:24:16,439 MY MOM WAS NOT A SPEAKER. 2788 02:24:16,439 --> 02:24:17,707 MY CHILDREN SPEAK, WE SPEAK. 2789 02:24:17,707 --> 02:24:26,316 WE HAD TO RELEARN IT. 2790 02:24:26,316 --> 02:24:29,719 WHAT WE BASE OUR HEALING 2791 02:24:29,719 --> 02:24:32,222 PRACTICES ON IS LAND BASED. 2792 02:24:32,222 --> 02:24:34,891 WE SEE OUR LAND STEWARDSHIP AND 2793 02:24:34,891 --> 02:24:38,628 YOU CAN LEARN EVERYTHING ABOUT 2794 02:24:38,628 --> 02:24:41,865 HEALING AND HOW WE STRENGTHEN 2795 02:24:41,865 --> 02:24:43,199 RELATIONSHIP WITH LAND. 2796 02:24:43,199 --> 02:24:49,406 AND IT SPEAKS TO RESOURCES AND 2797 02:24:49,406 --> 02:24:51,675 HOW YOU CARE FOR THE RESEARCHERS 2798 02:24:51,675 --> 02:24:52,542 AND IN TURN THE RESEARCH WILL 2799 02:24:52,542 --> 02:24:54,277 CARE FOR YOU. 2800 02:24:54,277 --> 02:24:56,579 PART OF OUR GENEALOGY IN HAWAI'I 2801 02:24:56,579 --> 02:24:57,981 IS WE COME FROM THE LAND. 2802 02:24:57,981 --> 02:25:00,183 WE ARE BIRTHED FROM THE LAND. 2803 02:25:00,183 --> 02:25:04,821 OUR OLDER SIBLING, OUR 2804 02:25:04,821 --> 02:25:06,089 GENEALOGICAL CHANT AND STORIES 2805 02:25:06,089 --> 02:25:10,026 IS THE LAND CAME FIRST AND OUT 2806 02:25:10,026 --> 02:25:12,028 OF THE LAND BIRTHED OUR PLANT 2807 02:25:12,028 --> 02:25:14,798 WHICH IS WHAT SUSTAINS US. 2808 02:25:14,798 --> 02:25:19,502 IT'S OUR STAPLE, IT'S OUR POI, 2809 02:25:19,502 --> 02:25:24,874 OUR TARO AND IF WE CARE FOR THAT 2810 02:25:24,874 --> 02:25:26,209 AND THE LAND IT WILL CARE FOR 2811 02:25:26,209 --> 02:25:28,745 YOU AND SO IT'S RECIPROCAL. 2812 02:25:28,745 --> 02:25:29,913 OUR HEALING PRACTICES WITHIN OUR 2813 02:25:29,913 --> 02:25:31,181 ORGANIZATION IS BASED ON THAT. 2814 02:25:31,181 --> 02:25:39,989 IT'S LAND-BASED AND THIS IS A 2815 02:25:39,989 --> 02:25:42,726 STRUCTURE THAT WE ARE WORKING TO 2816 02:25:42,726 --> 02:25:44,928 REPLACE THE CURRENT STRUCTURE 2817 02:25:44,928 --> 02:25:51,501 AND TRANSFORM THE CURRENT 2818 02:25:51,501 --> 02:26:02,178 STRUCTURES BASED ON HOIWAI AND 2819 02:26:02,178 --> 02:26:04,714 AND WE DIVERTED TO FEED OUR 2820 02:26:04,714 --> 02:26:04,981 CROPS. 2821 02:26:04,981 --> 02:26:08,418 WHEN YOU DIVERT THE WATER IT HAS 2822 02:26:08,418 --> 02:26:10,220 CERTAIN MICROBES AND NUTRIENTS 2823 02:26:10,220 --> 02:26:12,555 AND THEN GOES THROUGH THE CROPS 2824 02:26:12,555 --> 02:26:16,559 AND TAKES ABOUT A YEAR FOR THE 2825 02:26:16,559 --> 02:26:19,229 TARO TO GROW THE BEGINNING TO 2826 02:26:19,229 --> 02:26:22,332 WHEN YOU CAN HARVEST IT. 2827 02:26:22,332 --> 02:26:25,235 SO WHILE THE WATER IS FLOWING 2828 02:26:25,235 --> 02:26:28,371 THROUGH IT IT PICKS UP OTHER 2829 02:26:28,371 --> 02:26:33,143 MICROBES AND NUTRIENTS AND 2830 02:26:33,143 --> 02:26:34,544 DIVERTED BATH TO THE MAINSTREAM. 2831 02:26:34,544 --> 02:26:36,546 AT THAT POINT THE WATER IS 2832 02:26:36,546 --> 02:26:38,114 DIFFERENT IT'S HEALTHIER AND 2833 02:26:38,114 --> 02:26:39,716 STRONGER THAN FROM THE WATER 2834 02:26:39,716 --> 02:26:42,252 WHEN IT WAS INITIALLY DIVERTED 2835 02:26:42,252 --> 02:26:47,257 FROM. 2836 02:26:47,257 --> 02:26:53,263 AND IT GOES INTO THE OCEAN AND 2837 02:26:53,263 --> 02:26:54,631 SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE 2838 02:26:54,631 --> 02:26:57,167 WATER IS CLEAN AND FRESH AND 2839 02:26:57,167 --> 02:27:03,039 MUCH MORE VIBRANT THAN WHEN IT 2840 02:27:03,039 --> 02:27:12,782 WAS DIVERT ED AND WHEN SOMEONE S 2841 02:27:12,782 --> 02:27:17,320 DIVERTED FROM THE COMMUNITY AND 2842 02:27:17,320 --> 02:27:23,193 GOES TO SCHOOL OR TO 2843 02:27:23,193 --> 02:27:24,060 INCARCERATION OR ANY SYSTEMS 2844 02:27:24,060 --> 02:27:26,296 THAT OUR PEOPLE ARE EXTRACTED 2845 02:27:26,296 --> 02:27:30,967 FROM, WE WANT TO ENSURE AS THEY 2846 02:27:30,967 --> 02:27:33,069 FLOW THROUGH THE STRUCTURE OR 2847 02:27:33,069 --> 02:27:38,908 SYSTEM THEY PICK UP SKILLS, 2848 02:27:38,908 --> 02:27:40,810 NUTRIENTS, PRACTICES WHATEVER IT 2849 02:27:40,810 --> 02:27:42,579 IS SO WHEN THEY ARE COME BACK TO 2850 02:27:42,579 --> 02:27:44,914 COMMUNITY THEY'RE BETTER AND 2851 02:27:44,914 --> 02:27:45,582 STRONGER. 2852 02:27:45,582 --> 02:27:46,249 AND CURRENTLY OUR SYSTEMS ARE 2853 02:27:46,249 --> 02:27:47,317 NOT LIKE THAT. 2854 02:27:47,317 --> 02:27:49,219 THAT'S THE TRANSFORMATION WE 2855 02:27:49,219 --> 02:27:51,888 WORK ON TOGETHER THROUGH OUR 2856 02:27:51,888 --> 02:27:54,257 COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING BASED ON 2857 02:27:54,257 --> 02:28:00,163 OUR INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE. 2858 02:28:00,163 --> 02:28:06,269 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE IS REALLY 2859 02:28:06,269 --> 02:28:10,373 IMPORTANT. 2860 02:28:10,373 --> 02:28:11,307 WHERE HE HAVE EXPERIENCES AND 2861 02:28:11,307 --> 02:28:13,209 OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE PEOPLE 2862 02:28:13,209 --> 02:28:21,317 THAT ARE COMING OUT OF AND 2863 02:28:21,317 --> 02:28:22,018 THERE'S RECORDS. 2864 02:28:22,018 --> 02:28:23,853 WE ENSURE PART OF THAT STRUCTURE 2865 02:28:23,853 --> 02:28:27,724 THEY ARE PICK UP THE SKILLS SO 2866 02:28:27,724 --> 02:28:30,326 THAT THEY CAN MAKE A LIVING FOR 2867 02:28:30,326 --> 02:28:40,737 THEIR FAMILY AND THRIVE. 2868 02:28:46,676 --> 02:28:50,613 >> WILL JUST TO SHED CONTEXT. 2869 02:28:50,613 --> 02:28:52,348 WE WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT 2870 02:28:52,348 --> 02:28:54,551 AND GIVE YOU THANKS FOR BEING 2871 02:28:54,551 --> 02:28:59,022 HERE AND I JUST WANT AGAIN TO 2872 02:28:59,022 --> 02:29:05,028 ACKNOWLEDGE THE GENIUS IN THE 2873 02:29:05,028 --> 02:29:06,863 ROOM AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO BE 2874 02:29:06,863 --> 02:29:09,599 HERE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT OUR 2875 02:29:09,599 --> 02:29:11,200 ORGANIZATIONS AND WHAT WE DO AND 2876 02:29:11,200 --> 02:29:12,902 IT'S A PATHWAY AND TRYING TO SET 2877 02:29:12,902 --> 02:29:20,043 THE STAGE. 2878 02:29:20,043 --> 02:29:23,446 I WANT TO PIGGY BACK ON WHAT 2879 02:29:23,446 --> 02:29:33,990 JAIME SAID AND ONE NAMED IS ONE 2880 02:29:37,660 --> 02:29:40,663 I WENT TO AND IT'S A PRIVILEGE 2881 02:29:40,663 --> 02:29:41,698 TO GO BUT WHEN YOU LOOK CREATE 2882 02:29:41,698 --> 02:29:42,999 THIS HISTORICAL CONTEXT OF THE 2883 02:29:42,999 --> 02:29:49,072 THINGS WE HEARD OVER THE PAST 2884 02:29:49,072 --> 02:29:54,911 DAY AND TODAY THE RESIDUAL 2885 02:29:54,911 --> 02:29:57,213 ISSUES THE BOARDING SCHOOL IS 2886 02:29:57,213 --> 02:30:02,218 GOING THROUGH THERE'S 2887 02:30:02,218 --> 02:30:11,227 PERPETRATORS WHO IN FACT UNTIL 2888 02:30:11,227 --> 02:30:13,229 RECENTLY WHILE WE'RE NOT 2889 02:30:13,229 --> 02:30:14,163 NECESSARILY CONNECTING IT OVER 2890 02:30:14,163 --> 02:30:17,900 BUT IN A COLLECTIVE APPROACH 2891 02:30:17,900 --> 02:30:19,002 THESE KINDS OF THINGS CONTINUE 2892 02:30:19,002 --> 02:30:21,037 TO HAPPEN. 2893 02:30:21,037 --> 02:30:23,272 MEMBERS OF MY FAMILY ARE PART OF 2894 02:30:23,272 --> 02:30:25,608 THAT AND HOW DO YOU GET YOUR 2895 02:30:25,608 --> 02:30:27,844 HEAD AROUND THAT AND HOW DO YOU 2896 02:30:27,844 --> 02:30:28,378 FORGIVE AND THRIVE? 2897 02:30:28,378 --> 02:30:35,518 WE DEAL WITH THAT KIND OF TRAUMA 2898 02:30:35,518 --> 02:30:41,924 SIMILARLY TODAY. 2899 02:30:41,924 --> 02:30:44,160 IT'S ABOUT TRANSFORMATION FROM 2900 02:30:44,160 --> 02:30:44,694 TRAUMA. 2901 02:30:44,694 --> 02:30:47,830 SO SOME OF THE WORK WE DO AND I 2902 02:30:47,830 --> 02:30:54,303 WANT TO PROVIDE CONTEXT IS THAT 2903 02:30:54,303 --> 02:30:57,840 WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CLEAN AND 2904 02:30:57,840 --> 02:31:00,043 THE HISTORICAL TRAUMA WAS WHEN 2905 02:31:00,043 --> 02:31:04,781 SHE WAS IMPRISONED IN HER OWN 2906 02:31:04,781 --> 02:31:06,249 PALACE. 2907 02:31:06,249 --> 02:31:07,316 THE TRAJECTORY OF THE 2908 02:31:07,316 --> 02:31:12,955 PRESENTATION OF FLAFT HAWAIIANS 2909 02:31:12,955 --> 02:31:16,059 INCARCERATED CONTINUES AND WE 2910 02:31:16,059 --> 02:31:17,760 CONNECT BACK TO THAT AND HAVE 2911 02:31:17,760 --> 02:31:20,196 FOCUSSED RESEARCH OF RESOURCES 2912 02:31:20,196 --> 02:31:22,732 AND EXPERTISE IN TRANSFORMING 2913 02:31:22,732 --> 02:31:28,905 FROM TRAUMA. 2914 02:31:28,905 --> 02:31:39,415 AND WE ACTUALLY FOCUS ON THE 2915 02:31:46,189 --> 02:31:46,355 CENTER. 2916 02:31:46,355 --> 02:31:47,590 AND WE'RE STRONGER TOGETHER THAN 2917 02:31:47,590 --> 02:31:47,857 SEPARATE. 2918 02:31:47,857 --> 02:31:53,596 I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE 2919 02:31:53,596 --> 02:31:58,267 PICTURES HERE AND WE BELIEVE IN 2920 02:31:58,267 --> 02:31:59,569 PEER SUPPORT. 2921 02:31:59,569 --> 02:32:05,508 SHOUT OUT TO OUR CAPTAIN HERE 2922 02:32:05,508 --> 02:32:14,984 AGAIN AND WE RELY ON PEER 2923 02:32:14,984 --> 02:32:16,986 SUPPORT AND THE CRITERIA THAT 2924 02:32:16,986 --> 02:32:22,692 TEACHES US ABOUT BEING TRAUMA 2925 02:32:22,692 --> 02:32:25,261 INFORMED. 2926 02:32:25,261 --> 02:32:30,266 THESE GIRLS ARE THOSE WITH LIVED 2927 02:32:30,266 --> 02:32:32,668 EXPERIENCE NOT ONLY WITH THE 2928 02:32:32,668 --> 02:32:34,103 RECOVERY BUT IN THE 2929 02:32:34,103 --> 02:32:35,772 INCARCERATION SYSTEM AND 2930 02:32:35,772 --> 02:32:37,340 GRADUATING THEMES APPEAR 2931 02:32:37,340 --> 02:32:39,742 SUPPORTS TO BE LEADERS AND TO BE 2932 02:32:39,742 --> 02:32:41,644 ABLE TO WALK ALONG THOSE BECAUSE 2933 02:32:41,644 --> 02:32:43,112 WE KNOW IT'S A BEST PRACTICE AND 2934 02:32:43,112 --> 02:32:44,981 THEY HAVE SKIN IN THE GAME AND 2935 02:32:44,981 --> 02:32:47,350 WE BELIEVE THAT ONE OF THE 2936 02:32:47,350 --> 02:32:51,354 PATHWAYS TO THRIVING IS TO WALK 2937 02:32:51,354 --> 02:32:54,557 COLLECTIVELY WITH THOSE WHO HAVE 2938 02:32:54,557 --> 02:32:57,126 GONE THROUGH THE DARKNESS AND WE 2939 02:32:57,126 --> 02:32:58,628 PUT LIGHTING RESOURCES ON THE 2940 02:32:58,628 --> 02:32:59,662 GENIUS OF LIVED EXPERIENCE AND 2941 02:32:59,662 --> 02:33:01,397 THE NEXT SLIDE TALKS ABOUT HOW 2942 02:33:01,397 --> 02:33:06,736 DID WE OPERATIONALIZE OUR 2943 02:33:06,736 --> 02:33:09,605 COMMUNITY PATHWAYS TO THRIVING 2944 02:33:09,605 --> 02:33:10,773 HAVE TO DO WITH UNDERSTANDING 2945 02:33:10,773 --> 02:33:14,010 AND UPLIFTING THE STORIES AND 2946 02:33:14,010 --> 02:33:15,478 EDUCATING NOT ONLY OUR COMMUNITY 2947 02:33:15,478 --> 02:33:18,681 ABOUT THE TRAUMA, OUR STORIES, 2948 02:33:18,681 --> 02:33:19,949 BUT WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT THAT 2949 02:33:19,949 --> 02:33:24,287 TRANSFORMATION? 2950 02:33:24,287 --> 02:33:25,488 WE WERE SELECTED LAST YEAR TO 2951 02:33:25,488 --> 02:33:28,224 HAVE RESOURCE TO CONVENE OUR 2952 02:33:28,224 --> 02:33:29,058 COMMUNITIES AND THOSE WITH 2953 02:33:29,058 --> 02:33:31,694 CERTAIN GIFTS TO BE ABLE TO 2954 02:33:31,694 --> 02:33:33,563 LEARN AND SERVE AND COLLECTIVELY 2955 02:33:33,563 --> 02:33:38,968 WORK ON THIS ISSUE. 2956 02:33:38,968 --> 02:33:39,669 THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE 2957 02:33:39,669 --> 02:33:42,238 DO AND THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO 2958 02:33:42,238 --> 02:33:42,438 SHARE. 2959 02:33:42,438 --> 02:33:48,144 IN THIS ROOM FULL OF GENIUSES 2960 02:33:48,144 --> 02:33:50,646 AND I'M SITTING THERE LISTENING 2961 02:33:50,646 --> 02:33:51,948 TO EVERYONE AND ALMOST FEELING 2962 02:33:51,948 --> 02:33:53,583 THAT, YEAH, YEAH, JUST LIKE AT 2963 02:33:53,583 --> 02:33:53,783 HOME. 2964 02:33:53,783 --> 02:33:55,618 JUST LIKE US. 2965 02:33:55,618 --> 02:33:59,055 IT JUST FEELS THE KINSHIP AND 2966 02:33:59,055 --> 02:34:09,565 LOVE AND OHANA AND THE NATIVE 2967 02:34:10,132 --> 02:34:12,902 AMERICAN FAMILIES AND FAMILY 2968 02:34:12,902 --> 02:34:16,873 MEMBERS FEELS LIKE HOME BUT 2969 02:34:16,873 --> 02:34:18,307 GIVES ME STRENGTH AND 2970 02:34:18,307 --> 02:34:18,608 CONFIDENCE. 2971 02:34:18,608 --> 02:34:20,710 I THINK WHAT GIVES US STRENGTH 2972 02:34:20,710 --> 02:34:22,211 AND CONFIDENCE AND WHAT IS THIS 2973 02:34:22,211 --> 02:34:24,146 TALK SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT? 2974 02:34:24,146 --> 02:34:25,014 PATHWAY TO THRIVING. 2975 02:34:25,014 --> 02:34:26,949 WE TALK WITH ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE 2976 02:34:26,949 --> 02:34:30,286 AND CULTURAL PRACTICES AND IN 2977 02:34:30,286 --> 02:34:40,796 FACT INDIGENOUS EDUCATION AND 2978 02:34:41,697 --> 02:34:43,266 DID YOU KNOW SOCIAL KNOWLEDGE -- 2979 02:34:43,266 --> 02:34:44,600 AND OF COURSE EVERYONE KNOWS 2980 02:34:44,600 --> 02:34:47,036 BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE ARE. 2981 02:34:47,036 --> 02:34:49,272 DID YOU KNOW IT'S A POWER AND 2982 02:34:49,272 --> 02:34:51,240 POTENTIAL TO HEAL TRAUMA AND 2983 02:34:51,240 --> 02:34:52,708 APPROPRIATE APPLICATION OF 2984 02:34:52,708 --> 02:35:03,252 CULTURAL CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES. 2985 02:35:04,553 --> 02:35:05,721 MY DISSERTATION HAD TO DO WITH 2986 02:35:05,721 --> 02:35:06,856 UNDERSTANDING CULTURAL PRACTICES 2987 02:35:06,856 --> 02:35:08,591 AND TYING THAT INTO HOW YOU 2988 02:35:08,591 --> 02:35:11,027 TRANSFORM IN TRAUMA THROUGH 2989 02:35:11,027 --> 02:35:13,262 CULTURE PRACTICES AND HOW THAT'S 2990 02:35:13,262 --> 02:35:18,834 CON E 2991 02:35:18,834 --> 02:35:20,636 CONECTED TO HAWAIIAN WOMEN 2992 02:35:20,636 --> 02:35:20,970 INCARCERATED. 2993 02:35:20,970 --> 02:35:22,972 THIS IS THE DROP THE MIKE TOO, 2994 02:35:22,972 --> 02:35:23,572 YOU GUYS. 2995 02:35:23,572 --> 02:35:25,107 BECAUSE I'M SEEING IN THE 2996 02:35:25,107 --> 02:35:29,545 AUDIENCE AND SEEING SO MANY 2997 02:35:29,545 --> 02:35:32,181 PRESENTING WAHINE IS FEMALE AND 2998 02:35:32,181 --> 02:35:33,449 MAMA IS POWER. 2999 02:35:33,449 --> 02:35:38,654 SO MY DISSERTATION I LOOKED AT 3000 02:35:38,654 --> 02:35:45,127 WERE NATIVE HAWAIIAN FEMALE 3001 02:35:45,127 --> 02:35:47,897 LEADERSHIP AND THE SUBJECT 3002 02:35:47,897 --> 02:35:51,100 MATTER EXPERTS THAT WENT TO 3003 02:35:51,100 --> 02:35:53,369 DRAWING OUT INFORMATION AND THE 3004 02:35:53,369 --> 02:35:55,771 MODEL AND YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE 3005 02:35:55,771 --> 02:35:57,873 ANONYMOUS IN YOUR DISSERTATION 3006 02:35:57,873 --> 02:36:00,376 WORK BUT IN HAWAI'I I PROCLAIM 3007 02:36:00,376 --> 02:36:03,446 BECAUSE OUR HULA FAMILY AND THE 3008 02:36:03,446 --> 02:36:05,748 SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS WERE OUR 3009 02:36:05,748 --> 02:36:12,588 HULA SISTERS WHO OBTAIN THE RANK 3010 02:36:12,588 --> 02:36:13,289 WITH THEIR KNOWLEDGE AND 3011 02:36:13,289 --> 02:36:15,157 EDUCATION AND CONTINUE TO LEAD 3012 02:36:15,157 --> 02:36:15,725 THROUGH CULTURAL PRACTICE. 3013 02:36:15,725 --> 02:36:23,833 THANK YOU FOR THAT. 3014 02:36:23,833 --> 02:36:25,267 THIS IS THE BACKBONE OF OUR WORK 3015 02:36:25,267 --> 02:36:27,436 AT THE FOUNDATION WHEN WE TALK 3016 02:36:27,436 --> 02:36:31,974 ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THESE SIX -- 3017 02:36:31,974 --> 02:36:42,418 NO, I HAVE NEOPLASTICITY. 3018 02:36:48,724 --> 02:36:51,327 WE TALK ABOUT THE TRAUMA AND 3019 02:36:51,327 --> 02:36:53,362 TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION, 3020 02:36:53,362 --> 02:36:55,264 THE SIX GUIDING PRINCIPLES AND 3021 02:36:55,264 --> 02:37:00,403 THE CULTURAL CONCEPTS AND 3022 02:37:00,403 --> 02:37:03,773 POSTTRAUMATIC GROWTH LOOKING AT 3023 02:37:03,773 --> 02:37:05,141 STRENGTH BASED PRACTICES AND 3024 02:37:05,141 --> 02:37:08,411 HERE'S THE THING ABOUT 3025 02:37:08,411 --> 02:37:10,279 NEOPLASTICITY AND THIS IS THE 3026 02:37:10,279 --> 02:37:10,946 NIH. 3027 02:37:10,946 --> 02:37:14,283 OH, MY GOSH, RIGHT? 3028 02:37:14,283 --> 02:37:15,785 OH GOSH. 3029 02:37:15,785 --> 02:37:18,287 I BETTER NAVIGATE WELL BECAUSE 3030 02:37:18,287 --> 02:37:19,121 WE HAVE SMO EXPERTS IN HERE BUT 3031 02:37:19,121 --> 02:37:22,058 WHEN WE LEARN ABOUT IN TERMS OF 3032 02:37:22,058 --> 02:37:27,096 NEOPLASTICITY AND THE PREVAILING 3033 02:37:27,096 --> 02:37:28,597 THOUGHT IS THE BRAIN DOESN'T 3034 02:37:28,597 --> 02:37:28,831 CHANGE. 3035 02:37:28,831 --> 02:37:36,872 YOU'RE BORN WITH YOUR BORN WITH. 3036 02:37:36,872 --> 02:37:38,240 YOUR BRAIN CAN CHANGE AND IN THE 3037 02:37:38,240 --> 02:37:43,546 CONTEXT WE WORK WITH BECAUSE AT 3038 02:37:43,546 --> 02:37:48,951 THE PRISON SUBSTANCE IS ABUSE IS 3039 02:37:48,951 --> 02:37:50,786 A BILL BIG DEAL AND WE HAVE 3040 02:37:50,786 --> 02:37:51,954 MAJOR EXPERTS IN THE ROOM BUT I 3041 02:37:51,954 --> 02:37:54,290 THINK WHEN WE TIE IN CULTURAL 3042 02:37:54,290 --> 02:37:57,560 PRACTICES BECAUSE WHAT KIND OF 3043 02:37:57,560 --> 02:37:59,095 ACTIVITIES CAN REALLY HAVE THE 3044 02:37:59,095 --> 02:38:00,529 BRAIN WORK IN THE NEOPLASTICITY 3045 02:38:00,529 --> 02:38:03,766 AND THE ACTIVITIES WHEN YOU 3046 02:38:03,766 --> 02:38:07,269 CHANT, WHEN YOU SING, WHEN YOU 3047 02:38:07,269 --> 02:38:07,837 PLAY MUSIC. 3048 02:38:07,837 --> 02:38:09,972 LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE. 3049 02:38:09,972 --> 02:38:11,674 OUR BRAIN, OUR NUANCE CAN START 3050 02:38:11,674 --> 02:38:17,379 CONNECTING AGAIN. 3051 02:38:17,379 --> 02:38:18,714 WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRAUMA AND WE 3052 02:38:18,714 --> 02:38:20,816 KNOW WHAT THE STORIES ARE 3053 02:38:20,816 --> 02:38:23,052 ESPECIALLY WHEN WE WORK AT THE 3054 02:38:23,052 --> 02:38:25,287 PRISON AND HAVE A CULTURAL 3055 02:38:25,287 --> 02:38:26,088 HEALING CLASS AND HAVE MANY 3056 02:38:26,088 --> 02:38:28,891 OTHER KINDS OF CLASSES WE WORK 3057 02:38:28,891 --> 02:38:29,091 WITH. 3058 02:38:29,091 --> 02:38:30,159 WEN OUR GIRLS TALK ABOUT AND WE 3059 02:38:30,159 --> 02:38:39,635 DID A STUDY ACTUALLY AT THE 3060 02:38:39,635 --> 02:38:42,037 CORRECTIONAL CENTER AND IT WAS A 3061 02:38:42,037 --> 02:38:46,308 TRAUMA-INFORMED CARE INITIATIVE. 3062 02:38:46,308 --> 02:38:48,511 AT THE TIME THE CORRECTION 3063 02:38:48,511 --> 02:38:49,512 CENTER UNDER PAST LEADERSHIP 3064 02:38:49,512 --> 02:38:54,083 THOUGHT CAN PRISON BE A PLACE OF 3065 02:38:54,083 --> 02:38:55,251 HEALING. 3066 02:38:55,251 --> 02:38:57,286 AN ANCIENT WORD FOR A PLACE OF 3067 02:38:57,286 --> 02:39:00,289 SAFETY, A SANCTUARY. 3068 02:39:00,289 --> 02:39:03,893 SO PART OF THE STUDY AND THE 3069 02:39:03,893 --> 02:39:06,262 WORK WE DID WAS TO SEE WHAT THE 3070 02:39:06,262 --> 02:39:11,934 PREVAILING AMOUNT OF TRAUMA 3071 02:39:11,934 --> 02:39:14,236 SURVIVORS WERE. 3072 02:39:14,236 --> 02:39:20,075 IN OUR STUDY THERE WERE ABOUT 3073 02:39:20,075 --> 02:39:22,178 200, 250 AT THE CORRECTIONAL 3074 02:39:22,178 --> 02:39:22,478 CENTER. 3075 02:39:22,478 --> 02:39:24,046 OUR STUDY HAD ABOUT 25. 3076 02:39:24,046 --> 02:39:29,618 THE MAJORITY OF HAWAIIANS, 100% 3077 02:39:29,618 --> 02:39:33,522 TRAUMA SURVIVE FROM AGE 10 TO 3078 02:39:33,522 --> 02:39:37,426 BELOW AND 18 AND BELOW. 3079 02:39:37,426 --> 02:39:38,994 WHEN YOU HAVE THE DATA AND ARE 3080 02:39:38,994 --> 02:39:42,298 TALKING ABOUT IT AND SEE IT AND 3081 02:39:42,298 --> 02:39:48,070 YOU'RE LIKE, JESUS, SO 3082 02:39:48,070 --> 02:39:49,438 NEOPLASTICITY AND YOU KNOW AT AN 3083 02:39:49,438 --> 02:39:53,576 EARLY TAKE AGE THE TRAUMA IN THE 3084 02:39:53,576 --> 02:39:57,546 HOUSEHOLD AND YOU'RE YOUNG AND 3085 02:39:57,546 --> 02:39:58,214 YOUR NEURONS IT'S SO MUCH 3086 02:39:58,214 --> 02:40:01,183 PRESSURE AND FIGHT OR FLIGHT. 3087 02:40:01,183 --> 02:40:06,288 SOMETIMES BECAUSE DOING THE WORK 3088 02:40:06,288 --> 02:40:09,558 WE DO AT THE FACILITY AND THE 3089 02:40:09,558 --> 02:40:10,759 DECISION MAKING AND SOMETIMES 3090 02:40:10,759 --> 02:40:13,062 IT'S NOT OKAY ALL THE TIME BUT 3091 02:40:13,062 --> 02:40:18,601 IT MAKES SENSE PHYSIOLOGICALLY. 3092 02:40:18,601 --> 02:40:22,304 NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE SUBSTANCE 3093 02:40:22,304 --> 02:40:23,806 ABUSE BUT PHYSIOLOGICALLY WE 3094 02:40:23,806 --> 02:40:25,441 HAVE TO UNDERSTAND PERHAPS THERE 3095 02:40:25,441 --> 02:40:30,946 CAN BE THE CONNECTIONS OF OUR 3096 02:40:30,946 --> 02:40:32,648 NEURO 3097 02:40:32,648 --> 02:40:36,785 NEURONS AND CHANGE THE OUTLOOK 3098 02:40:36,785 --> 02:40:38,787 AND DECISIONS AND BACK TO THE 3099 02:40:38,787 --> 02:40:40,155 CULTURAL PRACTICE WHEN YOU SING, 3100 02:40:40,155 --> 02:40:43,025 WHEN YOU CHANT, WHEN YOU DANCE. 3101 02:40:43,025 --> 02:40:44,960 AND HAWAIIANS ARE GOOD AT THAT. 3102 02:40:44,960 --> 02:40:47,763 THE THING IS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 3103 02:40:47,763 --> 02:40:55,271 NATIVE HAWAIIAN WOMEN, IT'S LIKE 3104 02:40:55,271 --> 02:40:56,905 WE CAN TRANSFER FROM TRAUMA AND 3105 02:40:56,905 --> 02:41:01,310 CULTURAL PRACTICES CAN BE VERY 3106 02:41:01,310 --> 02:41:02,278 MUCH THE TOOL AND A PATHWAY TO 3107 02:41:02,278 --> 02:41:07,950 THRIVE. 3108 02:41:07,950 --> 02:41:14,189 WE TALK ABOUT CONNECTING SOME OF 3109 02:41:14,189 --> 02:41:14,823 THE DOTS. 3110 02:41:14,823 --> 02:41:17,993 WE HAVE A CONFERENCE AND IT'S 3111 02:41:17,993 --> 02:41:19,461 OUR FIFTH YEAR BUT THOSE ARE 3112 02:41:19,461 --> 02:41:21,964 SOME OF THE THINGS WE LEARN AND 3113 02:41:21,964 --> 02:41:22,464 TEACH ABOUT. 3114 02:41:22,464 --> 02:41:25,934 THIS IS RAY PICTURE OF OUR 3115 02:41:25,934 --> 02:41:28,270 GOVERNOR AND THESE PROMOTING 3116 02:41:28,270 --> 02:41:30,472 HAWAI'I AS A TRAUMA-INFORMED 3117 02:41:30,472 --> 02:41:30,706 PLACE. 3118 02:41:30,706 --> 02:41:31,540 THIS IS MY COLLEAGUE WITH THE 3119 02:41:31,540 --> 02:41:41,684 TATTOOS. 3120 02:41:42,785 --> 02:41:43,919 THESE THE LEADERSHIP AROUND PEER 3121 02:41:43,919 --> 02:41:54,263 SUPPORT IN HAWAI'I. 3122 02:41:56,865 --> 02:41:58,334 >> I WAS HAPPY TO HEAR THIS 3123 02:41:58,334 --> 02:42:06,308 MORNING ABOUT YOUTH INVOLVEMENT. 3124 02:42:06,308 --> 02:42:09,578 MY SON WAS INCARCERATED AT 21 3125 02:42:09,578 --> 02:42:13,482 AND HE'S 35 SO HE WAS 3126 02:42:13,482 --> 02:42:14,883 INCARCERATED NINE AND A HALF 3127 02:42:14,883 --> 02:42:15,351 YEARS. 3128 02:42:15,351 --> 02:42:16,318 NEXT MARCH WILL BE THREE YEARS 3129 02:42:16,318 --> 02:42:17,052 HE'S BEEN OUT AND HE'S DOING 3130 02:42:17,052 --> 02:42:20,689 WELL. 3131 02:42:20,689 --> 02:42:23,592 THIS WAS THE DATA AND HE WAS 3132 02:42:23,592 --> 02:42:27,963 SINGLE BACK THEN AND THE DATA IS 3133 02:42:27,963 --> 02:42:31,133 HIS CHILDREN WILL HAVE A 75% 3134 02:42:31,133 --> 02:42:32,000 INCREASED RISK OF BEING 3135 02:42:32,000 --> 02:42:35,070 INCARCERATED AS ADULTS AND THAT 3136 02:42:35,070 --> 02:42:36,038 SHOOK ME BECAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE 3137 02:42:36,038 --> 02:42:42,644 CHILDREN YET OR A PARTNER YET. 3138 02:42:42,644 --> 02:42:50,285 AND IN AN IN THE OHANA SYSTEM 3139 02:42:50,285 --> 02:42:54,223 AND WE DON'T HAVE NAMES FOR IT 3140 02:42:54,223 --> 02:42:58,360 AUNTIE AND UNCLE. 3141 02:42:58,360 --> 02:43:00,662 THAT GENERATION TAKES CARE OF 3142 02:43:00,662 --> 02:43:02,798 THE NEXT GENERATION. 3143 02:43:02,798 --> 02:43:05,267 SO THAT EVEN MEANT THAT PERHAPS 3144 02:43:05,267 --> 02:43:07,569 MY GRANDCHILDREN FROM MY 3145 02:43:07,569 --> 02:43:11,807 DAUGHTER WOULD READ TO THEM. 3146 02:43:11,807 --> 02:43:14,977 AS THEY GOT OLDER THEY STARTED 3147 02:43:14,977 --> 02:43:16,378 TO HEAR AND LISTEN LIKE WHAT'S 3148 02:43:16,378 --> 02:43:22,050 HAPPENING WITH THE INCARCERATED 3149 02:43:22,050 --> 02:43:24,353 POPULATION AND THEY'RE TEENAGERS 3150 02:43:24,353 --> 02:43:26,622 NOW AND THEY'RE INVOLVED AND 3151 02:43:26,622 --> 02:43:28,791 THEY ARE WANT TO END. 3152 02:43:28,791 --> 02:43:30,859 THEY HAVE THEY PUT A PACKAGE 3153 02:43:30,859 --> 02:43:32,795 TOGETHER FOR THE NEXT SESSION 3154 02:43:32,795 --> 02:43:34,296 AND THEY WANT TO END 3155 02:43:34,296 --> 02:43:37,466 INCARCERATION FOR YOUTH. 3156 02:43:37,466 --> 02:43:41,970 AND HOW THAT TIES BACK TO A 3157 02:43:41,970 --> 02:43:43,138 COUPLE IN THE REPORT THAT'S A 3158 02:43:43,138 --> 02:43:43,972 BOYS AND GIRLS HOME. 3159 02:43:43,972 --> 02:43:45,240 THE REFORM SCHOOLS RIGHT NOW. 3160 02:43:45,240 --> 02:43:54,283 THEY'RE STILL IN OPERATION. 3161 02:43:54,283 --> 02:43:57,886 AND NO YOUTH SHOULD BE 3162 02:43:57,886 --> 02:43:58,220 INCARCERATED. 3163 02:43:58,220 --> 02:43:59,955 THERE'S HOMES FOR OUR YOUTH 3164 02:43:59,955 --> 02:44:01,023 ESPECIALLY NATIVE YOUTH WITHIN 3165 02:44:01,023 --> 02:44:06,228 THE COMMUNITY. 3166 02:44:06,228 --> 02:44:14,002 THEY HAVE A YOUTH-LED COUNCIL 3167 02:44:14,002 --> 02:44:15,304 THEY MADE THEIR OWN MISSION 3168 02:44:15,304 --> 02:44:17,840 STATEMENT AND THAT'S THEIR OWN 3169 02:44:17,840 --> 02:44:18,073 VISION. 3170 02:44:18,073 --> 02:44:23,145 I LISTEN AND THEY TELL ME WHAT 3171 02:44:23,145 --> 02:44:24,446 TO DO. 3172 02:44:24,446 --> 02:44:25,314 AND THEY'RE VERY INTERESTED IN 3173 02:44:25,314 --> 02:44:26,315 CLIMATE JUSTICE AS WELL. 3174 02:44:26,315 --> 02:44:30,219 THEY'VE BEEN DOING STUFF. 3175 02:44:30,219 --> 02:44:31,920 WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS WEAVING 3176 02:44:31,920 --> 02:44:34,289 THE TRADITIONAL SEAWEED AND 3177 02:44:34,289 --> 02:44:35,724 PUTTING IT BACK IN THE OCEAN 3178 02:44:35,724 --> 02:44:38,760 WHERE IT WAS ONCE A THRIVING 3179 02:44:38,760 --> 02:44:40,062 OCEAN BUT BECAUSE OF CLIMATE 3180 02:44:40,062 --> 02:44:46,301 CHANGE THERE'S HARDLY ANY THERE. 3181 02:44:46,301 --> 02:44:47,903 THAT'S THE EXERCISE THEY'RE 3182 02:44:47,903 --> 02:44:50,272 DOING HERE. 3183 02:44:50,272 --> 02:44:54,276 THESE ARE THEIR FOCUS AREAS 3184 02:44:54,276 --> 02:44:57,913 AROUND LEATH AND WELL BEING AND 3185 02:44:57,913 --> 02:45:00,082 LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND THE 3186 02:45:00,082 --> 02:45:02,784 CLIMATE JUSTICE AND THIS IS THE 3187 02:45:02,784 --> 02:45:03,652 PATH TO THRIVING FOR THE NEXT 3188 02:45:03,652 --> 02:45:09,625 GENERATIONS. 3189 02:45:09,625 --> 02:45:15,163 WE WORK ON A TRY-COUNTRY 3190 02:45:15,163 --> 02:45:16,465 SCHOOL-PRISON PIPELINE 3191 02:45:16,465 --> 02:45:17,032 ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT. 3192 02:45:17,032 --> 02:45:21,570 THEY ARE ARE IMPACTING 3193 02:45:21,570 --> 02:45:22,471 AUSTRALIAN TO GET YOUTH-LED 3194 02:45:22,471 --> 02:45:23,906 COUNCILS IN THIS AREA. 3195 02:45:23,906 --> 02:45:25,474 THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS 3196 02:45:25,474 --> 02:45:35,817 THEY'VE EXPERIENCED. 3197 02:45:36,218 --> 02:45:39,054 THEY WERE PART OF AN INTERNSHIP 3198 02:45:39,054 --> 02:45:41,390 AND SPOKE TO THE CONGRESS 3199 02:45:41,390 --> 02:45:43,792 LEGISLATORS HERE IN D.C. ABOUT 3200 02:45:43,792 --> 02:45:44,793 ENDING YOUTH INCARCERATION FOR 3201 02:45:44,793 --> 02:45:48,196 NATIVE AND ALL YOUTH. 3202 02:45:48,196 --> 02:45:50,999 THEY'RE WORKING TO GO TO THE 3203 02:45:50,999 --> 02:45:51,900 WORLD INDIGENOUS CONFERENCE ON 3204 02:45:51,900 --> 02:46:02,277 EDUCATION IN NOVEMBER. 3205 02:46:02,544 --> 02:46:04,546 WE HAVE A VIDEO FOR YOU BUT 3206 02:46:04,546 --> 02:46:06,648 FIRST I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE 3207 02:46:06,648 --> 02:46:08,350 SECRETARY HOLLAND HERE YESTERDAY 3208 02:46:08,350 --> 02:46:09,851 AND IN HER LISTENING SESSION SHE 3209 02:46:09,851 --> 02:46:13,388 CAME TO HAWAI'I AND THAT'S MY 3210 02:46:13,388 --> 02:46:19,027 ELDEST GRANDDAUGHTER WHO MADE 3211 02:46:19,027 --> 02:46:24,132 THE MOVEMENT AND I GOT TO 3212 02:46:24,132 --> 02:46:25,100 FACILITATE THE LISTENING 3213 02:46:25,100 --> 02:46:26,735 SESSIONS HELD ON THE GROUND OF 3214 02:46:26,735 --> 02:46:28,804 THE INSTITUTIONS NAMED IN THE 3215 02:46:28,804 --> 02:46:33,475 REPORT AND IT WAS AT THE TIME IT 3216 02:46:33,475 --> 02:46:36,845 WAS THE GIRLS REFORM SCHOOL THEN 3217 02:46:36,845 --> 02:46:38,880 IT BECAME BOYS AND GIRLS REFORM 3218 02:46:38,880 --> 02:46:40,782 SCHOOL AND NOW IT'S HAWAI'I 3219 02:46:40,782 --> 02:46:46,288 YOUTH CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. 3220 02:46:46,288 --> 02:46:48,657 THERE IS OUR COLLEAGUE TONI AND 3221 02:46:48,657 --> 02:46:49,658 I COLLEAGUES AS ADMINISTRATOR OF 3222 02:46:49,658 --> 02:46:50,959 THE SPACE. 3223 02:46:50,959 --> 02:46:54,296 AND TRYING TO TRANSFORM IT 3224 02:46:54,296 --> 02:46:56,331 THERE'S HICCUPS HERE AND THERE 3225 02:46:56,331 --> 02:46:59,935 BUT THE INTENTION OF TRYING TO 3226 02:46:59,935 --> 02:47:05,641 NOT HAVE YOUTH THERE LIKE WE LAD 3227 02:47:05,641 --> 02:47:07,909 NATIVE HAWAIIAN AND WHO WHERE IS 3228 02:47:07,909 --> 02:47:10,445 YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THE SYSTEMS 3229 02:47:10,445 --> 02:47:10,979 AND STRUCTURES. 3230 02:47:10,979 --> 02:47:13,482 HE IS OF THE SAME MIND SET TO 3231 02:47:13,482 --> 02:47:15,617 NOT HAVE YOUTH INCARCERATION. 3232 02:47:15,617 --> 02:47:16,351 HE DOESN'T BELIEVE CHILDREN 3233 02:47:16,351 --> 02:47:21,023 SHOULD BE IN PRISON AND I WANT 3234 02:47:21,023 --> 02:47:23,058 TO VISIT THERE A COUPLE WEEKS 3235 02:47:23,058 --> 02:47:27,362 AGO AND HE HAD 20 KIDS, SIX 3236 02:47:27,362 --> 02:47:29,297 GIRLS AND 14 BOYS AND NONE OF 3237 02:47:29,297 --> 02:47:29,998 THEM NEEDED TO BE THERE THEY 3238 02:47:29,998 --> 02:47:33,902 JUST DID NOT HAVE A PLACE TO GO. 3239 02:47:33,902 --> 02:47:35,303 THEY IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY -- THEY 3240 02:47:35,303 --> 02:47:37,305 WEREN'T ADJUDICATED THERE, THEY 3241 02:47:37,305 --> 02:47:39,641 JUST HAVE NO PLACE TO GO. 3242 02:47:39,641 --> 02:47:42,544 SO HE HAD THEM. 3243 02:47:42,544 --> 02:47:43,478 THEY'RE IN CELLS. 3244 02:47:43,478 --> 02:47:45,380 AND OF COURSE HONORING THE TEAM 3245 02:47:45,380 --> 02:47:47,616 THAT CAME TO LISTEN TO OUR 3246 02:47:47,616 --> 02:47:49,051 STORIES. 3247 02:47:49,051 --> 02:47:50,285 AGAIN, THANK YOU, DR. TORRES FOR 3248 02:47:50,285 --> 02:47:53,655 BEING THERE. 3249 02:47:53,655 --> 02:47:53,989 OKAY. 3250 02:47:53,989 --> 02:47:55,857 WE WANT TO SHOW YOU GUYS THIS IS 3251 02:47:55,857 --> 02:47:57,259 THE STATUS OF WHAT'S HAPPENING 3252 02:47:57,259 --> 02:48:07,636 IN HAWAI'I RIGHT NOW. 3253 02:48:13,542 --> 02:48:18,280 >> A COMMUNITY NOW BUZZING OVER 3254 02:48:18,280 --> 02:48:27,355 A COMMENT AT DURING PUBLIC 3255 02:48:27,355 --> 02:48:28,423 TESTIMONY ASKED ABOUT BILL 61 3256 02:48:28,423 --> 02:48:31,493 AND 62 AND THE TESTIMONY WAS 3257 02:48:31,493 --> 02:48:35,063 DONE IN NATIVE HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE 3258 02:48:35,063 --> 02:48:37,466 AND FACING BACKLASH ON COMMENTS 3259 02:48:37,466 --> 02:48:38,166 FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS AND 3260 02:48:38,166 --> 02:48:39,634 COMMUNITY AND ONLINE. 3261 02:48:39,634 --> 02:48:41,536 >> THEY ORIGINALLY WERE SPEAKING 3262 02:48:41,536 --> 02:48:45,240 IN A LANGUAGE THAT WAS NOT 3263 02:48:45,240 --> 02:48:47,609 ENGLISH AND IT IS NOT FAIR TO 3264 02:48:47,609 --> 02:48:49,511 THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE MEETING 3265 02:48:49,511 --> 02:48:52,214 TO NOT KNOW WHAT'S BEING SAID. 3266 02:48:52,214 --> 02:48:54,816 I'M NOT SURE WHAT LANGUAGE IT 3267 02:48:54,816 --> 02:48:55,484 WAS. 3268 02:48:55,484 --> 02:48:58,353 I'M ASSUMING IT WAS HAWAIIAN AND 3269 02:48:58,353 --> 02:49:00,355 THAT SAY DEAD LANGUAGE SO IT 3270 02:49:00,355 --> 02:49:03,091 WOULD NOT WORK ON TRANSLATOR. 3271 02:49:03,091 --> 02:49:05,260 >> HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT. 3272 02:49:05,260 --> 02:49:08,029 IT IS NOT A DEAD LANGUAGE. 3273 02:49:08,029 --> 02:49:09,564 IT'S VERY MUCH ALIVE. 3274 02:49:09,564 --> 02:49:12,100 AND IT WASN'T FOR THE IT FACT 3275 02:49:12,100 --> 02:49:14,436 THAT THOSE WHO HELP TO OVERTHROW 3276 02:49:14,436 --> 02:49:19,241 THE KINGDOM OF HAWAI'I BANNED 3277 02:49:19,241 --> 02:49:23,211 OUR LANGUAGE WE WOULD BE 3278 02:49:23,211 --> 02:49:30,285 SPEAKING ONLY HAWAI'I NOW AND 3279 02:49:30,285 --> 02:49:32,554 LEARN BEFORE YOU COME TO CITY 3280 02:49:32,554 --> 02:49:33,855 COUNCIL. 3281 02:49:33,855 --> 02:49:35,056 >> HAWAI'I IS ONE OF THE 3282 02:49:35,056 --> 02:49:35,590 OFFICIAL LANGUAGES OF THE 3283 02:49:35,590 --> 02:49:36,525 STRAIGHT AND THE CROWD AND 3284 02:49:36,525 --> 02:49:38,994 COUNCIL APPLAUDED IN SUPPORT OF 3285 02:49:38,994 --> 02:49:41,963 THE LANGUAGE AND COMING UP IN 3286 02:49:41,963 --> 02:49:43,231 OUR LATER NEWSCAST WE'LL LEAR 3287 02:49:43,231 --> 02:49:44,499 FROM THE TESTIFIER HERSELF ON 3288 02:49:44,499 --> 02:49:54,976 THE REASON FOR HER COMMENT. 3289 02:49:59,047 --> 02:50:04,853 >> YOU CAN TALK TO US AFTER AND 3290 02:50:04,853 --> 02:50:10,292 THAT WAS LAST WEEK AND HAD 3291 02:50:10,292 --> 02:50:12,327 LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION AND YOU 3292 02:50:12,327 --> 02:50:14,863 COME TO THE AIRPORT AND HEAR THE 3293 02:50:14,863 --> 02:50:23,171 HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE GOING. 3294 02:50:23,171 --> 02:50:24,406 THERE'S STILL THINGS THAT NEED 3295 02:50:24,406 --> 02:50:25,807 TO BE DONE THOUGH WE'VE COME A 3296 02:50:25,807 --> 02:50:27,475 HAR OF FAR WAY AND GROUNDED IN 3297 02:50:27,475 --> 02:50:32,547 WHAT WE SHARED ALONG CULTURAL 3298 02:50:32,547 --> 02:50:35,617 PRACTICES WE ARE STILL IT THOSE 3299 02:50:35,617 --> 02:50:38,320 WE'RE STILL RESISTANT TO SOME OF 3300 02:50:38,320 --> 02:50:41,857 THESE THINGS THAT OCCURRED BUT 3301 02:50:41,857 --> 02:50:47,295 ALSO RESILIENT AND STILL FORGING 3302 02:50:47,295 --> 02:50:57,439 FORWARD. 3303 02:51:07,549 --> 02:51:12,053 >> ONE, THE WOMEN SPEAKING 3304 02:51:12,053 --> 02:51:13,221 COUNCIL WOMAN IS ONE YEAR AHEAD 3305 02:51:13,221 --> 02:51:13,955 OF ME. 3306 02:51:13,955 --> 02:51:17,826 THE CHAIRPERSON IS TOMMY WEIGHT 3307 02:51:17,826 --> 02:51:19,961 WATERS AND ONE YEAR BELOW ME 3308 02:51:19,961 --> 02:51:20,996 RAND THAT'S THE LEADERSHIP WE 3309 02:51:20,996 --> 02:51:22,297 HAVE AT THE. 3310 02:51:22,297 --> 02:51:23,565 THE LEADERSHIP YOU TALKED ABOUT 3311 02:51:23,565 --> 02:51:26,501 BUT WHAT SHE TALKED ABOUT IN 3312 02:51:26,501 --> 02:51:28,536 TERMS OF THE RESILIENCE IS AGAIN 3313 02:51:28,536 --> 02:51:31,206 CONNECTIONS TO HOW WE THRIVE 3314 02:51:31,206 --> 02:51:32,874 ABOUT KNOWING OUR HISTORY RAT 3315 02:51:32,874 --> 02:51:33,875 THE FOUNDATION. 3316 02:51:33,875 --> 02:51:36,344 WE WANTED TO JUST KIND OF AGAIN 3317 02:51:36,344 --> 02:51:38,747 ACKNOWLEDGE AND CONNECT SOME OF 3318 02:51:38,747 --> 02:51:40,916 THE DOTS HERE. 3319 02:51:40,916 --> 02:51:42,751 PRESIDENT CLINTON DID IN FACT 3320 02:51:42,751 --> 02:51:48,089 APOLOGIZE TO HAWAI'I IN 1993 AND 3321 02:51:48,089 --> 02:51:49,958 THE CHURCH ALSO APOLOGIZED. 3322 02:51:49,958 --> 02:51:51,693 THE KIND OF THINGS WE DO AT THE 3323 02:51:51,693 --> 02:51:54,029 FOUNDATION TO HAVE OUR PATHWAY 3324 02:51:54,029 --> 02:51:56,531 IS TO CREATE AND SHARE OUR 3325 02:51:56,531 --> 02:52:01,069 STORIES ABOUT OUR HISTORY AND 3326 02:52:01,069 --> 02:52:02,570 CONNECT AND HONOR WHAT PRESIDENT 3327 02:52:02,570 --> 02:52:13,081 BIDEN HAS DONE WITH THE BOARD 3328 02:52:15,951 --> 02:52:16,451 SCHBOARDING 3329 02:52:16,451 --> 02:52:18,053 SCHOOL INITIATIVES AND AS THE 3330 02:52:18,053 --> 02:52:20,422 HERITAGE WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO 3331 02:52:20,422 --> 02:52:25,527 DO THESE KINDS OF THINGS AND 3332 02:52:25,527 --> 02:52:30,131 IT'S VERY EXCITING WHAT 3333 02:52:30,131 --> 02:52:35,203 DR. MICHELLE WAS DOING. 3334 02:52:35,203 --> 02:52:38,173 AND WITH RESPECT TO EXPERIENTIAL 3335 02:52:38,173 --> 02:52:39,474 OPPORTUNITIES AND TO COMMUNION 3336 02:52:39,474 --> 02:52:43,511 WITH OUR HEALERS AND ELDERS AND 3337 02:52:43,511 --> 02:52:45,146 EXPERTS AND BEING ABLE TO PICK 3338 02:52:45,146 --> 02:52:47,482 UP THOSE AND CREATE WHAT WE DID 3339 02:52:47,482 --> 02:52:50,585 WAS AN HONOR TO BE A PART OF IT. 3340 02:52:50,585 --> 02:52:53,455 I THINK WHEN WE FEEL IT AND KNOW 3341 02:52:53,455 --> 02:52:55,123 IT AND ENGAGE IN CULTURAL 3342 02:52:55,123 --> 02:52:57,392 PRACTICES YOU FEEL EMPOWERED. 3343 02:52:57,392 --> 02:53:00,295 YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT IS AND 3344 02:53:00,295 --> 02:53:07,035 JUST THE GENIUS OF STRUCTURAL 3345 02:53:07,035 --> 02:53:07,869 ENGINEERING AND WHEN WERE TOLD 3346 02:53:07,869 --> 02:53:09,938 ABOUT THE ELEMENTS AND 3347 02:53:09,938 --> 02:53:11,373 ULTIMATELY WHAT THE TEEPEE 3348 02:53:11,373 --> 02:53:13,475 REPRESENTS IN A HEALING WAY AND 3349 02:53:13,475 --> 02:53:20,415 THEN GOES UP TO THE ANCESTORS. 3350 02:53:20,415 --> 02:53:20,615 YEAH. 3351 02:53:20,615 --> 02:53:23,718 WHERE HE WERE HONORED AND IS THE 3352 02:53:23,718 --> 02:53:24,319 ANCESTRAL KNOWLEDGE AND 3353 02:53:24,319 --> 02:53:26,054 PRACTICES AND BEING ABOUT IT AND 3354 02:53:26,054 --> 02:53:29,124 DOING IT IS HEALING. 3355 02:53:29,124 --> 02:53:31,493 ITS EMPOWERING AND WHAT WE THINK 3356 02:53:31,493 --> 02:53:37,332 THE PATHWAYS ARE. 3357 02:53:37,332 --> 02:53:39,167 HOW'S THESE GUYS? 3358 02:53:39,167 --> 02:53:46,274 >> I THINK THAT WAS THE LAST 3359 02:53:46,274 --> 02:53:47,542 SLIDE. 3360 02:53:47,542 --> 02:53:51,546 OH. 3361 02:53:51,546 --> 02:54:01,589 >> AGAIN, MAHALO. 3362 02:54:01,589 --> 02:54:06,895 SO THE CREATOR DOESN'T WANT ME 3363 02:54:06,895 --> 02:54:17,138 TO WEAR THIS? 3364 02:55:17,899 --> 02:55:18,366 >> OKAY. 3365 02:55:18,366 --> 02:55:26,141 WE HAVE ADJUSTED THE SCHEDULE A 3366 02:55:26,141 --> 02:55:27,642 LITTLE BIT. 3367 02:55:27,642 --> 02:55:35,550 IT'S TO STAY ON CALL IS GOING TO 3368 02:55:35,550 --> 02:55:46,094 BE THE PANEL WITH DR. PONKA-WE 3369 02:55:52,667 --> 02:55:55,603 COZAD IN A MINUTE AND WE'LL HAVE 3370 02:55:55,603 --> 02:56:00,875 DR. TARA SCHWETZ. 3371 02:56:00,875 --> 02:56:06,281 LET ME INTRODUCE THIS RIGHT. 3372 02:56:06,281 --> 02:56:14,289 DR. SCHWETZ IS WITH THE 3373 02:56:14,289 --> 02:56:16,658 STRATEGIC PLANNING INITIATIVES 3374 02:56:16,658 --> 02:56:20,962 KNOWN AS DPCPSI AT NIH AND ALSO 3375 02:56:20,962 --> 02:56:23,798 MY BOSS AND INTIMATELY CONNECTED 3376 02:56:23,798 --> 02:56:25,500 THROUGH THE TRIBAL RESEARCH 3377 02:56:25,500 --> 02:56:26,334 OFFICE AND ANOTHER CHAMPION FOR 3378 02:56:26,334 --> 02:56:29,103 INDIAN COUNTRY. 3379 02:56:29,103 --> 02:56:30,872 SHE REGRETS NOT BEING ABLE TO BE 3380 02:56:30,872 --> 02:56:32,140 HERE IN PERSON AND RECORDED THIS 3381 02:56:32,140 --> 02:56:37,679 AND WANTED TO SHARE THIS WITH 3382 02:56:37,679 --> 02:56:43,985 THE CONFERENCE THANK YOU. 3383 02:56:43,985 --> 02:56:45,453 >> THANK YOU FOR YOUR POWERFUL 3384 02:56:45,453 --> 02:56:47,288 REMARKS AND SETTING THE STABLE 3385 02:56:47,288 --> 02:56:47,956 NOR COVERINGS. 3386 02:56:47,956 --> 02:56:56,898 MY NAME IS TARA SCHWETZ THE 3387 02:56:56,898 --> 02:56:58,733 DIRECTOR OF THE DIVISION OF 3388 02:56:58,733 --> 02:57:01,202 PROGRAM COORDINATION, PLANNING 3389 02:57:01,202 --> 02:57:04,138 AND STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OR 3390 02:57:04,138 --> 02:57:07,475 DPCPSI FOR SHORT. 3391 02:57:07,475 --> 02:57:09,978 IT'S 14 OFFICES AND COORDINATE 3392 02:57:09,978 --> 02:57:13,281 RESEARCH RELATED ACTIVITIES ON A 3393 02:57:13,281 --> 02:57:16,384 BROAD RANGE OF BIO MEDICAL AND 3394 02:57:16,384 --> 02:57:18,052 BEHAVIORAL TOPIC AND THE HEALTH 3395 02:57:18,052 --> 02:57:22,624 RESEARCH OFFICE KNOWN AS THRO. 3396 02:57:22,624 --> 02:57:24,859 I WAS HOPING TO BE WITH YOU ALL 3397 02:57:24,859 --> 02:57:26,361 IN PERSON TODAY TO CONTINUE THE 3398 02:57:26,361 --> 02:57:30,298 DIALOGUE AS WE FOCUS ON THE 3399 02:57:30,298 --> 02:57:34,302 INTERSECTION OF SCIENCE AND 3400 02:57:34,302 --> 02:57:36,371 INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING, 3401 02:57:36,371 --> 02:57:38,840 UNFORTUNATELY AS YOU CAN TELL BY 3402 02:57:38,840 --> 02:57:40,141 MY VOICE I'M NOT FEELING WELL 3403 02:57:40,141 --> 02:57:42,677 AND FOCUSSED ON THE SPIRIT OF 3404 02:57:42,677 --> 02:57:44,646 SHARING TODAY I THOUGHT IT WOULD 3405 02:57:44,646 --> 02:57:46,648 BE BAD FORM TO SHARE THING WITH 3406 02:57:46,648 --> 02:57:47,749 ALL OF YOU. 3407 02:57:47,749 --> 02:57:49,250 THAT SAID I'M DELIGHTED TO BE 3408 02:57:49,250 --> 02:57:59,761 ABLE TO PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY. 3409 02:58:00,561 --> 02:58:02,764 FIRST I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE 3410 02:58:02,764 --> 02:58:05,566 HARM BY THE INDIAN SCHOOL 3411 02:58:05,566 --> 02:58:09,737 POLICIES FORCIBLY REMOVING 3412 02:58:09,737 --> 02:58:11,839 CHILDREN FROM THEIR FAMILIES AND 3413 02:58:11,839 --> 02:58:14,008 CULTURES WITH SCARS ACROSS 3414 02:58:14,008 --> 02:58:14,309 GENERATION. 3415 02:58:14,309 --> 02:58:16,277 THE TRAUMA THEY INFLECTED IS 3416 02:58:16,277 --> 02:58:18,146 WOVEN THAT THE HEALTH CHALLENGES 3417 02:58:18,146 --> 02:58:20,448 MANY INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FACE 3418 02:58:20,448 --> 02:58:21,049 TODAY. 3419 02:58:21,049 --> 02:58:21,683 BUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE HARM IS 3420 02:58:21,683 --> 02:58:25,086 ONLY THE FIRST STEP. 3421 02:58:25,086 --> 02:58:26,788 HEALING DEMANDS ACTION AND THIS 3422 02:58:26,788 --> 02:58:28,990 IS WHERE RESEARCH IS ONE ELEMENT 3423 02:58:28,990 --> 02:58:30,291 OF HEALING CAN PLAY AN IMPORTANT 3424 02:58:30,291 --> 02:58:31,592 ROLE. 3425 02:58:31,592 --> 02:58:33,795 RESEARCH CAN PROMOTE 3426 02:58:33,795 --> 02:58:35,163 ACCOUNTABILITY BY DOCUMENTING 3427 02:58:35,163 --> 02:58:36,397 HISTORICAL AND ONGOING 3428 02:58:36,397 --> 02:58:39,367 INJUSTICES ENSURING THEY'RE NOT 3429 02:58:39,367 --> 02:58:39,634 FORGOTTEN. 3430 02:58:39,634 --> 02:58:41,936 IT CAN INFORM POLICIES AND 3431 02:58:41,936 --> 02:58:43,938 INTERVENTIONS THAT PROMOTE 3432 02:58:43,938 --> 02:58:45,273 HEALING AND RESILIENCE AND 3433 02:58:45,273 --> 02:58:46,441 ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC NEEDS OF 3434 02:58:46,441 --> 02:58:52,714 COMMUNITIES. 3435 02:58:52,714 --> 02:58:57,552 IT CAN SECURE RESOURCES FROM 3436 02:58:57,552 --> 02:58:58,152 MENSTR 3437 02:58:58,152 --> 02:59:01,055 MENSTRUAL HEALTH SERVICES 3438 02:59:01,055 --> 02:59:02,757 ADVANCING THE WEALTH AND WELL 3439 02:59:02,757 --> 02:59:04,292 BEING OF FAMILIES. 3440 02:59:04,292 --> 02:59:05,159 BUT WE KNOW RESEARCH MUST BE 3441 02:59:05,159 --> 02:59:06,527 DONE THE RIGHT WAY. 3442 02:59:06,527 --> 02:59:09,764 IT MUST BE COMMUNITY DRIVEN AND 3443 02:59:09,764 --> 02:59:10,398 CULTURALLY APPROPRIATE. 3444 02:59:10,398 --> 02:59:13,000 THE RESEARCH MUST HONOR AND 3445 02:59:13,000 --> 02:59:17,438 INCORPORATE HEALING PRACTICES 3446 02:59:17,438 --> 02:59:17,872 AND REVITALIZATION. 3447 02:59:17,872 --> 02:59:20,608 NOT AS SUPPLEMENTAL FOUNDATIONAL 3448 02:59:20,608 --> 02:59:29,617 TO THE WORK AND MUST RECOGNIZE 3449 02:59:29,617 --> 02:59:30,318 TRIBAL CERTAINTY AND TRIBAL 3450 02:59:30,318 --> 02:59:33,755 NATIONS AND THERE'S NOT A ONE 3451 02:59:33,755 --> 02:59:36,391 SIZE FITS ALL APPROACH AND 3452 02:59:36,391 --> 02:59:37,592 RESEARCH SHOULD NOT JUST 3453 02:59:37,592 --> 02:59:47,902 DOCUMENT HARM -- 3454 03:00:27,909 --> 03:00:29,243 >> AND IT TRADITIONS TO HEALTH 3455 03:00:29,243 --> 03:00:31,412 AND HEALING. 3456 03:00:31,412 --> 03:00:33,347 AS WE CELEBRATE THE NEEDS OF 3457 03:00:33,347 --> 03:00:37,585 NATIVE COMMUNITIES WE KNOW 3458 03:00:37,585 --> 03:00:40,188 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGES SHAPES 3459 03:00:40,188 --> 03:00:44,158 LEATH AND WELL BEING IN CRITICAL 3460 03:00:44,158 --> 03:00:45,793 WAYS AND EMPOWER INDIGENOUS 3461 03:00:45,793 --> 03:00:48,162 SCHOLARS TO THEIR VOICES AND 3462 03:00:48,162 --> 03:00:48,796 PERSPECTIVES CAN HELP SLAP THE 3463 03:00:48,796 --> 03:00:51,532 SCIENCE THAT IMPACTS THEIR 3464 03:00:51,532 --> 03:00:52,300 COMMUNITIES. 3465 03:00:52,300 --> 03:00:53,167 AND THERE ARE SEVERAL PROGRAMS 3466 03:00:53,167 --> 03:00:55,870 AT NIH THAT ARE DESIGN TO BUILD 3467 03:00:55,870 --> 03:00:56,838 PATHWAYS FOR INDIGENOUS 3468 03:00:56,838 --> 03:00:58,673 SCIENTISTS AND SCHOLARS. 3469 03:00:58,673 --> 03:01:00,174 THE TRIBAL UNDERGRADUATE TO 3470 03:01:00,174 --> 03:01:03,110 GRADUATE RESEARCH TRAINING AND 3471 03:01:03,110 --> 03:01:04,312 LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCES OR TURTLE 3472 03:01:04,312 --> 03:01:06,013 PROGRAM IS A NEW PROGRAM THAT 3473 03:01:06,013 --> 03:01:08,416 FUNDS ELIGIBLE TRIBAL ENTITIES 3474 03:01:08,416 --> 03:01:11,652 TO SUPPORT SCHOLARS TO COMPLETE 3475 03:01:11,652 --> 03:01:15,122 THEIR DEGREES IN THE BIOMEDICAL 3476 03:01:15,122 --> 03:01:21,896 FIELD AND TRANSITION TO CAREERS 3477 03:01:21,896 --> 03:01:26,234 IN THE BIOMEDICAL WORKFORCE. 3478 03:01:26,234 --> 03:01:29,704 WE HAVE PROGRAMS WILL FOCUSSING 3479 03:01:29,704 --> 03:01:32,740 ON NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBES FOR 3480 03:01:32,740 --> 03:01:33,207 RESEARCH AND RESEARCH 3481 03:01:33,207 --> 03:01:33,774 INFRASTRUCTURE ENHANCEMENT 3482 03:01:33,774 --> 03:01:40,248 ACTIVITIES. 3483 03:01:40,248 --> 03:01:42,817 AND ENHANCE WELLNESS SUPPORTING 3484 03:01:42,817 --> 03:01:44,185 TRIBES AND FLATIVE AMERICAN 3485 03:01:44,185 --> 03:01:46,621 SERVING ORGANIZATIONS TO CONDUCT 3486 03:01:46,621 --> 03:01:48,756 LOCALLY PRIORITIZED RESEARCH TO 3487 03:01:48,756 --> 03:01:51,259 ADDRESS OVERDOSE, SUBSTANCE USE 3488 03:01:51,259 --> 03:01:52,560 AND PAIN INCLUDING FACTORS SUCH 3489 03:01:52,560 --> 03:01:54,996 AS MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS. 3490 03:01:54,996 --> 03:01:57,865 I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK 3491 03:01:57,865 --> 03:01:59,400 THE TRIBAL HEALTH RESEARCH 3492 03:01:59,400 --> 03:02:02,870 OFFICE FOR THEIR TIRELESS 3493 03:02:02,870 --> 03:02:04,171 DEDICATION AND LEADERSHIP. 3494 03:02:04,171 --> 03:02:07,775 THEIR WORK IS INSTRUMENTAL IN 3495 03:02:07,775 --> 03:02:12,146 FOSTERING MEANINGFUL 3496 03:02:12,146 --> 03:02:17,585 PARTNERSHIPS AND ADVANCE VRCH 3497 03:02:17,585 --> 03:02:18,152 INITIATIVES AND INDIGENOUS 3498 03:02:18,152 --> 03:02:18,786 PERSPECTIVES GUIDE THE HEALTH 3499 03:02:18,786 --> 03:02:21,222 RESEARCH LANDSCAPE. 3500 03:02:21,222 --> 03:02:23,291 THIS YEAR THERE'S TWO 3501 03:02:23,291 --> 03:02:24,759 TRANSFORMATIVE INITIATIVES AMONG 3502 03:02:24,759 --> 03:02:26,827 OTHER THINGS. 3503 03:02:26,827 --> 03:02:30,498 FIRST THEY'VE GALVANIZED TRIBAL 3504 03:02:30,498 --> 03:02:36,971 SUPPORT FOR A DATA SOVEREIGNTY 3505 03:02:36,971 --> 03:02:41,976 POLICY AND THE SUMMIT TO BUILD A 3506 03:02:41,976 --> 03:02:43,611 UNIFIED RESPONSE TO TRAUMA AND 3507 03:02:43,611 --> 03:02:45,813 CREATE CULTURALLY RELEVANT 3508 03:02:45,813 --> 03:02:47,448 SOLUTIONS AND I'VE HEARD 3509 03:02:47,448 --> 03:02:49,150 POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THIS 3510 03:02:49,150 --> 03:02:52,286 EVENT AND ALL THE CREDIT THAT 3511 03:02:52,286 --> 03:02:53,454 GOES TO THE TEAM AT THRO FOR 3512 03:02:53,454 --> 03:02:56,724 THEIR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION 3513 03:02:56,724 --> 03:02:58,593 TO MAKING THIS POSSIBLE. 3514 03:02:58,593 --> 03:03:01,028 NOW, COLLECTIVELY THESE EFFORTS 3515 03:03:01,028 --> 03:03:03,197 EXEMPLIFY THE COMMITMENT NEEDED 3516 03:03:03,197 --> 03:03:08,502 TO ADDRESS HISTORICAL INJUSTICES 3517 03:03:08,502 --> 03:03:09,837 AND BUILD A HEALTHIER MORE 3518 03:03:09,837 --> 03:03:10,972 EQUITABLE FUTURE FOR ALL. 3519 03:03:10,972 --> 03:03:12,473 THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME HAVE A 3520 03:03:12,473 --> 03:03:13,407 LITTLE BIT OF YOUR TIME AND 3521 03:03:13,407 --> 03:03:14,575 APPRECIATE YOUR STRENGTH AND 3522 03:03:14,575 --> 03:03:25,052 STORIES AND WILLINGNESS TO 3523 03:03:25,686 --> 03:03:28,122 THEY'RE SHARE THEM WITH US AND 3524 03:03:28,122 --> 03:03:38,532 NOW TO OUR NEXT SPEAKER. 3525 03:03:49,644 --> 03:03:51,412 >> YOU CAN TELL SHE'S GOT THE 3526 03:03:51,412 --> 03:03:55,549 FLU BUT WANTED TO ADDRESS YOU 3527 03:03:55,549 --> 03:03:59,887 AND IS LIVE STREAMING AND I'M 3528 03:03:59,887 --> 03:04:00,388 COMB 3529 03:04:00,388 --> 03:04:03,057 GETTING TEXTS FROM HER SO I KNOW 3530 03:04:03,057 --> 03:04:05,626 SHE'S VIEWING AND I'D LIKE TO 3531 03:04:05,626 --> 03:04:06,594 SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT 3532 03:04:06,594 --> 03:04:07,395 OUR COMMITMENT IS. 3533 03:04:07,395 --> 03:04:10,898 NEXT TO A PANEL WE FLIPPED A 3534 03:04:10,898 --> 03:04:13,367 LITTLE BIT OUR SCRIPTS HERE. 3535 03:04:13,367 --> 03:04:17,238 WE HAVE OUR SURVIVORS PANEL WILL 3536 03:04:17,238 --> 03:04:19,640 BE AFTER LUNCH SO WE CAN HAVE 3537 03:04:19,640 --> 03:04:21,275 MORE RELAXING LONGER 3538 03:04:21,275 --> 03:04:22,276 CONVERSATION SO IT DOESN'T FEEL 3539 03:04:22,276 --> 03:04:30,284 TO CRUNCHED UP FOR OUR 3540 03:04:30,284 --> 03:04:32,620 SURVIVORS. 3541 03:04:32,620 --> 03:04:34,822 SO WELCOME DR. BELTRAN AND HIS 3542 03:04:34,822 --> 03:04:35,156 AMAZING PANEL. 3543 03:04:35,156 --> 03:04:39,960 THANK YOU. 3544 03:04:39,960 --> 03:04:41,996 WE'LL TALK ABOUT PARENTING AND 3545 03:04:41,996 --> 03:04:43,197 CONNECTIONS, IS THAT RIGHT? 3546 03:04:43,197 --> 03:04:43,664 NO? 3547 03:04:43,664 --> 03:04:49,637 WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 3548 03:04:49,637 --> 03:04:51,639 PATHWAYS BUILD ON INDIGENOUS 3549 03:04:51,639 --> 03:04:54,275 LOVE, PROMOTING LEATHFUL 3550 03:04:54,275 --> 03:04:54,809 CONNECTIONS AND PARENTING. 3551 03:04:54,809 --> 03:04:56,077 SOUND RIGHT. 3552 03:04:56,077 --> 03:04:59,814 I WAS IN THE BALLPARK. 3553 03:04:59,814 --> 03:05:03,317 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE 3554 03:05:03,317 --> 03:05:13,627 AND TAKE IT AWAY. 3555 03:05:30,544 --> 03:05:31,946 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 3556 03:05:31,946 --> 03:05:37,084 MAY THE CREATOR BLESS YOU ALL. 3557 03:05:37,084 --> 03:05:41,989 MY MOTHER IS ORIGINALLY FROM 3558 03:05:41,989 --> 03:05:49,163 NORTHERN MEXICO FROM SONORA AND 3559 03:05:49,163 --> 03:05:52,133 CAME THROUGH ARIZONA BEFORE 3560 03:05:52,133 --> 03:05:55,136 COMING WEST TO CALIFORNIA AND 3561 03:05:55,136 --> 03:05:58,172 DESCENDANTS OF AN NAKI NATION. 3562 03:05:58,172 --> 03:06:01,642 I LEARNED THE ASSENCESTRAL LINE 3563 03:06:01,642 --> 03:06:03,144 IS ORIGINALLY FROM NORTHERN 3564 03:06:03,144 --> 03:06:03,911 IRELAND. 3565 03:06:03,911 --> 03:06:05,412 SO I'M GETTING USED TO 3566 03:06:05,412 --> 03:06:09,950 ACKNOWLEDGING THOSE ANCESTORS 3567 03:06:09,950 --> 03:06:11,418 BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO 3568 03:06:11,418 --> 03:06:13,954 ACKNOWLEDGE ALL THE ANCESTORS AS 3569 03:06:13,954 --> 03:06:14,822 I'VE BEEN TAUGHT. 3570 03:06:14,822 --> 03:06:17,491 THAT'S THE WHOLE OF US EVEN THE 3571 03:06:17,491 --> 03:06:19,293 OBSCURE AND PAINFUL AND ONES 3572 03:06:19,293 --> 03:06:21,262 WITH WHOM WE'RE RECONNECTING ARE 3573 03:06:21,262 --> 03:06:25,332 ALL PART OF WHAT IS IN OUR 3574 03:06:25,332 --> 03:06:30,104 BODIES AND MOMENTS WHERE WE'RE 3575 03:06:30,104 --> 03:06:31,605 CONNECTING HEART TO HEART SO 3576 03:06:31,605 --> 03:06:32,540 THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME 3577 03:06:32,540 --> 03:06:38,279 ACKNOWLEDGE MY ANCESTRAL 3578 03:06:38,279 --> 03:06:38,712 LINEAGES. 3579 03:06:38,712 --> 03:06:42,116 I PRACTICE MY CULTURAL 3580 03:06:42,116 --> 03:06:44,285 TRADITIONS IN DANCE AND AM A 3581 03:06:44,285 --> 03:06:47,755 LEARNER AND MOTHER OF THREE VERY 3582 03:06:47,755 --> 03:06:48,756 ENERGETIC CHILDREN AND GIVE ME 3583 03:06:48,756 --> 03:06:49,723 LIFE, HEAL AND CHALLENGE ME 3584 03:06:49,723 --> 03:06:55,529 EVERY DAY. 3585 03:06:55,529 --> 03:06:58,265 I'M ALSO THE INTERIM DEAN OF 3586 03:06:58,265 --> 03:07:00,267 RESEARCH AND FACULTY DEVELOPMENT 3587 03:07:00,267 --> 03:07:02,703 MY RESEARCH FOCUSES ON HEALING 3588 03:07:02,703 --> 03:07:04,972 HISTORICAL TRAUMA WHILE 3589 03:07:04,972 --> 03:07:07,374 CENTERING STORY TELLING AND 3590 03:07:07,374 --> 03:07:08,008 NARRATIVE AS HEALING METHOD AND 3591 03:07:08,008 --> 03:07:18,252 INTERVENTION. 3592 03:07:23,190 --> 03:07:33,601 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT TOPIC. 3593 03:07:39,306 --> 03:07:41,275 THANK YOU TO DESCENDANTS IT'S 3594 03:07:41,275 --> 03:07:44,411 BEEN AN HONOR TO HOLD YOUR 3595 03:07:44,411 --> 03:07:45,913 WITNESS AND HOLD YOUR TEARS AND 3596 03:07:45,913 --> 03:07:48,215 SHARE IN YOUR LAUGHTER. 3597 03:07:48,215 --> 03:07:58,759 I THANK NABS AND THRO AND I FEEL 3598 03:07:59,827 --> 03:08:01,328 LIKE A KID MYSELF. 3599 03:08:01,328 --> 03:08:04,598 I NEVER IMAGINED I'D BE AT NIH 3600 03:08:04,598 --> 03:08:05,666 AND IT'S SUCH A JOY. 3601 03:08:05,666 --> 03:08:07,902 I WANT ACKNOWLEDGE MY PATHWAY 3602 03:08:07,902 --> 03:08:08,736 THAT BROUGHT ME HERE. 3603 03:08:08,736 --> 03:08:13,340 SPECIFICALLY I NEED TO TELL YOU 3604 03:08:13,340 --> 03:08:14,408 A TRANSFORMATIVE MOMENT THAT 3605 03:08:14,408 --> 03:08:16,076 ACTUALLY HAPPENED WITH 3606 03:08:16,076 --> 03:08:19,146 DR. KARINA WALTERS IN THE 3607 03:08:19,146 --> 03:08:23,317 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 3608 03:08:23,317 --> 03:08:25,886 GETTING MY MSW AT PORTLAND STATE 3609 03:08:25,886 --> 03:08:28,322 AND LAND TO ATTEND THE 3610 03:08:28,322 --> 03:08:30,090 PRESENTATION SHE GAVE ON 3611 03:08:30,090 --> 03:08:31,325 HISTORICAL TRAUMA AND WHEN THE 3612 03:08:31,325 --> 03:08:32,559 DESCRIBED THE THEORETICAL 3613 03:08:32,559 --> 03:08:34,929 FRAMEWORK IT WAS LIKE MAGIC. 3614 03:08:34,929 --> 03:08:37,631 FOR ME IT WAS GIVING WORDS TO 3615 03:08:37,631 --> 03:08:40,501 SOMETHING I LAD EXPERIENCED AND 3616 03:08:40,501 --> 03:08:43,904 FELT AND KNEW AND IT WAS THAT 3617 03:08:43,904 --> 03:08:45,272 MOMENT THAT SHIFTED THE WAY I 3618 03:08:45,272 --> 03:08:47,474 WAS ABLE TO LOOK AT MY OWN 3619 03:08:47,474 --> 03:08:49,643 TRAUMA AND FAMILY TRAUMA AND MY 3620 03:08:49,643 --> 03:08:51,345 COMMUNITY'S TRAUMAS IN A WAY 3621 03:08:51,345 --> 03:08:57,551 THAT GAVE ME SOME FREEDOM. 3622 03:08:57,551 --> 03:08:59,219 I COULD GLOVE THEM DIFFERENTLY 3623 03:08:59,219 --> 03:09:00,621 BECAUSE I HAD DIFFERENT WORDS 3624 03:09:00,621 --> 03:09:03,991 AND WHAT HAPPENED THAT LED TO 3625 03:09:03,991 --> 03:09:07,661 SOME THINGS WE WERE STRUGGLING 3626 03:09:07,661 --> 03:09:09,697 WITH AND WHAT GAVE US OUR HUMOR 3627 03:09:09,697 --> 03:09:11,198 AND CREATIVITY. 3628 03:09:11,198 --> 03:09:13,968 SO PATHWAYS ARE FORMED THROUGH 3629 03:09:13,968 --> 03:09:14,935 EXPERIENCES. 3630 03:09:14,935 --> 03:09:16,971 WE WERE TALKING YESTERDAY ABOUT 3631 03:09:16,971 --> 03:09:17,871 GETTING READY FOR TODAY AND I 3632 03:09:17,871 --> 03:09:23,077 WAS LISTENING AND THINKING ABOUT 3633 03:09:23,077 --> 03:09:25,946 PATHWAYS ARE LIKE RIVERS. 3634 03:09:25,946 --> 03:09:28,182 AND THE RIVERS SHAPE THE 3635 03:09:28,182 --> 03:09:29,316 LANDSCAPES AROUND IT SLOWLY 3636 03:09:29,316 --> 03:09:30,985 SOMETIMES DRAMATICALLY BUT 3637 03:09:30,985 --> 03:09:31,952 FLOWING OVER TIME CARVING AND 3638 03:09:31,952 --> 03:09:34,288 BUILDING AND CREATING. 3639 03:09:34,288 --> 03:09:37,958 SO LIKE THESE WATER WAYS TODAY 3640 03:09:37,958 --> 03:09:42,329 WE'RE SHARING OUR STORIES OF 3641 03:09:42,329 --> 03:09:42,963 INTERGENERATIONAL HEALING AND 3642 03:09:42,963 --> 03:09:43,797 SHARING HOPE STORIES. 3643 03:09:43,797 --> 03:09:47,634 I'M HONORED TO HOLD SPACE FOR 3644 03:09:47,634 --> 03:09:48,502 THESE INCREDIBLE SCHOLARS. 3645 03:09:48,502 --> 03:09:49,903 I FAN GIRLED OVER THEM FOR A 3646 03:09:49,903 --> 03:09:52,639 LODGE TIME AND IT'S COOL TO BE 3647 03:09:52,639 --> 03:09:54,008 ABLE TO HOLD THE SPACE. 3648 03:09:54,008 --> 03:09:56,510 BEFORE I PASS IT TO THEM I WANT 3649 03:09:56,510 --> 03:09:57,077 TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF 3650 03:09:57,077 --> 03:10:01,115 LOVING FRAMING. 3651 03:10:01,115 --> 03:10:03,751 AND THERE'S SOME TRANSFORMATIVE 3652 03:10:03,751 --> 03:10:05,853 MECHANISMS OF STORY TELLING 3653 03:10:05,853 --> 03:10:08,188 METHODS WE'VE SEEN ACROSS OUR 3654 03:10:08,188 --> 03:10:09,656 PROJECTS I'VE BEEN A PART OF 3655 03:10:09,656 --> 03:10:11,158 OVER THE LAST 15 YEARS AND ALL 3656 03:10:11,158 --> 03:10:16,230 OF OUR PROJECTS WHETHER IT BE 3657 03:10:16,230 --> 03:10:18,699 LOOKING AT HIV PREVENTION WITH 3658 03:10:18,699 --> 03:10:20,367 INDIGENOUS YOUTH OR THE ROLE OF 3659 03:10:20,367 --> 03:10:26,640 STORY TELLING IN TRANSMITTING 3660 03:10:26,640 --> 03:10:32,046 TRADITIONAL HEALTH KNOWLEDGE. 3661 03:10:32,046 --> 03:10:33,747 WHETHER IT BE WITH YOUNG PEOPLE 3662 03:10:33,747 --> 03:10:35,649 OR COMMUNITIES WE'RE SEEING THE 3663 03:10:35,649 --> 03:10:36,483 SAME THEMES COME UP 3664 03:10:36,483 --> 03:10:36,817 CONSISTENTLY. 3665 03:10:36,817 --> 03:10:38,585 I WANT TO SHARE THEM WITH YOU 3666 03:10:38,585 --> 03:10:43,624 BECAUSE I THINK THEY ECHO WHAT 3667 03:10:43,624 --> 03:10:44,725 WE HEARD OVER THE LAST DAY AND A 3668 03:10:44,725 --> 03:10:45,125 HALF. 3669 03:10:45,125 --> 03:10:47,694 THE FIRST IS IT FINDING LANGUAGE 3670 03:10:47,694 --> 03:10:49,630 TO NAME THE PAIN. 3671 03:10:49,630 --> 03:10:50,364 SOMETHING SO POWERFUL ABOUT 3672 03:10:50,364 --> 03:10:51,365 HAVING WORDS. 3673 03:10:51,365 --> 03:10:52,266 WHEN WE'RE ABLE TO NAME 3674 03:10:52,266 --> 03:10:53,467 SOMETHING WE'RE ABLE TO TAKE IT 3675 03:10:53,467 --> 03:10:55,302 OUT OF OUR BODIES. 3676 03:10:55,302 --> 03:10:57,404 TAKE IT OUT OF OUR FAMILIES AND 3677 03:10:57,404 --> 03:10:57,738 COMMUNITIES. 3678 03:10:57,738 --> 03:11:01,942 IT'S NO LONGER ATTRIBUTABLE TO 3679 03:11:01,942 --> 03:11:05,145 OUR CHARACTER. 3680 03:11:05,145 --> 03:11:07,948 IT'S OUTSIDE OF US AND WE HAVE A 3681 03:11:07,948 --> 03:11:09,950 DIFFERENT POWER TO RESPOND. 3682 03:11:09,950 --> 03:11:11,452 THE SECOND IS THE POWER OF 3683 03:11:11,452 --> 03:11:13,954 SEEING ONE'S STORY IN ANOTHER 3684 03:11:13,954 --> 03:11:15,389 STORY AND LIKEWISE HAVING YOUR 3685 03:11:15,389 --> 03:11:22,262 STORY BE SEEN. 3686 03:11:22,262 --> 03:11:24,765 THIS REDUCES THE SENSE OF 3687 03:11:24,765 --> 03:11:27,734 ISOLATION AND HELPS US FIND 3688 03:11:27,734 --> 03:11:29,336 COMMUNITY. 3689 03:11:29,336 --> 03:11:31,972 THIS ALSO HELPS US HEAL IN OUR 3690 03:11:31,972 --> 03:11:33,073 FAMILIES AND ACROSS COMMUNITIES 3691 03:11:33,073 --> 03:11:34,108 AND TRIBAL COMMUNITIES. 3692 03:11:34,108 --> 03:11:38,078 IT'S AN ANTIDOTE TO THE STRATEGY 3693 03:11:38,078 --> 03:11:40,647 OF ISOLATION FROM SETTLER 3694 03:11:40,647 --> 03:11:42,149 COLONIALISM AND I'VE SEEN THIS 3695 03:11:42,149 --> 03:11:43,951 WHEREVER I'VE GONE. 3696 03:11:43,951 --> 03:11:48,622 ONE TIME I WAS SHOWING SOME 3697 03:11:48,622 --> 03:11:52,259 STORIES FROM MY CHOCTAW RELATIVE 3698 03:11:52,259 --> 03:11:57,197 AND THE COMMUNITY SAID OH, MY 3699 03:11:57,197 --> 03:12:01,068 GOSH, THAT'S HALFWAY ACROSS THE 3700 03:12:01,068 --> 03:12:03,437 WORLD AND SEE SOMETHING SO 3701 03:12:03,437 --> 03:12:04,505 FAMILIAR AND THE RELIEF WAS SO 3702 03:12:04,505 --> 03:12:06,874 POWERFUL. 3703 03:12:06,874 --> 03:12:09,009 THE LAST I WANT TO SHARE IS THE 3704 03:12:09,009 --> 03:12:11,345 POWER OF COUNTER NARRATIVES. 3705 03:12:11,345 --> 03:12:16,884 THE POWER OF TELLING OUR OWN 3706 03:12:16,884 --> 03:12:19,386 STORIES IN OUR OWN WAY THIS IS 3707 03:12:19,386 --> 03:12:22,256 NOT ONLY TRUTH TELLING BUT THE 3708 03:12:22,256 --> 03:12:23,824 STORIES ABOUT US WITHOUT US. 3709 03:12:23,824 --> 03:12:27,427 WE ARE MORE THAN OUR TRAUMA. 3710 03:12:27,427 --> 03:12:31,165 WE ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN 3711 03:12:31,165 --> 03:12:38,272 SCIENTIST, INNOVA INNOVATORS, FS 3712 03:12:38,272 --> 03:12:40,207 AND THOSE ANCESTORS ARE ALWAYS 3713 03:12:40,207 --> 03:12:43,544 THINKING ABOUT US HERE TODAY. 3714 03:12:43,544 --> 03:12:47,080 WE ARE AND HAVE ALWAYS BEEN 3715 03:12:47,080 --> 03:12:49,082 BUILT BY AND FOR LOVE. 3716 03:12:49,082 --> 03:12:50,751 SO THOSE ARE THE THREE THINGS I 3717 03:12:50,751 --> 03:12:52,019 WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU AND IN 3718 03:12:52,019 --> 03:12:54,154 THE FRAMING MY INVITATION TO 3719 03:12:54,154 --> 03:12:57,791 THESE ESTEEMED PANELISTS IS FOR 3720 03:12:57,791 --> 03:12:58,759 THEM TO SHARE ABOUT WHO THEY ARE 3721 03:12:58,759 --> 03:13:01,094 ARE AND WHAT THEY DO AND ASKED 3722 03:13:01,094 --> 03:13:04,765 THEM TO PUT TOGETHER SNAP SHOTS 3723 03:13:04,765 --> 03:13:07,601 OF THEIR RESEARCH AND FINDING 3724 03:13:07,601 --> 03:13:09,002 AND PRACTICES THAT SPEAKS TO 3725 03:13:09,002 --> 03:13:09,503 HOPE AND HEALING ACROSS 3726 03:13:09,503 --> 03:13:15,442 GENERATIONS. 3727 03:13:15,442 --> 03:13:23,250 WITH THAT I'LL PASS IT OVER TO 3728 03:13:23,250 --> 03:13:33,527 DR. DEMIENTIEFF. 3729 03:13:41,568 --> 03:13:42,803 IT MEANS SPRINGTIME. 3730 03:13:42,803 --> 03:13:53,313 MY FAMILY IS ORIGINALLY FROM 3731 03:13:54,615 --> 03:13:56,216 SOUTHW 3732 03:13:56,216 --> 03:13:57,150 SOUTHW 3733 03:13:57,150 --> 03:14:01,989 SOUTHWEST ALASKA. 3734 03:14:01,989 --> 03:14:08,495 I GREW UP IN ANCHORAGE MY 3735 03:14:08,495 --> 03:14:12,466 PARENTS BOTH WENT TO THE HOLY 3736 03:14:12,466 --> 03:14:15,869 CROSS CATHOLIC MISSION IN HOLY 3737 03:14:15,869 --> 03:14:16,103 CROSS. 3738 03:14:16,103 --> 03:14:19,406 THAT WAS ALL MY AUNTS AND UNC 3739 03:14:19,406 --> 03:14:19,740 WI 3740 03:14:19,740 --> 03:14:25,045 WILL -- UNCLES DID AND HOLY 3741 03:14:25,045 --> 03:14:29,049 CROSS WAS A MISSION WHERE A 3742 03:14:29,049 --> 03:14:34,588 NUMBER OF PEOPLE FROM ACROSS 3743 03:14:34,588 --> 03:14:39,593 ALASKA WENT AND GOT TO KNOW 3744 03:14:39,593 --> 03:14:42,829 PEOPLE ACROSS ALASKA. 3745 03:14:42,829 --> 03:14:46,900 I ACTUALLY STARTED MY PARENTS 3746 03:14:46,900 --> 03:14:51,972 BOTH LOST THEIR LANGUAGE WHEN 3747 03:14:51,972 --> 03:14:57,177 THEY WERE LITTLE AND I 3748 03:14:57,177 --> 03:14:57,811 INTERESTINGLY 234U6 STARTED 3749 03:14:57,811 --> 03:14:59,413 LEARNING MY LANGUAGE IN MY EARLY 3750 03:14:59,413 --> 03:15:02,282 20s AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA 3751 03:15:02,282 --> 03:15:05,986 FAIRBANKS. 3752 03:15:05,986 --> 03:15:09,656 MY MENTOR NOW BROUGHT TOGETHER 3753 03:15:09,656 --> 03:15:13,060 SOME ELDERS AND STARTED TEACHING 3754 03:15:13,060 --> 03:15:15,696 THE LANGUAGE AT THE UNIVERSITY 3755 03:15:15,696 --> 03:15:17,197 AT THAT TIME. 3756 03:15:17,197 --> 03:15:25,305 THIS WAS 20 PLUS YEARS AGO AND I 3757 03:15:25,305 --> 03:15:26,707 ATTENDED THAT CLASS AND ONE OF 3758 03:15:26,707 --> 03:15:31,044 THE THINGS THAT HOOKED ME WAS 3759 03:15:31,044 --> 03:15:32,779 THE HELDERS RAND THE WAY THEY 3760 03:15:32,779 --> 03:15:37,584 ARE EMBRACED ME AND THEY TOLD ME 3761 03:15:37,584 --> 03:15:41,955 SO GOOD TO HEAR YOU. 3762 03:15:41,955 --> 03:15:43,590 IT'S IN YOUR BLOOD. 3763 03:15:43,590 --> 03:15:46,660 DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR GRANTS 3764 03:15:46,660 --> 03:15:49,963 PARENTS ARE AND THE ELDERS KNEW 3765 03:15:49,963 --> 03:15:51,264 ABOUT MY HISTORY AND FAMILY AND 3766 03:15:51,264 --> 03:15:57,170 HELPED ME TO CONNECT TO WHO I 3767 03:15:57,170 --> 03:15:59,906 WAS IN THE EARLY DAYS. 3768 03:15:59,906 --> 03:16:02,075 SINCE THOSE DAYS I'VE BEEN DOING 3769 03:16:02,075 --> 03:16:04,077 LANGUAGE WORK AND HOLD WEEKLY 3770 03:16:04,077 --> 03:16:06,012 CLASSES AND I'M A LEARNER AND 3771 03:16:06,012 --> 03:16:09,850 TEACHER OF THE LANGUAGE. 3772 03:16:09,850 --> 03:16:13,186 AND SO GRATEFUL FOR THE LANG 3773 03:16:13,186 --> 03:16:14,488 BATH I HAVE. 3774 03:16:14,488 --> 03:16:24,998 MY LANGUAGE MENTORS I THINK A 3775 03:16:28,602 --> 03:16:39,079 LOT ABOUT JIM AND HIS ABILITY TO 3776 03:16:39,446 --> 03:16:42,349 KEEP THE LANGUAGE SAFE FOR SO 3777 03:16:42,349 --> 03:16:45,352 MANY YEARS DURING ASSIMILATION 3778 03:16:45,352 --> 03:16:47,087 AND COLONIZATION IN BOARDING 3779 03:16:47,087 --> 03:16:50,524 SCHOOL ERA AND KEPT THE LANGUAGE 3780 03:16:50,524 --> 03:16:52,459 SAFE AND JUST TAUGHT IT THE REST 3781 03:16:52,459 --> 03:16:56,863 OF HIS LIFE UNTIL HE PASSED. 3782 03:16:56,863 --> 03:16:57,431 LITERALLY UNTIL THE DAYS HE 3783 03:16:57,431 --> 03:17:07,574 PASSED. 3784 03:17:08,909 --> 03:17:11,178 I FOUND MY HEALING AND WELLNESS 3785 03:17:11,178 --> 03:17:13,647 IN THE LANGUAGE AND NOW I TRY TO 3786 03:17:13,647 --> 03:17:15,916 HELP OTHERS FIND THEIR HEALING 3787 03:17:15,916 --> 03:17:18,752 AND IDENTITY IN THE LANGUAGE A 3788 03:17:18,752 --> 03:17:19,920 HUNDRED, A THOUSAND YEARS FROM 3789 03:17:19,920 --> 03:17:20,153 NOW. 3790 03:17:20,153 --> 03:17:22,522 I WANTED TO SHARE A COUPLE 3791 03:17:22,522 --> 03:17:27,594 THINGS. 3792 03:17:27,594 --> 03:17:30,297 I'M EXCITED AND HONORED AND I'VE 3793 03:17:30,297 --> 03:17:35,635 LEARNED SO MUCH AND I'VE BEEN IN 3794 03:17:35,635 --> 03:17:40,173 SPIRED 3795 03:18:00,093 --> 03:18:03,129 NO WORRIES. 3796 03:18:03,129 --> 03:18:04,231 I WANTED TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT 3797 03:18:04,231 --> 03:18:05,699 ABOUT THE WORK I'M DOING. 3798 03:18:05,699 --> 03:18:08,001 I'M HONORED TO WORK WITH ELDERS 3799 03:18:08,001 --> 03:18:10,136 IN MULTIPLE WAYS AND CO-TEACH 3800 03:18:10,136 --> 03:18:14,140 WITH ELDERS IN A SHORT COHORT 3801 03:18:14,140 --> 03:18:19,246 PROGRAM AND DO WORK CURRENTLY 3802 03:18:19,246 --> 03:18:23,016 WITH AS THE ELDERS PROGRAM AND 3803 03:18:23,016 --> 03:18:24,518 THE VOICE OF THE ELDERS IN THE 3804 03:18:24,518 --> 03:18:29,155 INTERIOR OF ALASKA AND ONE OF 3805 03:18:29,155 --> 03:18:31,558 THE THINGS THAT MAYBE SIX OR 3806 03:18:31,558 --> 03:18:34,227 SEVEN YEARS AGO NOW WE ACTUALLY 3807 03:18:34,227 --> 03:18:39,499 GOT AN NIH CTRP GRANT A CLINICAL 3808 03:18:39,499 --> 03:18:40,667 TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH GRANT 3809 03:18:40,667 --> 03:18:42,569 THROUGH IT THE CENTER FOR 3810 03:18:42,569 --> 03:18:44,170 ALASKAN HEALTH RESEARCH, 3811 03:18:44,170 --> 03:18:46,740 DR. JESSICA BLACK AND I STARTED 3812 03:18:46,740 --> 03:18:52,178 HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH ELDERS 3813 03:18:52,178 --> 03:18:53,914 ASKING THEM WHAT THE PRIORITIES 3814 03:18:53,914 --> 03:18:56,049 ARE FOR THE COMMUNITY. 3815 03:18:56,049 --> 03:18:57,984 AND THEY SHARED A LOT OF 3816 03:18:57,984 --> 03:18:58,952 DIFFERENT THEMES WITH US AND ONE 3817 03:18:58,952 --> 03:19:04,457 OF THE THINGS THAT EMERGED TO 3818 03:19:04,457 --> 03:19:08,061 THE TOP WAS THEY'RE CONCERN AND 3819 03:19:08,061 --> 03:19:11,164 WANTING TO SUPPORT ELDERS TO 3820 03:19:11,164 --> 03:19:13,633 STEP INTO THEIR ROLES. 3821 03:19:13,633 --> 03:19:15,468 EMERGING ELDERS TO STEP INTO 3822 03:19:15,468 --> 03:19:15,902 THEIR ROLES. 3823 03:19:15,902 --> 03:19:19,339 WE'RE BLESSED TO HAVE MANY 3824 03:19:19,339 --> 03:19:21,908 ELDERS THAT ARE OFTEN ASKED TO 3825 03:19:21,908 --> 03:19:27,314 PARTICIPATE IN CEREMONY AND TO 3826 03:19:27,314 --> 03:19:35,255 GIVE BACK AND THESE ELDERS ARE 3827 03:19:35,255 --> 03:19:37,290 LEADERS IN OUR COMMUNITY AND 3828 03:19:37,290 --> 03:19:39,759 WANTED TO HONOR THEIR VOICE AND 3829 03:19:39,759 --> 03:19:43,797 ENDED UP GETTING FUNDING THROUGH 3830 03:19:43,797 --> 03:19:48,868 THE OFFICE OF MINORITY HEALTH TO 3831 03:19:48,868 --> 03:19:50,070 BE ABLE TO SUPPORT THESE EFFORTS 3832 03:19:50,070 --> 03:19:53,306 WHICH ULTIMATELY TURNED OUT TO 3833 03:19:53,306 --> 03:19:56,042 BE AN ELDERS MENTORING ELDERS 3834 03:19:56,042 --> 03:19:56,610 CAMP. 3835 03:19:56,610 --> 03:19:57,677 I HAVE SOME PICTURES. 3836 03:19:57,677 --> 03:20:02,716 I HAVE A VIDEO. 3837 03:20:02,716 --> 03:20:06,252 YOU CAN AND I'LL SHARE IT AND 3838 03:20:06,252 --> 03:20:12,859 THEY CAN PUT THE VIDEO AND MAYBE 3839 03:20:12,859 --> 03:20:13,727 THE SLIDES TOO. 3840 03:20:13,727 --> 03:20:15,462 IT'S AN HONOR BECAUSE AS THE 3841 03:20:15,462 --> 03:20:16,930 ELDERS WERE HAVING CONVERSATIONS 3842 03:20:16,930 --> 03:20:21,835 ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR PRIORITY 3843 03:20:21,835 --> 03:20:26,706 THEY WERE CONCERNED THAT THERE'S 3844 03:20:26,706 --> 03:20:33,680 SO MUCH GRIEF AND ANXIETY AND 3845 03:20:33,680 --> 03:20:34,848 LOSS WITHIN INDIVIDUALS THAT 3846 03:20:34,848 --> 03:20:37,751 HAVE GONE THROUGH BOARDING 3847 03:20:37,751 --> 03:20:38,051 SCHOOL. 3848 03:20:38,051 --> 03:20:42,255 SO SOMEONE MAYBE GOING FOR FIVE 3849 03:20:42,255 --> 03:20:47,594 YEARS, 10 YEARS, 15 YEARS WAS 3850 03:20:47,594 --> 03:20:48,461 NOT IN THEIR COMMUNITY LEARNING 3851 03:20:48,461 --> 03:20:52,098 SPECIFIC SKILLS LIKE HOW TO CUT 3852 03:20:52,098 --> 03:20:54,267 FISH OR PROCESS MOOSE OR LEARN 3853 03:20:54,267 --> 03:20:57,937 THE MEDICINES AND DIFFERENT 3854 03:20:57,937 --> 03:20:59,172 THINGS AND THE INDIVIDUALS MAYBE 3855 03:20:59,172 --> 03:21:00,907 HAVE SOME OF THAT GRIEF AND 3856 03:21:00,907 --> 03:21:04,044 ANXIETY THAT HOLD THEM BACK FROM 3857 03:21:04,044 --> 03:21:06,012 SHARING OUT AND PART OF OUR 3858 03:21:06,012 --> 03:21:06,880 CULTURE GOING INTO THE FUTURE IS 3859 03:21:06,880 --> 03:21:09,082 THE SHARING OUT. 3860 03:21:09,082 --> 03:21:13,887 SO THE ELDERS AND THEIR WISDOM 3861 03:21:13,887 --> 03:21:15,722 SAYS WE WANT TO CREATE SPACE AND 3862 03:21:15,722 --> 03:21:17,057 SUPPORT FOR THESE EMERGING 3863 03:21:17,057 --> 03:21:18,291 ELDERS TO BE ABLE TO STEP INTO 3864 03:21:18,291 --> 03:21:19,693 THEIR ROLES. 3865 03:21:19,693 --> 03:21:21,861 WE REALLY WANT TO CREATE THIS 3866 03:21:21,861 --> 03:21:30,270 SPACE FOR PEOPLE TO LEARN IN A 3867 03:21:30,270 --> 03:21:32,072 NON-JUDGMENTAL SPACE WHERE THEY 3868 03:21:32,072 --> 03:21:34,274 HAVE THE ABILITY TO LEARN 3869 03:21:34,274 --> 03:21:39,546 SKILLS, SHARE WHAT THEY KNOW AND 3870 03:21:39,546 --> 03:21:42,248 JUST BEYOND THE LAND AND HEAL 3871 03:21:42,248 --> 03:21:44,217 TOGETHER AROUND THIS AND SO 3872 03:21:44,217 --> 03:21:48,321 WE'VE LAD THREE CAMPS SO FAR. 3873 03:21:48,321 --> 03:21:49,923 IT'S BEEN REALLY WONDERFUL. 3874 03:21:49,923 --> 03:21:53,026 THE CAMPS HAVE BEEN ON THE LAND 3875 03:21:53,026 --> 03:21:59,265 AT A PLACE CALLED HOWARD LUKE'S 3876 03:21:59,265 --> 03:22:02,035 SPIRIT CAMP AND THE PAST CAMP IN 3877 03:22:02,035 --> 03:22:03,436 AUGUST WAS OUR MOOSE CAMP. 3878 03:22:03,436 --> 03:22:05,205 I THINK IT'S JUST BEEN AN HONOR 3879 03:22:05,205 --> 03:22:10,510 FOR JESSICA AND I TO BE ABLE TO 3880 03:22:10,510 --> 03:22:11,745 LEAD OUR SUPPORT FOR THIS EFFORT 3881 03:22:11,745 --> 03:22:15,548 BECAUSE WE GREW UP IN THIS AREA 3882 03:22:15,548 --> 03:22:17,751 WITH THESE ELDERS AND TO BE ABLE 3883 03:22:17,751 --> 03:22:21,454 TO JUST UPLIFT THEIR VOICES AND 3884 03:22:21,454 --> 03:22:26,059 THEIR WISHES AND PRIORITIES HAS 3885 03:22:26,059 --> 03:22:31,397 BEEN REALLY BEAUTIFUL FOR US AND 3886 03:22:31,397 --> 03:22:38,138 SO PART OF BEING PART OF THE 3887 03:22:38,138 --> 03:22:46,279 THIS THE DIRECTOR JERNIGAN AND 3888 03:22:46,279 --> 03:22:54,287 THE PROCESS HAS BEEN DIFFERENT. 3889 03:22:54,287 --> 03:22:56,456 WE'RE ABLE TO PIVOT AND HONOR 3890 03:22:56,456 --> 03:22:58,892 THE WAYS IN WHICH WE NEED TO DO 3891 03:22:58,892 --> 03:23:02,061 THINGS IN A GOOD WAY WITH 3892 03:23:02,061 --> 03:23:02,562 ELDERS. 3893 03:23:02,562 --> 03:23:04,364 IT'S BEEN EXCITING. 3894 03:23:04,364 --> 03:23:08,601 I WANTED TO SHARE THAT BECAUSE I 3895 03:23:08,601 --> 03:23:17,410 THINK IT'S A UNIQUE JOURNEY, A 3896 03:23:17,410 --> 03:23:20,847 UNIQUE PROJECT THAT IS 3897 03:23:20,847 --> 03:23:23,483 ULTIMATELY HAS MADE HUGE IMPACT. 3898 03:23:23,483 --> 03:23:25,451 ONE OF THE THINGS WE WERE ABLE 3899 03:23:25,451 --> 03:23:30,256 TO DO WAS GET A PERMIT FOR A 3900 03:23:30,256 --> 03:23:33,326 CEREMONIAL MOOSE AND ORIGINALLY 3901 03:23:33,326 --> 03:23:34,928 PUSH AND GAME SHARED WE COULD 3902 03:23:34,928 --> 03:23:38,898 ONLY GET A CERTAIN TYPE OF MOOSE 3903 03:23:38,898 --> 03:23:41,634 FOR THIS CAMP. 3904 03:23:41,634 --> 03:23:43,770 AND WITH SOME EDUCATION AND 3905 03:23:43,770 --> 03:23:46,739 PUSHBACK SHARING WITH THEM THE 3906 03:23:46,739 --> 03:23:48,575 SPIRITUAL WAYS IN WHICH MOOSE 3907 03:23:48,575 --> 03:23:49,008 GIVE THEMSELVES. 3908 03:23:49,008 --> 03:23:53,546 IT'S NOT LIKE WE CAN JUST SAY IF 3909 03:23:53,546 --> 03:23:56,349 A MOOSE IS GIVING THE EAR IT'S 3910 03:23:56,349 --> 03:23:59,085 NOT RIGHT ONE AND WE'LL PASS AND 3911 03:23:59,085 --> 03:24:00,153 GO TO THE NEXT ONE. 3912 03:24:00,153 --> 03:24:06,226 THEY WERE ABLE TO HONOR THAT 3913 03:24:06,226 --> 03:24:09,229 REQUEST AND IT'S SOMETHING 3914 03:24:09,229 --> 03:24:10,263 CHANGING. 3915 03:24:10,263 --> 03:24:11,698 WE ENDED UP GET THE MOOSE WHICH 3916 03:24:11,698 --> 03:24:19,005 WAS DONE IN A GOOD WAY AND 3917 03:24:19,005 --> 03:24:21,307 STARTING WITH JUST GRATITUDE FOR 3918 03:24:21,307 --> 03:24:24,043 THE MOOSE GIVING ITSELF. 3919 03:24:24,043 --> 03:24:26,179 MANY OF THE ELDERS SOME FOR THE 3920 03:24:26,179 --> 03:24:32,051 FIRST TIME WERE CUTTING UP THESE 3921 03:24:32,051 --> 03:24:37,056 MOOSE AND LEARNING ABOUT IT AND 3922 03:24:37,056 --> 03:24:38,625 FOR EXAMPLE THERE WAS A WOMAN 3923 03:24:38,625 --> 03:24:42,262 ABLE TO MAKE RATTLES OUT OF THE 3924 03:24:42,262 --> 03:24:44,764 HOOVES AND LEARNING HOW TO PUT 3925 03:24:44,764 --> 03:24:48,401 IT AWAY AND CAN IT. 3926 03:24:48,401 --> 03:24:49,702 WE DRIED IT AND WENT THROUGH THE 3927 03:24:49,702 --> 03:24:50,803 WHOLE PROCESS. 3928 03:24:50,803 --> 03:24:52,772 IN THAT TIME FRAME IT WAS JUST 3929 03:24:52,772 --> 03:24:53,940 FOUR DAYS BUT IN THAT TIME FRAME 3930 03:24:53,940 --> 03:24:56,876 WOE WERE ABLE TO HARVEST AND PUT 3931 03:24:56,876 --> 03:25:02,048 AWAY THAT WHOLE MOOSE. 3932 03:25:02,048 --> 03:25:06,219 AT THE VERY END DID WHAT WE 3933 03:25:06,219 --> 03:25:08,888 TRADITIONALLY DO WHICH IS GIVE 3934 03:25:08,888 --> 03:25:12,058 AWAY AND WE HAD CEREMONY AND 3935 03:25:12,058 --> 03:25:13,693 DANCED AND SING AND GIVING 3936 03:25:13,693 --> 03:25:14,260 GRATITUDE. 3937 03:25:14,260 --> 03:25:15,895 IN THAT PROCESS THERE WAS A LOT 3938 03:25:15,895 --> 03:25:17,030 OF THINGS THAT CAME UP. 3939 03:25:17,030 --> 03:25:17,430 GRIEF. 3940 03:25:17,430 --> 03:25:22,268 WE HAD ONE ELDER AND CUT FISH 3941 03:25:22,268 --> 03:25:24,237 AND DID OTHER THINGS WITHIN OUR 3942 03:25:24,237 --> 03:25:26,606 TIME THERE BUT WE HAD ONE ELDER 3943 03:25:26,606 --> 03:25:34,414 WHO WAS 86 THAT SHARED HE HAD 3944 03:25:34,414 --> 03:25:38,084 NOT FISH SINCE THE WAS 9 AND IT 3945 03:25:38,084 --> 03:25:39,419 BROUGHT BACK SO MANY MEMORIES 3946 03:25:39,419 --> 03:25:42,789 AND SHE WAS ABLE TO LEARN THE 3947 03:25:42,789 --> 03:25:44,691 PROCESS AND SHE WAS SO EXCITED 3948 03:25:44,691 --> 03:25:50,063 AND IT WAS VERY LAELG FOR ALL OF 3949 03:25:50,063 --> 03:25:50,229 US. 3950 03:25:50,229 --> 03:25:54,267 ANOTHER ELDER IN HER EIGHT 80s 3951 03:25:54,267 --> 03:25:56,069 WAS NERVOUS ABOUT COMING TO CAMP 3952 03:25:56,069 --> 03:25:57,537 AND HER ABILITY TO WALK ON THE 3953 03:25:57,537 --> 03:26:01,641 LAND AND CLIMB ON THE BANK AND 3954 03:26:01,641 --> 03:26:03,643 ALL THE NEEDS SHE FELT SHE WOULD 3955 03:26:03,643 --> 03:26:04,444 HAVE. 3956 03:26:04,444 --> 03:26:07,613 WHEN SHE GOT THERE SHE REALIZED 3957 03:26:07,613 --> 03:26:09,415 SHE WAS HAVING SO MUCH FUN. 3958 03:26:09,415 --> 03:26:13,820 SHE SAID IT REMINDED HER SO MUCH 3959 03:26:13,820 --> 03:26:15,321 OF BEING A YOUNG CHILD AND GAVE 3960 03:26:15,321 --> 03:26:17,623 HER STRENGTH AND SHE CAME BACK 3961 03:26:17,623 --> 03:26:20,626 EVERY DAY AND FELT LIKE SHE GOT 3962 03:26:20,626 --> 03:26:21,995 STRONGER AND THESE ARE HER 3963 03:26:21,995 --> 03:26:22,228 WORDS. 3964 03:26:22,228 --> 03:26:29,669 I GOT STRONGER IN THE PROCESS. 3965 03:26:29,669 --> 03:26:31,037 SO MANY BENEFITS AND PEOPLE WERE 3966 03:26:31,037 --> 03:26:36,109 TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF 3967 03:26:36,109 --> 03:26:44,250 PLAY AND NOW WE GET TO TELL 3968 03:26:44,250 --> 03:26:47,720 STORIES AND BE GIDDY AND BE 3969 03:26:47,720 --> 03:26:50,857 HONORED WAS JUST ONE OF THE BEST 3970 03:26:50,857 --> 03:26:51,124 FEELINGS. 3971 03:26:51,124 --> 03:26:52,825 I WAS ONE OF THE BEST PARTS OF 3972 03:26:52,825 --> 03:26:53,226 IT. 3973 03:26:53,226 --> 03:26:56,562 I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT 3974 03:26:56,562 --> 03:26:58,264 BECAUSE HE WILLERS MENTORING 3975 03:26:58,264 --> 03:27:00,299 ELDERS IS NOT SOMETHING WE SEE 3976 03:27:00,299 --> 03:27:04,237 AT ELDERS CAMP WE SEE IT WITH 3977 03:27:04,237 --> 03:27:06,906 YOUTH BUT NOT OFTEN SEE MANY 3978 03:27:06,906 --> 03:27:08,441 WITH ELDERS SUPPORTING OTHER 3979 03:27:08,441 --> 03:27:09,642 ELDERS IN THEIR HEALING AROUND 3980 03:27:09,642 --> 03:27:10,710 SOME OF THE LOSSES. 3981 03:27:10,710 --> 03:27:12,445 THE LAST THING I'M SAY IS THE 3982 03:27:12,445 --> 03:27:19,685 EMPOWERMENT PIECE. 3983 03:27:19,685 --> 03:27:21,954 THEY ARE MIGHT STEP TO A TASK OR 3984 03:27:21,954 --> 03:27:23,423 CUTTING FISH OR SOMETHING SAYING 3985 03:27:23,423 --> 03:27:26,592 GOSH I HAVEN'T DONE THIS IN 3986 03:27:26,592 --> 03:27:28,594 YEARS OR NEVER HAVE DONE IT OR I 3987 03:27:28,594 --> 03:27:30,530 DIDN'T LEARN THIS AND DON'T KNOW 3988 03:27:30,530 --> 03:27:32,098 WHERE TO BEGIN AND THEN WOULD 3989 03:27:32,098 --> 03:27:37,070 START PARTICIPATING WITH THE 3990 03:27:37,070 --> 03:27:40,073 OTHER ELDERS. 3991 03:27:40,073 --> 03:27:42,675 AND I REMEMBER WHEN THE GRANDMA 3992 03:27:42,675 --> 03:27:43,609 TOLD ME THIS I REMEMBER WHEN 3993 03:27:43,609 --> 03:27:45,344 THIS HAPPENED IN MY COMMUNITY 3994 03:27:45,344 --> 03:27:47,880 AND THIS IS HOW WE DID IT AND 3995 03:27:47,880 --> 03:27:49,048 THERE WAS A REALIZATION WITH ALL 3996 03:27:49,048 --> 03:27:52,185 THE LOSSES THERE WAS SO MUCH WE 3997 03:27:52,185 --> 03:27:55,688 REMEMBERED AND SO MUCH WE STILL 3998 03:27:55,688 --> 03:27:57,657 CARRY WITH US THAT CAN BE SHARED 3999 03:27:57,657 --> 03:28:00,860 AND THAT IN AND OF ITSELF WAS 4000 03:28:00,860 --> 03:28:02,462 BEAUTIFUL AND EMPOWERING 4001 03:28:02,462 --> 03:28:05,064 RECOGNIZING HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE 4002 03:28:05,064 --> 03:28:10,069 AND VALUES AND LOVE AND WISDOM 4003 03:28:10,069 --> 03:28:12,038 IS THAT WE STILL CARRY. 4004 03:28:12,038 --> 03:28:13,673 I HOPE THAT'S HELPFUL. 4005 03:28:13,673 --> 03:28:17,810 WE DID CREATE A VIDEO THAT KIND 4006 03:28:17,810 --> 03:28:19,045 OF TALKS ABOUT IT AND WE'RE 4007 03:28:19,045 --> 03:28:21,147 LOOKING TO CREATE ANOTHER VIDEO 4008 03:28:21,147 --> 03:28:23,049 FOCUSSED ON THE MOOSE CAMP THAT 4009 03:28:23,049 --> 03:28:24,117 WILL BE OUT IN MARCH. 4010 03:28:24,117 --> 03:28:24,750 I'LL TRY TO GET THAT INFORMATION 4011 03:28:24,750 --> 03:28:30,223 TO YOU. 4012 03:28:30,223 --> 03:28:30,823 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LECT ME 4013 03:28:30,823 --> 03:28:32,992 SHARE. 4014 03:28:32,992 --> 03:28:34,260 -- LETTING ME SHARE. 4015 03:28:34,260 --> 03:28:34,327 4016 03:28:39,298 --> 03:28:39,765 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 4017 03:28:39,765 --> 03:28:45,071 NOW WE'LL PASS IT OVER TO 4018 03:28:45,071 --> 03:28:54,247 DR. SANIGAQ ULLRICH. 4019 03:28:54,247 --> 03:28:55,414 HOPEFULLY WE'LL IN ABLE TO GET 4020 03:28:55,414 --> 03:28:59,418 THE SLIDES OUT TO THE COMMUNITY. 4021 03:28:59,418 --> 03:29:02,121 >> 4022 03:29:02,121 --> 03:29:12,498 [SPEAKING NON-ENGLISH] 4023 03:29:13,900 --> 03:29:19,906 MY ENGLISH NAME IS JESSICA. 4024 03:29:19,906 --> 03:29:26,112 AND I'M GOING BY SANIGAQ MORE AS 4025 03:29:26,112 --> 03:29:32,118 THERE'S MULTIPLE JESSICA 4026 03:29:32,118 --> 03:29:38,124 RESEARCHERS. 4027 03:29:38,124 --> 03:29:41,627 I'M A TRIBAL CITIZEN AND 4028 03:29:41,627 --> 03:29:46,232 CURRENTLY AN ASSISTANT PROFESSOR 4029 03:29:46,232 --> 03:29:46,966 AT WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY. 4030 03:29:46,966 --> 03:29:50,903 THIS IS A PICTURE OF MY STRONG 4031 03:29:50,903 --> 03:29:51,137 LINEAGE. 4032 03:29:51,137 --> 03:29:54,340 MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER AND MY 4033 03:29:54,340 --> 03:29:59,345 GRANDMOTHER WHO I WAS NAMED 4034 03:29:59,345 --> 03:30:02,648 AFTER AND MY MOTHER AND THAT'S 4035 03:30:02,648 --> 03:30:05,184 ME AT 6 YEARS OLD AND MY SISTER. 4036 03:30:05,184 --> 03:30:07,753 I LOOK AT MY SISTER AND DRAW 4037 03:30:07,753 --> 03:30:18,297 STRENGTHS FROM IT EVERY TIME. 4038 03:30:18,297 --> 03:30:21,701 BOTH MY GRANDPARENTS WERE IN THE 4039 03:30:21,701 --> 03:30:26,539 INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC AND DECIMATED 4040 03:30:26,539 --> 03:30:29,542 60% OF OUR POPULATION AND MY MOM 4041 03:30:29,542 --> 03:30:31,711 EXPERIENCED EVERY ADVERSE 4042 03:30:31,711 --> 03:30:33,079 CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE AND I AM 4043 03:30:33,079 --> 03:30:38,150 ALSO A RECOVERING SURVIVOR OF 4044 03:30:38,150 --> 03:30:39,619 INTERGENERATION 4045 03:30:39,619 --> 03:30:41,654 INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND 4046 03:30:41,654 --> 03:30:42,555 CHILDHOOD TRAUMA. 4047 03:30:42,555 --> 03:30:43,990 BUT I'M STANDING HERE TODAY WITH 4048 03:30:43,990 --> 03:30:46,259 THAT LOVE AND WITH THAT ENERGY 4049 03:30:46,259 --> 03:30:49,795 AND WITH MY ANCESTORS AND WITH 4050 03:30:49,795 --> 03:30:51,631 SO MANY PEOPLE WHO THERE'S NO 4051 03:30:51,631 --> 03:30:53,299 WAY I'D BE STANDING HERE BEFORE 4052 03:30:53,299 --> 03:30:55,234 YOU WITHOUT THEIR MENTORSHIP AND 4053 03:30:55,234 --> 03:30:57,336 LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORT AND 4054 03:30:57,336 --> 03:30:57,603 GUIDANCE. 4055 03:30:57,603 --> 03:31:03,242 I THINK OF PEOPLE LIKE CINDY 4056 03:31:03,242 --> 03:31:05,711 BLACKSTOCK WHO PLANTED THE SEED 4057 03:31:05,711 --> 03:31:07,146 16 YEARS AGO WHEN I WAS 4058 03:31:07,146 --> 03:31:08,180 ATTENDING A CONFERENCE TO GO TO 4059 03:31:08,180 --> 03:31:11,584 SCHOOL AND THINKING ABOUT A 4060 03:31:11,584 --> 03:31:13,686 DOCTORAL DEGREE. 4061 03:31:13,686 --> 03:31:15,588 I'M THINKING OF SUSAN LEBELL AS 4062 03:31:15,588 --> 03:31:18,257 A MENTOR TO ME WHEN I WAS 4063 03:31:18,257 --> 03:31:20,860 GETTING MY MASTER'S IN SOCIAL 4064 03:31:20,860 --> 03:31:21,527 WORK. 4065 03:31:21,527 --> 03:31:28,701 I'M THANKFUL TO KARINA WALTERS 4066 03:31:28,701 --> 03:31:35,775 AND SO MANY IN THE ROOM SO MANY 4067 03:31:35,775 --> 03:31:41,847 SCHOLARS MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR ME 4068 03:31:41,847 --> 03:31:46,218 TO BE HERE AND I THRIVE OFF THE 4069 03:31:46,218 --> 03:31:47,887 COMMUNITY AND SENSE OF 4070 03:31:47,887 --> 03:31:48,220 CONNECTEDNESS. 4071 03:31:48,220 --> 03:31:52,625 THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO TALK 4072 03:31:52,625 --> 03:31:52,825 ABOUT. 4073 03:31:52,825 --> 03:31:55,194 I WENT BACK IT SCHOOL BECAUSE I 4074 03:31:55,194 --> 03:31:57,530 KEPT SEEING WE'RE FALL SHORT AND 4075 03:31:57,530 --> 03:32:04,603 WEREN'T HELPING FAMILIES TO LAEL 4076 03:32:04,603 --> 03:32:06,706 WHAT IS NOW KNOWN AS 4077 03:32:06,706 --> 03:32:09,208 INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA AND 4078 03:32:09,208 --> 03:32:10,009 WORKING WITHIN A SYSTEM THAT 4079 03:32:10,009 --> 03:32:11,677 SOMETIMES COMPOUNDED THE TRAUMA 4080 03:32:11,677 --> 03:32:14,447 RATHER THAN ALLEVIATED IT 4081 03:32:14,447 --> 03:32:19,085 THROUGH THE REMOVAL PROCESS. 4082 03:32:19,085 --> 03:32:24,957 THAT WAS PROBAT -- PROBLEMATIC 4083 03:32:24,957 --> 03:32:27,059 AND THOUGHT I WAS GOING IN TO 4084 03:32:27,059 --> 03:32:29,995 FOCUS MORE ON TRAUMA AND THE 4085 03:32:29,995 --> 03:32:33,299 HISTORICAL TRAUMA COMPLEX AND I 4086 03:32:33,299 --> 03:32:35,534 AM LEARNING THAT BUT THEY ARE 4087 03:32:35,534 --> 03:32:37,536 TOLD ME DON'T ONLY LEARN ABOUT 4088 03:32:37,536 --> 03:32:38,137 THAT. 4089 03:32:38,137 --> 03:32:41,407 I LAD FEEDBACK FROM TRIBAL 4090 03:32:41,407 --> 03:32:43,376 LEADERS FROM BACK HOME THAT SAID 4091 03:32:43,376 --> 03:32:45,311 WE'RE GRATEFUL THOR THE 4092 03:32:45,311 --> 03:32:46,579 SCHOLARSHIP AND RESEARCH 4093 03:32:46,579 --> 03:32:48,447 SHEDDING LIGHT ON THAT BUT NOW 4094 03:32:48,447 --> 03:32:50,616 WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT TO DO AND 4095 03:32:50,616 --> 03:32:52,885 HOW TO BE HEALTHY AND WELL AND 4096 03:32:52,885 --> 03:32:55,354 WHAT WELL BEING MEANS ON OUR 4097 03:32:55,354 --> 03:32:55,755 TERMS. 4098 03:32:55,755 --> 03:32:57,189 THAT'S WHERE I CAME ACROSS THE 4099 03:32:57,189 --> 03:32:59,191 TERM CONNECTEDNESS AS I WAS 4100 03:32:59,191 --> 03:33:00,359 DOING THE LITERATURE REVIEW. 4101 03:33:00,359 --> 03:33:05,131 IT WAS DEFINED BY THE PEOPLE'S 4102 03:33:05,131 --> 03:33:06,298 AWAKENING TEAM OF SOUTHWEST 4103 03:33:06,298 --> 03:33:08,901 ALASKA AND THE INTERRELATED 4104 03:33:08,901 --> 03:33:10,803 WELFARE OF A PERSON, COMMUNITY 4105 03:33:10,803 --> 03:33:11,704 IN THE EARTH. 4106 03:33:11,704 --> 03:33:14,006 WHEN I SAW THE TERM I KNEW THIS 4107 03:33:14,006 --> 03:33:16,075 WAS IT AND WHAT I WANTED TO 4108 03:33:16,075 --> 03:33:17,777 STUDY AND EXPAND UPON AND WHAT I 4109 03:33:17,777 --> 03:33:19,745 WANT TO PROMOTE AND PUT OUT 4110 03:33:19,745 --> 03:33:22,848 THERE AND SEE IF WE CAN MAKE 4111 03:33:22,848 --> 03:33:25,117 SHIFTS WITHIN OUR FAMILIES, 4112 03:33:25,117 --> 03:33:25,851 COMMUNITIES AND THE SYSTEMS THAT 4113 03:33:25,851 --> 03:33:35,728 SERVE THEM. 4114 03:33:35,728 --> 03:33:36,662 INDIGENOUS CONNECTEDNESS AND ALL 4115 03:33:36,662 --> 03:33:39,064 PEOPLE NEED THE CONNECTEDNESS TO 4116 03:33:39,064 --> 03:33:40,433 FAMILY COMMUNITY AND ADDED IN A 4117 03:33:40,433 --> 03:33:42,268 COUPLE THINGS. 4118 03:33:42,268 --> 03:33:45,738 I ADDED IN SPIRIT AND THE 4119 03:33:45,738 --> 03:33:46,505 INTERGENERATIONAL PIECE. 4120 03:33:46,505 --> 03:33:48,407 KNOWING YOUR HISTORY AND WHO 4121 03:33:48,407 --> 03:33:51,644 YOUR ANCESTORS ARE HELPS YOU 4122 03:33:51,644 --> 03:33:53,279 FEEL GROUNDED IN KNOWING WHO YOU 4123 03:33:53,279 --> 03:33:53,646 ARE. 4124 03:33:53,646 --> 03:33:54,914 THAT'S AN ADDED COMPONENT. 4125 03:33:54,914 --> 03:34:01,353 I LEARNED ABOUT THIS CONCEPT OF 4126 03:34:01,353 --> 03:34:04,557 CULTURE WHEN I WENT TO MY 4127 03:34:04,557 --> 03:34:06,559 GRANDMOTHER AND ASKED HOW TO SAY 4128 03:34:06,559 --> 03:34:17,069 IT IN OUR NATIVE LANGUAGE AND 4129 03:34:17,403 --> 03:34:18,871 SPOKE IT TO HER DYING DAY AND 4130 03:34:18,871 --> 03:34:21,173 SAID WHAT IN THE WORLD IS 4131 03:34:21,173 --> 03:34:21,407 CULTURE? 4132 03:34:21,407 --> 03:34:22,675 I SAID IT'S OUR WAY OF LIFE. 4133 03:34:22,675 --> 03:34:25,711 THE FOOD WE EAT, THE CLOTHING WE 4134 03:34:25,711 --> 03:34:27,112 WEAR AND THE ART WE LOVE AND THE 4135 03:34:27,112 --> 03:34:29,515 WAY WE DEFINE BEAUTY IT'S ALL 4136 03:34:29,515 --> 03:34:33,886 THESE THINGS AND SHE LISTENED TO 4137 03:34:33,886 --> 03:34:37,556 ME AND SHE SAID, OKAY, SHE SAID 4138 03:34:37,556 --> 03:34:40,326 SPIRIT IN HER LANGUAGE. 4139 03:34:40,326 --> 03:34:46,265 I SAID OH, MY GOSH, THAT'S OUR 4140 03:34:46,265 --> 03:34:46,599 SPIRITUALITY. 4141 03:34:46,599 --> 03:34:50,603 I PUT SLASH 4142 03:34:50,603 --> 03:34:51,103 SPIRITUAL/CONNECTEDNESS. 4143 03:34:51,103 --> 03:34:53,739 I HOPE TO BRING MORE ON BOARD TO 4144 03:34:53,739 --> 03:34:54,640 WHAT WE CALL CULTURE IS OUR 4145 03:34:54,640 --> 03:35:04,884 SPIRITUALITY. 4146 03:35:05,618 --> 03:35:07,152 THESE RELATIONSHIPS IS WHAT 4147 03:35:07,152 --> 03:35:09,588 HELPS US DEVELOP A HEALTHIER 4148 03:35:09,588 --> 03:35:10,789 RELATIONSHIP WITH OURSELVES. 4149 03:35:10,789 --> 03:35:14,360 WHEN I KNOW WHO MY FAMILY AND 4150 03:35:14,360 --> 03:35:19,131 WHO MY COMMUNITY IS AND KNOW MY 4151 03:35:19,131 --> 03:35:20,633 ANCESTORS AND KNOW I'M AN 4152 03:35:20,633 --> 03:35:22,268 IMPORTANT PART OF HISTORY I'LL 4153 03:35:22,268 --> 03:35:24,904 BE A FUTURE ANCESTORS AND HAVE 4154 03:35:24,904 --> 03:35:25,838 FUTURE GENERATIONS DEPENDING ON 4155 03:35:25,838 --> 03:35:31,310 ME I'M CONNECTED TO THIS 4156 03:35:31,310 --> 03:35:35,414 BEAUTIFUL EARTH THAT HELPS ME BE 4157 03:35:35,414 --> 03:35:36,649 IN THE RIGHT RELATIONSHIP WITH 4158 03:35:36,649 --> 03:35:37,149 MYSELF. 4159 03:35:37,149 --> 03:35:41,954 THESE ARE ERRED BY OUR 4160 03:35:41,954 --> 03:35:44,223 TRADITIONAL VALUES OUR CULTURE 4161 03:35:44,223 --> 03:35:47,092 AND SPIRITUAL AND RELATIONAL 4162 03:35:47,092 --> 03:35:49,128 VALUES AND PRODUCE THE MEDICINE 4163 03:35:49,128 --> 03:35:52,464 THAT HELPS BUILD AND MAINTAIN 4164 03:35:52,464 --> 03:35:53,599 THE CONNECTEDNESS RELATIONSHIPS 4165 03:35:53,599 --> 03:35:56,936 AND HELPS US BEING GROUNDED IN 4166 03:35:56,936 --> 03:35:59,538 OUR INDIGENOUS SPIRITUALITY. 4167 03:35:59,538 --> 03:36:04,043 IT'S THROUGH THE ENERGY OF LOVE. 4168 03:36:04,043 --> 03:36:08,113 THIS WAS HANGING UP IN A HALLWAY 4169 03:36:08,113 --> 03:36:09,081 IN A RURAL COMMUNITY LAST YEAR 4170 03:36:09,081 --> 03:36:12,017 AND I TOOK A PICTURE WE JUST 4171 03:36:12,017 --> 03:36:15,387 LOVED AND FEEL LIKE MISS IS WHAT 4172 03:36:15,387 --> 03:36:17,456 MY GRANDMOTHER WAS TRYING TO 4173 03:36:17,456 --> 03:36:22,294 TEACH ME ABOUT LOVE. 4174 03:36:22,294 --> 03:36:25,197 THIS SNIPPET BY A FIRST OR 4175 03:36:25,197 --> 03:36:27,700 SECOND GRADER SAID LOVE IS WHEN 4176 03:36:27,700 --> 03:36:29,802 I HELP MY LITTLE SISTER OR 4177 03:36:29,802 --> 03:36:34,306 HELPING MY MOM CLEAN UP OR WHEN 4178 03:36:34,306 --> 03:36:36,575 MY DAD LET ME RIDE WITH HIM, 4179 03:36:36,575 --> 03:36:40,079 LOVE IS WHEN I DO MATH. 4180 03:36:40,079 --> 03:36:41,747 LOVE IS WHEN I PLAY. 4181 03:36:41,747 --> 03:36:43,015 LOVE IS AN ACTION TERM. 4182 03:36:43,015 --> 03:36:43,549 IT'S A VERB. 4183 03:36:43,549 --> 03:36:45,784 IT'S A WAY OF BEING AND WAY OF 4184 03:36:45,784 --> 03:36:54,693 LIVING AT THE SAME TIME. 4185 03:36:54,693 --> 03:36:56,996 I FEEL LIKE LOVE AND TO THE 4186 03:36:56,996 --> 03:36:59,198 RELATIONSHIP HELP HAVE AN INNER 4187 03:36:59,198 --> 03:37:03,302 ECOLOGY AND OUTER ECOLOGY. 4188 03:37:03,302 --> 03:37:05,204 THIS WAS A SCHOLAR WHO I LOVE 4189 03:37:05,204 --> 03:37:07,539 AND ADMIRE AND WISH I COULD HAVE 4190 03:37:07,539 --> 03:37:10,242 HAD A CHANCE TO MEET BUT HE 4191 03:37:10,242 --> 03:37:13,812 WROTE A BECOME ON THE WORLD VIEW 4192 03:37:13,812 --> 03:37:16,215 AND I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THE BOOK. 4193 03:37:16,215 --> 03:37:22,221 HE PRACTICED MINDFULNESS AND 4194 03:37:22,221 --> 03:37:24,089 TALKED ABOUT THE INNER ECOLOGY 4195 03:37:24,089 --> 03:37:25,357 AND PART OF THE HEALING WORK 4196 03:37:25,357 --> 03:37:26,225 WE'RE DOING. 4197 03:37:26,225 --> 03:37:28,560 WE'RE NURTURING THAT PART AND 4198 03:37:28,560 --> 03:37:29,795 DEVELOPING THAT HEALTHY INNER 4199 03:37:29,795 --> 03:37:39,938 ECOLOGY. 4200 03:37:43,075 --> 03:37:46,178 AND WE UNDERSTAND THAT YES WE'RE 4201 03:37:46,178 --> 03:37:47,346 A UNIQUE HUMAN BEING THAT IS 4202 03:37:47,346 --> 03:37:49,148 CONNECTED TO A COLLECTIVE AT THE 4203 03:37:49,148 --> 03:37:50,115 SAME TIME. 4204 03:37:50,115 --> 03:37:55,020 SO WHO I AM I'M STANDING BEFORE 4205 03:37:55,020 --> 03:37:58,290 YOU AS OUR FAMILY NAME WOMAN. 4206 03:37:58,290 --> 03:38:02,261 I'M STANDING BEFORE YOU AS A 4207 03:38:02,261 --> 03:38:03,162 DESCENDANT. 4208 03:38:03,162 --> 03:38:04,296 I'M STANDING BEFORE YOU AS SO 4209 03:38:04,296 --> 03:38:12,071 MUCH MORE THAN JUST MYSELF. 4210 03:38:12,071 --> 03:38:16,608 WE HAVE A RELATIONAL IDENTITY. 4211 03:38:16,608 --> 03:38:19,378 IT'S A LOT OF WORDS. 4212 03:38:19,378 --> 03:38:22,281 THIS IS THE RESULT OF THE 4213 03:38:22,281 --> 03:38:23,882 INDIGENOUS CONNECTEDNESS 4214 03:38:23,882 --> 03:38:28,754 FRAMEWORK AS RESULT OF ALL THE 4215 03:38:28,754 --> 03:38:29,021 RESEARCH. 4216 03:38:29,021 --> 03:38:33,459 I INTERVIEWED PEOPLE WITH LIVED 4217 03:38:33,459 --> 03:38:36,361 EXPERIENCE OF THE ALASKA CHILD 4218 03:38:36,361 --> 03:38:37,996 WELFARE SYSTEM AND THEY HELPED 4219 03:38:37,996 --> 03:38:39,264 ME UNDERSTAND THIS MORE. 4220 03:38:39,264 --> 03:38:42,267 THIS IS A SYMBOL I SAW IN A LOT 4221 03:38:42,267 --> 03:38:43,235 OF ARTWORK IN OUR COMMUNITY AND 4222 03:38:43,235 --> 03:38:47,406 HAVE COME TO LEARN IT MEANS THE 4223 03:38:47,406 --> 03:38:52,845 EYE OF AWARENESS FROM MY 4224 03:38:52,845 --> 03:39:00,119 COLLEAGUE AND THE OUTER SPOKES 4225 03:39:00,119 --> 03:39:01,320 REPRESENT THE IMPORTANT 4226 03:39:01,320 --> 03:39:01,687 RELATIONSHIP. 4227 03:39:01,687 --> 03:39:04,089 THE RED WORDS IS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 4228 03:39:04,089 --> 03:39:05,390 OF THE TRAUMA AND CHALLENGES AND 4229 03:39:05,390 --> 03:39:06,725 STRUGGLED WE WANT TO PREVENT 4230 03:39:06,725 --> 03:39:12,798 FROM BECOMING SOURCES OF 4231 03:39:12,798 --> 03:39:14,399 DISCONNECT OR SEPARATION OR 4232 03:39:14,399 --> 03:39:15,801 FURTHER LIKE DISTANCE FROM WHO 4233 03:39:15,801 --> 03:39:18,003 WERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE COME 4234 03:39:18,003 --> 03:39:18,270 FROM. 4235 03:39:18,270 --> 03:39:20,405 THE OUTER BLUE CIRCLES REPRESENT 4236 03:39:20,405 --> 03:39:26,311 THE PRACTICES THOSE RELATIONAL 4237 03:39:26,311 --> 03:39:29,047 PRACTICES THAT SUSTAIN US AND IS 4238 03:39:29,047 --> 03:39:30,749 THAT RELATIONAL MEDICINE THAT 4239 03:39:30,749 --> 03:39:33,085 HELPS AND BUILD MAINTAIN 4240 03:39:33,085 --> 03:39:34,586 INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND THE INNER 4241 03:39:34,586 --> 03:39:37,456 CIRCLE IS THE RESULT OF ALL 4242 03:39:37,456 --> 03:39:39,191 THESE HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS WE 4243 03:39:39,191 --> 03:39:40,726 WANT TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN WITH 4244 03:39:40,726 --> 03:39:42,161 GOOD BOUNDARIES. 4245 03:39:42,161 --> 03:39:44,997 IT REPRESENTS LIKE WHAT THAT 4246 03:39:44,997 --> 03:39:47,299 PROVIDES US INTERNALLY A SENSE 4247 03:39:47,299 --> 03:39:48,734 OF SELF-WORTH. 4248 03:39:48,734 --> 03:39:50,302 WE KNOW WHO WE ARE. 4249 03:39:50,302 --> 03:39:54,306 WE KNOW WE'RE RELATIONSHIP HUMAN 4250 03:39:54,306 --> 03:39:59,912 BEING. 4251 03:39:59,912 --> 03:40:03,081 I WAS INVITED BY MY OWN TRIBE TO 4252 03:40:03,081 --> 03:40:05,851 SAY OKAY, HOW ABOUT YOU BUILD A 4253 03:40:05,851 --> 03:40:07,886 CURRICULUM ON THE INDIGENOUS 4254 03:40:07,886 --> 03:40:09,688 CONNECTEDNESS FRAMEWORK AND I'M 4255 03:40:09,688 --> 03:40:11,490 LIKE OH, MY GOSH, YES. 4256 03:40:11,490 --> 03:40:13,025 I WANT TO DO THAT. 4257 03:40:13,025 --> 03:40:15,360 I WORKED WITH THEM OVER A SUMMER 4258 03:40:15,360 --> 03:40:21,767 AND DRAFTED UP A CURRICULUM AND 4259 03:40:21,767 --> 03:40:26,839 THANK GOODNESS I SAID LET'S GO 4260 03:40:26,839 --> 03:40:28,574 BACK AND DOUBLE CHECK AND SHOW 4261 03:40:28,574 --> 03:40:32,211 THEM A PREVIEW OF THE CURRICULUM 4262 03:40:32,211 --> 03:40:34,546 AND MAKE SURE WE'RE ON THE RIGHT 4263 03:40:34,546 --> 03:40:36,682 TRACK AND THANK GOODNESS WE DID 4264 03:40:36,682 --> 03:40:37,716 THAT BECAUSE ONE THING WE 4265 03:40:37,716 --> 03:40:38,851 LEARNED FROM HOLDING THE FOCUS 4266 03:40:38,851 --> 03:40:40,519 GROUPS IS IT'S NOT ENOUGH TO SIT 4267 03:40:40,519 --> 03:40:46,291 IN A CLASSROOM AND JUST HEAR 4268 03:40:46,291 --> 03:40:47,492 ABOUT THIS. 4269 03:40:47,492 --> 03:40:49,561 THE FEEDBACK IS WE NEED THEM TO 4270 03:40:49,561 --> 03:40:50,295 LIVE THIS. 4271 03:40:50,295 --> 03:40:52,631 THEY HAVE TO LIVE OUR VALUES AND 4272 03:40:52,631 --> 03:40:54,533 SUGGESTED THAT WE DO THAT BY 4273 03:40:54,533 --> 03:40:57,803 GETTING OUT ON THE LAND AND 4274 03:40:57,803 --> 03:40:59,671 ENGAGING IN THE SUBSISTENCE 4275 03:40:59,671 --> 03:40:59,938 PRACTICES. 4276 03:40:59,938 --> 03:41:00,772 BY DOING THE THINGS INSTEAD OF 4277 03:41:00,772 --> 03:41:04,309 JUST TALKING ABOUT IT. 4278 03:41:04,309 --> 03:41:05,077 AND THEY SAID DO IT. 4279 03:41:05,077 --> 03:41:07,112 DO THE DANCING AND THE SINGING 4280 03:41:07,112 --> 03:41:07,746 AND ALL THOSE SORTS OF 4281 03:41:07,746 --> 03:41:12,384 ACTIVITIES. 4282 03:41:12,384 --> 03:41:13,552 WE UPDATED THE FRAMEWORK. 4283 03:41:13,552 --> 03:41:14,853 THE OTHER FEEDBACK I GOT FROM 4284 03:41:14,853 --> 03:41:16,555 COMMUNITY WHEN I SHOWED THE LAST 4285 03:41:16,555 --> 03:41:18,457 FRAMEWORK THEY WERE LIKE TOO 4286 03:41:18,457 --> 03:41:22,394 MANY WORDS. 4287 03:41:22,394 --> 03:41:25,063 WE REVISED AND ADAPTED THE FRAME 4288 03:41:25,063 --> 03:41:27,566 WORK TO FIT WHAT COMMUNITY AND 4289 03:41:27,566 --> 03:41:34,206 ELDERS WERE ADVISING US TO 4290 03:41:34,206 --> 03:41:44,650 IMPLEMENT AS INTERVENTION. 4291 03:42:28,593 --> 03:42:30,228 IF IT WON'T WORK, THAT'S FINE. 4292 03:42:30,228 --> 03:42:35,200 I CAN DESCRIBE WHAT WE WOUND UP 4293 03:42:35,200 --> 03:42:35,534 IMPLEMENTING. 4294 03:42:35,534 --> 03:42:38,603 SO WE IMPLEMENTED A WELLNESS 4295 03:42:38,603 --> 03:42:41,606 WORKSHOP THAT IS DESIGN TO BRING 4296 03:42:41,606 --> 03:42:47,079 WHOLE FAMILIES TOGETHER. 4297 03:42:47,079 --> 03:42:50,415 WE INVITED ELDERS TO CO-LEAD AND 4298 03:42:50,415 --> 03:42:52,117 CO-FACILITATE AND ELDER 4299 03:42:52,117 --> 03:42:54,086 GRANDPARENTS WHO MAYBE ARE 4300 03:42:54,086 --> 03:42:56,221 TAKING CARE OF THEIR 4301 03:42:56,221 --> 03:42:57,356 GRANDCHILDREN AND BROUGHT IN 4302 03:42:57,356 --> 03:42:59,558 FOSTER PARENTS AND BIOLOGICAL 4303 03:42:59,558 --> 03:43:01,893 PARENTS, WE'RE TALKING WITH 4304 03:43:01,893 --> 03:43:03,795 PARENTS AND BRINGING PARENT 4305 03:43:03,795 --> 03:43:04,429 CAREGIVERS IN AS WELL AS THEIR 4306 03:43:04,429 --> 03:43:08,834 CHILDREN. 4307 03:43:08,834 --> 03:43:10,135 YOU FEEL LIKE A LOT OF CAMPS ARE 4308 03:43:10,135 --> 03:43:11,937 JUST FOR YOUTH OR ELDERS IN 4309 03:43:11,937 --> 03:43:14,539 YOUTH. 4310 03:43:14,539 --> 03:43:17,275 I FEEL LIKE WE'RE MISSING THE 4311 03:43:17,275 --> 03:43:19,578 CAREGIVERS, THE PARENTS. 4312 03:43:19,578 --> 03:43:21,646 WE WERE LIKE LET'S BRING WHOLE 4313 03:43:21,646 --> 03:43:22,047 FAMILIES TOGETHER. 4314 03:43:22,047 --> 03:43:26,852 SO WE RENTED OUT A COUPLE TRIBAL 4315 03:43:26,852 --> 03:43:31,757 BMBs AND STAYED FOR A WHOLE 4316 03:43:31,757 --> 03:43:33,658 WEEKEND AND HAD AN AMAZING 4317 03:43:33,658 --> 03:43:33,959 EXPERIENCE. 4318 03:43:33,959 --> 03:43:38,930 WE STARTED OUT WITH WELCOMING 4319 03:43:38,930 --> 03:43:40,032 ATTENDEES WITH SONG AND DANCE 4320 03:43:40,032 --> 03:43:42,434 AND HAD A WHOLE LIST OF 4321 03:43:42,434 --> 03:43:43,635 ACTIVITIES WE WERE PLANNING TO 4322 03:43:43,635 --> 03:43:44,936 ENGAGE IN DEPENDING ON TE 4323 03:43:44,936 --> 03:43:50,275 WEATHER AND SELECTED THE AIRBNBs 4324 03:43:50,275 --> 03:43:55,814 TO ACCESS THE ACTIVITIES IT WAS 4325 03:43:55,814 --> 03:43:58,417 A PHENOMENAL EXPERIENCE AND THIS 4326 03:43:58,417 --> 03:44:01,720 IS FEEDBACK IN THE CLOSING FOCUS 4327 03:44:01,720 --> 03:44:01,920 GROUP. 4328 03:44:01,920 --> 03:44:04,556 ONE PARENT EXPRESSED GRATITUDE 4329 03:44:04,556 --> 03:44:05,891 FOR HOW MUCH EVERYONE POURED 4330 03:44:05,891 --> 03:44:09,094 LOVE INTO HER AND WITNESSED 4331 03:44:09,094 --> 03:44:10,429 ELDERS HEAL AND OPEN UP TO 4332 03:44:10,429 --> 03:44:14,900 SHARING KNOWLEDGES AND GUESTS. 4333 03:44:14,900 --> 03:44:17,335 WE HAD PARENTS SPEAK ABOUT 4334 03:44:17,335 --> 03:44:18,236 EFFECTIVENESS AND THEY GOT MORE 4335 03:44:18,236 --> 03:44:20,472 OUT OF IT THAN TREATMENT. 4336 03:44:20,472 --> 03:44:23,308 WE HAD AN 18-YEAR-OLD SAY I FEEL 4337 03:44:23,308 --> 03:44:24,242 LIKE I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM ONE 4338 03:44:24,242 --> 03:44:26,745 WEEKEND AND GAVE A SENSE OF 4339 03:44:26,745 --> 03:44:28,513 COMMUNITY AND WENT TO NOT 4340 03:44:28,513 --> 03:44:31,316 KNOWING ANYONE TO FEELING LIKE A 4341 03:44:31,316 --> 03:44:33,118 FAMILY AND THE YOUNG ONES 4342 03:44:33,118 --> 03:44:36,288 STARTED CALLING EACH OTHER 4343 03:44:36,288 --> 03:44:38,023 COUSINS AND HAD CHILDREN BEING 4344 03:44:38,023 --> 03:44:39,724 SHY AND RESERVED TO BEING 4345 03:44:39,724 --> 03:44:40,992 OUTGOING AND PLAYING WITH EACH 4346 03:44:40,992 --> 03:44:41,193 OTHER. 4347 03:44:41,193 --> 03:44:41,927 IT WAS BEAUTIFUL. 4348 03:44:41,927 --> 03:44:47,566 AND ONE OF OUR MEASURES OF 4349 03:44:47,566 --> 03:44:49,668 SUCCESS WAS WE SAW PEOPLE 4350 03:44:49,668 --> 03:44:51,636 EXCHANGE PHONE NUMBERS AND 4351 03:44:51,636 --> 03:44:57,209 MAINTAINING CONTACT AFTERWARDS. 4352 03:44:57,209 --> 03:44:59,444 ON ANOTHER PROJECT WE DID 4353 03:44:59,444 --> 03:45:02,280 DIGITAL STORIES AND INTERVIEWS 4354 03:45:02,280 --> 03:45:03,982 WITH YOUNG PEOPLE AND THREE 4355 03:45:03,982 --> 03:45:04,649 RURAL COMMUNITIES. 4356 03:45:04,649 --> 03:45:08,086 THIS IS WHERE I FEEL LIKE WE 4357 03:45:08,086 --> 03:45:09,821 NEED MULTIPLE LEVELS OF 4358 03:45:09,821 --> 03:45:13,992 INTERVENTION HERE. 4359 03:45:13,992 --> 03:45:15,093 THE COMMUNITY CAN INTERVENE BY 4360 03:45:15,093 --> 03:45:16,128 BEING THERE AND SHOWING UP AND 4361 03:45:16,128 --> 03:45:17,562 GOING TO THE GAMES. 4362 03:45:17,562 --> 03:45:18,630 LISTENING TO YOUR YOUNG PEOPLE 4363 03:45:18,630 --> 03:45:20,765 BY HOSTING THOSE GATHERS AND 4364 03:45:20,765 --> 03:45:27,372 ATTENDING THOSE CEREMONIES. 4365 03:45:27,372 --> 03:45:29,074 ENCOURAGING OUR YOUNG ONES WITH 4366 03:45:29,074 --> 03:45:30,408 CONNECTION TO CULTURE AND 4367 03:45:30,408 --> 03:45:31,376 SPIRITUALITY AND LAND AND 4368 03:45:31,376 --> 03:45:32,043 ANIMALS. 4369 03:45:32,043 --> 03:45:38,283 AS A COMMUNITY IT'S A SHARED 4370 03:45:38,283 --> 03:45:40,218 RESPONSIBILITY. 4371 03:45:40,218 --> 03:45:42,287 ON ONE OTHER PROJECT WE'RE IN 4372 03:45:42,287 --> 03:45:45,457 THE EARLY STAGES ASKING 4373 03:45:45,457 --> 03:45:49,594 COMMUNITY MEMBERS ABOUT WHAT 4374 03:45:49,594 --> 03:45:52,764 SUPPORTS INTERGENERATIONAL WELL 4375 03:45:52,764 --> 03:45:55,200 BEING AND THIS IS A COMMUNITY 4376 03:45:55,200 --> 03:45:56,568 EFFORT FOR KINSHIP CARE. 4377 03:45:56,568 --> 03:45:59,471 I HELD FOCUS GROUPS IN A COUPLE 4378 03:45:59,471 --> 03:46:01,006 COMMUNITIES IN PETERSBURG. 4379 03:46:01,006 --> 03:46:03,708 HAD A PHENOMENAL GATHERING. 4380 03:46:03,708 --> 03:46:05,977 SO MANY ELDERS CAME AND SPOKE 4381 03:46:05,977 --> 03:46:10,348 ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES BEING A 4382 03:46:10,348 --> 03:46:12,951 GRANDPARENT CAREGIVER AND TALKED 4383 03:46:12,951 --> 03:46:13,852 QUITE A BIT ABOUT THEIR BOARDING 4384 03:46:13,852 --> 03:46:17,956 SCHOOL EXPERIENCES AS WELL. 4385 03:46:17,956 --> 03:46:20,258 42 OVER ARCHING MESSAGE WAS OF 4386 03:46:20,258 --> 03:46:20,458 HOPE. 4387 03:46:20,458 --> 03:46:22,527 AND MANY OF THEM HAD THE 4388 03:46:22,527 --> 03:46:25,497 DETERMINATION AND THE 4389 03:46:25,497 --> 03:46:26,464 PERSEVERANCE AND THEY'RE LIKE 4390 03:46:26,464 --> 03:46:29,067 WE'RE JUST GOING TO DO IT AND 4391 03:46:29,067 --> 03:46:32,370 GOING TO SEW THIS BECAUSE MY 4392 03:46:32,370 --> 03:46:40,845 GRANDDAUGHTER NEEDS THAT. 4393 03:46:40,845 --> 03:46:42,013 PEOPLE ARE LEARNING AND TEACHING 4394 03:46:42,013 --> 03:46:43,682 AT THE SAME TIME AND I'M EXCITED 4395 03:46:43,682 --> 03:46:50,722 TO SEE WHAT WE BUILD FROM THAT. 4396 03:46:50,722 --> 03:46:53,858 THE MAIN MESSAGE IS FOCUSSING ON 4397 03:46:53,858 --> 03:46:54,793 WELL BEING HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE 4398 03:46:54,793 --> 03:46:55,794 AND WITHIN OUR TRIBAL 4399 03:46:55,794 --> 03:46:57,295 COMMUNITIES IT'S ABOUT A THEORY 4400 03:46:57,295 --> 03:46:57,796 OF CONNECTION. 4401 03:46:57,796 --> 03:47:02,901 WHAT IS IT THAT WILL HELP US RE 4402 03:47:02,901 --> 03:47:03,401 CONN 4403 03:47:03,401 --> 03:47:03,635 CONNECT. 4404 03:47:03,635 --> 03:47:05,670 WHAT IS IT WE CAN DO TO SUPPORT 4405 03:47:05,670 --> 03:47:07,639 THE FORMING OF THE CIRCLE ONCE 4406 03:47:07,639 --> 03:47:08,873 AGAIN AND ABOUT THE SYSTEMS IT'S 4407 03:47:08,873 --> 03:47:12,611 A THEORY OF CHANGE. 4408 03:47:12,611 --> 03:47:14,279 IT'S ABOUT HOW TO ENGAGE IN THE 4409 03:47:14,279 --> 03:47:15,647 WORK AND RESEARCH IN A GOOD WAY 4410 03:47:15,647 --> 03:47:18,116 COMING FROM THAT PLACE OF LOVE. 4411 03:47:18,116 --> 03:47:21,152 COMING FROM THAT WELL BEING 4412 03:47:21,152 --> 03:47:26,625 FOCUS AND PREVENTION MEASURES. 4413 03:47:26,625 --> 03:47:29,060 COMING FROM RELATIONALITY AND 4414 03:47:29,060 --> 03:47:30,161 HONORING OUR ELDERS AND 4415 03:47:30,161 --> 03:47:33,164 COMMUNITY MEMBERS AS THE EXPERTS 4416 03:47:33,164 --> 03:47:38,303 AND THEN IT'S THE SYSTEM'S JOB 4417 03:47:38,303 --> 03:47:39,137 TO BE RESPONSIVE. 4418 03:47:39,137 --> 03:47:48,880 SO I'LL END WITH THAT. 4419 03:47:48,880 --> 03:47:50,282 >> THANK YOU. 4420 03:47:50,282 --> 03:47:55,387 WE'LL PASS IT OVER TO 4421 03:47:55,387 --> 03:47:58,156 DR. MICHELLE SARCHE AND I WE'RE 4422 03:47:58,156 --> 03:48:00,058 CLOSE TO LUNCH BUT TRY TO KEEP 4423 03:48:00,058 --> 03:48:03,228 IT TO 10 MINUTES PAST 1:00 IF WE 4424 03:48:03,228 --> 03:48:03,495 CAN. 4425 03:48:03,495 --> 03:48:04,929 I'LL GIVE THE SIGN. 4426 03:48:04,929 --> 03:48:07,132 >> YOU MIGHT HAVE TO SHOUT. 4427 03:48:07,132 --> 03:48:10,268 GOOD AFTERNOON. 4428 03:48:10,268 --> 03:48:14,439 MY NAME IS MICHELLE SARCHE 4429 03:48:14,439 --> 03:48:20,245 PROFESSOR AT THE BUFFET EARLY 4430 03:48:20,245 --> 03:48:21,579 INSTITUTE AND BEFORE THAT I WAS 4431 03:48:21,579 --> 03:48:26,318 A PROFESSOR AT THE MEDICAL 4432 03:48:26,318 --> 03:48:36,127 CAMPUS AND CENTERS FOR AMERICAN 4433 03:48:36,127 --> 03:48:37,262 INDIAN AND NATIVE ALASKAN 4434 03:48:37,262 --> 03:48:37,529 HEALTH. 4435 03:48:37,529 --> 03:48:38,830 I'VE BEEN A RESEARCHER. 4436 03:48:38,830 --> 03:48:41,232 OVER THREE DECADES IT'S BEEN MY 4437 03:48:41,232 --> 03:48:42,801 HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO PARTNER 4438 03:48:42,801 --> 03:48:44,135 WITH TRIBAL COMMUNITIES ACROSS 4439 03:48:44,135 --> 03:48:45,704 THE COUNTRY IN RESEARCH TO 4440 03:48:45,704 --> 03:48:48,506 SUPPORT CHILD AND FAMILY HEALTH 4441 03:48:48,506 --> 03:48:50,775 AND WELL BEING. 4442 03:48:50,775 --> 03:48:52,444 BEFORE SHARING MORE ABOUT SOME 4443 03:48:52,444 --> 03:48:54,312 OF THIS RESEARCH AS IT RELATE TO 4444 03:48:54,312 --> 03:48:55,613 PATHWAYS IN THRIVING AND 4445 03:48:55,613 --> 03:48:58,283 CENTERING LOVE AND THIS PANEL'S 4446 03:48:58,283 --> 03:49:02,354 FOCUS ON BUILDING HEALTHFUL 4447 03:49:02,354 --> 03:49:03,521 CONNECTIONS AND PARENTING, LIKE 4448 03:49:03,521 --> 03:49:05,623 THE OTHER PRESENTERS I WANTED TO 4449 03:49:05,623 --> 03:49:06,858 SHARE MORE ABOUT WHO IS ENTERING 4450 03:49:06,858 --> 03:49:08,560 THE SPACE WITH ME TODAY. 4451 03:49:08,560 --> 03:49:12,497 MY GRANDMOTHER AND SORRY IT'S 4452 03:49:12,497 --> 03:49:14,199 GRAINY, WAS ROSE HUFF. 4453 03:49:14,199 --> 03:49:22,107 SHE WAS BORN IN 1907 ON A 4454 03:49:22,107 --> 03:49:25,276 RESERVATION IN WISCONSIN AND 4455 03:49:25,276 --> 03:49:26,244 ATTENDED A MISSION SCHOOL AND 4456 03:49:26,244 --> 03:49:28,279 THOUGH IT WAS NOT TO MY 4457 03:49:28,279 --> 03:49:30,982 KNOWLEDGE A BOARDING SCHOOL I 4458 03:49:30,982 --> 03:49:33,017 SERVED A SIMILAR PURPOSE TO 4459 03:49:33,017 --> 03:49:36,287 DISCONNECT HER FROM HER 4460 03:49:36,287 --> 03:49:40,158 LANGUAGE, CULTURE AND COMMUNITY 4461 03:49:40,158 --> 03:49:42,293 AND SENSE OF HERSELF. 4462 03:49:42,293 --> 03:49:44,929 I WAS CLOSE TO MY GRANDMOTHER. 4463 03:49:44,929 --> 03:49:48,299 SHE RAISED ME THE FIRST YEAR AND 4464 03:49:48,299 --> 03:49:50,769 A HALF OF MY LIFE AND SHE WAS MY 4465 03:49:50,769 --> 03:49:54,472 BIGGEST CHAMPION IN HER QUIET 4466 03:49:54,472 --> 03:49:58,777 AND LOVED WITHOUT CONDITION AND 4467 03:49:58,777 --> 03:50:00,111 AS A CHILD DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH 4468 03:50:00,111 --> 03:50:03,314 SHOWS THE PRESENCE OF A SINGLE 4469 03:50:03,314 --> 03:50:05,917 STABLE SUPPORTIVE AND CARING 4470 03:50:05,917 --> 03:50:08,453 ADULT IN ONE'S LIFE IS AMONG THE 4471 03:50:08,453 --> 03:50:12,290 MOST PROTECTIVE FACTORS THAT CAN 4472 03:50:12,290 --> 03:50:12,957 PROMOTE RESILIENCE IN THE FACE 4473 03:50:12,957 --> 03:50:22,767 OF LIFE HARDSHIP ED S AND HER 4474 03:50:22,767 --> 03:50:25,069 PRESENCE REMAINS AND IN SPIDERS 4475 03:50:25,069 --> 03:50:25,403 ME IN THE WORK I 4476 03:50:27,972 --> 03:50:33,611 INSPIRES THE IN THE WORK I DO. 4477 03:50:33,611 --> 03:50:36,214 IN MY TIME IN ACADEMIA 20 YEARS 4478 03:50:36,214 --> 03:50:38,283 HAVE BEEN IN CHILD RESEARCH AND 4479 03:50:38,283 --> 03:50:42,720 RESEARCH FOCUSSED ON HOME 4480 03:50:42,720 --> 03:50:44,456 VISITING AND MENTORING THE NEXT 4481 03:50:44,456 --> 03:50:47,392 GENERATION OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT 4482 03:50:47,392 --> 03:50:49,861 RESEARCH SCHOLARS. 4483 03:50:49,861 --> 03:50:55,099 AND BUILDING A NATIONAL 4484 03:50:55,099 --> 03:50:56,100 INDIGENOUS CHILD DEVELOPMENT 4485 03:50:56,100 --> 03:50:56,734 RESEARCH NETWORK. 4486 03:50:56,734 --> 03:50:58,269 I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE WORK FOR 4487 03:50:58,269 --> 03:51:00,672 CREATING PATHWAYS TO THRIVING 4488 03:51:00,672 --> 03:51:04,742 AND CENTERING LOVE. 4489 03:51:04,742 --> 03:51:07,412 AGAIN ESPECIALLY THROUGH HEDGE 4490 03:51:07,412 --> 03:51:10,782 OF HEALTHFUL CONNECTIONS AND WAY 4491 03:51:10,782 --> 03:51:14,486 IN THE TO HIGHLIGHT THE SURVEY 4492 03:51:14,486 --> 03:51:17,121 OR AIAN PHRASES. 4493 03:51:17,121 --> 03:51:25,463 THE FIRST NATIONALLY 4494 03:51:25,463 --> 03:51:26,231 REPRESENTATIVE HEAD START 4495 03:51:26,231 --> 03:51:28,600 THROUGH GRANTS OF TRIBES OR 4496 03:51:28,600 --> 03:51:31,569 CONSORTIA OF TRIBES AND SERVE 4497 03:51:31,569 --> 03:51:36,474 ROUGHLY HALF THE AMERICAN INDIAN 4498 03:51:36,474 --> 03:51:38,376 AND ALASKAN NATIVE RESERVATIONS 4499 03:51:38,376 --> 03:51:42,747 AND STARTED IN 2016, 2019 AND 4500 03:51:42,747 --> 03:51:46,284 2020 AND THERE WERE OVER 20 4501 03:51:46,284 --> 03:51:49,187 REGION 11 PROGRAMS SITUATED IN 4502 03:51:49,187 --> 03:51:59,731 20 TRIBAL COMMUNITIES EACH TIME. 4503 03:52:01,466 --> 03:52:02,734 THROUGH DIRECT ASSESSMENTS OF 4504 03:52:02,734 --> 03:52:03,735 CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT ACROSS TO 4505 03:52:03,735 --> 03:52:05,637 THE HEAD START YEAR. 4506 03:52:05,637 --> 03:52:07,772 THERE'S A TROVE OF INFORMATION 4507 03:52:07,772 --> 03:52:10,708 POSTED ON THE WEBSITE AND A 4508 03:52:10,708 --> 03:52:13,011 PAPER PUBLISHED IN THE AMERICAN 4509 03:52:13,011 --> 03:52:15,380 JOURNAL OF COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY 4510 03:52:15,380 --> 03:52:17,515 IN 2021 THAT DETAILS THE ENGAGED 4511 03:52:17,515 --> 03:52:18,416 APPROACH FOR PLANNING FOR THE 4512 03:52:18,416 --> 03:52:22,186 STUDY AND ENSURING THE NEEDS AND 4513 03:52:22,186 --> 03:52:23,187 PRIORITIES OF REGIONAL 11 HEAD 4514 03:52:23,187 --> 03:52:23,755 START PROGRAMS WERE AT THE 4515 03:52:23,755 --> 03:52:28,326 FOREFRONT. 4516 03:52:28,326 --> 03:52:34,899 AS WE CONSIDER PANEL W-- PATHWAS 4517 03:52:34,899 --> 03:52:36,668 TO THIS AND CULTURE IS CRITICAL 4518 03:52:36,668 --> 03:52:38,970 FOR THE ROAD TO HEALING. 4519 03:52:38,970 --> 03:52:40,505 ACCORDING TO DATA MORE THAN 90% 4520 03:52:40,505 --> 03:52:43,007 OF PARENTS SAID IT WAS SOMEWHAT 4521 03:52:43,007 --> 03:52:46,878 OR VERY IMPORTANT THEIR TRIALED 4522 03:52:46,878 --> 03:52:47,445 LEARN THEIR TRIBAL LANGUAGE. 4523 03:52:47,445 --> 03:52:51,749 RAT THE SAME TIME MORE THAN 90% 4524 03:52:51,749 --> 03:52:54,786 ALSO SAID ENGLISH WAS THE 4525 03:52:54,786 --> 03:52:56,020 PRIMARY LANGUAGE SPOKEN IN THE 4526 03:52:56,020 --> 03:52:58,289 HOME AND MORE THAN 50% SAID 4527 03:52:58,289 --> 03:53:01,225 ENGLISH WAS THE ONLY LANGUAGE 4528 03:53:01,225 --> 03:53:03,261 SPOKEN IN THE HOME. 4529 03:53:03,261 --> 03:53:06,297 THESE DATA INDICATE THE CRITICAL 4530 03:53:06,297 --> 03:53:08,633 LEAD FOR TRIBAL REVITALIZATION 4531 03:53:08,633 --> 03:53:11,603 AND LIKE HEAD START CAN PLAY FOR 4532 03:53:11,603 --> 03:53:15,540 BOTH CHILDREN FLAFT LANGUAGE 4533 03:53:15,540 --> 03:53:16,074 LEARNING AS WELL AS THEIR 4534 03:53:16,074 --> 03:53:16,708 PARENTS. 4535 03:53:16,708 --> 03:53:20,178 AN DITION TO PRIORITIZE NATIVE 4536 03:53:20,178 --> 03:53:21,212 LANGUAGE PARENTS PRIORITIZED 4537 03:53:21,212 --> 03:53:23,014 THEIR CHILDREN'S ENGAGEMENT IN 4538 03:53:23,014 --> 03:53:24,882 CULTURE AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES 4539 03:53:24,882 --> 03:53:27,185 WITH OVER 80% INDICATED THEIR 4540 03:53:27,185 --> 03:53:29,287 CHILD PARTICIPATED IN AT LEAST 4541 03:53:29,287 --> 03:53:30,288 ONE OR CULTURAL COMMUNITY EVENT 4542 03:53:30,288 --> 03:53:31,089 IN THE LAST MONTH. 4543 03:53:31,089 --> 03:53:33,992 HEAD START PLAYS AN IMPORTANT 4544 03:53:33,992 --> 03:53:36,928 ROLE IN SUPPORTING CULTURAL 4545 03:53:36,928 --> 03:53:38,129 ENGAGEMENT AS WELL WITH OVER 70% 4546 03:53:38,129 --> 03:53:40,098 OF CHILDREN BEING IN CENTERED 4547 03:53:40,098 --> 03:53:42,467 AND PROGRAMS THAT HAVE A 4548 03:53:42,467 --> 03:53:44,569 CULTURAL SPECIALIST OR ELDER 4549 03:53:44,569 --> 03:53:47,405 AVAILABLE AND NEARLY A QUARTER 4550 03:53:47,405 --> 03:53:49,641 ATTENDING USING CULTURALLY BASED 4551 03:53:49,641 --> 03:53:59,851 CURRICULUM. 4552 03:54:01,819 --> 03:54:04,422 AND THIS PROGRAM IS TITLED A 4553 03:54:04,422 --> 03:54:06,290 FIRCHLING THE USE OF INDIGENOUS 4554 03:54:06,290 --> 03:54:08,526 KNOWLEDGES TO MEET CURRICULA AND 4555 03:54:08,526 --> 03:54:13,731 ASSESSMENT REQUIREMENT INS 4556 03:54:13,731 --> 03:54:16,034 AMERICAN INDIAN AND ALASKAN 4557 03:54:16,034 --> 03:54:18,169 NATIVE HEAD START. 4558 03:54:18,169 --> 03:54:19,404 AS THOSE KNOW IMPLEMENTING 4559 03:54:19,404 --> 03:54:20,505 PROGRAMS IN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH OR 4560 03:54:20,505 --> 03:54:21,706 WHATEVER SPACE YOU'RE IN, CHILD 4561 03:54:21,706 --> 03:54:24,542 DEVELOP SACRAMENTO, WHATEVER, 4562 03:54:24,542 --> 03:54:30,281 YOU'RE OFTEN COMPELLED TO USE, 4563 03:54:30,281 --> 03:54:33,217 QUOTE, UNQUOTE, EVIDENCE-BASED 4564 03:54:33,217 --> 03:54:36,120 PROGRAMS OR CURRICULA AND HIS 4565 03:54:36,120 --> 03:54:38,890 GUIDANCE AFFIRMS BY APPLYING 4566 03:54:38,890 --> 03:54:40,792 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE TO 4567 03:54:40,792 --> 03:54:41,793 DEVELOPING, ADAPTING AND 4568 03:54:41,793 --> 03:54:43,361 IMPLEMENTING CURRICULA, TRIBAL 4569 03:54:43,361 --> 03:54:46,597 HEAD START GRANT RECIPIENTS DO 4570 03:54:46,597 --> 03:54:49,567 MEET THE REQUIREMENTS THAT 4571 03:54:49,567 --> 03:54:56,774 CURRICULA ARE RESEARCH BASED AND 4572 03:54:56,774 --> 03:54:57,575 SCIENTIFICALLY VALID BASED ON 4573 03:54:57,575 --> 03:54:59,377 INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE. 4574 03:54:59,377 --> 03:55:01,813 THIS IS A HUGE LEAP FORWARD. 4575 03:55:01,813 --> 03:55:04,916 UNDER SCORING THE IMPORTANCE OF 4576 03:55:04,916 --> 03:55:07,652 NURTURING CHILD-PARENT 4577 03:55:07,652 --> 03:55:08,286 RELATIONSHIPS IN THE EARLIEST 4578 03:55:08,286 --> 03:55:10,688 YEAR THIS IS PART OF THE 4579 03:55:10,688 --> 03:55:12,957 BUFFERING TOXIC STRESS 4580 03:55:12,957 --> 03:55:13,524 CONSORTIUM FUNDED BY THE 4581 03:55:13,524 --> 03:55:15,460 ADMINISTRATION OF CHILDREN AND 4582 03:55:15,460 --> 03:55:16,694 FAMILIES. 4583 03:55:16,694 --> 03:55:20,732 IT CONSISTED OF SIX EARLY HEAD 4584 03:55:20,732 --> 03:55:22,200 START PARTNERSHIP SITES 4585 03:55:22,200 --> 03:55:23,601 UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF 4586 03:55:23,601 --> 03:55:25,436 PARENT-CHILD REPS RELATIONSHIPS 4587 03:55:25,436 --> 03:55:31,776 AND BUFFERING THE IMPACT OF 4588 03:55:31,776 --> 03:55:33,978 STRESS ON CHILDREN'S DEVELOPMENT 4589 03:55:33,978 --> 03:55:37,348 AND IN THE STUDY WE SURVEYED 4590 03:55:37,348 --> 03:55:38,316 PARENTS, CONDUCTED OBSERVATIONS 4591 03:55:38,316 --> 03:55:41,419 OF PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS 4592 03:55:41,419 --> 03:55:44,522 AND USED HAIR SAMPLE TO MEASURE 4593 03:55:44,522 --> 03:55:46,290 CORTISOL LEVELS. 4594 03:55:46,290 --> 03:55:47,458 A MARKER OF STRESS IN BOTH 4595 03:55:47,458 --> 03:55:48,559 PARENTS AND CHILDREN. 4596 03:55:48,559 --> 03:55:50,628 WE FOUND A CORRELATION BETWEEN 4597 03:55:50,628 --> 03:55:53,431 PARENTS REPORT OF THEIR OWN 4598 03:55:53,431 --> 03:55:54,665 ADVERSE CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCES SO 4599 03:55:54,665 --> 03:55:56,701 AGAIN THOSE ARE THINGS THAT 4600 03:55:56,701 --> 03:56:02,273 HAPPENED BEFORE AGE 18 AND THEIR 4601 03:56:02,273 --> 03:56:05,576 CHILDREN'S CORTISOL LEVELS AND 4602 03:56:05,576 --> 03:56:06,844 CURRENT TIME AND THIS 4603 03:56:06,844 --> 03:56:08,913 ASSOCIATION WAS BUFFERED OR 4604 03:56:08,913 --> 03:56:12,350 DIMINISHED WHEN THE PARENT-CHILD 4605 03:56:12,350 --> 03:56:13,151 RELATIONSHIP WAS MARK WITH 4606 03:56:13,151 --> 03:56:14,719 HIGHER LEVELS OF EMOTIONAL 4607 03:56:14,719 --> 03:56:15,453 AVAILABILITY. 4608 03:56:15,453 --> 03:56:17,021 THE FINDINGS SUGGEST THAT 4609 03:56:17,021 --> 03:56:18,990 INTERVENTIONS THAT NURTURE THE 4610 03:56:18,990 --> 03:56:20,825 PARENT CHILD RELATIONSHIP IN THE 4611 03:56:20,825 --> 03:56:23,761 EARLIEST YEARS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR 4612 03:56:23,761 --> 03:56:26,764 DISRUPTING THE INTERGENERATIONAL 4613 03:56:26,764 --> 03:56:27,331 TRANSMISSION AND STRESS. 4614 03:56:27,331 --> 03:56:30,868 THE OTHER PROJECT I WANTED TO 4615 03:56:30,868 --> 03:56:32,503 HIGHLIGHT IS THE TRIBAL EARLY 4616 03:56:32,503 --> 03:56:34,272 CHILDHOOD RESEARCH CENTER. 4617 03:56:34,272 --> 03:56:35,006 TRAEDZ AL 4618 03:56:37,475 --> 03:56:42,280 IT'S MISSION IS TO GROW THE 4619 03:56:42,280 --> 03:56:44,515 FIELD OF EARLY CHILDHOOD 4620 03:56:44,515 --> 03:56:47,618 RESEARCH IN PARTNERSHIP THROUGH 4621 03:56:47,618 --> 03:56:53,124 LEADERSHIP AND RESEARCH AND 4622 03:56:53,124 --> 03:56:53,925 DISSEMINA 4623 03:56:53,925 --> 03:56:54,258 DISSEMINATION. 4624 03:56:54,258 --> 03:56:56,127 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THESE IN OUR 4625 03:56:56,127 --> 03:56:57,428 WEBSITE AND I'LL HIGHLIGHT A 4626 03:56:57,428 --> 03:56:57,595 FEW. 4627 03:56:57,595 --> 03:57:06,737 THIS MAY LOOK FAMILIAR TO YOU. 4628 03:57:06,737 --> 03:57:08,506 WE WERE EXCITED TO ADAPT THE 4629 03:57:08,506 --> 03:57:10,274 INDIGENOUS CONNECTEDNESS 4630 03:57:10,274 --> 03:57:13,411 FRAMEWORK FOR DEVELOPING A 4631 03:57:13,411 --> 03:57:15,179 MEASURE THAT'S GROUNDED IN 4632 03:57:15,179 --> 03:57:19,584 INDIGENOUS BELIEFS, PRACTICES OF 4633 03:57:19,584 --> 03:57:23,287 EARLY RELATIONAL WELL BEING. 4634 03:57:23,287 --> 03:57:26,290 WORKING WITH A COMMUNITY OF 4635 03:57:26,290 --> 03:57:30,294 LEARNING OF RESEARCHERS AND 4636 03:57:30,294 --> 03:57:31,028 PRACTITI 4637 03:57:31,028 --> 03:57:35,733 PRACTITIONERS WE WORKED TO 4638 03:57:35,733 --> 03:57:39,770 DEVELOP THIS MODEL THAT'S 4639 03:57:39,770 --> 03:57:43,140 DESCRIBED IN THE LINK AND IT 4640 03:57:43,140 --> 03:57:44,308 PLACES CHILDREN'S EARLY 4641 03:57:44,308 --> 03:57:47,478 RELATIONAL WELL BEING AT THE 4642 03:57:47,478 --> 03:57:49,380 CENTER AND SHOWS IT'S GROUNDED 4643 03:57:49,380 --> 03:57:53,084 IN CEREMONY AND CULTURE AND 4644 03:57:53,084 --> 03:57:55,853 PRACTICED THROUGH FAMILIAL AND 4645 03:57:55,853 --> 03:58:01,292 PRACTICES THAT PROMOTE 4646 03:58:01,292 --> 03:58:01,626 CONNECTEDNESS. 4647 03:58:01,626 --> 03:58:04,528 THIS IS OUR CONCEPTUAL MODEL AND 4648 03:58:04,528 --> 03:58:06,664 DEVELOP A MACHINE, A TOOL THAT 4649 03:58:06,664 --> 03:58:09,533 CAN BE USED IN RESEARCH OR 4650 03:58:09,533 --> 03:58:10,835 PRACTICE PARENTS CAN REPORT ON 4651 03:58:10,835 --> 03:58:13,304 THE KINDS OF PRACTICES THEY ARE 4652 03:58:13,304 --> 03:58:15,506 ENGAGE IN TO SUPPORT EARLY 4653 03:58:15,506 --> 03:58:20,344 RELATIONSHIP WELL BEING. 4654 03:58:20,344 --> 03:58:25,750 THE OTHER THING WE DO AND WE IT 4655 03:58:25,750 --> 03:58:26,384 HOST VIRTUAL LEARNING SERIES 4656 03:58:26,384 --> 03:58:28,586 WHERE OVER THE COURSE OF THREE 4657 03:58:28,586 --> 03:58:29,720 WEBINARS IN THE SPRING OF EACH 4658 03:58:29,720 --> 03:58:35,259 YEAR THESE ARE AN OPPORTUNITY TO 4659 03:58:35,259 --> 03:58:37,895 ELEVATE EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS 4660 03:58:37,895 --> 03:58:40,164 GROUNDING THEIR PRACTICES IN 4661 03:58:40,164 --> 03:58:41,632 INDIGENOUS BELIEFS AND 4662 03:58:41,632 --> 03:58:42,066 PRACTICES. 4663 03:58:42,066 --> 03:58:44,535 SO WE'VE HAD A FOCUS ON 4664 03:58:44,535 --> 03:58:47,672 INDIGENOUS LAND BASED LEARNING, 4665 03:58:47,672 --> 03:58:50,074 INDIGENOUS FOOD CERTAINTY AND 4666 03:58:50,074 --> 03:58:53,811 EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS AND 4667 03:58:53,811 --> 03:58:54,946 CULTURE REVITALIZATION AND THOSE 4668 03:58:54,946 --> 03:58:56,047 RECORDINGS ARE ALSO AVAILABLE ON 4669 03:58:56,047 --> 03:58:56,547 OUR WEBSITE. 4670 03:58:56,547 --> 03:58:57,715 I KNOW WE'LL HAVE TIME OVER 4671 03:58:57,715 --> 03:58:58,950 LUNCH TO CONNECT AND TALK MORE 4672 03:58:58,950 --> 03:59:00,217 IF YOU HAVE INTEREST AND WANT TO 4673 03:59:00,217 --> 03:59:10,661 SEE THESE LINKS UP CLOSE. 4674 03:59:13,197 --> 03:59:15,132 AND THERE'S THE NATIVE 4675 03:59:15,132 --> 03:59:21,639 CHILDREN'S RESEARCH EXCHANGE 4676 03:59:21,639 --> 03:59:23,341 AND PART OF OUR LEADERSHIP 4677 03:59:23,341 --> 03:59:25,343 ACTIVITIES BUT ED SUPPORT FROM 4678 03:59:25,343 --> 03:59:25,977 THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG 4679 03:59:25,977 --> 03:59:30,281 ABUSE. 4680 03:59:30,281 --> 03:59:32,750 AND THERE'S THE NATIONAL NETWORK 4681 03:59:32,750 --> 03:59:42,626 THAT CONVENES BIANNUALLY AND 4682 03:59:42,626 --> 03:59:51,202 EARLY CAREER INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS 4683 03:59:51,202 --> 03:59:53,371 AND ARE ESSENTIAL FOR KEEPING 4684 03:59:53,371 --> 03:59:54,372 THE INDIGENOUS WAYS OF KNOWING 4685 03:59:54,372 --> 03:59:55,940 AND BEING AND ENSURING 4686 03:59:55,940 --> 03:59:58,275 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE AT THE 4687 03:59:58,275 --> 04:00:04,148 HELM OF THAT RESEARCH. 4688 04:00:04,148 --> 04:00:05,649 WE'VE HAD 15 CONFERENCES SINCE 4689 04:00:05,649 --> 04:00:08,586 2008 AND THE NEXT ONE IS IN 4690 04:00:08,586 --> 04:00:12,189 SEPTEMBER 18 AND 19 IN DENVER 4691 04:00:12,189 --> 04:00:14,225 AND INVITE YOU TO JOIN US. 4692 04:00:14,225 --> 04:00:17,128 WE SUPPORTED ABOUT 35 EARLY 4693 04:00:17,128 --> 04:00:20,297 CAREER INDIGENOUS SCHOLARS STINS 4694 04:00:20,297 --> 04:00:22,433 OF SINCE THE PROGRAM STARTED IN 4695 04:00:22,433 --> 04:00:23,567 2012 AND WILL BE RECRUITING FOR 4696 04:00:23,567 --> 04:00:25,569 OF THE NEXT COHORT. 4697 04:00:25,569 --> 04:00:27,905 YOU CAN JOIN OUR LIST SERVE AND 4698 04:00:27,905 --> 04:00:29,073 FIND OUT ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS 4699 04:00:29,073 --> 04:00:30,274 AND IF YOU WANT TO JOIN THE LIST 4700 04:00:30,274 --> 04:00:40,584 SERVE, TALK TO ME. 4701 04:00:42,486 --> 04:00:43,654 THE OTHER PROJECT IS HOME 4702 04:00:43,654 --> 04:00:43,921 VISITING. 4703 04:00:43,921 --> 04:00:46,657 I DON'T KNOW HOW FAMILIAR YOU 4704 04:00:46,657 --> 04:00:50,828 ALL ARE WITH HOME VISITING BUT 4705 04:00:50,828 --> 04:00:56,167 PROVIDES SUPPORT TO PARENTS 4706 04:00:56,167 --> 04:00:59,370 PRENATALLY AND SUPPORTS PARENT 4707 04:00:59,370 --> 04:01:01,272 AND CHILD HEALTH WELL BEING AND 4708 04:01:01,272 --> 04:01:04,642 THERE'S BEEN INVESTMENT SINCE 4709 04:01:04,642 --> 04:01:04,842 2012. 4710 04:01:04,842 --> 04:01:06,277 THE CENTER FOR INDIGENOUS 4711 04:01:06,277 --> 04:01:10,181 RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS AND 4712 04:01:10,181 --> 04:01:16,887 LEARNING ARE CIRCLE HP SEEKDZ 4713 04:01:16,887 --> 04:01:19,557 SEEKS TO SERVE INDIGENOUS 4714 04:01:19,557 --> 04:01:20,591 FAMILIES AND FUNDING THREE 4715 04:01:20,591 --> 04:01:23,227 INDIGENOUS HOME PROGRAM 4716 04:01:23,227 --> 04:01:25,930 PARTNERSHIPS EACH CARRYING OUT 4717 04:01:25,930 --> 04:01:28,799 THEIR OWN LOCALLY DESIGN PROJECT 4718 04:01:28,799 --> 04:01:32,536 AND ONE SITE PROJECT INCLUDING 4719 04:01:32,536 --> 04:01:35,272 EIGHT HOME VISITING PURSUING THE 4720 04:01:35,272 --> 04:01:37,308 SAME RESEARCH AND GROUNDED IN 4721 04:01:37,308 --> 04:01:40,945 RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES AND 4722 04:01:40,945 --> 04:01:41,579 UNDERSTANDING HOW INDIGENOUS 4723 04:01:41,579 --> 04:01:44,215 RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES CAN BE 4724 04:01:44,215 --> 04:01:46,283 USEFUL IN HOME VISITING RESEARCH 4725 04:01:46,283 --> 04:01:47,118 SPECIFICALLY. 4726 04:01:47,118 --> 04:01:49,153 AND THIS WORK IS JUST GETTING 4727 04:01:49,153 --> 04:01:51,322 UNDERWAY AND EXCITED TO SHARE 4728 04:01:51,322 --> 04:01:52,890 ABOUT WHAT WE LEARNED ABOUT 4729 04:01:52,890 --> 04:01:54,725 INDIGENOUS RESEARCH 4730 04:01:54,725 --> 04:01:56,327 METHODOLOGIES AND WHAT THEY MEAN 4731 04:01:56,327 --> 04:01:58,996 FOR NOT ONLY WHAT WE DO IN 4732 04:01:58,996 --> 04:02:04,401 RESEARCH BUT HOW WE DO OUR 4733 04:02:04,401 --> 04:02:07,004 RESEARCH HOW IT'S GROUNDED IN 4734 04:02:07,004 --> 04:02:09,273 CONNECTION AND RELATIONSHIP. 4735 04:02:09,273 --> 04:02:10,107 AND WITH THAT I'M WRAPPING IN 4736 04:02:10,107 --> 04:02:11,876 ONE MINUTE. 4737 04:02:11,876 --> 04:02:13,511 I WANTED TO SHARE THIS QUOTE 4738 04:02:13,511 --> 04:02:18,115 FROM A SONG BY JULE IT SAYS I'M 4739 04:02:18,115 --> 04:02:22,686 THE ACCOUPUMULATION OF DREAMS O 4740 04:02:22,686 --> 04:02:24,822 GENERATIONS AND THEIR DREAMED IN 4741 04:02:24,822 --> 04:02:26,423 HOLY WATER AND WE'RE HOLDING THE 4742 04:02:26,423 --> 04:02:28,926 DREAMS OF GENERATIONS BOTH 4743 04:02:28,926 --> 04:02:30,327 BEHIND US AND BEFORE US AND I'M 4744 04:02:30,327 --> 04:02:32,263 HONORED TO JOIN YOU AS WE PUT 4745 04:02:32,263 --> 04:02:33,998 OUR HEARTS AND MINDS TOGETHER TO 4746 04:02:33,998 --> 04:02:36,300 RECOUNT THOSE STORIES AND 4747 04:02:36,300 --> 04:02:42,106 RESHAPE THE NARRATIVE ON THE 4748 04:02:42,106 --> 04:02:43,774 HEALING FROM BOARDING SCHOOL AND 4749 04:02:43,774 --> 04:02:45,543 OTHER STRUCTURES OF COLONIALISM 4750 04:02:45,543 --> 04:02:48,913 DESIGN TO DISCONNECT US FROM OUR 4751 04:02:48,913 --> 04:02:49,647 ORIGINAL INSTRUCTION FROM ONE 4752 04:02:49,647 --> 04:02:52,583 ANOTHER AND FROM OURSELVES. 4753 04:02:52,583 --> 04:02:54,552 AS WE CONSIDER OUR PLACE ON THIS 4754 04:02:54,552 --> 04:02:55,519 ROAD TO HEALING I CLOSE BY 4755 04:02:55,519 --> 04:03:00,157 SHARING WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT THE 4756 04:03:00,157 --> 04:03:06,363 WORD FROM A LANGUAGE TEACHER WHO 4757 04:03:06,363 --> 04:03:08,532 SPOKE AT A TRIBAL HOME VISITING 4758 04:03:08,532 --> 04:03:12,436 MEETING AND IT'S THE WORD FOR 4759 04:03:12,436 --> 04:03:14,271 GREAT GRANDPARENT AND BOTH GREAT 4760 04:03:14,271 --> 04:03:14,905 GRANDCHILD. 4761 04:03:14,905 --> 04:03:16,607 WITH THREE GENERATIONS BEHIND US 4762 04:03:16,607 --> 04:03:17,942 AND THREE GENERATIONS BEFORE US 4763 04:03:17,942 --> 04:03:20,544 WE ARE AT THE CENTER OF THE 4764 04:03:20,544 --> 04:03:21,779 SEVEN GENERATION SPAN. 4765 04:03:21,779 --> 04:03:24,782 WE'RE THE ACCESS AROUND WHICH 4766 04:03:24,782 --> 04:03:26,450 THESE GENERATIONS TURN AND I 4767 04:03:26,450 --> 04:03:28,986 BELIEVE THIS IS CULTURAL WISDOM 4768 04:03:28,986 --> 04:03:32,990 THAT TEACHES US WE HAVE THE 4769 04:03:32,990 --> 04:03:34,592 POWER TO NOT ONLY HEAL THE 4770 04:03:34,592 --> 04:03:35,659 GENERATIONS BEFORE US AND BEHIND 4771 04:03:35,659 --> 04:03:38,362 US THROUGH OUR WORDS, WORK AND 4772 04:03:38,362 --> 04:03:38,596 ACTION. 4773 04:03:38,596 --> 04:03:47,004 THANK YOU. 4774 04:03:47,004 --> 04:03:53,844 >> DR. MICHELLE CAN YOU FORWARD 4775 04:03:53,844 --> 04:03:56,547 TO THE LAST SLIDE. 4776 04:03:56,547 --> 04:04:00,784 I WANT TO HONOR WE ARE PAST OUR 4777 04:04:00,784 --> 04:04:02,553 DESIGNATED LUNCH TIME AND GIVE 4778 04:04:02,553 --> 04:04:08,092 GRATITUDE TO OUR PRESENTERS. 4779 04:04:08,092 --> 04:04:10,961 WE CAN TAKE SOME Q&A DURING THE 4780 04:04:10,961 --> 04:04:12,596 LUNCH TIME. 4781 04:04:12,596 --> 04:04:14,565 WE'LL MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE 4782 04:04:14,565 --> 04:04:16,066 HERE BUT WANTED TO CLOSE WITH 4783 04:04:16,066 --> 04:04:19,570 THE FINAL IMAGE THAT CARRIES THE 4784 04:04:19,570 --> 04:04:23,207 SPIRIT OF WHAT WE PLANTED IN THE 4785 04:04:23,207 --> 04:04:24,908 BEGINNING AND WHAT'S BEEN SHARED 4786 04:04:24,908 --> 04:04:26,310 THROUGHOUT BY THIS BEAUTIFUL 4787 04:04:26,310 --> 04:04:26,577 RESEARCH. 4788 04:04:26,577 --> 04:04:30,281 YOU ARE WHO YOUR ANCESTORS SING 4789 04:04:30,281 --> 04:04:32,549 ABOUT IN THE CEREMONIES AND THE 4790 04:04:32,549 --> 04:04:34,685 PRAYER AND SACRED GIFT TO THE 4791 04:04:34,685 --> 04:04:35,052 WORLD. 4792 04:04:35,052 --> 04:04:39,056 BOTH OF THESE IMAGES ARE FROM 4793 04:04:39,056 --> 04:04:39,390 INSTAGRAM. 4794 04:04:39,390 --> 04:04:41,792 YOU CAN LOOK THEM UP. 4795 04:04:41,792 --> 04:04:42,526 THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. 4796 04:04:42,526 --> 04:04:45,296 PLEASE JOIN ME IN CELEBRATING 4797 04:04:45,296 --> 04:04:54,705 OUR PRESTIGIOUS SPEAKERS. 4798 04:04:54,705 --> 04:04:56,307 >> THANK YOU FOR THE MODERATION 4799 04:04:56,307 --> 04:04:57,374 OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PANEL. 4800 04:04:57,374 --> 04:04:59,109 WE'RE NOW GOING TO ASK YOU -- 4801 04:04:59,109 --> 04:05:01,045 FIRST YOU'LL GET TO STAND UP AND 4802 04:05:01,045 --> 04:05:01,278 STRETCH. 4803 04:05:01,278 --> 04:05:03,781 WE ARE GOING TO GO TAKE A GROUP 4804 04:05:03,781 --> 04:05:06,283 PHOTO BY THE TEEPEE AND THEN 4805 04:05:06,283 --> 04:05:07,151 COME DOWN FOR LUNCH. 4806 04:05:07,151 --> 04:05:09,053 SO IT'S GOING TO BE RIGHT OUT 4807 04:05:09,053 --> 04:05:10,988 THESE DOORS AND THEN RIGHT UP 4808 04:05:10,988 --> 04:05:12,756 THE STAIRS AND THEN THE TEEPEE'S 4809 04:05:12,756 --> 04:05:13,090 RIGHT THERE. 4810 04:05:13,090 --> 04:05:14,992 SO IF FOLKS CAN START MAKING OUR 4811 04:05:14,992 --> 04:05:18,028 WAY THERE WE CAN GET A GOOD 4812 04:05:18,028 --> 04:05:25,536 PHOTO IN AND COME RIGHT BACK 4813 04:05:25,536 --> 04:05:25,736 DOWN. 4814 04:05:25,736 --> 04:05:26,545 LUNCH IS FROM JESSICA SWAN FROM 4815 04:05:26,545 --> 04:05:27,046 THE LAND WE'RE ON. 4816 04:05:27,046 --> 04:05:31,833 SHE'LL TALK ABOUT THE LUNCH THERE. 4817 04:05:31,833 --> 04:05:33,534 >> HEALING WORK EVER SINCE I 4818 04:05:33,534 --> 04:05:37,005 KNEW WHAT I WAS DOING I FIRST 4819 04:05:37,005 --> 04:05:38,139 STUDIED EUROPEANS BECAUSE I 4820 04:05:38,139 --> 04:05:39,307 COULDN'T FIGURE OUT WHY THEY DID 4821 04:05:39,307 --> 04:05:40,642 WHAT THEY DID WHEN THEY GOT HERE 4822 04:05:40,642 --> 04:05:43,444 SO I LEARNED THAT THEY BURNED 4823 04:05:43,444 --> 04:05:45,446 THEIR MEDICINE WOMEN AND CALLED 4824 04:05:45,446 --> 04:05:50,018 THEM WITCHS, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE 4825 04:05:50,018 --> 04:05:50,485 PATRIARCHY TOOK OVER. 4826 04:05:50,485 --> 04:05:54,622 SO WE HAVE THAT MEMORY OF WHAT 4827 04:05:54,622 --> 04:05:55,690 HAPPENED HERE, THE HOLLOW KAWOF 4828 04:05:55,690 --> 04:05:57,625 THE THAT HAPPENED HERE, THE 4829 04:05:57,625 --> 04:05:59,160 GENOCIDE THAT HAPPENED HERE BUT 4830 04:05:59,160 --> 04:06:00,528 IT HAPPENED TO EUROPE EVEN 4831 04:06:00,528 --> 04:06:02,664 LONGER AGO BUT WE ALL HAD 4832 04:06:02,664 --> 04:06:05,266 ORIGINAL INSTRUCTIONS TO CARE 4833 04:06:05,266 --> 04:06:07,702 FOR THIS EARTH TO BE A GOOD 4834 04:06:07,702 --> 04:06:08,069 RELATIVE. 4835 04:06:08,069 --> 04:06:09,570 I'M SO GLAD THAT'S A THING NOW 4836 04:06:09,570 --> 04:06:10,638 BECAUSE OUR FAMILY USED TO SAY 4837 04:06:10,638 --> 04:06:12,540 THAT ALL THE TIME NOW BUT 4838 04:06:12,540 --> 04:06:13,641 EVERYONE'S SAYING IT NOW SO 4839 04:06:13,641 --> 04:06:14,375 THAT'S GOOD. 4840 04:06:14,375 --> 04:06:16,411 ALL THE THINGS WE HOPE TO SEE IS 4841 04:06:16,411 --> 04:06:18,446 COMING AND THIS CONFERENCE HAS 4842 04:06:18,446 --> 04:06:24,485 BEEN AMAZING AND I WISH 4843 04:06:24,485 --> 04:06:26,387 EVERYBODY HAD ACCESS TO THESE 4844 04:06:26,387 --> 04:06:27,121 REALIZATIONS AND WHAT'S 4845 04:06:27,121 --> 04:06:27,522 HAPPENING. 4846 04:06:27,522 --> 04:06:29,757 I WISH WE COULD GET ALL OF OUR 4847 04:06:29,757 --> 04:06:31,459 YOUNG PEOPLE INTO LONG-TERM 4848 04:06:31,459 --> 04:06:31,826 TREATMENT. 4849 04:06:31,826 --> 04:06:33,528 IT SHOULD BE AVAILABLE FOR OUR 4850 04:06:33,528 --> 04:06:35,630 PEOPLES BUT THAT'S NOT WHY I 4851 04:06:35,630 --> 04:06:36,464 GRABBED THE MIC RIGHT NOW. 4852 04:06:36,464 --> 04:06:38,199 WHAT I WANTED TO SAY HERE TO YOU 4853 04:06:38,199 --> 04:06:40,635 RIGHT NOW IS THAT 4854 04:06:40,635 --> 04:06:42,236 CONFIDENTIALITY IS THE BIGGEST 4855 04:06:42,236 --> 04:06:42,537 THING. 4856 04:06:42,537 --> 04:06:48,042 I DID A WORKSHOP BACK IN 4857 04:06:48,042 --> 04:06:49,877 MINNESOTA AT AN ENVIRONMENTAL 4858 04:06:49,877 --> 04:06:50,878 WOMEN'S NETWORK CONFERENCE AND I 4859 04:06:50,878 --> 04:06:52,547 ASKED THE WOMEN THERE WHAT'S THE 4860 04:06:52,547 --> 04:06:53,247 MOST PAINFUL THING YOU 4861 04:06:53,247 --> 04:06:55,049 EXPERIENCE BECAUSE WE'RE DOING A 4862 04:06:55,049 --> 04:06:55,583 HEALING WORKSHOP, RIGHT? 4863 04:06:55,583 --> 04:06:58,152 I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE ABOUT THE 4864 04:06:58,152 --> 04:07:00,688 ABUSE OR ABOUT THIS OR THAT, THE 4865 04:07:00,688 --> 04:07:02,190 MOST PAINFUL THING WAS WHEN 4866 04:07:02,190 --> 04:07:06,561 THEIR BEST FRIEND BETRAYED THEM 4867 04:07:06,561 --> 04:07:08,362 AND TOLD THEIR SECRET, OR THEIR 4868 04:07:08,362 --> 04:07:09,864 BEST FRIEND TURNED ON THEM AND 4869 04:07:09,864 --> 04:07:11,933 THAT LATERAL VIOLENCE IS THE 4870 04:07:11,933 --> 04:07:12,767 MOST PAINFUL, RIGHT? 4871 04:07:12,767 --> 04:07:17,305 SO PART OF CONFIDENTIALITY IS 4872 04:07:17,305 --> 04:07:19,240 THAT WARRIOR WAY OF BEING IN THE 4873 04:07:19,240 --> 04:07:22,143 WORLD AND THE THING ABOUT MY 4874 04:07:22,143 --> 04:07:23,711 MOTHER, EVERYONE ADMIRED HER 4875 04:07:23,711 --> 04:07:25,179 BECAUSE SHE NEVER TALKED BAD 4876 04:07:25,179 --> 04:07:29,617 ABOUT ANYONE AND THAT'S HARD TO 4877 04:07:29,617 --> 04:07:29,884 DO. 4878 04:07:29,884 --> 04:07:31,119 WE DON'T GET THAT IN OUR 4879 04:07:31,119 --> 04:07:32,453 COMMUNITIES AND IT HURTS WHEN 4880 04:07:32,453 --> 04:07:34,622 SOMEONE TALKS BAD ABOUT YOU OR 4881 04:07:34,622 --> 04:07:35,690 YOU HEARD SOMEBODY SHARE 4882 04:07:35,690 --> 04:07:37,592 SOMETHING YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE 4883 04:07:37,592 --> 04:07:39,127 SAYING IN CONFIDENCE MUCH SO 4884 04:07:39,127 --> 04:07:41,429 CONFIDENTIALITY IS PART OF THAT 4885 04:07:41,429 --> 04:07:42,630 MEDICINE AND IT'S NOT JUST, WE 4886 04:07:42,630 --> 04:07:44,499 ALL KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, NOT TO 4887 04:07:44,499 --> 04:07:45,733 SHARE WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID BUT 4888 04:07:45,733 --> 04:07:48,136 THE SECOND PART OF THAT IS 4889 04:07:48,136 --> 04:07:49,537 REALLY IMPORTANT ESPECIALLY IN 4890 04:07:49,537 --> 04:07:51,506 TIMES LIKE THIS, TODAY, HERE. 4891 04:07:51,506 --> 04:07:54,275 SO IF TONY AND I WERE TALKING 4892 04:07:54,275 --> 04:07:55,910 AND HE TOLD ME SOMETHING OR 4893 04:07:55,910 --> 04:07:59,747 SOMEBODY ON THIS PANEL TOLD 4894 04:07:59,747 --> 04:08:01,115 SOMETHING, WE'RE DIGGING DEEP 4895 04:08:01,115 --> 04:08:03,317 INTO THE DEEPEST PART OF OUR 4896 04:08:03,317 --> 04:08:05,853 WOUNDS TO TELL YOU THESE THINGS. 4897 04:08:05,853 --> 04:08:07,054 WE DON'T WALK AROUND HOLDING 4898 04:08:07,054 --> 04:08:08,723 THEM OUT FOR EVERYONE TO SEE ALL 4899 04:08:08,723 --> 04:08:09,590 THE TIME. 4900 04:08:09,590 --> 04:08:10,725 WE'VE TRUSTED YOU WHILE WE'RE 4901 04:08:10,725 --> 04:08:12,727 HERE AND WE WENT DEEP. 4902 04:08:12,727 --> 04:08:15,596 SO WHEN WE'RE DONE, WE PUT IT 4903 04:08:15,596 --> 04:08:18,166 BACK, RIGHT? 4904 04:08:18,166 --> 04:08:19,767 IT'S NOT YOURS. 4905 04:08:19,767 --> 04:08:20,868 IT'S STILL OURS. 4906 04:08:20,868 --> 04:08:22,804 SO I NEED YOU AND WHAT I'VE TOLD 4907 04:08:22,804 --> 04:08:25,673 ME, AND WHAT I DO IN MY 4908 04:08:25,673 --> 04:08:27,508 PRACTICES, CAN I TALK TO YOU 4909 04:08:27,508 --> 04:08:31,045 ABOUT WHAT YOU SAID ON THE 4910 04:08:31,045 --> 04:08:31,245 PANEL? 4911 04:08:31,245 --> 04:08:32,313 YOU ASK PERMISSION BEFORE YOU 4912 04:08:32,313 --> 04:08:33,447 BRING ANYTHING UP AND HE CAN 4913 04:08:33,447 --> 04:08:35,783 TURN TO ME AND SAY, I CAN'T 4914 04:08:35,783 --> 04:08:40,021 RIGHT NOW OR HE COULD SAY, YEAH, 4915 04:08:40,021 --> 04:08:43,758 I NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT. 4916 04:08:43,758 --> 04:08:45,326 ASK PERMISSION ALWAYS WITH 4917 04:08:45,326 --> 04:08:46,494 YOUR CHILDREN, WITH ANYBODY, CAN 4918 04:08:46,494 --> 04:08:48,162 I BRING THIS UP? 4919 04:08:48,162 --> 04:08:51,132 ASK THAT FIRST BECAUSE WE DON'T 4920 04:08:51,132 --> 04:08:51,833 LIVE THERE. 4921 04:08:51,833 --> 04:08:53,167 IT'S ALWAYS IN US BUT WE HAVE TO 4922 04:08:53,167 --> 04:08:55,469 DO A LOT OF WORK TO COME OUT OF 4923 04:08:55,469 --> 04:08:57,572 THAT AND TO BE ABLE TO BE, SO 4924 04:08:57,572 --> 04:08:59,473 WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMING UP TO ME 4925 04:08:59,473 --> 04:09:00,575 AND SAYING THINGS, I DON'T NEED 4926 04:09:00,575 --> 04:09:03,678 YOU TO DO THAT, IT MAKES ME FEEL 4927 04:09:03,678 --> 04:09:04,011 AFRAID. 4928 04:09:04,011 --> 04:09:05,479 IT MAKES MY FEAR COME UP WHEN 4929 04:09:05,479 --> 04:09:08,182 YOU START REFERRING TO 4930 04:09:08,182 --> 04:09:09,517 SOMETHING, YOU KNOW AND I KNOW 4931 04:09:09,517 --> 04:09:11,118 THIS IS BEING RECORDED AND I 4932 04:09:11,118 --> 04:09:15,857 THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECORD 4933 04:09:15,857 --> 04:09:16,524 THESE STORIES. 4934 04:09:16,524 --> 04:09:18,092 BUT I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN IT, 4935 04:09:18,092 --> 04:09:19,093 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE TO 4936 04:09:19,093 --> 04:09:20,127 EVERYBODY, CAN YOU RAISE MY HAND 4937 04:09:20,127 --> 04:09:23,231 IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? 4938 04:09:23,231 --> 04:09:24,365 ASK PERMISSION BEFORE YOU 4939 04:09:24,365 --> 04:09:25,833 SHARE ANY -- BEFORE YOU BRING IT 4940 04:09:25,833 --> 04:09:27,001 UP TO SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW BECAUSE 4941 04:09:27,001 --> 04:09:29,537 IT MAKES US WANT TO RUN AWAY 4942 04:09:29,537 --> 04:09:30,805 BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO TALK 4943 04:09:30,805 --> 04:09:32,540 ABOUT US ABOUT WHAT THEY HEARD. 4944 04:09:32,540 --> 04:09:33,140 ASK PERMISSION BEFORE YOU 4945 04:09:33,140 --> 04:09:35,276 BRING IT UP AND I THINK IT'S A 4946 04:09:35,276 --> 04:09:36,644 GOOD WAY TO BE ESPECIALLY 4947 04:09:36,644 --> 04:09:38,512 BECAUSE MY KIDS TAUGHT ME THAT. 4948 04:09:38,512 --> 04:09:40,281 THEY HATED IT WHEN I USE THEIR 4949 04:09:40,281 --> 04:09:41,849 STORIES TO TALK ABOUT MY 4950 04:09:41,849 --> 04:09:42,850 PARENTING OR WHATEVER, BECAUSE 4951 04:09:42,850 --> 04:09:49,423 IT WAS STILL THEIR STORY NOT 4952 04:09:49,423 --> 04:09:49,757 MINE. 4953 04:09:49,757 --> 04:09:50,424 OKAY. 4954 04:09:50,424 --> 04:09:53,427 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 4955 04:09:53,427 --> 04:10:03,871 >> GO AHEAD GENTLEMEN, 4956 04:10:08,409 --> 04:10:08,943 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 4957 04:10:08,943 --> 04:10:09,176 STEP UP 4958 04:10:09,176 --> 04:10:09,377 HERE. 4959 04:10:09,377 --> 04:10:13,281 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 4960 04:10:13,281 --> 04:10:15,349 >> SO MUCH POWER THERE AND AS WE 4961 04:10:15,349 --> 04:10:17,118 SEE WORDS OR EPISTEMOLOGYS OR 4962 04:10:17,118 --> 04:10:18,552 WAYS OF KNOWLEDGE COMING INTO 4963 04:10:18,552 --> 04:10:21,122 THE SECTION, THE WESTERN STYLE 4964 04:10:21,122 --> 04:10:23,157 OF RESEARCH WITH INDIGENOUS 4965 04:10:23,157 --> 04:10:24,492 PROTOCOLS AND POLICIES, I THINK 4966 04:10:24,492 --> 04:10:25,593 IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT 4967 04:10:25,593 --> 04:10:27,762 THE NOTION OF INFORMED CONSENT 4968 04:10:27,762 --> 04:10:34,402 AND PERMISSION, THOUGH THEY 4969 04:10:34,402 --> 04:10:35,069 MIGHT SOUND THE SAME. 4970 04:10:35,069 --> 04:10:39,106 THERE IS A LOT OF DISTINCTION. 4971 04:10:39,106 --> 04:10:40,541 THE INDIGENOUS TRADITIONAL 4972 04:10:40,541 --> 04:10:42,843 NOTIONS OF WHAT PERMISSION 4973 04:10:42,843 --> 04:10:44,445 IS IS A LIVING AGREEMENT AND 4974 04:10:44,445 --> 04:10:45,980 THAT MEANS THAT THAT AGREEMENT 4975 04:10:45,980 --> 04:10:48,082 CAN BE CHANGED, TOO, SO IF THOSE 4976 04:10:48,082 --> 04:10:49,383 STORIES, IF SOMEONE SAYS I WAS 4977 04:10:49,383 --> 04:10:50,985 OKAY WITH THIS SHARING RIGHT IN 4978 04:10:50,985 --> 04:10:51,519 THIS MOMENT. 4979 04:10:51,519 --> 04:10:53,187 I AM NO LONGER OKAY WITH THAT 4980 04:10:53,187 --> 04:10:54,422 SHARING, IT NEEDS TO BE HONORED 4981 04:10:54,422 --> 04:10:57,858 AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS AN 4982 04:10:57,858 --> 04:10:58,859 ONGOING PRACTICE SOMETHING WE 4983 04:10:58,859 --> 04:10:59,794 ARE HAVING TO REMIND OURSELVES 4984 04:10:59,794 --> 04:11:02,630 ON A REGULAR BASIS. 4985 04:11:02,630 --> 04:11:05,833 AND SO AS WE GATHER HERE THE 4986 04:11:05,833 --> 04:11:06,500 FIRST AND FOREMOST IMPORTANT 4987 04:11:06,500 --> 04:11:08,235 THING IS HOW DO WE BE GOOD 4988 04:11:08,235 --> 04:11:09,704 RELATIVES TO EACH OTHER, RIGHT? 4989 04:11:09,704 --> 04:11:11,806 HOW CAN WE BECOME BETTER 4990 04:11:11,806 --> 04:11:12,840 RELATIVES TO EACH OTHER? 4991 04:11:12,840 --> 04:11:15,576 IS IT POSSIBLE TO INDIGINIZE 4992 04:11:15,576 --> 04:11:15,843 RESEARCH? 4993 04:11:15,843 --> 04:11:17,311 WE KNOW IT IS, RIGHT, BUT 4994 04:11:17,311 --> 04:11:18,546 THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF 4995 04:11:18,546 --> 04:11:20,348 THREATS TO THAT AS WELL AND WE 4996 04:11:20,348 --> 04:11:21,482 HAVE TO HUMBLE OURSELVES, SO 4997 04:11:21,482 --> 04:11:25,252 THANK YOU FOR THAT REMINDER AND 4998 04:11:25,252 --> 04:11:27,154 FOR WALKING IN THAT WAY, BECAUSE 4999 04:11:27,154 --> 04:11:28,589 IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT THE WORDS, 5000 04:11:28,589 --> 04:11:32,827 IT'S HOW WE WALK IN THAT WAY. 5001 04:11:32,827 --> 04:11:35,763 I'M REALLY IN GREAT HUMILITY, 5002 04:11:35,763 --> 04:11:37,398 STANDING ON HERE ON THIS STAGE 5003 04:11:37,398 --> 04:11:39,033 WITH YOU ALL, I FEEL LIKE I 5004 04:11:39,033 --> 04:11:40,101 DON'T DESERVE TO STABBED HERE 5005 04:11:40,101 --> 04:11:41,502 NEXT TO YOU ALL. 5006 04:11:41,502 --> 04:11:43,137 SO THERE'S DISTANCE, I KNOW I 5007 04:11:43,137 --> 04:11:46,307 FEEL THAT BECAUSE OF THE -- I 5008 04:11:46,307 --> 04:11:52,113 LOVE WHAT OUR -- WHAT 5009 04:11:52,113 --> 04:11:53,581 DR. BRISSETTE SAID EARLIER, THE 5010 04:11:53,581 --> 04:11:55,049 LIVING GENIUS THAT IS IN THIS 5011 04:11:55,049 --> 04:11:55,983 ROOM, THAT'S RIGHT HERE. 5012 04:11:55,983 --> 04:11:58,419 SO THANK YOU FOR THAT LIVING 5013 04:11:58,419 --> 04:12:00,421 GENIUS FOR INSPIRING US, FOR 5014 04:12:00,421 --> 04:12:02,023 SHARING THE STORIES AND FOR 5015 04:12:02,023 --> 04:12:04,325 WALKING IN THAT WAY SO THAT WE 5016 04:12:04,325 --> 04:12:08,629 CAN BE BEST INFORMED, WE CAN DO 5017 04:12:08,629 --> 04:12:10,865 GOOD WORK TOGETHER BECAUSE THIS 5018 04:12:10,865 --> 04:12:12,533 IS WHY WE ARE DOING THIS WORK 5019 04:12:12,533 --> 04:12:13,968 TOGETHER, FOR YOU, FOR THE 5020 04:12:13,968 --> 04:12:15,403 FUTURE GENERATIONS BUT WE HOPE 5021 04:12:15,403 --> 04:12:17,271 TO HONOR YOU IN THAT, SO IN THIS 5022 04:12:17,271 --> 04:12:19,673 MOMENT, WE ARE SEEKING TO 5023 04:12:19,673 --> 04:12:21,942 RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE 5024 04:12:21,942 --> 04:12:25,212 CONTRIBUTIONS, THE STORIES, THE 5025 04:12:25,212 --> 04:12:26,147 LIVED EXPERIENCES ON THE STAGE 5026 04:12:26,147 --> 04:12:27,982 BUT ALSO NOT ON THE STAGE. 5027 04:12:27,982 --> 04:12:30,051 I'VE HAD SO MANY AMAZING 5028 04:12:30,051 --> 04:12:31,619 INTERSECTIONS AND MOMENTS AND 5029 04:12:31,619 --> 04:12:33,287 DIALOGUES WITH MANY OF YOU OVER 5030 04:12:33,287 --> 04:12:35,056 THE PAST DAY AND A HALF AND I 5031 04:12:35,056 --> 04:12:37,358 KNOW THAT THAT'S ALSO A 5032 04:12:37,358 --> 04:12:38,926 CONTINUATION OF CONVERSATIONS 5033 04:12:38,926 --> 04:12:41,328 WE'VE STARTED MANY MONTHS AND 5034 04:12:41,328 --> 04:12:43,664 YEARS AGO AND HOPE TO CONTINUE 5035 04:12:43,664 --> 04:12:44,565 THOSE CONVERSATIONS IN THE 5036 04:12:44,565 --> 04:12:45,766 FUTURE BUT WE HOPE TO RECOGNIZE 5037 04:12:45,766 --> 04:12:50,271 YOU AND HONOR YOU IN A WAY THAT 5038 04:12:50,271 --> 04:12:51,872 WE PRAY YOU FEEL HELD AND LOVED 5039 04:12:51,872 --> 04:12:53,607 AND CARED FOR, AND SO, WE WANT 5040 04:12:53,607 --> 04:12:56,710 TO HONOR YOU CAN SOME GIFTS AND 5041 04:12:56,710 --> 04:12:58,779 TO WRAP YOU IN BLANKETS AND IN 5042 04:12:58,779 --> 04:13:07,088 PRAYER AND WE'VE ALSO INVITED 5043 04:13:07,088 --> 04:13:09,223 ATONE AND HIS SON TO COME UP AND 5044 04:13:09,223 --> 04:13:13,461 HONOR US WITH A SONG AS WE DO 5045 04:13:13,461 --> 04:13:14,028 THAT. 5046 04:13:14,028 --> 04:13:19,400 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5047 04:13:19,400 --> 04:13:20,301 >> [INAUDIBLE RESPONSE FROM 5048 04:13:20,301 --> 04:13:21,001 AUDIENCE ] 5049 04:13:21,001 --> 04:13:21,902 >> YES OF COURSE. 5050 04:13:21,902 --> 04:13:24,138 LET'S DO A QUICK PHOTO AND THEN 5051 04:13:24,138 --> 04:13:34,582 WE CAN TRANSITION INTO THE 5052 04:13:38,519 --> 04:13:38,752 BLANKETING. 5053 04:13:38,752 --> 04:13:49,029 [ROOM CHATTER ] 5054 04:13:51,465 --> 04:13:52,833 WE GET THE PHOTOS DONE. 5055 04:13:52,833 --> 04:13:57,705 OKAY AT THIS TIME I WANT TO 5056 04:13:57,705 --> 04:14:08,215 INVITE OUR RELATIVES -- 1 MORE 5057 04:14:13,554 --> 04:14:23,597 PHOTO. 5058 04:14:43,884 --> 04:14:44,485 >> THANK YOU. 5059 04:14:44,485 --> 04:14:46,353 I WANTED TO SHARE A COUPLE 5060 04:14:46,353 --> 04:14:46,787 WORDS. 5061 04:14:46,787 --> 04:14:47,388 I DIDN'T INTRODUCE MYSELF 5062 04:14:47,388 --> 04:14:50,224 YESTERDAY AND I DIDN'T SHARE. 5063 04:14:50,224 --> 04:14:54,128 MY NAME IS DENNIS DAKOTA AND I 5064 04:14:54,128 --> 04:14:59,233 AM AN ENROLLED MEMBER OF THE 5065 04:14:59,233 --> 04:15:00,734 CHIPP A WAs FROM NORTH DAKOTA 5066 04:15:00,734 --> 04:15:02,403 AND I WAS SO IMPRESSED YESTERDAY 5067 04:15:02,403 --> 04:15:04,038 WITH ALL THE LANGUAGES, SO I 5068 04:15:04,038 --> 04:15:06,774 WEPT BACK TO MY ROOM AND 5069 04:15:06,774 --> 04:15:07,975 PRACTICED ON A FEW WORDS THAT I 5070 04:15:07,975 --> 04:15:12,646 WANTED TO SAY TO YOU: 5071 04:15:12,646 --> 04:15:14,548 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5072 04:15:14,548 --> 04:15:18,319 THAT MEANS HOW ARE 5073 04:15:18,319 --> 04:15:18,919 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5074 04:15:18,919 --> 04:15:19,119 YOU MY 5075 04:15:19,119 --> 04:15:19,353 FRIENDS? 5076 04:15:19,353 --> 04:15:20,287 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5077 04:15:20,287 --> 04:15:23,557 THAT MEANS THAT I'M A 5078 04:15:23,557 --> 04:15:26,060 [INDISCERNIBLE] AND THAT MEANS I 5079 04:15:26,060 --> 04:15:29,363 AM FROM THE LIWA-TU CLAN. 5080 04:15:29,363 --> 04:15:31,031 I WENT TO BOARDING SCHOOLS IN 5081 04:15:31,031 --> 04:15:35,469 THE 60S AND 70S, INDIAN SCHOOL, 5082 04:15:35,469 --> 04:15:37,204 WHILE IN INDIAN SCHOOL MY 5083 04:15:37,204 --> 04:15:39,006 GRANDFATHER WENT TO THE FORT, 5084 04:15:39,006 --> 04:15:41,208 FORT TODD AND I REFER IT TO AS 5085 04:15:41,208 --> 04:15:42,610 THE FORT. 5086 04:15:42,610 --> 04:15:44,211 I MY GRANDMOTHER WENT TO 5087 04:15:44,211 --> 04:15:45,779 CARLISLE IN THE EARLY, I GUESS 5088 04:15:45,779 --> 04:15:47,715 IT WAS THE 1900S, SO, I WANTED 5089 04:15:47,715 --> 04:15:49,049 TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU. 5090 04:15:49,049 --> 04:15:50,751 I DIDN'T SAY MUCH YESTERDAY. 5091 04:15:50,751 --> 04:15:55,856 I WAS JUST VERY HONORED TO BE 5092 04:15:55,856 --> 04:15:58,158 HERE AND APPRECIATE THE INVITE. 5093 04:15:58,158 --> 04:16:05,532 THANK YOU. 5094 04:16:05,532 --> 04:16:08,369 >> GOOD AFTERNOON TO EACH AND 5095 04:16:08,369 --> 04:16:08,902 EVERYONE. 5096 04:16:08,902 --> 04:16:11,939 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5097 04:16:11,939 --> 04:16:13,674 MEANS GREETING TO EVERYONE. 5098 04:16:13,674 --> 04:16:19,113 MY NAME IS JASPER P A BLO, FROM 5099 04:16:19,113 --> 04:16:23,284 THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO. 5100 04:16:23,284 --> 04:16:26,820 AND I WENT TO THE BOARDING 5101 04:16:26,820 --> 04:16:27,888 SCHOOL, TOO, IN 1970 IN THAT 5102 04:16:27,888 --> 04:16:28,922 TIME OF YEAR. 5103 04:16:28,922 --> 04:16:31,292 I DIDN'T KNOW -- I WAS RAISED IN 5104 04:16:31,292 --> 04:16:31,925 AN ISOLATED AREA. 5105 04:16:31,925 --> 04:16:34,728 I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS SCHOOL 5106 04:16:34,728 --> 04:16:39,667 UNTIL 1 DAY 1 OF THE GI VEHICLE 5107 04:16:39,667 --> 04:16:41,835 WAS COMING DOWN, I WAS OUT 5108 04:16:41,835 --> 04:16:42,803 HERDING SHEEP, NOT KNOWING THEY 5109 04:16:42,803 --> 04:16:44,471 WERE GOING TO TAKE ME TO THE 5110 04:16:44,471 --> 04:16:47,107 BOARDING SCHOOL, SO I WAS ABOUT 5111 04:16:47,107 --> 04:16:53,847 12 YEARS OLD AT THAT TIME, I WAS 5112 04:16:53,847 --> 04:17:00,220 YOUNG AND HANDSOME, YEAH, VERY 5113 04:17:00,220 --> 04:17:00,487 HANDSOME. 5114 04:17:00,487 --> 04:17:03,824 ANYWAY AND THEN I WAS TALL AND 5115 04:17:03,824 --> 04:17:06,393 SLIM, AT THAT TIME, I GUESS THE 5116 04:17:06,393 --> 04:17:14,301 BEGINNING THEY USED TO CALL IT 5117 04:17:14,301 --> 04:17:15,502 KINDERGARTEN THEY USED TO CALL 5118 04:17:15,502 --> 04:17:18,605 IT, I WAS THE TALLEST PERSON. 5119 04:17:18,605 --> 04:17:21,742 I STARTED GOING TO SCHOOL OVER 5120 04:17:21,742 --> 04:17:25,379 THERE, KIDS MAKING FUN OF ME 5121 04:17:25,379 --> 04:17:29,883 CALLS ME BEGINNING SNAZ, IT 5122 04:17:29,883 --> 04:17:34,588 MEANS LIKE A TALL BEGINNER. 5123 04:17:34,588 --> 04:17:36,457 BUT THEY WERE JUST MAKING FUN OF 5124 04:17:36,457 --> 04:17:40,427 ME BUT YET, I STOOD THERE, THE 5125 04:17:40,427 --> 04:17:42,930 FOOD -- THE SCHOOL FOOD DIDN'T 5126 04:17:42,930 --> 04:17:45,165 SET WITH ME, TOO, SO I HAD TO 5127 04:17:45,165 --> 04:17:46,333 KEEP THROWING UP ALL THE FOOD 5128 04:17:46,333 --> 04:17:50,504 THAT I USED TO EAT. 5129 04:17:50,504 --> 04:17:52,306 AT HOME EVERY MORNING MY DAILY 5130 04:17:52,306 --> 04:17:55,609 CHORES ARE TAKING CARE OF THE 5131 04:17:55,609 --> 04:17:55,876 LIVESTOCK. 5132 04:17:55,876 --> 04:17:58,445 MORNING BREAKFAST WAS COFFEE, 5133 04:17:58,445 --> 04:17:59,646 WHITE BREAD. 5134 04:17:59,646 --> 04:18:01,749 BUT IT WAS DIFFERENT BUT WHEN 5135 04:18:01,749 --> 04:18:04,084 YOU GET IN TROUBLE YOU HAD TO 5136 04:18:04,084 --> 04:18:05,886 STAND IN THE HALLWAY OR GET ON 5137 04:18:05,886 --> 04:18:09,723 YOUR KNEES WITH YOUR HANDS LIKE 5138 04:18:09,723 --> 04:18:11,458 THIS FOR SOMETIME, YOU GET 5139 04:18:11,458 --> 04:18:13,560 TIRED, THEY KICK YOUR HAND UP. 5140 04:18:13,560 --> 04:18:14,862 GET YOUR HAND UP STRAIGHT. 5141 04:18:14,862 --> 04:18:18,799 I WENT THROUGH THAT, SO FINALLY 5142 04:18:18,799 --> 04:18:21,568 I JUST TOOK OFF, KIND OF WENT 5143 04:18:21,568 --> 04:18:25,072 BACK INTO -- RAN BACK TO MY 5144 04:18:25,072 --> 04:18:26,673 GRAND PARENTS, STARTED HERDING 5145 04:18:26,673 --> 04:18:30,010 SHEEP AGAIN FOR SO MUCH SO, MY 5146 04:18:30,010 --> 04:18:34,047 GRAND PARENTS WERE REALLY POOR. 5147 04:18:34,047 --> 04:18:35,549 NEVER REALLY WENT TO SCHOOL BUT 5148 04:18:35,549 --> 04:18:38,652 YET FOR SOME REASON WITH THE 5149 04:18:38,652 --> 04:18:40,154 CULTURE THAT, I STUCK WITH IT, 5150 04:18:40,154 --> 04:18:41,188 THAT KEPT ME GOING. 5151 04:18:41,188 --> 04:18:44,725 SO I'M JUST VERY HONORED AND 5152 04:18:44,725 --> 04:18:46,360 MEET EACH AND EVERY 1 OF YOU 5153 04:18:46,360 --> 04:18:48,862 WITH A GOOD BLESSING. 5154 04:18:48,862 --> 04:18:50,931 THANK YOU. 5155 04:18:50,931 --> 04:18:53,300 [ APPLAUSE ] 5156 04:18:53,300 --> 04:18:56,069 >> I'LL JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT 5157 04:18:56,069 --> 04:18:56,570 ABOUT MY STORY. 5158 04:18:56,570 --> 04:18:59,406 I WENT TO A BOARDING SCHOOL, 5159 04:18:59,406 --> 04:19:00,874 IT'S CALLED HUNTER'S POINT 5160 04:19:00,874 --> 04:19:01,975 BOARDING SCHOOL, IT'S 3-MILES 5161 04:19:01,975 --> 04:19:05,913 WEST OF ST. MICHAELS ARIZONA, 5162 04:19:05,913 --> 04:19:07,648 AND AND I WENT THERE, I THINK 5163 04:19:07,648 --> 04:19:10,317 BECAUSE THERE WAS JUST A LACK OF 5164 04:19:10,317 --> 04:19:11,185 FOOD IN OUR HOUSEHOLD, THERE 5165 04:19:11,185 --> 04:19:12,853 WERE 20 PEOPLE THAT LIVE INDEED 5166 04:19:12,853 --> 04:19:14,855 NIGH GRANDMA'S HOUSE THAT HAD 2 5167 04:19:14,855 --> 04:19:17,758 BEDROOMS, NO RUNNING WATER AND 5168 04:19:17,758 --> 04:19:18,258 NO ELECTRICITY. 5169 04:19:18,258 --> 04:19:20,661 SO A LOT OF MY SIBLINGS AND MY 5170 04:19:20,661 --> 04:19:21,728 COUSINNINGS WE ALL WENT TO 5171 04:19:21,728 --> 04:19:25,232 BOARDING SCHOOL AND I WAS 5172 04:19:25,232 --> 04:19:27,067 PROBABLY 5 OR 6 YEARS OLD AT THE 5173 04:19:27,067 --> 04:19:29,269 TIME SO, I THINK THAT WAS PART 5174 04:19:29,269 --> 04:19:33,607 OF THE REASON AND THE OTHER 5175 04:19:33,607 --> 04:19:36,410 REASON IS MY MOM SHE ALSO WENT 5176 04:19:36,410 --> 04:19:37,444 TO INTERMOUNTAIN SCHOOL, I THINK 5177 04:19:37,444 --> 04:19:38,545 THAT'S SOMEWHERE IN UTAH, YOU 5178 04:19:38,545 --> 04:19:41,715 KNOW WHEN I ASKED MOM ABOUT, YOU 5179 04:19:41,715 --> 04:19:44,785 KNOW HER EXPERIENCE, SHE'LL JUST 5180 04:19:44,785 --> 04:19:47,321 SAY, [SPEAKING IN NATIVE 5181 04:19:47,321 --> 04:19:48,489 LANGUAGE ] MEANING OH THOSE 5182 04:19:48,489 --> 04:19:49,790 THINGS HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO, 5183 04:19:49,790 --> 04:19:50,657 WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT. 5184 04:19:50,657 --> 04:19:52,326 SO I THINK SHE HAD HER OWN 5185 04:19:52,326 --> 04:19:53,594 TRAUMA AND IT WAS REALLY HARD 5186 04:19:53,594 --> 04:19:55,195 FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND AT THE TIME 5187 04:19:55,195 --> 04:19:58,198 BECAUSE I WAS JUST REALLY YOUNG, 5188 04:19:58,198 --> 04:20:00,067 SO I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE THAT 5189 04:20:00,067 --> 04:20:02,769 EMOTIONAL CONNECTION WITH MY 5190 04:20:02,769 --> 04:20:02,936 MOM. 5191 04:20:02,936 --> 04:20:04,638 AND IT'S STILL LIKE THAT TO THIS 5192 04:20:04,638 --> 04:20:07,407 DAY, I DON'T HAVE THAT EMOTIONAL 5193 04:20:07,407 --> 04:20:08,742 CONNECTION WITH MY MOM. 5194 04:20:08,742 --> 04:20:10,177 SHE'S 82 YEARS OLD AND I THINK 5195 04:20:10,177 --> 04:20:13,413 SHE STILL HAS A LOT OF TRAUMA 5196 04:20:13,413 --> 04:20:16,416 AND SHE HAS DEMENTIA NOW SO THAT 5197 04:20:16,416 --> 04:20:17,718 -- THAT REALLY BREAKS MY HEART 5198 04:20:17,718 --> 04:20:18,752 BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT I HAVE 5199 04:20:18,752 --> 04:20:24,124 TO DEAL WITH EVERY DAY. 5200 04:20:24,124 --> 04:20:25,726 SO 1 STORY I ALSO LAKE TO SHARE 5201 04:20:25,726 --> 04:20:30,831 IS THAT, SO WHEN WE COME HOME 5202 04:20:30,831 --> 04:20:33,100 FOR THE HOLIDAYS, YOU KNOW, AND 5203 04:20:33,100 --> 04:20:35,736 GRANDMA WOULD TRY TO SAY 5204 04:20:35,736 --> 04:20:36,436 [SPEAKING NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5205 04:20:36,436 --> 04:20:38,839 MEANING GO TO SCHOOL AND 5206 04:20:38,839 --> 04:20:40,941 MR. GOOL, MR. GOOL USED TO HAVE 5207 04:20:40,941 --> 04:20:42,142 THE GREEN SUBURBAN, WE USED TO 5208 04:20:42,142 --> 04:20:43,777 CALL IT THE GREEN LIZARD, WE 5209 04:20:43,777 --> 04:20:44,845 WOULD TAKE OFF, WE WOULD GO 5210 04:20:44,845 --> 04:20:46,380 ACROSS THE RIVER AND THEN GO 5211 04:20:46,380 --> 04:20:48,582 INTO THE MOUNTAINS AND HIDE AND 5212 04:20:48,582 --> 04:20:51,285 JUST CLIMB THE HIGHEST TREE AND 5213 04:20:51,285 --> 04:20:53,186 WE WOULD SEE MR. GOOL DRIVING 5214 04:20:53,186 --> 04:20:55,422 AROUND AND THEN IN THE EVENING 5215 04:20:55,422 --> 04:20:57,257 WE COME HOME AND GUESS WHAT? 5216 04:20:57,257 --> 04:20:59,793 MR. GOOL IS THERE WAITING FOR US 5217 04:20:59,793 --> 04:21:02,396 AND HAD TO TAKE US BACK TO THE 5218 04:21:02,396 --> 04:21:04,731 BOARDING SCHOOL. 5219 04:21:04,731 --> 04:21:05,999 SO ANYWAYS, WE HAD FOWN WITH 5220 04:21:05,999 --> 04:21:09,036 THAT BUT IT WAS ALSO HEART 5221 04:21:09,036 --> 04:21:10,237 BREAKING BECAUSE IT WAS MOST 5222 04:21:10,237 --> 04:21:13,073 LIKELY YOU HAVE TO ARE FORCED TO 5223 04:21:13,073 --> 04:21:13,740 GO BACK. 5224 04:21:13,740 --> 04:21:16,243 SO THAT'S -- YOU KNOW PART OF MY 5225 04:21:16,243 --> 04:21:19,413 EXPERIENCE AND I THINK, THE 5226 04:21:19,413 --> 04:21:22,049 IMPORTANT PART IS THAT EVEN 5227 04:21:22,049 --> 04:21:24,451 THOUGH MY OLD CHILDHOOD HAD A 5228 04:21:24,451 --> 04:21:25,752 LOT OF TRAUMA, THRIVE XG THAT 5229 04:21:25,752 --> 04:21:27,487 LOVE THAT WE'RE SHARING TODAY, I 5230 04:21:27,487 --> 04:21:29,323 GIVE THAT TO MY CHILDREN. 5231 04:21:29,323 --> 04:21:30,624 I HAVE 3 BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, 5232 04:21:30,624 --> 04:21:32,359 THEY'RE THRIVING AND THEY GET 5233 04:21:32,359 --> 04:21:34,695 THE LOVE ALL THE TIME FROM ME. 5234 04:21:34,695 --> 04:21:38,298 AND TO ME THAT'S HEALING AND YOU 5235 04:21:38,298 --> 04:21:42,269 KNOW KNOWING THAT I HAVE MY 5236 04:21:42,269 --> 04:21:44,338 COMMUNITY MEMBERS OUR 5237 04:21:44,338 --> 04:21:48,108 TRADITIONAL HEALERRINGS HERE 5238 04:21:48,108 --> 04:21:49,910 MR. ABRY DENNY AND JASPER'S 5239 04:21:49,910 --> 04:21:51,278 MAKES MY HEART HAPPY AND 5240 04:21:51,278 --> 04:21:53,947 EVERYONE IN HERE, TOO, TO KNOW 5241 04:21:53,947 --> 04:21:55,148 THESE 2 INDIVIDUALS INSTILLED A 5242 04:21:55,148 --> 04:21:57,284 LOT OF CULTURAL VALUES FOR ME, 5243 04:21:57,284 --> 04:21:58,819 AND I'M REALLY THANKFUL FOR THAT 5244 04:21:58,819 --> 04:22:02,623 BECAUSE THIS' WHAT GROUNDS ME. 5245 04:22:02,623 --> 04:22:05,092 THANK YOU. 5246 04:22:05,092 --> 04:22:05,292 YEAH. 5247 04:22:05,292 --> 04:22:15,502 [ APPLAUSE ] 5248 04:22:16,770 --> 04:22:18,538 >> I DON'T KNOW HOW OTHER TRIBES 5249 04:22:18,538 --> 04:22:19,940 ARE BUT IN MY TRIBE YOU DON'T 5250 04:22:19,940 --> 04:22:20,874 SAY GOODBYE. 5251 04:22:20,874 --> 04:22:25,112 THERE'S NO WORD FOR GOODBYE. 5252 04:22:25,112 --> 04:22:26,847 BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THEM 5253 04:22:26,847 --> 04:22:32,019 HERE ON EARTH OR WHEN WE PASS 5254 04:22:32,019 --> 04:22:36,923 OVER AND I JUST WANT TO TELL 5255 04:22:36,923 --> 04:22:40,394 YOU, YOU SAY [SPEAKING IN NATIVE 5256 04:22:40,394 --> 04:22:41,528 LANGUAGE ] I WILL SEE YOU AGAIN 5257 04:22:41,528 --> 04:22:43,130 AND I'M GOING TO TELL YOU 1 5258 04:22:43,130 --> 04:22:44,998 OTHER THING AND THEN I WILL GIVE 5259 04:22:44,998 --> 04:22:49,302 THE MIC TO HIM, THERE'S A SONG 5260 04:22:49,302 --> 04:22:51,204 WE SING, I'M NOT GOING TO SING 5261 04:22:51,204 --> 04:22:54,274 IT BUT IT SAYS EMPLOY. 5262 04:22:54,274 --> 04:22:58,578 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5263 04:22:58,578 --> 04:23:00,280 THAT 5264 04:23:00,280 --> 04:23:00,881 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5265 04:23:00,881 --> 04:23:01,214 MEANS THE END 5266 04:23:01,214 --> 04:23:02,015 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5267 04:23:02,015 --> 04:23:03,784 AND THAT MEANS I DON'T KNOW WHEN 5268 04:23:03,784 --> 04:23:04,451 THE END'S COMING. 5269 04:23:04,451 --> 04:23:06,753 SO EVERY TIME WHEN I TALK TO YOU 5270 04:23:06,753 --> 04:23:09,222 AND THEY SAY YOU BE GOOD TO 1 5271 04:23:09,222 --> 04:23:10,057 ANOTHER, YOU LOVE 1 ANOTHER AND 5272 04:23:10,057 --> 04:23:12,793 YOU TAKE CARE OF 1 ANOTHER, I 5273 04:23:12,793 --> 04:23:13,794 TRY TO DO THAT. 5274 04:23:13,794 --> 04:23:15,495 I KNOW I LIKE TO LAUGH AND PLAY 5275 04:23:15,495 --> 04:23:17,097 WITH THE PEOPLE, BUT, AT THE 5276 04:23:17,097 --> 04:23:19,433 SAME TIME, I TAKE A LITTLE PIECE 5277 04:23:19,433 --> 04:23:22,436 OF Y'ALL BACK TO WHEREVER I'M 5278 04:23:22,436 --> 04:23:25,806 GOING TO SO I KNOW, TOO, THAT I 5279 04:23:25,806 --> 04:23:28,809 JUST LOVE EVERYBODY AND I CARE 5280 04:23:28,809 --> 04:23:30,377 ABOUT EVERYBODY AND I WAS THERE 5281 04:23:30,377 --> 04:23:31,812 AT THE BOARDING SCHOOL FROM THE 5282 04:23:31,812 --> 04:23:35,716 TIME I WAS 6 YEARS OLD TILL I 5283 04:23:35,716 --> 04:23:35,982 GRADUATED. 5284 04:23:35,982 --> 04:23:37,684 SO I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW, I 5285 04:23:37,684 --> 04:23:41,922 LOVE Y'ALL AND THANK Y'ALL FOR 5286 04:23:41,922 --> 04:23:42,756 THIS TIME. 5287 04:23:42,756 --> 04:23:46,927 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5288 04:23:46,927 --> 04:23:48,795 >> [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE 5289 04:23:48,795 --> 04:23:55,102 ] 5290 04:23:55,102 --> 04:23:55,535 SORRY? 5291 04:23:55,535 --> 04:24:03,944 WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE? 5292 04:24:03,944 --> 04:24:05,278 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5293 04:24:05,278 --> 04:24:06,012 >> GOOD AFTERNOON, RELATIVES, 5294 04:24:06,012 --> 04:24:12,119 I'M GLAD TO BE HERE AND MY NAME 5295 04:24:12,119 --> 04:24:22,629 IS DR. ABE DENNY, BUT I HAVE A 5296 04:24:23,063 --> 04:24:27,200 NAVAJO NAME THAT I DON'T REALLY 5297 04:24:27,200 --> 04:24:33,740 USE AND I WAS RAISED ON THE 5298 04:24:33,740 --> 04:24:35,375 RESERVATION AS I LITTLE BOY I 5299 04:24:35,375 --> 04:24:40,814 GREW UP WITH MY PARENTS. 5300 04:24:40,814 --> 04:24:41,848 THEY RAISED ME. 5301 04:24:41,848 --> 04:24:48,121 AND SO 1 DAY THEY TOOK ME TO 5302 04:24:48,121 --> 04:24:52,225 SCHOOL ON A -- IN A WAGON AND 5303 04:24:52,225 --> 04:24:56,296 THEY DROPPED ME OFF OVER THERE. 5304 04:24:56,296 --> 04:25:03,470 THE REASON WHY I WENT OVER THERE 5305 04:25:03,470 --> 04:25:04,971 WAS TO GET CLOTHES BECAUSE I HAD 5306 04:25:04,971 --> 04:25:06,740 NO CLOTHES TO WEAR. 5307 04:25:06,740 --> 04:25:12,579 ELDERS THEY USED TO GO TO 5308 04:25:12,579 --> 04:25:18,885 SALVATION ARMY AND GET THOSE 5309 04:25:18,885 --> 04:25:20,020 TUXEDO SUIT LIKE DRESS UP SUIT 5310 04:25:20,020 --> 04:25:24,124 AND THEY WOULD ALL BE LIKE 5311 04:25:24,124 --> 04:25:25,859 NAVAJOS WALKING AROUND DRESSED 5312 04:25:25,859 --> 04:25:28,695 UP LIKE BUSINESS MEN. 5313 04:25:28,695 --> 04:25:30,630 CEREMONIAL, ALL BE DRESSED UP 5314 04:25:30,630 --> 04:25:33,366 LIKE BUSINESS MEN AND THEY ALL 5315 04:25:33,366 --> 04:25:35,602 WEAR THEIR BEADS AROUND THEIR 5316 04:25:35,602 --> 04:25:38,872 BIG OLD HAT BUT I WENT TO SCHOOL 5317 04:25:38,872 --> 04:25:42,042 AT PENNION BOARDING SCHOOL FROM 5318 04:25:42,042 --> 04:25:44,611 -- NO AT 6 YEARS OLD AND I WENT 5319 04:25:44,611 --> 04:25:51,418 IN THERE AND I GRADUATED AND 5320 04:25:51,418 --> 04:25:52,819 SOMETHING THAT I -- THE FIRST 5321 04:25:52,819 --> 04:25:55,355 THING I SAW AT THE BOARDING 5322 04:25:55,355 --> 04:25:59,426 SCHOOL WAS -- I THOUGHT IT WAS 5323 04:25:59,426 --> 04:25:59,626 MAGIC. 5324 04:25:59,626 --> 04:26:00,760 THEY WOULD GO LIKE THIS AND THE 5325 04:26:00,760 --> 04:26:03,196 LIGHTS WOULD GO ON AND GO LIKE 5326 04:26:03,196 --> 04:26:04,798 THAT, THE LIGHTS WOULD GO OFF. 5327 04:26:04,798 --> 04:26:10,303 I DIDN'T SEE THE SWITCH ON THE 5328 04:26:10,303 --> 04:26:10,537 WALL. 5329 04:26:10,537 --> 04:26:12,505 SO I TRY TO GO LIKE THIS AND IT 5330 04:26:12,505 --> 04:26:13,440 DIDN'T WORK FOR ME. 5331 04:26:13,440 --> 04:26:13,907 YOU KNOW? 5332 04:26:13,907 --> 04:26:15,909 I GUESS HAVE TO GO TO THE SWITCH 5333 04:26:15,909 --> 04:26:16,977 AND GO LIKE THAT AND GO LIKE 5334 04:26:16,977 --> 04:26:17,244 THAT. 5335 04:26:17,244 --> 04:26:18,745 I THOUGHT IT WAS MAGIC TO GO 5336 04:26:18,745 --> 04:26:23,650 LIKE THIS AND GO LIKE THAT. 5337 04:26:23,650 --> 04:26:26,853 AND I WENT THROUGH A HARDSHIP, I 5338 04:26:26,853 --> 04:26:32,459 MISSED HOME, I GOT LONELY, I GOT 5339 04:26:32,459 --> 04:26:34,694 DEPRESSED AND GRADUATED AT THIRD 5340 04:26:34,694 --> 04:26:37,631 GRADE, WENT ON TO JUNIOR HIGH 5341 04:26:37,631 --> 04:26:45,805 AND THEN ON INTO HIGH SCHOOL, SO 5342 04:26:45,805 --> 04:26:46,473 HARDSHIP, ABUSE, EVERYTHING. 5343 04:26:46,473 --> 04:26:48,141 THE ONLY THING THAT WAS REALLY 5344 04:26:48,141 --> 04:26:51,745 BAD ABOUT THAT WAS FOR ME, WAS 5345 04:26:51,745 --> 04:26:54,581 IT WAS MY OWN RELATIVE THAT DID 5346 04:26:54,581 --> 04:26:56,316 THAT TO ME. 5347 04:26:56,316 --> 04:27:01,688 IT WASN'T A WHITE MAN. 5348 04:27:01,688 --> 04:27:04,925 IT WAS MY OWN UNCLE THAT WAS A 5349 04:27:04,925 --> 04:27:07,994 [INDISCERNIBLE] AND HE CAME BACK 5350 04:27:07,994 --> 04:27:09,396 FROM MARINE CORPS WAR ARMY AND 5351 04:27:09,396 --> 04:27:11,498 THEY GOT AFTER US, THEY KICKED 5352 04:27:11,498 --> 04:27:14,034 US AROUND AND THEY HIT US AND 5353 04:27:14,034 --> 04:27:17,537 THEY, EVERYTHING LIKE THAT. 5354 04:27:17,537 --> 04:27:22,742 AND JUST BECAUSE OF THAT, TOO, I 5355 04:27:22,742 --> 04:27:26,880 BECAME RADICAL, I BECAME LIKE 5356 04:27:26,880 --> 04:27:28,949 AGAINST THEM OR I GOT ON THEIR 5357 04:27:28,949 --> 04:27:32,919 NERVE, I GOT NAUGHTY, YOU SEE. 5358 04:27:32,919 --> 04:27:34,454 SO EVEN THOUGH THEY PUNCH ME, 5359 04:27:34,454 --> 04:27:36,256 EVEN THOUGH THEY HURT ME, I 5360 04:27:36,256 --> 04:27:38,325 WOULD GET OUT OF THE DORM AND 5361 04:27:38,325 --> 04:27:40,660 RUN AROUND OUTSIDE AND BREAK ALL 5362 04:27:40,660 --> 04:27:42,796 THE RULES, YOU KNOW. 5363 04:27:42,796 --> 04:27:44,864 HAVE THEM BEAT ME UP SOME MORE, 5364 04:27:44,864 --> 04:27:47,400 LIKE I WAS ENJOYING IT. 5365 04:27:47,400 --> 04:27:53,840 SO THEY DIDN'T BREAK ME. 5366 04:27:53,840 --> 04:27:55,775 AT 12th GRADE, THEY COULDN'T 5367 04:27:55,775 --> 04:27:59,879 STAND ME ANYMORE, SO THEY HAD TO 5368 04:27:59,879 --> 04:28:03,450 GRADUATE ME EVEN THOUGH A FAILED 5369 04:28:03,450 --> 04:28:04,951 MATH, THEY SAID ISSUES GET THIS 5370 04:28:04,951 --> 04:28:06,386 KID OUT OF HERE, YOU KNOW? 5371 04:28:06,386 --> 04:28:08,688 WE DON'T WANT HIM TO BE AROUND 5372 04:28:08,688 --> 04:28:10,323 HERE FOR ANOTHER YEAR, JUST 5373 04:28:10,323 --> 04:28:10,924 GRADUATE HIM. 5374 04:28:10,924 --> 04:28:13,760 I HAD AN F AND THEY CHANGED MY 5375 04:28:13,760 --> 04:28:15,528 GRADE AND THEY GOT RID OF ME SO 5376 04:28:15,528 --> 04:28:16,730 I JUST WENT HOME. 5377 04:28:16,730 --> 04:28:19,799 AND THEN I WILL BE HONEST WITH 5378 04:28:19,799 --> 04:28:27,173 YOU, TOO, I HAD THE BEST IN 5379 04:28:27,173 --> 04:28:29,376 BOARDING SCHOOL, TOO, AND SAD 5380 04:28:29,376 --> 04:28:34,848 TIMES BUT I CELEBRATED, I WENT 5381 04:28:34,848 --> 04:28:36,049 AWAY FROM THAT. 5382 04:28:36,049 --> 04:28:38,685 ALL MY KIDS, THEY NEVER WENT TO 5383 04:28:38,685 --> 04:28:39,219 THE DORM. 5384 04:28:39,219 --> 04:28:40,854 THAT'S WHO I AM. 5385 04:28:40,854 --> 04:28:45,492 I SURVIVED BOARDING SCHOOL. 5386 04:28:45,492 --> 04:28:46,459 [INDISCERNIBLE], I CRIED, I 5387 04:28:46,459 --> 04:28:50,230 MISSED HOME, I MISS THE FOOD AND 5388 04:28:50,230 --> 04:28:51,564 ALL OF THAT. 5389 04:28:51,564 --> 04:28:53,099 SO I DIDN'T GO BACK TO SCHOOL. 5390 04:28:53,099 --> 04:28:57,637 I JUST STOP AT HIGH SCHOOL AND 5391 04:28:57,637 --> 04:29:00,640 TO GO TO COLLEGE, EH, YOU KNOW, 5392 04:29:00,640 --> 04:29:05,512 SO I STAY HOME AND I RAISED MY 5393 04:29:05,512 --> 04:29:08,515 LIVESTOCK AND AT HOME. 5394 04:29:08,515 --> 04:29:10,817 I LEARNED TRADITIONAL CEREMONY, 5395 04:29:10,817 --> 04:29:12,218 TRADITIONAL EDUCATION AT HOME, 5396 04:29:12,218 --> 04:29:15,355 MY MOTHER AND FATHER WERE MY 5397 04:29:15,355 --> 04:29:16,489 TEACHERS AND MENTORS. 5398 04:29:16,489 --> 04:29:18,024 SO THAT A MY EXPERIENCE IN 5399 04:29:18,024 --> 04:29:24,297 BOARDING SCHOOL, YES IT HURTS, 5400 04:29:24,297 --> 04:29:26,533 YES, BUT IF YOU SEE MY SCARS, 5401 04:29:26,533 --> 04:29:30,370 YOU KNOW MY PATCHES AND MY 5402 04:29:30,370 --> 04:29:33,106 BANDAGE AND ALL OF IT ALL OVER 5403 04:29:33,106 --> 04:29:34,707 ME BUT THAT DIDN'T TOP ME. 5404 04:29:34,707 --> 04:29:39,179 I WAS ALL RIGHT, I WAS HEALED. 5405 04:29:39,179 --> 04:29:44,584 I BECAME A VICTIM AND A SURVIVOR 5406 04:29:44,584 --> 04:29:47,187 OF BOARDING SCHOOL AND I KNOW 5407 04:29:47,187 --> 04:29:47,687 HOW IT IS. 5408 04:29:47,687 --> 04:29:50,557 AND FOR ALL OF THAT, THAT REASON 5409 04:29:50,557 --> 04:29:55,428 FOR ALL OF THAT, I BECAME A 5410 04:29:55,428 --> 04:29:57,063 TRADITIONAL HEALER, FOR ALL THE 5411 04:29:57,063 --> 04:30:00,166 ABUSE THAT I WENT THROUGH, THE 5412 04:30:00,166 --> 04:30:04,404 HURT, THE ANIMOSITY, THE 5413 04:30:04,404 --> 04:30:08,608 DEPRESSION, ANXIETY THAT I HAD. 5414 04:30:08,608 --> 04:30:12,145 I THINK I'M IMMUNE TO THAT WHEN 5415 04:30:12,145 --> 04:30:17,083 I CAME OUT OF THAT. 5416 04:30:17,083 --> 04:30:19,185 SO USING THAT IN TRADITIONAL 5417 04:30:19,185 --> 04:30:21,054 COUNSELING, USING THE 5418 04:30:21,054 --> 04:30:23,423 TRADITIONAL CEREMONY AND WHEN 5419 04:30:23,423 --> 04:30:24,724 SOMEBODY TALKS ABOUT, LIKE ALL 5420 04:30:24,724 --> 04:30:28,461 OF YOU, YOU EXPRESS THAT YOU'RE 5421 04:30:28,461 --> 04:30:32,265 EMOTION AND HOW YOU EXPRESS 5422 04:30:32,265 --> 04:30:33,233 YOURSELF YESTERDAY AND TODAY. 5423 04:30:33,233 --> 04:30:35,468 I WAS SITTING THERE AND I WAS 5424 04:30:35,468 --> 04:30:36,836 LISTENING, YOU KNOW, I FELT THAT 5425 04:30:36,836 --> 04:30:39,339 SO I'M IMMUNE TO THAT. 5426 04:30:39,339 --> 04:30:41,107 I KNOW HOW IT FEELS AND I KNOW 5427 04:30:41,107 --> 04:30:42,509 WHERE YOU STAND AND YOU KNOW 5428 04:30:42,509 --> 04:30:44,144 WHAT YOU ARE AND I KNOW WHERE 5429 04:30:44,144 --> 04:30:48,414 YOU ARE AND I KNOW WHERE YOU'VE 5430 04:30:48,414 --> 04:30:51,918 BEEN AND EVEN MY LAST NAME IS 5431 04:30:51,918 --> 04:30:58,491 SUPPOSED TO BE DENE-YAJ, BUT BIA 5432 04:30:58,491 --> 04:31:03,930 STOLE THAT FROM ME, AND SAID NO 5433 04:31:03,930 --> 04:31:04,631 MORE. 5434 04:31:04,631 --> 04:31:05,298 JUST DENNY. 5435 04:31:05,298 --> 04:31:07,567 SO THE SECOND PART OF -- THE 5436 04:31:07,567 --> 04:31:10,537 LAST PART OF MY LAST NAME GOT 5437 04:31:10,537 --> 04:31:12,672 SHORTENED SO I DON'T HAVE MY 5438 04:31:12,672 --> 04:31:13,439 FULL ANCESTRAL NAME. 5439 04:31:13,439 --> 04:31:16,409 SO IT'S JUST DENNY. 5440 04:31:16,409 --> 04:31:19,646 I'M NOT NAMED AFTER THE DENNY 5441 04:31:19,646 --> 04:31:20,513 RESTAURANTS, YOU KNOW. 5442 04:31:20,513 --> 04:31:22,315 THAT'S ABOUT IT. 5443 04:31:22,315 --> 04:31:25,451 THE ONLY THING I REMEMBER, TOO 5444 04:31:25,451 --> 04:31:30,490 IS THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL GIRL 5445 04:31:30,490 --> 04:31:35,962 THAT BROKE MY HEART -- THANK 5446 04:31:35,962 --> 04:31:36,262 YOU. 5447 04:31:36,262 --> 04:31:36,563 [LAUGHTER] 5448 04:31:36,563 --> 04:31:45,939 [ APPLAUSE ] 5449 04:31:45,939 --> 04:31:47,774 >> THANK YOU, I WANT TO JUST 1 5450 04:31:47,774 --> 04:31:49,042 MORE THING I FORGOT TO MENTION, 5451 04:31:49,042 --> 04:31:52,745 THERE IS A BOOK THAT'S WRITTEN 5452 04:31:52,745 --> 04:31:54,881 BY DR. DINESH [INDISCERNIBLE], 5453 04:31:54,881 --> 04:31:56,649 GOOD FRIEND OF MINE, 1 OF THE 5454 04:31:56,649 --> 04:32:02,889 CHAPTERS IS MY INTERVIEW, IT'S 5455 04:32:02,889 --> 04:32:04,023 TITLED ROOM 19. 5456 04:32:04,023 --> 04:32:05,758 THERE'S ANOTHER BOOK ON AMAZON 5457 04:32:05,758 --> 04:32:08,261 THAT WAS WRITTEN BY MY AUNT, THE 5458 04:32:08,261 --> 04:32:09,662 TITLE OF THAT 1 IS TOMORROW. 5459 04:32:09,662 --> 04:32:10,430 TOMORROW SHE SAID NEVER CAME 5460 04:32:10,430 --> 04:32:12,031 EMPLOY SO IF YOU WANT TO CHECK 5461 04:32:12,031 --> 04:32:13,866 THOSE OUT, YOU CAN CHECK THEM 5462 04:32:13,866 --> 04:32:16,202 OUT ON AMAZON. 5463 04:32:16,202 --> 04:32:22,141 THANK YOU. 5464 04:32:22,141 --> 04:32:23,910 >> IN GRATITUDE FOR THE WORDS 5465 04:32:23,910 --> 04:32:25,078 SHARED AND THE ENERGY THAT 5466 04:32:25,078 --> 04:32:26,379 YOU'RE SHARING WITH US RIGHT 5467 04:32:26,379 --> 04:32:30,817 NOW, WE WANT TO CENTER THAT 5468 04:32:30,817 --> 04:32:32,452 ANCESTRAL LOVE AND HONOR YOU IN 5469 04:32:32,452 --> 04:32:33,553 THIS BLANKETING AND THE GIFTS WE 5470 04:32:33,553 --> 04:32:35,588 WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU 5471 04:32:35,588 --> 04:32:35,855 NOW. 5472 04:32:35,855 --> 04:32:37,223 SO IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OUR TEAM 5473 04:32:37,223 --> 04:32:38,024 MEMBERS RIGHT HERE, WE WOULD 5474 04:32:38,024 --> 04:32:40,159 LIKE TO OFFER THAT TO YOU. 5475 04:32:40,159 --> 04:32:50,670 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5476 04:33:08,955 --> 04:33:16,796 [♪ MUSIC ♪] 5477 04:33:16,796 --> 04:33:23,169 [♪ SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ 5478 04:33:23,169 --> 04:33:33,212 ] 5479 04:33:37,083 --> 04:33:38,151 [♪ SINGING IN 5480 04:33:38,151 --> 04:33:48,494 NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ ] 5481 04:34:19,225 --> 04:34:19,525 [♪ SINGING IN 5482 04:34:19,525 --> 04:34:29,869 NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ ] 5483 04:36:38,931 --> 04:36:39,232 [♪ SINGING IN 5484 04:36:39,232 --> 04:36:49,575 NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ ] 5485 04:38:47,126 --> 04:38:54,033 [ APPLAUSE ] 5486 04:38:54,033 --> 04:38:55,434 >> WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU 5487 04:38:55,434 --> 04:38:59,005 ALL FOR BEING HERE WITH US AND 5488 04:38:59,005 --> 04:39:09,382 SHARING YOUR STORIES. 5489 04:39:13,686 --> 04:39:14,286 YEAH. 5490 04:39:14,286 --> 04:39:14,754 >> HOLD ON. 5491 04:39:14,754 --> 04:39:14,954 WAIT. 5492 04:39:14,954 --> 04:39:21,894 DON'T MOVE. 5493 04:39:21,894 --> 04:39:22,361 STAY THERE. 5494 04:39:22,361 --> 04:39:25,865 >> SO WE'RE GOING TO DO A 5495 04:39:25,865 --> 04:39:30,369 BLESSING FOR THIS STAFF. 5496 04:39:30,369 --> 04:39:35,741 I ACTUALLY MADE THIS STAFF AND 5497 04:39:35,741 --> 04:39:36,275 I'M SO PROUD. 5498 04:39:36,275 --> 04:39:38,844 A GROUP OF VETERANS HERE IN THE 5499 04:39:38,844 --> 04:39:43,949 D. C. AREA, GREGORIA IS 1 OF 5500 04:39:43,949 --> 04:39:46,218 THEM AND HE'S THE 1 LEADING THE 5501 04:39:46,218 --> 04:39:47,319 HONOR GUARDS SO ANYWAYS THEY 5502 04:39:47,319 --> 04:39:49,255 ASKED ME TO DO A STAFF STORY 5503 04:39:49,255 --> 04:39:52,992 THEM AND I PUT THIS TOGETHER AND 5504 04:39:52,992 --> 04:39:57,129 PROFESSOR DENNY AND HE'S ALSO 5505 04:39:57,129 --> 04:39:59,598 OUR HA-TAH-LEE, HE'S ALSO OUR 5506 04:39:59,598 --> 04:40:00,666 MEDICINE PERSON, HE WILL BLESS 5507 04:40:00,666 --> 04:40:10,910 IT FOR US NOW. 5508 04:41:12,538 --> 04:41:15,908 HE'S GOING TO GO AHEAD AND SING 5509 04:41:15,908 --> 04:41:23,282 HIS SONG. 5510 04:41:23,282 --> 04:41:33,793 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5511 04:41:37,863 --> 04:41:43,068 [♪ SINGING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ 5512 04:41:43,068 --> 04:41:48,808 ] 5513 04:41:48,808 --> 04:41:49,475 [♪ SINGING IN 5514 04:41:49,475 --> 04:41:59,819 NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ ] 5515 04:42:38,858 --> 04:42:39,358 [♪ SINGING IN 5516 04:42:39,358 --> 04:42:49,702 NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ ] 5517 04:44:14,586 --> 04:44:14,887 [♪ SINGING IN 5518 04:44:14,887 --> 04:44:25,230 NATIVE LANGUAGE ♪ ] 5519 04:45:02,301 --> 04:45:12,745 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5520 04:45:52,251 --> 04:46:02,694 [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE ] 5521 04:46:12,137 --> 04:46:22,314 >> THANK YOU. 5522 04:46:28,854 --> 04:46:29,521 >> THANK YOU. 5523 04:46:29,521 --> 04:46:32,191 WE ARE GOING TO TAKE A 10 MINUTE 5524 04:46:32,191 --> 04:46:33,859 BREAK TO ALLOW SOME TRANSITION 5525 04:46:33,859 --> 04:46:36,095 TIME HERE AND THEN WE'RE GOING 5526 04:46:36,095 --> 04:46:40,332 TO HAVE OUR ELDERS WHO ARE UP 5527 04:46:40,332 --> 04:46:41,533 FOR THE INTERGENERATIONAL 5528 04:46:41,533 --> 04:46:42,868 HEALING PANEL TO INVITE THEM TO 5529 04:46:42,868 --> 04:46:44,269 COME UP ON THE STAGE OR STAY ON 5530 04:46:44,269 --> 04:46:44,670 THE STAGE. 5531 04:46:44,670 --> 04:46:46,338 IF YOU NEED TO TAKE A BREAK, 5532 04:46:46,338 --> 04:46:48,240 IT'S OKAY, GO,A HEAD. 5533 04:46:48,240 --> 04:46:58,617 THANK YOU, EVERYBODY. 5534 04:46:56,317 --> 04:46:58,185 JUST ANOTHER THING TO ADD ABOUT 5535 04:46:58,185 --> 04:46:59,253 THE BLANKETING AND JUST ANOTHER 5536 04:46:59,253 --> 04:47:02,022 WAY OF IN OUR CULTURES AND OUR 5537 04:47:02,022 --> 04:47:04,959 BEING, JUST IN AS MUCH AS IT IS 5538 04:47:04,959 --> 04:47:07,394 THE BLANKET THAT ENCASES US IN 5539 04:47:07,394 --> 04:47:09,763 WARMTH, IT ALSO RESEMBLES THE 5540 04:47:09,763 --> 04:47:11,265 PRAYERS AND FLOWERS WE SHARE 5541 04:47:11,265 --> 04:47:12,233 WITH OUR RELATIVES REMINDING 5542 04:47:12,233 --> 04:47:18,239 THEM ALWAYS THAT WE LOVE THEM. 5543 04:47:18,239 --> 04:47:20,207 SO WE WANT TO LEAVE YOU WITH 5544 04:47:20,207 --> 04:47:21,308 THAT. 5545 04:47:21,308 --> 04:47:22,176 THANK YOU AUNTIE. 5546 04:47:22,176 --> 04:47:31,378 WE LOVE YOU. 5547 04:47:31,378 --> 04:47:37,350 WE ARE GETTING READY NOW FOR TE 5548 04:47:37,350 --> 04:47:38,752 NEXT PANEL, THE 5549 04:47:38,752 --> 04:47:42,615 INTERGENERATIONAL PANEL AND OUR 5550 04:47:42,615 --> 04:47:45,818 MODERATOR IS JOANY SWENA, AND 5551 04:47:45,818 --> 04:47:52,091 YOU'RE ON. 5552 04:47:52,091 --> 04:48:02,535 >> WELCOME BACK EMPLOY I'M. 5553 04:48:02,535 --> 04:48:03,302 -- ALSO THEIR FAMILY THAT IS 5554 04:48:03,302 --> 04:48:05,571 HERE ALONGSIDE OF THEM AND 5555 04:48:05,571 --> 04:48:10,309 HOLDING THEM UP THROUGH THIS 5556 04:48:10,309 --> 04:48:16,883 WORK AS WELL AND TODAY WE HAVE 5557 04:48:16,883 --> 04:48:19,819 CHA DAD, RON SENIOR AND MY 5558 04:48:19,819 --> 04:48:21,888 COLLEAGUE MEGAN SENIOR WHO 5559 04:48:21,888 --> 04:48:24,290 OVERSEES IMPACT AT THE NATIVE 5560 04:48:24,290 --> 04:48:28,060 AMERICAN INDIAN NATIVE SCHOOL 5561 04:48:28,060 --> 04:48:30,363 BOARDING COALITION AND ALSO MOST 5562 04:48:30,363 --> 04:48:31,531 IMPORTANTLY SHE'S RON'S DAUGHTER 5563 04:48:31,531 --> 04:48:40,640 AND THEN FURTHER TO MY LEFT WE 5564 04:48:40,640 --> 04:48:43,876 HAVE AUNTIE JEAN, AND OUR SISTER 5565 04:48:43,876 --> 04:48:49,015 WITH NAVs, OVERSEES O HP AND 5566 04:48:49,015 --> 04:48:50,316 -- GRANDDAUGHTER, FALCON. 5567 04:48:50,316 --> 04:48:53,519 YES, SO I THINK THE DIRECTION 5568 04:48:53,519 --> 04:48:56,155 THAT WE'RE GONNA GO IN IS 5569 04:48:56,155 --> 04:48:58,357 CONTINUOUS LOW FOCUSING ON WHAT 5570 04:48:58,357 --> 04:49:00,092 DOES HEALING LOOK LIKE, WHAT 5571 04:49:00,092 --> 04:49:02,728 DOES THRIVING LOOK LIKE AND I 5572 04:49:02,728 --> 04:49:04,997 REALLY WANT TO HEAR FROM RON 5573 04:49:04,997 --> 04:49:09,735 BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE'VE 5574 04:49:09,735 --> 04:49:10,937 HEARD YOUR VOICE THROUGHOUT THIS 5575 04:49:10,937 --> 04:49:13,706 PAST DAY AND A HALF AND WE WOULD 5576 04:49:13,706 --> 04:49:16,842 LIKE TO YOU KICK US OFF AND 5577 04:49:16,842 --> 04:49:21,547 SHARE SOME WORDS, WHAT'S ON YOUR 5578 04:49:21,547 --> 04:49:24,083 HEART TODAY. 5579 04:49:24,083 --> 04:49:26,018 >> MY NAME TAGS. 5580 04:49:26,018 --> 04:49:27,386 BADGES. 5581 04:49:27,386 --> 04:49:28,187 [LAUGHTER] 5582 04:49:28,187 --> 04:49:29,889 >> ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO, 5583 04:49:29,889 --> 04:49:32,792 EARLIER WHEN WE HAD THESE 5584 04:49:32,792 --> 04:49:34,427 PEOPLE, MY DAUGHTER WITH THE 5585 04:49:34,427 --> 04:49:37,296 CAMERAS OR YOUR PHONES, THAT 5586 04:49:37,296 --> 04:49:41,400 REMINDED ME OF A DAY WHEN I WAS 5587 04:49:41,400 --> 04:49:43,135 GROWING UP, WE USED TO HAVE THE 5588 04:49:43,135 --> 04:49:46,939 TOURISTS COME THROUGH TO GO SEE 5589 04:49:46,939 --> 04:49:48,708 THE GRAND CANYON AND THEY WOULD 5590 04:49:48,708 --> 04:49:54,280 TAKE OUR PICTURES AND IT WAS 5591 04:49:54,280 --> 04:49:56,716 50-CENTS AND IT WAS A MOVIE 5592 04:49:56,716 --> 04:49:58,417 CAMERA BUT DAD SAID CHARGE THEM 5593 04:49:58,417 --> 04:49:58,918 A DOLLAR. 5594 04:49:58,918 --> 04:50:00,987 SO SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINES, 5595 04:50:00,987 --> 04:50:02,688 SOMEBODY HAS A COLLECTION OF 5596 04:50:02,688 --> 04:50:07,426 WHATEVER AND I'M ON IT. 5597 04:50:07,426 --> 04:50:09,395 BECAUSE WE LIVED BY THE GRAND 5598 04:50:09,395 --> 04:50:11,697 CANYON AND WE HAD A LOT OF 5599 04:50:11,697 --> 04:50:17,536 TOURISTS GO THROUGH THERE AND SO 5600 04:50:17,536 --> 04:50:20,006 FROM THAT, WHEN I GOT TO 5601 04:50:20,006 --> 04:50:26,012 BOARDING SCHOOL, THE FIRST DAY 5602 04:50:26,012 --> 04:50:32,685 OF CLASS THE TEACHER 5603 04:50:32,685 --> 04:50:35,087 MRS. RUCKER, NICE GAL, ANYWAY, 5604 04:50:35,087 --> 04:50:42,762 SHE INSTRUCTED US IN ENGLISH AND 5605 04:50:42,762 --> 04:50:44,630 NOT TO BRAG BUT THE TOURISTS 5606 04:50:44,630 --> 04:50:46,132 REALLY HELPED BECAUSE I WAS THE 5607 04:50:46,132 --> 04:50:49,135 ONLY 1 THAT SPOKE ENGLISH AND I 5608 04:50:49,135 --> 04:50:52,972 INTERPRETED FOR THE KIDS. 5609 04:50:52,972 --> 04:50:55,608 AND YOU KNOW THEY PICKED IT UP 5610 04:50:55,608 --> 04:50:57,810 AND THEN WE TEASE EACH OTHER AS 5611 04:50:57,810 --> 04:51:01,547 WE WERE LEARNING ENGLISH. 5612 04:51:01,547 --> 04:51:06,452 I WAS HELPING THEM AND THEN ALSO 5613 04:51:06,452 --> 04:51:11,657 THAT BROUGHT BACK SOME TRAUMA, 5614 04:51:11,657 --> 04:51:14,160 TOO BECAUSE THEY ALL -- THE 5615 04:51:14,160 --> 04:51:15,561 TEACHER'S LINED US UP AND SAID, 5616 04:51:15,561 --> 04:51:17,863 OKAY, YOU'RE GOING TO GO IN 5617 04:51:17,863 --> 04:51:26,605 HERE, AND I SMELLED ALCOHOL AND 5618 04:51:26,605 --> 04:51:35,881 EVERY TIME I SMELL ALCOHOL MY 5619 04:51:35,881 --> 04:51:40,186 STOMACH TURNS BECAUSE WE GOT 5620 04:51:40,186 --> 04:51:43,022 IMMUNIZATION AND IT WAS LIKE A 5621 04:51:43,022 --> 04:51:44,190 SLAUGHTER HOUSE, YOU KNOW, 5622 04:51:44,190 --> 04:51:53,599 YOU'RE NEXT, YOU'RE NEXT, YOU 5623 04:51:53,599 --> 04:51:53,899 KNOW. 5624 04:51:53,899 --> 04:51:59,071 SO I TRY TO AVOID DOCTORS BUT 5625 04:51:59,071 --> 04:52:06,345 UNFORTUNATELY GETTING OLDER, SO 5626 04:52:06,345 --> 04:52:09,048 FROM THERE, AFTER WE GOT ALL OF 5627 04:52:09,048 --> 04:52:09,882 OUR IMMUNIZATION SHOTS AND 5628 04:52:09,882 --> 04:52:13,352 EVERYTHING, WE GO BACK TO THE 5629 04:52:13,352 --> 04:52:18,391 DORM AND I WENT TO THE CITY 5630 04:52:18,391 --> 04:52:19,458 BOARDING SCHOOL. 5631 04:52:19,458 --> 04:52:28,667 I CALLED IT FEDERAL PRISON. 5632 04:52:28,667 --> 04:52:32,538 AND AS MR. DENNY SAID IT, 5633 04:52:32,538 --> 04:52:40,413 MILITARY, IT WAS LIKE MILITARY 5634 04:52:40,413 --> 04:52:41,814 DISCIPLINE. 5635 04:52:41,814 --> 04:52:46,585 BECAUSE SOME OF THE DORM AIDES, 5636 04:52:46,585 --> 04:52:47,720 DORM FATHERS, MOTHERS, WHATEVER, 5637 04:52:47,720 --> 04:52:57,530 THEY WERE VERY STRICT. 5638 04:52:57,530 --> 04:52:58,931 I JUST REMEMBER, THEY WERE 5639 04:52:58,931 --> 04:53:00,800 ALWAYS COUNTING THE BOYS, OR THE 5640 04:53:00,800 --> 04:53:03,369 GIRLS I GUESS, BUT THEY WERE 5641 04:53:03,369 --> 04:53:05,004 ALWAYS COUNTING US AND THEY HAD 5642 04:53:05,004 --> 04:53:10,810 TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS 40 5643 04:53:10,810 --> 04:53:11,177 STUDENTS. 5644 04:53:11,177 --> 04:53:12,411 THEY WERE ALWAYS WAITING FOR 5645 04:53:12,411 --> 04:53:14,146 SOMEONE TO GO AWOL. 5646 04:53:14,146 --> 04:53:17,016 I NEVER DID BUT I PLANNED A 5647 04:53:17,016 --> 04:53:27,493 COUPLE OF THEM AND THEY WERE 5648 04:53:28,227 --> 04:53:28,494 AWOL. 5649 04:53:28,494 --> 04:53:32,064 I ALSO HAD TRAUMA INDUCED FOOD 5650 04:53:32,064 --> 04:53:32,898 LAST NIGHT. 5651 04:53:32,898 --> 04:53:36,735 I WAS LOOKING AT THE MENU AND IT 5652 04:53:36,735 --> 04:53:39,071 SAID ASPARAGUS ON THERE AND I 5653 04:53:39,071 --> 04:53:41,207 WENT UH OH, AND THEN MY DAUGHTER 5654 04:53:41,207 --> 04:53:43,742 SAID, YOU CAN PROBABLY ASK FOR 5655 04:53:43,742 --> 04:53:45,344 SOMETHING ELSE TO SUBSTITUTE 5656 04:53:45,344 --> 04:53:49,982 THAT, I SAID ALL RIGHT. 5657 04:53:49,982 --> 04:53:53,185 BECAUSE WHEN WE GOT TO THE 5658 04:53:53,185 --> 04:53:56,121 CAFETERIA TO EAT, THERE WAS ROOM 5659 04:53:56,121 --> 04:53:59,592 FOR 8 STUDENTS, 4 BOYS, 4 GIRLS. 5660 04:53:59,592 --> 04:54:02,027 AND THE IMIRL YOU WERE BEHIND, 5661 04:54:02,027 --> 04:54:04,096 YOU PULL THE CHAIR OUT FOR THEM, 5662 04:54:04,096 --> 04:54:07,099 THEY WERE TEACHING US TO BE 5663 04:54:07,099 --> 04:54:10,836 COURTEOUS, I GUESS AND WE SAT 5664 04:54:10,836 --> 04:54:14,106 DOWN AND THE 1 DAY I SAT DOWN 5665 04:54:14,106 --> 04:54:17,810 THERE WERE PORK CHOPS WITH I 5666 04:54:17,810 --> 04:54:25,551 CALL IT SPARE GRASS NOW, 5667 04:54:25,551 --> 04:54:30,089 ASPARAGUS, AND TO THIS DAY, 5668 04:54:30,089 --> 04:54:32,758 WELL, I THINK 66, I THINK -- THE 5669 04:54:32,758 --> 04:54:36,629 LAST TIME I TRIED IT AND THE 5670 04:54:36,629 --> 04:54:39,365 DORM FATHER STOOD RIGHT THERE 5671 04:54:39,365 --> 04:54:41,534 AND SAID YOU HAVE TO EAT 5672 04:54:41,534 --> 04:54:43,135 ASPARAGUS OR YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 5673 04:54:43,135 --> 04:54:48,541 GO AND EVERYBODY ELSE ATE THEIR 5674 04:54:48,541 --> 04:54:50,209 ASPARAGUS AND I PUT IT IN MY 5675 04:54:50,209 --> 04:54:52,077 MOUTH AND I STARTED CHEWING IT 5676 04:54:52,077 --> 04:54:54,046 AND IT WASN'T DOING IT. 5677 04:54:54,046 --> 04:54:58,951 SO THE DORM FATHER WENT TO THE 5678 04:54:58,951 --> 04:55:01,020 NEXT TABLE, AND YOU HAD TO BE 5679 04:55:01,020 --> 04:55:02,821 INNOVATIVE AND IT APPEARS I WAS 5680 04:55:02,821 --> 04:55:04,523 THAT DAY BECAUSE I OPENED MY 5681 04:55:04,523 --> 04:55:06,358 MILK CARTON AND STUFFED 5682 04:55:06,358 --> 04:55:08,093 ASPARAGUS IN THERE AND EVERYBODY 5683 04:55:08,093 --> 04:55:09,962 ELSE WAS LIKE, I GUESS THEY WERE 5684 04:55:09,962 --> 04:55:11,063 HAPPY BECAUSE THEY COULD GO, 5685 04:55:11,063 --> 04:55:12,631 BECAUSE THEY HAD TO SIT WITH ME 5686 04:55:12,631 --> 04:55:14,533 ALSO IF I DIDN'T EAT IT. 5687 04:55:14,533 --> 04:55:19,905 SO CAME OVER AND THE DORM FATHER 5688 04:55:19,905 --> 04:55:20,839 SAID, YOU FINISHED. 5689 04:55:20,839 --> 04:55:22,708 I SAID YES AND NOBODY ELSE SAID 5690 04:55:22,708 --> 04:55:24,577 A WORD BECAUSE THEY COULD BE 5691 04:55:24,577 --> 04:55:28,514 NEXT, SOMETHING ELSE THEY DIDN'T 5692 04:55:28,514 --> 04:55:31,450 LIKE AND SO THEN, WE WERE ABLE 5693 04:55:31,450 --> 04:55:35,621 TO LEAVE THE CAFETERIA AND GO 5694 04:55:35,621 --> 04:55:41,260 BACK TO THE DORM AND THE DORM I 5695 04:55:41,260 --> 04:55:44,296 WENT TO, THERE WERE 4 WINGS, A, 5696 04:55:44,296 --> 04:55:50,402 B, C, D, I WAS FIRST IN THE A. 5697 04:55:50,402 --> 04:55:51,637 AND REMEMBER THAT FIRST NIGHT 5698 04:55:51,637 --> 04:56:01,513 THAT WE SPENT THERE, A KID WAS 5699 04:56:01,513 --> 04:56:03,882 WITH US AND HE -- ALL RIGHT, 5700 04:56:03,882 --> 04:56:05,084 PICTURE THIS, YOU'RE 6 YEARS 5701 04:56:05,084 --> 04:56:10,923 OLD, 7 YEARS OLD, 8 YEARS OLD 5702 04:56:10,923 --> 04:56:13,125 SOME AS YOUNG AS 5 I GUESS AND 5703 04:56:13,125 --> 04:56:14,893 THEY TAKE YOU AWARE -- WELL, 5704 04:56:14,893 --> 04:56:16,795 SOMETIMES THEY DID TAKE YOU 5705 04:56:16,795 --> 04:56:18,530 AWAY, BUT YOU WERE BROUGHT TO 5706 04:56:18,530 --> 04:56:21,634 THE TRADING POST -- NOT TRADING 5707 04:56:21,634 --> 04:56:24,236 POST, BOARDING SCHOOL AND IT'S 5708 04:56:24,236 --> 04:56:30,509 AN ENVIRONMENT I KNOW THAT 5709 04:56:30,509 --> 04:56:33,212 PEOPLE WOULD NOT DO THAT THESE 5710 04:56:33,212 --> 04:56:36,482 DAYS, JUST LEAVE THEM THERE AND 5711 04:56:36,482 --> 04:56:37,783 SOMETIMES IN THE EARLY DAYS OF 5712 04:56:37,783 --> 04:56:39,952 BOARD BEING SCHOOL, THEY STAYED 5713 04:56:39,952 --> 04:56:46,458 LONG LIKE 9 YEARS, 9 MONTHS, 5714 04:56:46,458 --> 04:56:46,659 LONG. 5715 04:56:46,659 --> 04:56:50,829 AND THEY LEFT ME THERE AND I WAS 5716 04:56:50,829 --> 04:56:54,733 1 OF 40 STUDENTS IN THAT SWING 5717 04:56:54,733 --> 04:57:03,375 AND IT WAS HARSH BECAUSE THEY 5718 04:57:03,375 --> 04:57:05,778 WERE MEAN TO US AND WE HAD TO 5719 04:57:05,778 --> 04:57:08,380 KIND OF FEND FOR OURSELVES AND 5720 04:57:08,380 --> 04:57:09,648 DEFEND OURSELVES BECAUSE 5721 04:57:09,648 --> 04:57:13,385 SOMETIMES WE GOT BULLIES IN 5722 04:57:13,385 --> 04:57:13,752 THERE. 5723 04:57:13,752 --> 04:57:15,621 SO THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING LIKE A 5724 04:57:15,621 --> 04:57:20,159 PRISON ENVIRONMENT BECAUSE 5725 04:57:20,159 --> 04:57:22,127 THAT'S I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY 5726 04:57:22,127 --> 04:57:30,869 IT -- I WASN'T IN PRISON. 5727 04:57:30,869 --> 04:57:32,871 AND SO I FROM THAT POINT WHEN I 5728 04:57:32,871 --> 04:57:43,415 GOT TO BOARDING SCHOOL, IT SEEMS 5729 04:57:44,917 --> 04:57:50,456 LIKE IT WAS A PLACE THERE WAS NO 5730 04:57:50,456 --> 04:57:54,593 LOVE, WHEN THE KIDS AND I WAS 5731 04:57:54,593 --> 04:58:01,033 INCLUDED AND I CRIED WHEN WE GOT 5732 04:58:01,033 --> 04:58:02,634 THE IMMUNIZATION THE NURSE SAID, 5733 04:58:02,634 --> 04:58:04,303 OKAY, JOHNNY YOU'RE NEXT, JOWNY 5734 04:58:04,303 --> 04:58:05,637 OVER HERE, BOOM. 5735 04:58:05,637 --> 04:58:06,238 YOU KNOW. 5736 04:58:06,238 --> 04:58:13,545 AND IT WASN'T JUST 1, IT WAS 5737 04:58:13,545 --> 04:58:17,449 LIKE 3 AND WE LEFT, MOST OF US 5738 04:58:17,449 --> 04:58:18,016 CRYING. 5739 04:58:18,016 --> 04:58:19,184 WHERE WAS MOM? 5740 04:58:19,184 --> 04:58:22,221 WHERE WAS DAD? 5741 04:58:22,221 --> 04:58:23,522 NOBODY WAS THERE TO -- OKAY, 5742 04:58:23,522 --> 04:58:24,923 THOSE OF YOU THAT WENT TO 5743 04:58:24,923 --> 04:58:30,362 BOARDING SCHOOL, I KNOW YOU CAN 5744 04:58:30,362 --> 04:58:32,564 IDENTIFY WITH THAT AND PEOPLE 5745 04:58:32,564 --> 04:58:33,365 THAT WAS TRAUMA. 5746 04:58:33,365 --> 04:58:38,303 ONE OF MANY TRAUMA. 5747 04:58:38,303 --> 04:58:42,841 AND THE NEXT 1 I WILL TELL YOU 5748 04:58:42,841 --> 04:58:47,146 ABOUT MAYBE MR. DENNY KNOWS 5749 04:58:47,146 --> 04:58:49,314 WHERE TUPA CITY, TUPA CITY 5750 04:58:49,314 --> 04:58:51,250 BOARDING SCHOOL EMPLOY I WAS 5751 04:58:51,250 --> 04:58:54,486 BEING TAKEN BACK THE 1 TIME I 5752 04:58:54,486 --> 04:58:55,821 REMEMBER, AND THERE'S A VALLEY 5753 04:58:55,821 --> 04:58:59,525 RIGHT THERE, YOU GO UP, UP ON 5754 04:58:59,525 --> 04:59:02,828 THE MESA, ANYWAY, EVERY TIME I 5755 04:59:02,828 --> 04:59:04,963 WENT THERE TO TUPA CITY, IT WAS 5756 04:59:04,963 --> 04:59:09,001 FOR 2 THINGS, THE HOSPITAL OR 5757 04:59:09,001 --> 04:59:10,502 THE BOARDING SCHOOL. 5758 04:59:10,502 --> 04:59:12,004 NEITHER 1 WAS NOT GOOD. 5759 04:59:12,004 --> 04:59:14,306 BOARDING SCHOOL WAS WORSE. 5760 04:59:14,306 --> 04:59:19,344 SO, WE WENT TO THE LAUND ROUGH 5761 04:59:19,344 --> 04:59:22,147 ATOM MAT AND DO THE LAWBDRY AND 5762 04:59:22,147 --> 04:59:24,016 WOULD TAKE US BACK TO THE 5763 04:59:24,016 --> 04:59:26,118 BOARDING SCHOOL, MY SISTER AND I 5764 04:59:26,118 --> 04:59:28,487 AND THERE'S ONLY MAYBE A FEW 5765 04:59:28,487 --> 04:59:30,622 TIMES, 1 OR 23 TIMES IN MY LIFE 5766 04:59:30,622 --> 04:59:31,924 THAT I NEVER ATE WHAT WAS GIVEN 5767 04:59:31,924 --> 04:59:34,026 TO ME, AND THAT WAS THAT 1 TIME, 5768 04:59:34,026 --> 04:59:38,263 MY MOTHER GAVE ME HOT DOGS AND 5769 04:59:38,263 --> 04:59:40,566 FRIES AND DRINK FROM THE DAIRY 5770 04:59:40,566 --> 04:59:43,001 QUEEN IT TUPA CITY, ANYWAY, MY 5771 04:59:43,001 --> 04:59:44,069 STOMACH TURNED AND LOST MY 5772 04:59:44,069 --> 04:59:45,237 APPETITE BECAUSE I WAS GOING 5773 04:59:45,237 --> 04:59:52,311 BACK TO BOARDING SCHOOL. 5774 04:59:52,311 --> 05:00:01,820 OR MAYBE PRISON, LIKE I TERMED 5775 05:00:01,820 --> 05:00:02,054 IT. 5776 05:00:02,054 --> 05:00:03,255 ANYWAY, IT WAS PURE HELL, AND 5777 05:00:03,255 --> 05:00:06,792 THAT BY THE WAY, WAS A QUOTE 5778 05:00:06,792 --> 05:00:08,060 THAT THEY TOOK OUT OF MY 5779 05:00:08,060 --> 05:00:12,497 INTERVIEW WITH THE NEW YORK 5780 05:00:12,497 --> 05:00:14,399 TIMES IN OCTOBER, THESE GOOD 5781 05:00:14,399 --> 05:00:19,605 FOLKS THEY WERE THERE IN SALT 5782 05:00:19,605 --> 05:00:23,775 LAKE DOING THE ORAL HISTORY 5783 05:00:23,775 --> 05:00:29,248 PROGRAM INTERVIEWS AND I WAS 1 5784 05:00:29,248 --> 05:00:30,349 OF THE INTERVIEWEES. 5785 05:00:30,349 --> 05:00:31,650 THANKFULLY THEY DEPARTMENT BRENG 5786 05:00:31,650 --> 05:00:33,418 OUT ANY ASPARAGUS IN THE FOOD 5787 05:00:33,418 --> 05:00:35,153 THEY WERE EATING, THAT WAS GOOD. 5788 05:00:35,153 --> 05:00:43,195 ANYWAY, THEY FED US GOOD, BUT 5789 05:00:43,195 --> 05:00:44,596 ANYWAY, WHEN I WOULD GET THE 5790 05:00:44,596 --> 05:00:52,871 TERM GOING UP THE HILL TO THE 5791 05:00:52,871 --> 05:00:54,606 CITY, I TO THIS DAY, EVEN TO 5792 05:00:54,606 --> 05:00:57,409 THIS DAY, I STILL HAVE A LITTLE 5793 05:00:57,409 --> 05:00:59,411 BIT OF MEMORY WITH THAT AND I 5794 05:00:59,411 --> 05:01:08,353 GUESS YOU CALL IT TRAUMA AND 5795 05:01:08,353 --> 05:01:12,124 PART OF THE INTERRACIAL -- NOT 5796 05:01:12,124 --> 05:01:15,027 INTERRACIAL -- INTERGENERATIONAL 5797 05:01:15,027 --> 05:01:19,231 TRAUMA YOU HAD TO REALLY DEVELOP 5798 05:01:19,231 --> 05:01:26,672 ON THAT, THE LAST PART OF THE 5799 05:01:26,672 --> 05:01:26,939 HEALING. 5800 05:01:26,939 --> 05:01:29,074 AND I DON'T HAVE ANY SCARS FROM 5801 05:01:29,074 --> 05:01:31,877 BOARDING SCHOOL, I DON'T HAVE 5802 05:01:31,877 --> 05:01:32,311 ANY OF THIS. 5803 05:01:32,311 --> 05:01:42,387 INSIDE ARE THE SCARS. 5804 05:01:42,387 --> 05:01:43,655 INSIDE THEY'RE HOLY LIKE THIS, 5805 05:01:43,655 --> 05:01:45,657 AND I'VE BEEN WITH A COUPLE 5806 05:01:45,657 --> 05:01:48,060 COUNSELORS AND THERE'S A LADY IN 5807 05:01:48,060 --> 05:01:51,196 SALT LAKE FROM BACK HOME, NAVAJO 5808 05:01:51,196 --> 05:01:52,597 LAND, SHE SAT ME DOWN AND WE 5809 05:01:52,597 --> 05:01:54,700 TALKED AND ALL OF A SUDDEN SHE 5810 05:01:54,700 --> 05:01:57,469 COULD IDENTIFY OR I COULD 5811 05:01:57,469 --> 05:02:00,038 IDENTIFY WITH HER. 5812 05:02:00,038 --> 05:02:03,875 I ACTUALLY GOT TO TALK AND 5813 05:02:03,875 --> 05:02:06,211 RATHER THAN SOMEBODY WHO WASN'T 5814 05:02:06,211 --> 05:02:07,980 NAVAJO, YOU HAD TO TEACH THEM. 5815 05:02:07,980 --> 05:02:09,648 THIS IS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN 5816 05:02:09,648 --> 05:02:10,482 BOARDING SCHOOL, YOU KNOW AND 5817 05:02:10,482 --> 05:02:14,519 THEN THEY COULD GO AND TRY TO 5818 05:02:14,519 --> 05:02:25,063 LEARN MORE ABOUT IT AND HELP ME. 5819 05:02:26,898 --> 05:02:31,370 SO, PEOPLE, WE ARE LITERALLY 5820 05:02:31,370 --> 05:02:31,703 SURVIVORS. 5821 05:02:31,703 --> 05:02:33,271 AND I'M GLAD I'M HERE TO TELL 5822 05:02:33,271 --> 05:02:34,906 YOU ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IN DIDN'T 5823 05:02:34,906 --> 05:02:36,441 MAKE IT. 5824 05:02:36,441 --> 05:02:37,509 THANK YOU. 5825 05:02:37,509 --> 05:02:40,412 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH. 5826 05:02:40,412 --> 05:02:40,879 [ APPLAUSE ] 5827 05:02:40,879 --> 05:02:43,982 >> SO BEFORE WE JUMP OVER TO 5828 05:02:43,982 --> 05:02:46,885 AUNTIE JEAN, I WANTED TO ASK 5829 05:02:46,885 --> 05:02:47,953 MEGAN, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN 5830 05:02:47,953 --> 05:02:50,655 WORKING ON HEALING FOR YEARS 5831 05:02:50,655 --> 05:02:52,057 WITH YOUR FATHER AND YOU LIVE 5832 05:02:52,057 --> 05:02:54,326 AND TAKE CARE OF EACH OTHER 5833 05:02:54,326 --> 05:02:55,460 TOGETHER, WHAT HAS THAT BEEN 5834 05:02:55,460 --> 05:02:58,463 LIKE AND THEN MAYBE CAN YOU GIVE 5835 05:02:58,463 --> 05:03:00,065 US AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT HEALING 5836 05:03:00,065 --> 05:03:02,801 WORK YOU'VE DONE TOGETHER. 5837 05:03:02,801 --> 05:03:05,437 >> YEAH, THANKS DAD FOR SHARING. 5838 05:03:05,437 --> 05:03:08,140 I GREW UP ONLY HEARING ABOUT 5839 05:03:08,140 --> 05:03:09,307 CERTAIN THINGS, ABOUT FEDERAL 5840 05:03:09,307 --> 05:03:10,842 PRISON, WHICH HE WAS AT WHICH 5841 05:03:10,842 --> 05:03:11,743 WAS THE BOARDING SCHOOL. 5842 05:03:11,743 --> 05:03:14,646 I KNEW HE WENT TO FEDERAL 5843 05:03:14,646 --> 05:03:16,948 PRISON, I KNEW HE WENT TO TUBA 5844 05:03:16,948 --> 05:03:18,717 CITY, AND I WOULD ASK HIM CITY 5845 05:03:18,717 --> 05:03:19,885 LIKE HEY, DAD DID YOU EVER GET 5846 05:03:19,885 --> 05:03:21,987 IF TROUBLE FOR SPEAKING NAVAJO, 5847 05:03:21,987 --> 05:03:24,156 AS YOU INJURED HEARD HIM, HE 5848 05:03:24,156 --> 05:03:25,891 ALREADY KNEW ENGLISH WHEN HE WAS 5849 05:03:25,891 --> 05:03:28,860 IN THERE SO HE WOULD JUST SAY 5850 05:03:28,860 --> 05:03:29,027 NO. 5851 05:03:29,027 --> 05:03:30,562 I THOUGHT OH, OKAY, IT WASN'T 5852 05:03:30,562 --> 05:03:31,329 THAT BAD. 5853 05:03:31,329 --> 05:03:32,931 WELL, DAD DID THEY CUT YOUR 5854 05:03:32,931 --> 05:03:33,165 HAIR? 5855 05:03:33,165 --> 05:03:35,300 AND IT WAS LIKE, WELL, NO, MY 5856 05:03:35,300 --> 05:03:36,568 HAIR WAS ALREADY CUT. 5857 05:03:36,568 --> 05:03:38,203 OH, OKAY, SO IT MUST HAVE NOT 5858 05:03:38,203 --> 05:03:39,938 BEEN LIKE THE BOARDING SCHOOLS 5859 05:03:39,938 --> 05:03:42,841 THAT I HEAR ABOUT, THAT NATIVES 5860 05:03:42,841 --> 05:03:44,676 WENT TO BUT IT'S JUST BECAUSE 5861 05:03:44,676 --> 05:03:51,416 THIS MAN WHO IS MY DAD REPRESSED 5862 05:03:51,416 --> 05:03:51,716 EVERYTHING. 5863 05:03:51,716 --> 05:03:53,718 HE JUST DIDN'T TALK ABOUT IT. 5864 05:03:53,718 --> 05:03:55,420 HE DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT. 5865 05:03:55,420 --> 05:04:02,327 HE DID THAT FOR DECADES AND SO 5866 05:04:02,327 --> 05:04:12,604 WHEN I WAS AN ADULT, EVERYTHING 5867 05:04:12,604 --> 05:04:16,575 STARTED TO COME OUT IN ANGER AND 5868 05:04:16,575 --> 05:04:20,011 MY MOM AND DAD WHO THEY JUST 5869 05:04:20,011 --> 05:04:21,713 CELEBRATED 43 YEARS BEING 5870 05:04:21,713 --> 05:04:23,115 MARRIED YESTERDAY, AND IT WAS 5871 05:04:23,115 --> 05:04:28,553 THE FIRST TIME IN 43 YEARS THAT 5872 05:04:28,553 --> 05:04:29,121 THEY WEREN'T TOGETHER. 5873 05:04:29,121 --> 05:04:31,623 BUT MY MOM SAID, YOU NEED TO GET 5874 05:04:31,623 --> 05:04:33,525 HELP OR ELSE I'M GONE. 5875 05:04:33,525 --> 05:04:36,228 AND I WAS LIKE, YEAH, MOM, THAT 5876 05:04:36,228 --> 05:04:38,630 SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT AND MY DAD 5877 05:04:38,630 --> 05:04:41,500 STARTED GOING TO THERAPY AND IN 5878 05:04:41,500 --> 05:04:43,935 THERAPY HE HAD TO EDUCATE THE 5879 05:04:43,935 --> 05:04:45,470 THERAPISTS AND WHEN I WAS IN 5880 05:04:45,470 --> 05:04:47,539 COLLEGE, I WAS ABLE TO INTERVIEW 5881 05:04:47,539 --> 05:04:51,243 MY DAD AND I WAS THE FIRST 5882 05:04:51,243 --> 05:04:53,178 PERSON THAT HE TOLD EVERYTHING 5883 05:04:53,178 --> 05:04:56,414 TO, REALLY AND THEN I WAS ABLE 5884 05:04:56,414 --> 05:04:58,884 TO -- SORRY -- I DON'T KNOW WHY 5885 05:04:58,884 --> 05:05:02,754 I'M SO CRYING TODAY, BUT UGH-- I 5886 05:05:02,754 --> 05:05:05,490 WAS ABLE TO SHARE WITH MY 5887 05:05:05,490 --> 05:05:15,167 SIBLINGS WHAT OUR DAD WENT 5888 05:05:15,167 --> 05:05:15,400 THROUGH. 5889 05:05:15,400 --> 05:05:16,701 AND SINGS THAT DAY, SINCE THE 5890 05:05:16,701 --> 05:05:18,803 DAY THAT MY DAD HAS OPENED UP 5891 05:05:18,803 --> 05:05:21,206 ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE IN BOARDING 5892 05:05:21,206 --> 05:05:26,878 SCHOOL, WE AS A FAMILY HAVE 5893 05:05:26,878 --> 05:05:27,712 DETERMINED THAT WE'RE GOING TO 5894 05:05:27,712 --> 05:05:32,651 BE THERE FOR MY DAD NO MATTER 5895 05:05:32,651 --> 05:05:32,884 WHAT. 5896 05:05:32,884 --> 05:05:36,121 LUCKILY BECAUSE MY DAD REPRESSED 5897 05:05:36,121 --> 05:05:39,357 EVERYTHING FOR SO LONG, THE 5898 05:05:39,357 --> 05:05:42,194 THINGS THAT HE THINKS WERE BAD 5899 05:05:42,194 --> 05:05:45,463 PARENTING AND THINGS, WE ARE 5900 05:05:45,463 --> 05:05:46,364 ABLE TO FORGIVE. 5901 05:05:46,364 --> 05:05:50,001 HE NEVER HURT MY MOM, HE NEVER 5902 05:05:50,001 --> 05:05:56,308 HURT US, HE WORKED FOR DECADES 5903 05:05:56,308 --> 05:06:00,312 AT A JOB WHERE HE EXPERIENCED 5904 05:06:00,312 --> 05:06:01,880 RACISM, AND HE HAD TO STAND ALL 5905 05:06:01,880 --> 05:06:06,484 DAY AND WORK HARD AND HE NEVER 5906 05:06:06,484 --> 05:06:07,052 WAS HOME. 5907 05:06:07,052 --> 05:06:09,354 HE CAN'T HUG US TO THIS DAY, IF 5908 05:06:09,354 --> 05:06:12,290 I GAVE HIM A HUG RIGHT HOW HE 5909 05:06:12,290 --> 05:06:14,426 WOULD BE LIKE ... HE COULDN'T 5910 05:06:14,426 --> 05:06:15,961 SAY HE LOVED US BUT BECAUSE WE 5911 05:06:15,961 --> 05:06:19,564 WERE ABLE TO AS A FAMILY COME 5912 05:06:19,564 --> 05:06:20,699 TOGETHER AND SAY THAT STUFF 5913 05:06:20,699 --> 05:06:27,539 DOESN'T MATTER AS MUCH AS DOES 5914 05:06:27,539 --> 05:06:29,140 BECAUSE MY DAD NEVER DID 5915 05:06:29,140 --> 05:06:31,009 ANYTHING OUT OF HIS WAY TO HURT 5916 05:06:31,009 --> 05:06:36,815 US AT ALL AND HE WAS ALWAYS 5917 05:06:36,815 --> 05:06:39,384 THERE, EVEN -- MY SIBLINGS AND I 5918 05:06:39,384 --> 05:06:43,321 ARE MUSICIANS AND YOU KNOW WE 5919 05:06:43,321 --> 05:06:44,489 HAVE CONCERTS CONSTANTLY OR WE 5920 05:06:44,489 --> 05:06:47,726 WERE IN PLAYS AND MY DAD WAS 5921 05:06:47,726 --> 05:06:50,262 ALWAYS THE FIRST 1 RIGHT AT THE 5922 05:06:50,262 --> 05:06:51,630 END OF THE STAGE TO COME AND 5923 05:06:51,630 --> 05:06:53,965 GIVE US A HUG AND HE WAS -- HE 5924 05:06:53,965 --> 05:06:56,968 WAS SO PROUD OF US, YOU KNOW? 5925 05:06:56,968 --> 05:06:59,471 AND SO, WHEN HE SAYS YOU KNOW 5926 05:06:59,471 --> 05:07:02,040 THE THINGS HE THINKS ABOUT AS A 5927 05:07:02,040 --> 05:07:03,408 PARENT, YOU KNOW NOT BEING ABLE 5928 05:07:03,408 --> 05:07:06,344 TO HUG US OR SAY I LOVE YOU, 5929 05:07:06,344 --> 05:07:12,484 JUST GO DAD, BUT YOU KEPT ME 5930 05:07:12,484 --> 05:07:12,817 SAFE. 5931 05:07:12,817 --> 05:07:14,686 EVEN TO THIS DAY AND THE WORK I 5932 05:07:14,686 --> 05:07:17,188 DO NOW AS WE WERE -- SORRY -- AS 5933 05:07:17,188 --> 05:07:19,591 WE WERE GETTING READY FOR SOME 5934 05:07:19,591 --> 05:07:21,092 ORGANIZING IN SALT LAKE, WE WERE 5935 05:07:21,092 --> 05:07:23,962 HAVING A HEALING CIRCLE WITH 5936 05:07:23,962 --> 05:07:26,197 ELDERS IN SALT LAKE SERIES EVERY 5937 05:07:26,197 --> 05:07:27,766 MONTH WE WOULD MEET AND HAVE A 5938 05:07:27,766 --> 05:07:29,734 HEALING CIRCLE AND SOMETIMES HE 5939 05:07:29,734 --> 05:07:31,102 WOULD COME AND SOMETIMES HE 5940 05:07:31,102 --> 05:07:33,104 COULDN'T BUT THE TIMES HE 5941 05:07:33,104 --> 05:07:35,273 COULDN'T COME I WOULD GO TO HIM 5942 05:07:35,273 --> 05:07:37,108 AND SAY THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED AT 5943 05:07:37,108 --> 05:07:38,109 THE HEALING CIRCLE, THIS IS 5944 05:07:38,109 --> 05:07:39,244 WHAT'S HAPPENING AND THEN WE 5945 05:07:39,244 --> 05:07:41,646 WOULD BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT IT 5946 05:07:41,646 --> 05:07:43,281 AND TALK THROUGH IT AND GO 5947 05:07:43,281 --> 05:07:44,349 HERE'S THE INFORMATION AND THE 5948 05:07:44,349 --> 05:07:45,317 CONTIARAS DENSE THAT THESE 5949 05:07:45,317 --> 05:07:46,685 ELDERS NEED TO SHARE THEIR 5950 05:07:46,685 --> 05:07:47,786 STORIES SO WHILE I WORK WITH 5951 05:07:47,786 --> 05:07:49,754 NABS AND I GET TO WORK WITH 5952 05:07:49,754 --> 05:07:53,458 COMMUNITIES I ALSO GET TO DO 5953 05:07:53,458 --> 05:07:55,360 THIS WITH MY DAD. 5954 05:07:55,360 --> 05:07:56,227 WE'VE GONE EVERYWHERE TOGETHER, 5955 05:07:56,227 --> 05:07:57,696 WE'VE BEEN TO MONTANA, WE'VE 5956 05:07:57,696 --> 05:07:59,364 BEEN TO YOU KNOW ALL THESE 5957 05:07:59,364 --> 05:08:00,732 DIFFERENT PLACES WHERE HE'S ABLE 5958 05:08:00,732 --> 05:08:04,536 TO TELL HIS STORY AND I'M ABLE 5959 05:08:04,536 --> 05:08:06,671 TO SAY, YEAH, I SURVIVED A 5960 05:08:06,671 --> 05:08:12,243 BOARDING SCHOOL SURVIVOR AND I 5961 05:08:12,243 --> 05:08:12,510 LOVE HIM. 5962 05:08:12,510 --> 05:08:14,546 AND EVEN THOUGH HE WENT THROUGH 5963 05:08:14,546 --> 05:08:17,282 WHAT HE HAD TO GO THROUGH HE 5964 05:08:17,282 --> 05:08:22,487 MADE IT, HE IS A SURVIVOR AND I 5965 05:08:22,487 --> 05:08:24,756 JUST WANT TO SAY TO ALL OF OUR 5966 05:08:24,756 --> 05:08:25,724 SURVIVORS HERE THAT SOMETIMES 5967 05:08:25,724 --> 05:08:27,158 YOU DON'T HAVE A GOOD 5968 05:08:27,158 --> 05:08:28,493 RELATIONSHIP WITH YOUR KIDS 5969 05:08:28,493 --> 05:08:30,628 BECAUSE OF THE TRAUMA THAT 5970 05:08:30,628 --> 05:08:31,863 HAPPENED AND YOU DIDN'T KNOW OR 5971 05:08:31,863 --> 05:08:33,698 YOU DEPARTMENT HAVE THE HELP 5972 05:08:33,698 --> 05:08:37,035 THAT YOU NEED AND SO, I'M HERE 5973 05:08:37,035 --> 05:08:38,937 AS A DAUGHTER OF A BOARDING 5974 05:08:38,937 --> 05:08:42,741 SCHOOL SURVIVOR TO TELL YOU YEP, 5975 05:08:42,741 --> 05:08:43,141 YOU'RE RIGHT. 5976 05:08:43,141 --> 05:08:43,908 THAT IS RIGHT. 5977 05:08:43,908 --> 05:08:47,579 YOU SHOULD BE ANGRY, YOU SHOULD 5978 05:08:47,579 --> 05:08:48,646 HAVE THAT RELATIONSHIP, BUT WE 5979 05:08:48,646 --> 05:08:55,620 HAVE TO HEAL FROM IT BECAUSE IT 5980 05:08:55,620 --> 05:08:56,721 WASN'T THEIR FAULT. 5981 05:08:56,721 --> 05:08:57,989 THEY HAD NO CHOICE. 5982 05:08:57,989 --> 05:09:06,464 THEY WERE JUST LITTLE KIDS. 5983 05:09:06,464 --> 05:09:12,437 DAD, I LOVE YOU. 5984 05:09:12,437 --> 05:09:17,475 [ APPLAUSE ] 5985 05:09:17,475 --> 05:09:18,543 >> THANK YOU FOR ALL THE 5986 05:09:18,543 --> 05:09:22,247 BEAUTIFUL WORDS THAT YOU SHARED 5987 05:09:22,247 --> 05:09:25,316 AND FOR ALL THE REALNESS, THE 5988 05:09:25,316 --> 05:09:30,655 RAWNESS OF WHAT IT'S LIKE AND 5989 05:09:30,655 --> 05:09:33,324 MOVING ALONG TO AUNTIE JEAN AND 5990 05:09:33,324 --> 05:09:33,925 LACY AND FALCON. 5991 05:09:33,925 --> 05:09:38,430 TELL US ABOUT HEALING IN YOUR 5992 05:09:38,430 --> 05:09:39,998 FAMILY AS WELL. 5993 05:09:39,998 --> 05:09:41,766 >> I THINK WE'RE STILL GOING 5994 05:09:41,766 --> 05:09:43,368 THROUGH THE HEALING BUT I WOULD 5995 05:09:43,368 --> 05:09:46,371 LIKE TO THANK, YOU KNOW MY 5996 05:09:46,371 --> 05:09:49,974 ANCESTORS AND THE PEOPLE THAT 5997 05:09:49,974 --> 05:09:52,043 PLACED THE SURVIVAL BLANKET ON 5998 05:09:52,043 --> 05:09:53,611 MY SHOULDER. 5999 05:09:53,611 --> 05:09:57,148 I FELT SUCH PRIDE IN ACCEPTING 6000 05:09:57,148 --> 05:10:01,686 THIS BECAUSE IT SHOWED THAT I'M 6001 05:10:01,686 --> 05:10:06,057 STILL HERE AND I'M STILL GOING 6002 05:10:06,057 --> 05:10:11,029 BUT I WILL LIKE TO APOLOGIZE TO 6003 05:10:11,029 --> 05:10:14,999 MY NIECE LACY, MY GRANDDAUGHTER 6004 05:10:14,999 --> 05:10:18,937 FALCON FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO 6005 05:10:18,937 --> 05:10:22,240 PASS ON OUR WHOLE CULTURE, OUR 6006 05:10:22,240 --> 05:10:26,411 LANGUAGE, AND OUR TRADITIONS TO 6007 05:10:26,411 --> 05:10:26,845 THEM. 6008 05:10:26,845 --> 05:10:29,514 I ONLY HAVE TIDBITS OF YOU KNOW 6009 05:10:29,514 --> 05:10:32,951 WHAT I HAD WHEN I WAS A CHILD 6010 05:10:32,951 --> 05:10:37,155 BEFORE I WENT TO HARBOR SPRINGS 6011 05:10:37,155 --> 05:10:39,524 AND I ONLY HAVE BITS AND PIECES 6012 05:10:39,524 --> 05:10:42,694 OF WHEN MY GRANT MOTHER OR MY 6013 05:10:42,694 --> 05:10:44,462 MOTHER OR, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY 6014 05:10:44,462 --> 05:10:51,002 TOLD ME WHAT WAS GOING ON OR 6015 05:10:51,002 --> 05:10:52,170 WHAT THE TRADITIONS WERE AND 6016 05:10:52,170 --> 05:10:55,507 AFTER MY MOTHER PASSED AWAY IN 6017 05:10:55,507 --> 05:11:00,044 72, ALL I HAD WAS MY AUNT DONNA 6018 05:11:00,044 --> 05:11:04,349 THAT WOULD BE LACY'S GRANDMOTHER 6019 05:11:04,349 --> 05:11:07,018 AND I WOULD ALWAYS GO TO HER AND 6020 05:11:07,018 --> 05:11:08,853 ASK HER, WHAT DID WE DO? 6021 05:11:08,853 --> 05:11:11,289 AND IF SHE KNEW, SHE WOULD TELL 6022 05:11:11,289 --> 05:11:14,192 ME BUT SOMETIMES IT WAS VERY 6023 05:11:14,192 --> 05:11:16,294 LITTLE AND AFTER I WOULD GET 6024 05:11:16,294 --> 05:11:18,329 FINISHED WITH THE TALK, I WOULD 6025 05:11:18,329 --> 05:11:22,000 GET VERY ANGRY BECAUSE I WOULD 6026 05:11:22,000 --> 05:11:23,134 SAY, WHY COULDN'T THEY HAVE 6027 05:11:23,134 --> 05:11:25,436 PASSED SOMETHING DOWN TO ME SO I 6028 05:11:25,436 --> 05:11:28,172 WOULD KNOW, I WAS MAD AT THEM 6029 05:11:28,172 --> 05:11:33,077 BUT THEN I REALIZED, LATER ON, 6030 05:11:33,077 --> 05:11:37,015 AFTER LACY STARTED ME WITH 6031 05:11:37,015 --> 05:11:39,584 COMING TO NABS THAT IT WASN'T 6032 05:11:39,584 --> 05:11:43,021 THEIR FAULT, THEY COULDN'T TEACH 6033 05:11:43,021 --> 05:11:48,459 ME WHAT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN TO 6034 05:11:48,459 --> 05:11:51,329 DO BUT THEY PASSED ON LOVE, 6035 05:11:51,329 --> 05:11:52,730 SILENT LOVE I CALL IT BECAUSE 6036 05:11:52,730 --> 05:11:57,502 EVEN THOUGH THEY DIDN'T SAY IT 6037 05:11:57,502 --> 05:12:00,772 OR SHOWED IT, YOU KNEW THAT THEY 6038 05:12:00,772 --> 05:12:04,475 WERE TRYING TO SAY IT IN 6039 05:12:04,475 --> 05:12:10,648 GUESTURE OR IN MOTION AND AFTER 6040 05:12:10,648 --> 05:12:13,751 LIKE I SAID WHEN MY MOTHER 6041 05:12:13,751 --> 05:12:16,254 PASSED AWAY IN 72, I WENT TO 6042 05:12:16,254 --> 05:12:18,389 AUNT DONNA FOR ALL THE HELP. 6043 05:12:18,389 --> 05:12:21,826 SHE WAS LIKE MY MATRIARCH. 6044 05:12:21,826 --> 05:12:23,461 SHE WAS LIKE THE HEAD 1 AND 6045 05:12:23,461 --> 05:12:24,929 ALMOST LIKE THE ONLY 1 LEFT IN 6046 05:12:24,929 --> 05:12:27,432 HER FAMILY AND THE FAMILY TO 6047 05:12:27,432 --> 05:12:31,502 TELL ME ANYTHING WHAT TO DO AND 6048 05:12:31,502 --> 05:12:34,372 WHEN SHE PASSED AWAY IN 2014, IT 6049 05:12:34,372 --> 05:12:37,909 WAS LIKE I WAS DEVASTATED. 6050 05:12:37,909 --> 05:12:41,446 I DIDN'T HAVE A ROLE MODEL, I 6051 05:12:41,446 --> 05:12:46,718 DIDN'T HAVE A PERSON TO GO TO. 6052 05:12:46,718 --> 05:12:49,253 I DIDN'T HAVE SOMEONE TO TELL 6053 05:12:49,253 --> 05:12:54,926 ME, HEY, BE QUIET, LISTEN AND 6054 05:12:54,926 --> 05:12:55,159 LEARN. 6055 05:12:55,159 --> 05:12:57,762 AND LIKE I SAID, I DIDN'T PASS 6056 05:12:57,762 --> 05:13:01,532 TOO MUCH ON TO LACY OR MY 6057 05:13:01,532 --> 05:13:03,001 GRANDDAUGHTER OR MY CHILDREN OR 6058 05:13:03,001 --> 05:13:05,903 THEIR CHILDREN OR THEIR CHILDREN 6059 05:13:05,903 --> 05:13:06,337 AFTER THAT. 6060 05:13:06,337 --> 05:13:09,040 I DIDN'T HAVE A LOT OF 6061 05:13:09,040 --> 05:13:10,541 INFORMATION BUT WHAT I HAD FROM 6062 05:13:10,541 --> 05:13:14,812 WHEN I WAS A CHILD AND WHEN I 6063 05:13:14,812 --> 05:13:16,581 HEARD FROM MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY 6064 05:13:16,581 --> 05:13:17,915 MOTHER AND MY AUNT, I PASSED 6065 05:13:17,915 --> 05:13:23,054 THAT ON TO THEM. 6066 05:13:23,054 --> 05:13:27,492 I ALSO AFTER I GOT OUT OF 6067 05:13:27,492 --> 05:13:29,093 BOARDING SCHOOL AND OUR FAMILY 6068 05:13:29,093 --> 05:13:32,397 WAS NOT REALLY THAT CLOSE BUT 6069 05:13:32,397 --> 05:13:33,898 AFTERWARDS WE BECAME CLOSE AND 6070 05:13:33,898 --> 05:13:39,604 TO ME, IT'S MY FAMILY I HAVE TO 6071 05:13:39,604 --> 05:13:40,772 KEEP THEM TOGETHER, THEY CAN'T 6072 05:13:40,772 --> 05:13:42,373 BE FAR BECAUSE IN THE BOARDING 6073 05:13:42,373 --> 05:13:45,677 SCHOOL WE WERE SEPARATED, THEY 6074 05:13:45,677 --> 05:13:47,178 WERE ALWAYS PUT APART. 6075 05:13:47,178 --> 05:13:49,714 WE WERE, YOU KNOW, PUNISHED IF 6076 05:13:49,714 --> 05:13:53,418 WE GOT TOGETHER OR WANTED TO SAY 6077 05:13:53,418 --> 05:13:54,419 SOMETHING TO EACH OTHER. 6078 05:13:54,419 --> 05:13:57,021 SO MY FAMILY IS VERY IMPORTANT 6079 05:13:57,021 --> 05:14:00,291 AND FOR PASSING THAT ON TO THEM, 6080 05:14:00,291 --> 05:14:01,626 YOU KNOW I JUST HAVE THAT TO 6081 05:14:01,626 --> 05:14:04,762 PASS ON TO THEM, BUT I -- I WANT 6082 05:14:04,762 --> 05:14:10,401 THEM TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, I 6083 05:14:10,401 --> 05:14:14,472 MIGHT HAVE SILENT LOVE IN ME TOO 6084 05:14:14,472 --> 05:14:16,074 SO I HOPE I PASS THAT ON AND 6085 05:14:16,074 --> 05:14:19,844 COMING UP HERE AND I'M SO 6086 05:14:19,844 --> 05:14:21,212 GRATEFUL FOR MY GRANDDAUGHTER 6087 05:14:21,212 --> 05:14:25,783 FOR BEING WITH ME BECAUSE I WANT 6088 05:14:25,783 --> 05:14:32,156 HER TO SEE, YOU KNOW THE 6089 05:14:32,156 --> 05:14:34,225 [INDISCERNIBLE] IN ME AND I WANT 6090 05:14:34,225 --> 05:14:40,498 HER TO SEE THAT I WAS A 6091 05:14:40,498 --> 05:14:45,470 [INDISCERNIBLE] WOMAN OR CHILD, 6092 05:14:45,470 --> 05:14:47,438 VERY RAMBUNCTIOUS, VERY OUTGOING 6093 05:14:47,438 --> 05:14:48,372 AND OUTLANDISH AND TO DO 6094 05:14:48,372 --> 05:14:49,741 ANYTHING ON THE SPUR OF THE 6095 05:14:49,741 --> 05:14:51,042 MOMENT AND ENJOY MYSELF. 6096 05:14:51,042 --> 05:14:53,778 I WANTED TO LET HER KNOW THAT 6097 05:14:53,778 --> 05:14:55,980 LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL AND YOU MAKE 6098 05:14:55,980 --> 05:14:58,483 IT WHAT, YOU KNOW YOU CAN. 6099 05:14:58,483 --> 05:15:01,819 IT'S YOU THAT ARE DOING IT AND I 6100 05:15:01,819 --> 05:15:07,558 HOPE LACY SEES THAT, TOO. 6101 05:15:07,558 --> 05:15:08,926 THANK YOU. 6102 05:15:08,926 --> 05:15:09,761 >> SILENT LOVE. 6103 05:15:09,761 --> 05:15:10,728 OH MY GOODNESS. 6104 05:15:10,728 --> 05:15:16,634 BEAUTIFUL, THANK YOU. . 6105 05:15:16,634 --> 05:15:18,703 [ APPLAUSE ] 6106 05:15:18,703 --> 05:15:24,776 >> THANK YOU AUNTIE. 6107 05:15:24,776 --> 05:15:27,578 SO, MY AUNTIE JEANNIE, LOOKS 6108 05:15:27,578 --> 05:15:29,747 JUST LIKE MY GRAM AND THEY WERE 6109 05:15:29,747 --> 05:15:32,984 ONLY 7 YEARS APART, AND THEY 6110 05:15:32,984 --> 05:15:33,584 WERE LIKE BESTYS. 6111 05:15:33,584 --> 05:15:35,753 AND BACK IN THE DAY, WHEN THERE 6112 05:15:35,753 --> 05:15:38,055 WAS NO CALL WAITING, YOU KNOW, 6113 05:15:38,055 --> 05:15:39,791 WHEN IT WAS A HOUSE PHONE, 6114 05:15:39,791 --> 05:15:41,092 WHENEVER I WOULD CALL MY GRAM 6115 05:15:41,092 --> 05:15:46,030 AND IT WAS BUSY FOR HOURS AND 6116 05:15:46,030 --> 05:15:47,532 HOURS AND HOURS, I KNEW SHE WAS 6117 05:15:47,532 --> 05:15:50,468 ON THE PHONE WITH AUNTIE 6118 05:15:50,468 --> 05:15:52,036 JEANNIE, WE ALL KNEW IT, THE 6119 05:15:52,036 --> 05:15:53,304 WHOLE FAMILY KNEW IT. 6120 05:15:53,304 --> 05:15:56,240 SO I'M GLAD THAT YOU GUYS HAD 6121 05:15:56,240 --> 05:15:58,709 EACH OTHER SO MY GRANDMA, ME AND 6122 05:15:58,709 --> 05:16:00,378 MY GRANDMA WERE -- WE WERE 6123 05:16:00,378 --> 05:16:02,413 BESTYS, I WAS HER FAVORITE AND 6124 05:16:02,413 --> 05:16:07,118 NOBODY COULD EVER CHALLENGE OR 6125 05:16:07,118 --> 05:16:10,188 DENY THAT AND SHE'S REALLY WHY I 6126 05:16:10,188 --> 05:16:16,394 AM HERE TODAY, NOT ONLY WHERE I 6127 05:16:16,394 --> 05:16:22,200 AM IN THIS WORLD BUT DOING THIS 6128 05:16:22,200 --> 05:16:23,568 WORK FOR NABS. 6129 05:16:23,568 --> 05:16:26,003 ONCE I REALIZED HOW INDIAN 6130 05:16:26,003 --> 05:16:27,171 BOARDING SCHOOLS IMPACTED MY 6131 05:16:27,171 --> 05:16:29,540 FAMILY, LIKE I KNEW IT IMPACTED 6132 05:16:29,540 --> 05:16:30,775 OUR PEOPLE BUT ONCE I PUT ALL 6133 05:16:30,775 --> 05:16:32,109 THE PIECES TOGETHER AND REALIZED 6134 05:16:32,109 --> 05:16:33,878 HOW IT IMPACTED MY FAMILY, I 6135 05:16:33,878 --> 05:16:37,715 WANTED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT 6136 05:16:37,715 --> 05:16:42,887 AND PUT IT UP TO SPIRIT AND HERE 6137 05:16:42,887 --> 05:16:46,224 I AM BUT NOW 10 YEARS AFTER MY 6138 05:16:46,224 --> 05:16:50,294 GRAM PASSED, I'M HAVING A REALLY 6139 05:16:50,294 --> 05:16:51,495 HARD TIME WISHING SHE WERE HERE 6140 05:16:51,495 --> 05:16:56,367 AND THINKING ABOUT ALL THE 1S 6141 05:16:56,367 --> 05:17:00,171 THAT DON'T HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY 6142 05:17:00,171 --> 05:17:03,841 AND WHERE THEY TOOK THOSE 6143 05:17:03,841 --> 05:17:05,109 STORIES WITH THEM, OR WERE NOT 6144 05:17:05,109 --> 05:17:07,979 ABLE TO RELEASE THAT BEFORE THEY 6145 05:17:07,979 --> 05:17:11,482 PASSED OF COURSE WE KNOW THEY'RE 6146 05:17:11,482 --> 05:17:14,852 IN A BETTER PLACE. 6147 05:17:14,852 --> 05:17:19,824 MY GRANDMA ALWAYS SAID THAT, SHE 6148 05:17:19,824 --> 05:17:21,325 ALWAYS SAID SHE RAN AWAY FROM 6149 05:17:21,325 --> 05:17:26,330 BOARDING SCHOOL AND NOW, I'M 6150 05:17:26,330 --> 05:17:27,732 LEARNING THAT -- WHICH REALLY 6151 05:17:27,732 --> 05:17:29,967 DIDN'T MAKE SENSE BECAUSE IT WAS 6152 05:17:29,967 --> 05:17:31,335 LOWER PENINSULA AND UPPER PENS 6153 05:17:31,335 --> 05:17:33,537 INSURE MARKET LA, THERE WAS A 6154 05:17:33,537 --> 05:17:34,605 FERRY, PHYSICALLY IT DIDN'T MAKE 6155 05:17:34,605 --> 05:17:36,007 SENSE BUT THAT WAS HER WAY OF 6156 05:17:36,007 --> 05:17:41,078 NOT TALKING ABOUT IT. 6157 05:17:41,078 --> 05:17:44,382 AND I REMEMBER HER SHARING WITH 6158 05:17:44,382 --> 05:17:46,150 ME WHEN SHE SHARED 3 THINGS WITH 6159 05:17:46,150 --> 05:17:51,289 ME, THAT'S WHERE SHE LEARNED HOW 6160 05:17:51,289 --> 05:17:51,522 TO SEW. 6161 05:17:51,522 --> 05:17:55,092 THAT IF HE EVER STARTED TALKING 6162 05:17:55,092 --> 05:17:56,594 ABOUT WHAT SHE WENT THROUGH, SHE 6163 05:17:56,594 --> 05:17:58,462 WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STOP CRYING 6164 05:17:58,462 --> 05:17:59,797 AND SHE WILL NEVER FORGET THE 6165 05:17:59,797 --> 05:18:01,999 SMELL OF A BURNING BODY BASED 6166 05:18:01,999 --> 05:18:04,101 OFF ALL THE BABIES THEY THROUGH 6167 05:18:04,101 --> 05:18:07,872 IN THE FURNACE AND THIS WAS A 6168 05:18:07,872 --> 05:18:08,472 CATHOLIC BOARDING SCHOOL AND 6169 05:18:08,472 --> 05:18:14,378 WHEN SHE SAID THAT TO ME, SHE 6170 05:18:14,378 --> 05:18:21,886 SAID IT SO NONCHALANT LIKE, I 6171 05:18:21,886 --> 05:18:22,486 WAS LIKE WHAT? 6172 05:18:22,486 --> 05:18:25,156 SHE JUST SAID IT, LIKE IT WAS A 6173 05:18:25,156 --> 05:18:27,358 THING, THAT'S WHAT THEY DID. 6174 05:18:27,358 --> 05:18:28,926 SO I CARRIED ALL THOSE WITH ME 6175 05:18:28,926 --> 05:18:31,562 AND LEARNING EVERYTHING I DO NOW 6176 05:18:31,562 --> 05:18:35,766 WITH THE NAVs, I SEE SHE DID 6177 05:18:35,766 --> 05:18:36,667 NOT RUN AWAY. 6178 05:18:36,667 --> 05:18:39,103 NOW THAT I HAVE ACCESS, FINALLY 6179 05:18:39,103 --> 05:18:42,273 WE JUST GOT ACCESS IN SEPTEMBER 6180 05:18:42,273 --> 05:18:49,613 TO A LIST AND SHE WAS THERE FOR 6181 05:18:49,613 --> 05:18:50,281 4 SCHOOL YEARS. 6182 05:18:50,281 --> 05:18:52,316 SO LIKE LIFE IS A CONITANT 6183 05:18:52,316 --> 05:18:52,984 LEARNING JOURNEY. 6184 05:18:52,984 --> 05:18:54,251 WE'RE NEVER STOPPING LEARNING. 6185 05:18:54,251 --> 05:18:56,153 WE'RE ALWAYS LEARNING ABOUT 6186 05:18:56,153 --> 05:18:59,223 OURSELVES, OUR FAMILY, OUR 6187 05:18:59,223 --> 05:19:02,159 ANCESTORS AND HOPEFULLY, USING 6188 05:19:02,159 --> 05:19:05,696 THAT AS A GOOD PATH TO BECOME 6189 05:19:05,696 --> 05:19:11,135 BETTER AND HELP THOSE IN OUR 6190 05:19:11,135 --> 05:19:12,269 FAMILY AS WELL. 6191 05:19:12,269 --> 05:19:14,538 BUT NOW LOOKING BACK AND SEEING 6192 05:19:14,538 --> 05:19:16,841 HER MANNERISMS, HER HABITS, 6193 05:19:16,841 --> 05:19:18,109 REALIZING HOW MUCH BOARDING 6194 05:19:18,109 --> 05:19:26,617 SCHOOL DID HAVE AN IMPACT ON HER 6195 05:19:26,617 --> 05:19:28,786 LIFE AND IT WAS A CATHOLIC 6196 05:19:28,786 --> 05:19:30,254 BOARDING SCHOOL. 6197 05:19:30,254 --> 05:19:30,988 SHE BECAME CATHOLIC. 6198 05:19:30,988 --> 05:19:33,424 I USED TO ASK HER, SHE CALLED IT 6199 05:19:33,424 --> 05:19:34,925 SPEAKING INDIAN, I DIDN'T TALK 6200 05:19:34,925 --> 05:19:38,229 INDIAN, OR I DIDN'T SPEAK INDIAN 6201 05:19:38,229 --> 05:19:41,599 BUT SHE SAID SHE COULD 6202 05:19:41,599 --> 05:19:42,767 UNDERSTAND IT AND I'M LUCKY 6203 05:19:42,767 --> 05:19:46,237 ENOUGH TO HAVE MY AUNTIE HERE 6204 05:19:46,237 --> 05:19:48,939 WHO'S BESTY SO I CAN ASK HER 6205 05:19:48,939 --> 05:19:50,674 QUESTIONS LIKE DID MY GRAM DO 6206 05:19:50,674 --> 05:19:52,109 THIS, DID MY GRAM SAY THAT, DID 6207 05:19:52,109 --> 05:19:53,310 YOU TALK ABOUT THIS? 6208 05:19:53,310 --> 05:19:55,046 SO IT'S HELPING ME ON THIS 6209 05:19:55,046 --> 05:20:04,789 HEALING JOURNEY WHICH MY MOM AS 6210 05:20:04,789 --> 05:20:09,427 WELL AND LEARNING LIKE, THAT 6211 05:20:09,427 --> 05:20:12,396 YOUR GRANDMA, GRANDMA HARDWICK, 6212 05:20:12,396 --> 05:20:15,166 THEY DIDN'T TEACH THE KIDS 6213 05:20:15,166 --> 05:20:15,633 [INDISCERNIBLE], THEY 6214 05:20:15,633 --> 05:20:16,667 SPONTANEOUS ACTIVITYEC IT WITH 6215 05:20:16,667 --> 05:20:21,439 EACH OTHER BUT SHE DIDN'T TEACH 6216 05:20:21,439 --> 05:20:21,672 IT. 6217 05:20:21,672 --> 05:20:23,607 MY GRAM SAID SHE KNEW THE SWEAR 6218 05:20:23,607 --> 05:20:25,443 WORDS BUT WOULD NEVER TEACH ME 6219 05:20:25,443 --> 05:20:27,645 THE SWEAR WORDS BECAUSE THAT 6220 05:20:27,645 --> 05:20:29,947 FEAR, SHE NEVER SPOKE IT, IT'S 6221 05:20:29,947 --> 05:20:31,749 THAT FEAR SAID, I'M REALIZING 6222 05:20:31,749 --> 05:20:34,618 HOW MUCH FEAR SHE CARRIED IN HER 6223 05:20:34,618 --> 05:20:36,353 AND NOW REALIZING HOW THAT FEAR 6224 05:20:36,353 --> 05:20:37,888 AS BEEN PASSED DOWN, I FORGET 6225 05:20:37,888 --> 05:20:41,826 WHO WAS TALKING ABOUT IT, I 6226 05:20:41,826 --> 05:20:42,793 THINK YESTERDAY. 6227 05:20:42,793 --> 05:20:48,499 LIKE, FEAR IS DEEPLY ENGRAINED 6228 05:20:48,499 --> 05:20:54,238 IN US AND THERE'S A REASON 6229 05:20:54,238 --> 05:20:54,872 BEHIND THAT. 6230 05:20:54,872 --> 05:20:57,908 LIKE BEING AFRAID TO SAY I LOVE 6231 05:20:57,908 --> 05:20:59,210 YOU, LOOKING BACK, MY GRAM WOULD 6232 05:20:59,210 --> 05:21:00,744 NEVER SAY I LOVE YOU AND I 6233 05:21:00,744 --> 05:21:02,046 DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT AS A KID, 6234 05:21:02,046 --> 05:21:03,814 I WAS LIKE LOVE YOU, I WOULD SAY 6235 05:21:03,814 --> 05:21:05,316 IT UNTIL SHE WOULD SAY IT BACK 6236 05:21:05,316 --> 05:21:07,218 AND NOW IT'S LIKE, WELL I'M 6237 05:21:07,218 --> 05:21:09,920 REALLY TBLAD I DID THAT BECAUSE 6238 05:21:09,920 --> 05:21:14,492 SHE WOULDN'T, SHE WOULDN'T. 6239 05:21:14,492 --> 05:21:16,260 BUT I WAS HER FAVORITE SO I GOT 6240 05:21:16,260 --> 05:21:18,229 AWAY WITH A LOT OF STUFF WITH 6241 05:21:18,229 --> 05:21:20,431 HER WHICH I THINK ENDED UP 6242 05:21:20,431 --> 05:21:24,835 HELPING HER, TOO, BRING OUT THAT 6243 05:21:24,835 --> 05:21:26,437 NURTURING SIDE. 6244 05:21:26,437 --> 05:21:28,038 BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE AS 6245 05:21:28,038 --> 05:21:29,807 WELL THAT I FEEL REALLY LUCK 6246 05:21:29,807 --> 05:21:33,511 EXPE BLESSED TO BE HERE, WHERE 6247 05:21:33,511 --> 05:21:36,580 I'M AT TODAY. 6248 05:21:36,580 --> 05:21:38,849 I HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED ALL THE 6249 05:21:38,849 --> 05:21:40,050 TRAUMAS MY GRANDMA DID IN 6250 05:21:40,050 --> 05:21:42,720 BOARDING SCHOOL AND AS A RESULT 6251 05:21:42,720 --> 05:21:45,156 OF BOARDING SCHOOL AND MY 6252 05:21:45,156 --> 05:21:46,757 GRANDMA BECAME A SINGLE MOTHER 6253 05:21:46,757 --> 05:21:47,892 IN RAISING MY MOTHER, YOU KNOW 6254 05:21:47,892 --> 05:21:50,528 THERE WAS A LOT OF ISSUES THERE, 6255 05:21:50,528 --> 05:21:51,795 AND MY GRANDMA DIDN'T KNOW HOW 6256 05:21:51,795 --> 05:21:55,633 TO RAISE MY MOM OR THE KIDS SO 6257 05:21:55,633 --> 05:21:57,168 THAT ULTIMATELY IMPACTED ME BUT 6258 05:21:57,168 --> 05:22:04,341 I'M LUCKY ENOUGH TO HAVE MY MOM 6259 05:22:04,341 --> 05:22:06,310 WHERE MEDICINE MAN, I GREW UP IN 6260 05:22:06,310 --> 05:22:07,811 THE U. P. OF MICHIGAN, A 6261 05:22:07,811 --> 05:22:09,113 MEDICINE MAN CAME TO TOWN TO 6262 05:22:09,113 --> 05:22:12,750 WORK WITH THE FAMILIES AND HE 6263 05:22:12,750 --> 05:22:14,485 ENDED UP HELPING ME MOM A LOT 6264 05:22:14,485 --> 05:22:16,220 WITH HER HEALING JOURNEY AND 6265 05:22:16,220 --> 05:22:17,955 WORKING THROUGH THEM TRAUMAS AND 6266 05:22:17,955 --> 05:22:20,157 MY MOM BROKE THE CYCLES WITH ME. 6267 05:22:20,157 --> 05:22:25,362 SO I'M A RESULT OF INTENTIONAL 6268 05:22:25,362 --> 05:22:26,564 WORK OF BREAKING CYCLES. 6269 05:22:26,564 --> 05:22:29,400 MY MOM WAS RAISED CATHOLIC, 6270 05:22:29,400 --> 05:22:31,502 BAPTIZED, WHAT'S THE OTHER WORD 6271 05:22:31,502 --> 05:22:35,139 -- I SAY COMMUNICATION -- 6272 05:22:35,139 --> 05:22:36,040 >> CONFIRMATION. 6273 05:22:36,040 --> 05:22:36,473 >> CONFIRMATION. 6274 05:22:36,473 --> 05:22:41,612 I WAS NOT BAPTIZED, I DID NOT GO 6275 05:22:41,612 --> 05:22:43,514 TO CCD BECAUSE MY MOM KNEW OF 6276 05:22:43,514 --> 05:22:44,848 THE DAMAGES FROM THAT CATHOLIC 6277 05:22:44,848 --> 05:22:46,884 BOARDING SCHOOL AND HOW IT 6278 05:22:46,884 --> 05:22:47,718 IMPACTED OUR FAMILY THAT SHE 6279 05:22:47,718 --> 05:22:48,886 DIDN'T WANT TO PUT ME THROUGH 6280 05:22:48,886 --> 05:22:52,189 THAT AND I'M SO GRATEFUL. 6281 05:22:52,189 --> 05:22:55,292 BUT I FEEL LIKE THEM CYCLES 6282 05:22:55,292 --> 05:22:56,293 BEING BROKEN WITHIN INDIAN 6283 05:22:56,293 --> 05:22:59,296 COUNTRY IS KIND OF RARE, LIKE WE 6284 05:22:59,296 --> 05:23:01,065 ALWAYS HEAR OF BEING, YOU KNOW 6285 05:23:01,065 --> 05:23:02,933 THINGS PASSED DOWN AND WHEN YOU 6286 05:23:02,933 --> 05:23:04,802 HEAR OF CYCLES BEING BROKEN, 6287 05:23:04,802 --> 05:23:08,439 IT'S LIKE, YEAH, THAT'S LIKE 6288 05:23:08,439 --> 05:23:09,406 RESILIENCE, IT'S AN 6289 05:23:09,406 --> 05:23:14,411 ACCOMPLISHMENT AND I'M JUST SO 6290 05:23:14,411 --> 05:23:17,948 BLESSED TO BE PART OF THAT, THAT 6291 05:23:17,948 --> 05:23:20,551 NOW WE HAVE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO 6292 05:23:20,551 --> 05:23:23,554 THIS WORK, TO WORK FOR THE 6293 05:23:23,554 --> 05:23:26,924 SURVIVORS, FOR THE PEOPLE THAT 6294 05:23:26,924 --> 05:23:28,359 ATTENDED THAT ARE STILL HERE AND 6295 05:23:28,359 --> 05:23:30,294 ARE NOT HERE, EVEN THOUGH MY 6296 05:23:30,294 --> 05:23:35,833 GRANDMA'S NOT HERE ANYMORE, LIKE 6297 05:23:35,833 --> 05:23:38,769 I CAN'T HELP BUT WISH THAT THIS 6298 05:23:38,769 --> 05:23:40,137 WORK IS HELPING HER. 6299 05:23:40,137 --> 05:23:41,071 I KNOW SHE DOESN'T CARRY 6300 05:23:41,071 --> 05:23:42,906 ANYTHING ON THE OTHER SIDE BUT 6301 05:23:42,906 --> 05:23:44,975 LIKE FOR THE LITTLE CHILD INSIDE 6302 05:23:44,975 --> 05:23:47,177 OF HER, THAT EVEN IF OUR FAMILY 6303 05:23:47,177 --> 05:23:48,078 ISN'T HERE ANYMORE, THAT THE 6304 05:23:48,078 --> 05:23:50,514 WORK THAT YOU'RE DOING TODAY CAN 6305 05:23:50,514 --> 05:23:53,584 STILL HELP THAT LITTLE CHILD 6306 05:23:53,584 --> 05:23:55,452 THAT WENT THROUGH HORRIFIC 6307 05:23:55,452 --> 05:23:57,988 EXPERIENCE OR NOT HORRIFIC. 6308 05:23:57,988 --> 05:24:01,892 NOT EVERYBODY HAD A HORRIFIC 6309 05:24:01,892 --> 05:24:02,192 EXPERIENCE. 6310 05:24:02,192 --> 05:24:03,193 UNFORTUNATELY, WE DON'T HEAR AS 6311 05:24:03,193 --> 05:24:06,063 MANY OF THOSE STORIES AS WE DID 6312 05:24:06,063 --> 05:24:08,966 THE HORRIFIC 1S, AND WE -- OKAY, 6313 05:24:08,966 --> 05:24:11,969 I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK ALL 6314 05:24:11,969 --> 05:24:15,005 NAVs, LIKE WE HONOR ALL THE 6315 05:24:15,005 --> 05:24:16,206 STORIES, BUT EVERYBODY'S 6316 05:24:16,206 --> 05:24:17,141 EXPERIENCE IS DIFFERENT IN THE 6317 05:24:17,141 --> 05:24:18,742 WORK THAT WE DO TODAY REALLY 6318 05:24:18,742 --> 05:24:20,311 MATTERS AND IT IMPACTS ALL OF 6319 05:24:20,311 --> 05:24:25,516 THE PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED THOSE 6320 05:24:25,516 --> 05:24:26,617 PRISONS, RIGHT? 6321 05:24:26,617 --> 05:24:37,127 LIKE THEY REALLY ARE PRISONS, 6322 05:24:37,428 --> 05:24:43,067 BUT HAVING OUR AUNTIE HERE AND 6323 05:24:43,067 --> 05:24:45,402 DOING THE WORK WHILE YOU CAN AND 6324 05:24:45,402 --> 05:24:46,904 IT STILL MATTERS AND IT'S NOT 6325 05:24:46,904 --> 05:24:49,006 YOUR FAULT THAT YOU CANNOT TEACH 6326 05:24:49,006 --> 05:24:51,475 US, IT'S A WHOLE SYSTEM THAT WAS 6327 05:24:51,475 --> 05:24:55,346 PUT IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE THAT 6328 05:24:55,346 --> 05:25:02,086 NONE OF US HAVE THAT AND IF WE 6329 05:25:02,086 --> 05:25:03,754 TAKE THE BLAME AS NATIVE PEOPLE 6330 05:25:03,754 --> 05:25:07,725 AND PUT IT WHERE IT BELONGS, I 6331 05:25:07,725 --> 05:25:09,827 THINK THAT WOULD HELP ALL OF US. 6332 05:25:09,827 --> 05:25:15,933 THE SAME THAT SURVIVORS CARRY IS 6333 05:25:15,933 --> 05:25:17,835 NOT THEIRS OR YOURS TO CARRY. 6334 05:25:17,835 --> 05:25:20,170 IT WASN'T YOURS TO BEGIN WITH 6335 05:25:20,170 --> 05:25:21,905 AND IT WAS THEIRS THAT THEY MADE 6336 05:25:21,905 --> 05:25:28,112 SURE THAT YOU FELT THAT WAY. 6337 05:25:28,112 --> 05:25:30,280 OUT OF ALL TYPE OF AGENDAS AND 6338 05:25:30,280 --> 05:25:35,386 REASONS, NONE OF THEM TO MAKE US 6339 05:25:35,386 --> 05:25:36,120 A BETTER PEOPLE. 6340 05:25:36,120 --> 05:25:38,922 SO I JUST HOPE THAT THE WORK 6341 05:25:38,922 --> 05:25:40,991 THAT WE DO, THIS SUMMIT 6342 05:25:40,991 --> 05:25:44,261 HOPEFULLY WE CONTINUE THIS 6343 05:25:44,261 --> 05:25:46,697 SUMMIT EVERY YEAR THAT IT ALLOWS 6344 05:25:46,697 --> 05:25:51,201 THE SURVIVORS TO FEEL EMPOWERED 6345 05:25:51,201 --> 05:25:52,870 AND REALIZE WHAT THEY WENT 6346 05:25:52,870 --> 05:25:55,773 THROUGH MATTERS, WHAT THEIR 6347 05:25:55,773 --> 05:25:57,241 VOICE NOW MATTERS, AND WE ARE 6348 05:25:57,241 --> 05:25:59,176 JUST HERE TO HELP AMPLIFY THAT. 6349 05:25:59,176 --> 05:26:03,347 SO I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE. 6350 05:26:03,347 --> 05:26:07,251 YOU LOOK JUST LIKE MY GRAM, IT'S 6351 05:26:07,251 --> 05:26:07,885 JUST CRAZY. 6352 05:26:07,885 --> 05:26:10,053 NI WOULD LOVE TO HEAR, FALCON, 6353 05:26:10,053 --> 05:26:16,193 YEAH, WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO SAY? 6354 05:26:16,193 --> 05:26:16,760 >> HELLO. 6355 05:26:16,760 --> 05:26:18,362 ACTUALLY THIS MORNING WAS SUPER 6356 05:26:18,362 --> 05:26:20,097 NERVOUS, WASN'T SURE IF I WAS 6357 05:26:20,097 --> 05:26:22,399 GOING TO SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE 6358 05:26:22,399 --> 05:26:28,272 LAST NIGHT I WAS LIKE, HOW DID 6359 05:26:28,272 --> 05:26:29,173 THIS AFFECT THE RELATIONSHIP 6360 05:26:29,173 --> 05:26:31,308 BETWEEN ME AND MY MOM, MY MOM 6361 05:26:31,308 --> 05:26:32,943 AND MY GRANDMA, ME AND MY 6362 05:26:32,943 --> 05:26:35,345 GRANDMA, ALL OF US, BUT LACY 6363 05:26:35,345 --> 05:26:36,747 SAID SOMETHING VERY NICE TO ME 6364 05:26:36,747 --> 05:26:38,849 THIS MORNING AS SHE DID ALL THE 6365 05:26:38,849 --> 05:26:41,985 TIME, SHE SAID, NOT KNOWING IS A 6366 05:26:41,985 --> 05:26:47,157 WAY OF BEING AFFECTED AND THAT 6367 05:26:47,157 --> 05:26:49,860 MADE ME THINK OF WHEN I WAS 6368 05:26:49,860 --> 05:26:52,296 YOUNGER, I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH 6369 05:26:52,296 --> 05:26:56,733 YOUNGER, MAYBE A DECADE, I'M 21. 6370 05:26:56,733 --> 05:27:02,573 MY DAD, SAID HE WAS TALKING 6371 05:27:02,573 --> 05:27:04,107 ABOUT JUST BEING INDIAN, BEING 6372 05:27:04,107 --> 05:27:05,275 NATIVE, HE WAS SAYING SOMETHING 6373 05:27:05,275 --> 05:27:07,945 AND HE WAS LIKE, OH, AND I 6374 05:27:07,945 --> 05:27:09,246 DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HE WAS TALKING 6375 05:27:09,246 --> 05:27:11,882 ABOUT -- HE WAS LIKE OH, DIDN'T 6376 05:27:11,882 --> 05:27:14,818 YOUR MOM SAY THIS TO YOU AND I 6377 05:27:14,818 --> 05:27:16,286 WAS LIKE NO. 6378 05:27:16,286 --> 05:27:18,489 AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHY HE 6379 05:27:18,489 --> 05:27:20,424 ASKED ME IF MY MOM WOULD SAY 6380 05:27:20,424 --> 05:27:30,400 THAT BECAUSE LIKE WHY WOULD MY 6381 05:27:30,400 --> 05:27:31,735 MOM SAY THAT. 6382 05:27:31,735 --> 05:27:34,638 THAT MADE ME, NOT AT THE MOMENT, 6383 05:27:34,638 --> 05:27:36,940 BUT AS I GOT OLDER REALIZE THAT 6384 05:27:36,940 --> 05:27:41,712 YEAH, WE REALLY DON'T TALK ABOUT 6385 05:27:41,712 --> 05:27:46,016 INTIMATE THINGS LIKE HOW WE'RE 6386 05:27:46,016 --> 05:27:46,950 DOING AND WE ESPECIALLY NOT 6387 05:27:46,950 --> 05:27:53,690 UNTIL I WAS OLDER MY GRANDMOTHER 6388 05:27:53,690 --> 05:27:56,693 HADN'T SHARED ANY UNDERSTANDABLY 6389 05:27:56,693 --> 05:27:59,296 ANY INFORMATION ABOUT HOW SHE 6390 05:27:59,296 --> 05:28:01,365 WENT -- HOW SHE DID IN BOARDING 6391 05:28:01,365 --> 05:28:03,367 SCHOOL, HOW SHE WAS TREATED, HOW 6392 05:28:03,367 --> 05:28:05,335 SHE WAS TREATED OUTSIDE OF 6393 05:28:05,335 --> 05:28:12,943 BOARDING SCHOOL, AND I CAME TO 6394 05:28:12,943 --> 05:28:14,144 AN UNDERSTANDING THAT IT MAKES 6395 05:28:14,144 --> 05:28:23,554 SENSE THAT WE, OR AT LEAST I 6396 05:28:23,554 --> 05:28:24,621 BECAME AWARE THAT WHERE EVERYONE 6397 05:28:24,621 --> 05:28:31,528 WAS COMING FROM AND WHY WE -- 6398 05:28:31,528 --> 05:28:39,036 WHY WE AREN'T SO CLOSE IN THAT 6399 05:28:39,036 --> 05:28:41,805 WAY BUT THROUGH THE PAST COUPLE 6400 05:28:41,805 --> 05:28:46,677 OF YEARS, LEARNING MORE AND MORE 6401 05:28:46,677 --> 05:28:48,879 I AM GLAD TO HAVE MORE OF AN 6402 05:28:48,879 --> 05:28:49,513 UNDERSTANDING ABOUT EVERYTHING 6403 05:28:49,513 --> 05:28:53,650 AND WHEN I WAS YOUNGER BEING 6404 05:28:53,650 --> 05:28:56,620 NATIVE, WHEN I THOUGHT ABOUT IT, 6405 05:28:56,620 --> 05:29:01,892 I WAS ALWAYS REALLY, REALLY 6406 05:29:01,892 --> 05:29:03,627 PROUD BUT IT WASN'T SOMETHING WE 6407 05:29:03,627 --> 05:29:06,163 TALKED ABOUT SO I KIND OF 6408 05:29:06,163 --> 05:29:08,332 EXPLORED THAT, THROUGH MEDIA. 6409 05:29:08,332 --> 05:29:10,634 I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS REALLY 6410 05:29:10,634 --> 05:29:17,207 LITTLE, I LOVED THE MOVIE 6411 05:29:17,207 --> 05:29:18,308 POCAHANTAS AND THEN WHEN I GREW 6412 05:29:18,308 --> 05:29:19,943 UP, I WAS LIKE, OH, I DON'T 6413 05:29:19,943 --> 05:29:22,980 THINK I LIKE THIS MOVIE VERY 6414 05:29:22,980 --> 05:29:23,313 MUCH. 6415 05:29:23,313 --> 05:29:30,821 AND GETTING TO THE AGE WHERE I 6416 05:29:30,821 --> 05:29:35,425 CAN DO A LOT MORE FOR MYSELF, MY 6417 05:29:35,425 --> 05:29:36,960 FAMILY AND MY COMMUNITY, I'M 6418 05:29:36,960 --> 05:29:38,562 REALLY GLAD TO HAVE COME TO 6419 05:29:38,562 --> 05:29:41,431 THESE EVENTS AND TO HAVE HEARD 6420 05:29:41,431 --> 05:29:47,170 EVERYTHING THAT MY GRANDMA HAS 6421 05:29:47,170 --> 05:29:47,437 TAUGHT ME. 6422 05:29:47,437 --> 05:29:50,807 YOU'VE TAUGHT ME A LOT GRANDMA, 6423 05:29:50,807 --> 05:29:52,576 YOU SAY IT ONLY HOWEVER MUCH, 6424 05:29:52,576 --> 05:29:56,079 IT'S -- EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT 6425 05:29:56,079 --> 05:30:01,451 MY IDENTITY, ABOUT WHO I AM ALL 6426 05:30:01,451 --> 05:30:05,422 STEMS FROM YOU EVEN IF IT JUMPED 6427 05:30:05,422 --> 05:30:06,690 FROM ME AND MY MOM, IT CAME FROM 6428 05:30:06,690 --> 05:30:10,227 YOU AND ALL OF OUR FAMILY. 6429 05:30:10,227 --> 05:30:11,895 ALL OF OUR FAMILY SEES THAT. 6430 05:30:11,895 --> 05:30:15,666 SO, YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY 6431 05:30:15,666 --> 05:30:16,433 ABOUT THAT. 6432 05:30:16,433 --> 05:30:18,101 AND YOU DON'T NEED TO -- 6433 05:30:18,101 --> 05:30:23,774 >> I LOVE IT, THANK YOU! 6434 05:30:23,774 --> 05:30:24,307 [ APPLAUSE ] 6435 05:30:24,307 --> 05:30:25,342 >> THANK YOU, THANK YOU. 6436 05:30:25,342 --> 05:30:27,444 AND I HOPE YOU CAN FEEL MY 6437 05:30:27,444 --> 05:30:28,845 INVISIBLE LOVE EMPLOY WE'RE ALL 6438 05:30:28,845 --> 05:30:30,047 WORKING, WE'RE ALL WORKING, ALL 6439 05:30:30,047 --> 05:30:33,016 OF US AND OUR FAMILY AND WE'RE 6440 05:30:33,016 --> 05:30:33,684 GETTING SOMEWHERE. 6441 05:30:33,684 --> 05:30:35,185 WE GOTTA FIGHT SOME OF THEM BUT 6442 05:30:35,185 --> 05:30:39,690 WE'RE GETTING THERE. 6443 05:30:39,690 --> 05:30:40,323 >> THANK YOU GRANDMA. 6444 05:30:40,323 --> 05:30:44,261 AND THANK YOU EVERYONE. 6445 05:30:44,261 --> 05:30:45,228 >> THANK YOU FALCON, YOUR VOICE 6446 05:30:45,228 --> 05:30:46,930 IS SO IMPORTANT AND I'M GLAD 6447 05:30:46,930 --> 05:30:49,399 YOU'RE A PART OF THIS 6448 05:30:49,399 --> 05:30:50,400 CONVERSATION AS WELL. 6449 05:30:50,400 --> 05:30:50,767 >> THANK YOU. 6450 05:30:50,767 --> 05:30:51,702 >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 6451 05:30:51,702 --> 05:30:53,370 SO AS WE MOVE TOWARDS WRAPPING 6452 05:30:53,370 --> 05:30:56,540 UP AND THINKING ABOUT HEALING, I 6453 05:30:56,540 --> 05:30:57,974 WANT TO HEAR FROM RON AND MEG 6454 05:30:57,974 --> 05:30:59,509 AGAIN AND THEN WE WILL JUMP BACK 6455 05:30:59,509 --> 05:31:03,113 OVER HERE TO WRAP UP, WHAT IS IT 6456 05:31:03,113 --> 05:31:04,648 IMPORTANT FOR FOLKS TO KNOW IN 6457 05:31:04,648 --> 05:31:06,450 TERMS OF HEALING ABOUT YOUR 6458 05:31:06,450 --> 05:31:08,151 RELATIONSHIP AS FATHER AND 6459 05:31:08,151 --> 05:31:10,854 DAUGHTER AND THEN SAME QUESTION 6460 05:31:10,854 --> 05:31:14,057 OVER HERE WHEN WE JUMP TO 6461 05:31:14,057 --> 05:31:22,332 GRANDMA, NIECE AND 6462 05:31:22,332 --> 05:31:22,666 GRANDDAUGHTER. 6463 05:31:22,666 --> 05:31:23,433 >> WELL, THE MOST DIFFICULT FOR 6464 05:31:23,433 --> 05:31:34,144 ME TO SAY TO MY FAMILY IS I LOVE 6465 05:31:34,144 --> 05:31:34,244 YOU. 6466 05:31:34,244 --> 05:31:38,982 ALL THE DAMAGE THAT WAS DONE IT 6467 05:31:38,982 --> 05:31:40,817 WAS DURING THE FORMATIVE YEARS, 6468 05:31:40,817 --> 05:31:43,320 THAT'S WHEN WE SHOULD BE 6469 05:31:43,320 --> 05:31:48,358 LEARNING HOW TO SAY I LOVE YOU, 6470 05:31:48,358 --> 05:31:50,594 I'M SORRY, ALL THAT BUT WE WERE 6471 05:31:50,594 --> 05:31:56,399 TOO BUSY GETTING BEAT. 6472 05:31:56,399 --> 05:32:02,973 SO NONE OF THAT WAS IN MY 6473 05:32:02,973 --> 05:32:03,573 VOCABULARY OR THINKING. 6474 05:32:03,573 --> 05:32:06,910 AND 1 DAY I MET THIS WOMAN AND 6475 05:32:06,910 --> 05:32:08,779 SHE CHANGED IT A LITTLE BIT AND 6476 05:32:08,779 --> 05:32:11,081 SO, IN A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS I 6477 05:32:11,081 --> 05:32:13,617 SAID I LOVE YOU AND 43 YEARS 6478 05:32:13,617 --> 05:32:16,686 LATER, I'M STILL SAYING IT. 6479 05:32:16,686 --> 05:32:17,187 [LAUGHTER] 6480 05:32:17,187 --> 05:32:20,023 STILL IN A MOMENT OF WEAKNESS. 6481 05:32:20,023 --> 05:32:25,428 WHEN SHE SAYS, OR ELSE ... 6482 05:32:25,428 --> 05:32:27,330 ANYWAY, I KNOW MEGAN WILL NOT 6483 05:32:27,330 --> 05:32:32,002 LIKE THIS BUT I'VE GOT TO SAY 6484 05:32:32,002 --> 05:32:33,036 THIS. 6485 05:32:33,036 --> 05:32:36,740 INDULGE ME, OKAY? 6486 05:32:36,740 --> 05:32:37,174 WATER. 6487 05:32:37,174 --> 05:32:38,241 DINNER INDULGE ME BECAUSE I 6488 05:32:38,241 --> 05:32:46,082 MIGHT NOT HAVE TIME. 6489 05:32:46,082 --> 05:32:50,654 SO THE LONE RANGER AND TONTO, 6490 05:32:50,654 --> 05:32:52,722 CAME UP THE TRAIL AND THEY GOT 6491 05:32:52,722 --> 05:32:59,563 TO TOWN AND LONE RANGER SAYS TO 6492 05:32:59,563 --> 05:33:02,499 TONTO, TONTO SCHOOL SILVER DOWN, 6493 05:33:02,499 --> 05:33:03,834 I'M GOING INSIDE TO WET MY 6494 05:33:03,834 --> 05:33:06,603 WHISTLE AND GOES IN THE BAR AND 6495 05:33:06,603 --> 05:33:12,075 TONTO TAKES THE SADDLE OFF AND 6496 05:33:12,075 --> 05:33:14,611 SADDLE BLANKET AND HE GOES 6497 05:33:14,611 --> 05:33:18,148 RUNNING AROUND TRYING TO COOL 6498 05:33:18,148 --> 05:33:19,749 TONTO OFF WITH THE SATDZ 6499 05:33:19,749 --> 05:33:21,952 BLANKET, YOU KNOW GIVE HIM SOME 6500 05:33:21,952 --> 05:33:23,787 AIR, AND TRYING TO COOL HIM OFF 6501 05:33:23,787 --> 05:33:27,190 AND THIS GUY COMES IN TO THE 6502 05:33:27,190 --> 05:33:29,192 BAR, YOU KNOW THE KIND FROM THE 6503 05:33:29,192 --> 05:33:35,599 OLD WEST IN PICTURES AND HE SAYS 6504 05:33:35,599 --> 05:33:37,100 LOUDLY WHO WANTS THAT HORSE OUT 6505 05:33:37,100 --> 05:33:40,871 THERE AND HE DESCRIBES TONTO-- I 6506 05:33:40,871 --> 05:33:42,472 MEAN NOT TONTO, HE DESCRIBES 6507 05:33:42,472 --> 05:33:47,811 SILVER AND THE LONE RANGER PUT 1 6508 05:33:47,811 --> 05:33:51,081 DOWN AND HE SAYS, THAT WOULD BE 6509 05:33:51,081 --> 05:33:51,281 MINE. 6510 05:33:51,281 --> 05:33:54,117 AND SO THE OLD GUY COMES OVER 6511 05:33:54,117 --> 05:33:58,588 THERE AND LOOKS AT HIM AND SAYS, 6512 05:33:58,588 --> 05:34:07,731 HEY, YOU LEFT YOUR ENGINE 6513 05:34:07,731 --> 05:34:10,700 RUNNING. 6514 05:34:10,700 --> 05:34:11,034 [LAUGHTER] 6515 05:34:11,034 --> 05:34:11,301 DAD JOKE. 6516 05:34:11,301 --> 05:34:13,169 >> I HAVE MORE BUT THEY WON'T 6517 05:34:13,169 --> 05:34:18,008 PASS THE SENSOR SO ANYWAY, I 6518 05:34:18,008 --> 05:34:20,043 HAVE 4 CHILDREN AND IT WAS VERY, 6519 05:34:20,043 --> 05:34:22,345 VERY DIFFICULT TO SAY THAT. 6520 05:34:22,345 --> 05:34:25,382 AND NOW, I HAVE 2 GRANDDAUGHTERS 6521 05:34:25,382 --> 05:34:29,386 AND EVERY TIME I SEE THEM, THEY 6522 05:34:29,386 --> 05:34:30,353 SAY THAT. 6523 05:34:30,353 --> 05:34:36,893 AND SOMETIMES WE SAY IT IN THEIR 6524 05:34:36,893 --> 05:34:38,328 SECOND LANGUAGE, WELL, FIRST 6525 05:34:38,328 --> 05:34:38,595 LANGUAGE. 6526 05:34:38,595 --> 05:34:41,131 THEY SAY I LOVE YOU SOME 6527 05:34:41,131 --> 05:34:42,198 SPANISH, AND I'M TEACHING THEM 6528 05:34:42,198 --> 05:34:46,937 TO SAY IT IN NAVAJO AND THEY 6529 05:34:46,937 --> 05:34:52,876 BUTCHER IT BUT I'M TEACHING 6530 05:34:52,876 --> 05:34:53,176 THEM. 6531 05:34:53,176 --> 05:34:55,312 ANYWAY, SO I HAVE TO REALLY WORK 6532 05:34:55,312 --> 05:34:56,313 HARD SOMETIMES TO EMBRACE THEM 6533 05:34:56,313 --> 05:35:01,184 AND GIVE THEM HUG AND SO I THINK 6534 05:35:01,184 --> 05:35:06,523 IT'S A LIFE LONG THING AND THIS 6535 05:35:06,523 --> 05:35:08,325 STUFF HAPPENED 60 YEARS, 70 6536 05:35:08,325 --> 05:35:11,328 YEARS FOR SOME OF US, NOT ME, 6537 05:35:11,328 --> 05:35:20,537 ANYWAY, LONG TIME AGO. 6538 05:35:20,537 --> 05:35:22,872 WHEN THE BOARDING SCHOOL, 6539 05:35:22,872 --> 05:35:24,774 COLONEL RICHARD PRATT, HE PUT IT 6540 05:35:24,774 --> 05:35:28,645 IN PLACE AT THE CARLISLE 6541 05:35:28,645 --> 05:35:36,086 INSTITUTE OVER IN CARLISLE, 6542 05:35:36,086 --> 05:35:37,253 PENNSYLVANIA AND HIS MOTOWAS 6543 05:35:37,253 --> 05:35:41,858 KILL THE INDIANS SAVE THE MAN. 6544 05:35:41,858 --> 05:35:49,065 AND THAT WAS THROUGH THEIR 6545 05:35:49,065 --> 05:35:51,234 LANGUAGE, THEIR CULTURE AND LAST 6546 05:35:51,234 --> 05:35:56,940 TIME WAS THERE, GRAVES ON THE 6547 05:35:56,940 --> 05:36:03,580 TREAT BEFORE YOU GO INTO THE 6548 05:36:03,580 --> 05:36:05,648 BARRACKS AND THERE ARE SOME OF 6549 05:36:05,648 --> 05:36:07,450 THE STUDENTS THERE, AND AT A 6550 05:36:07,450 --> 05:36:13,456 TOLL US MOST OF US WERE APACHE 6551 05:36:13,456 --> 05:36:16,993 STUDENTS GRAVES. 6552 05:36:16,993 --> 05:36:19,529 SO HE HAD AN ALL-OUT WAR AGAINST 6553 05:36:19,529 --> 05:36:24,000 US FROM THEN ON BECAUSE HE 6554 05:36:24,000 --> 05:36:26,503 COULDN'T DO WITH THE BULLETS AND 6555 05:36:26,503 --> 05:36:30,473 SABERS AND SO TO THIS DAY, 6556 05:36:30,473 --> 05:36:32,842 THERE'S STILL A WAR GOING ON AND 6557 05:36:32,842 --> 05:36:35,111 SOME OF THE SURVIVORS, IT'S 6558 05:36:35,111 --> 05:36:40,683 INSIDE OF US SO YOU HAVE TO FACE 6559 05:36:40,683 --> 05:36:44,020 IT AND YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T JUST 6560 05:36:44,020 --> 05:36:45,889 LET IT GO, THEY WILL TELL YOU 6561 05:36:45,889 --> 05:36:48,425 THAT, TOO, JUST LET IT GO. 6562 05:36:48,425 --> 05:36:53,763 AND SO, I'VE LEARNED COPING 6563 05:36:53,763 --> 05:36:55,165 MECHANISMS SO THAT WHEN IT COMES 6564 05:36:55,165 --> 05:36:56,933 AT ME, GET OUT OF HERE, GET OUT 6565 05:36:56,933 --> 05:36:58,234 OF HERE, YOU KNOW? 6566 05:36:58,234 --> 05:37:07,577 AND SO THAT HELPS ME A LITTLE 6567 05:37:07,577 --> 05:37:16,386 BIT AND SOMETIMES I BECOME STOIC 6568 05:37:16,386 --> 05:37:17,887 AND THAT BECAUSE I'M SOMEWHERE 6569 05:37:17,887 --> 05:37:20,523 ELSE, AND SOMETIMES I'M LIKE OH, 6570 05:37:20,523 --> 05:37:23,726 BOARDING SCHOOL AND I USE IT AS 6571 05:37:23,726 --> 05:37:27,897 AN EXCUSE, BUT IT'S TRUE MOST OF 6572 05:37:27,897 --> 05:37:29,399 THE TIME BECAUSE DANG IT, IT 6573 05:37:29,399 --> 05:37:33,069 REALLY TOOK A LOT OUT OF US 6574 05:37:33,069 --> 05:37:34,270 DURING THOSE YEARS THAT WE'RE 6575 05:37:34,270 --> 05:37:42,212 SUPPOSED TO BE LEARNING GOOD 6576 05:37:42,212 --> 05:37:42,445 THINGS. 6577 05:37:42,445 --> 05:37:44,881 AND OKAY, I WON'T TELL ANOTHER 6578 05:37:44,881 --> 05:37:45,081 JOKE. 6579 05:37:45,081 --> 05:37:47,550 I WILL JUST GIVE IT TO YOU. 6580 05:37:47,550 --> 05:37:49,185 >> I LIKE IT WHEN PEOPLE CAN 6581 05:37:49,185 --> 05:37:50,920 HUMOR MY DAD BECAUSE IT MAKES 6582 05:37:50,920 --> 05:37:52,555 THE EMBARRASS AM GO AWAY IS WHAT 6583 05:37:52,555 --> 05:37:53,123 IT IS. 6584 05:37:53,123 --> 05:37:55,158 WHEN WE WERE IN SALT LAKE DOING 6585 05:37:55,158 --> 05:37:56,759 THE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT, WE 6586 05:37:56,759 --> 05:37:58,328 HAVE A GUY WHO DOES THE 6587 05:37:58,328 --> 05:37:59,796 PORTRAITS YOU SEE RIGHT HERE, 6588 05:37:59,796 --> 05:38:02,365 HE'S NAME IS JEFF FERGUSON AND I 6589 05:38:02,365 --> 05:38:03,333 WAS REALLY EXCITED FOR EVERYBODY 6590 05:38:03,333 --> 05:38:05,235 TO MEET MY DAD, I WAS LIKE YEAH, 6591 05:38:05,235 --> 05:38:06,603 MY DAD, MY DAD. 6592 05:38:06,603 --> 05:38:15,011 AND JEFF FERGUSON WHO IS FROM 6593 05:38:15,011 --> 05:38:16,379 SPOKANE, AND HE COMES OUT AND HE 6594 05:38:16,379 --> 05:38:17,547 WAS GOING TO TAKE HIS PICTURE 6595 05:38:17,547 --> 05:38:21,651 AND I SAID HOW DID MY DAD DO AND 6596 05:38:21,651 --> 05:38:24,554 JEFF FERGUSON SAYS YOUR DAD IS 6597 05:38:24,554 --> 05:38:27,757 STOIC, I'M LIKE HOW STOIC IS HE, 6598 05:38:27,757 --> 05:38:29,826 HE'S SO STOIC WHEN I ASKED HIM 6599 05:38:29,826 --> 05:38:32,562 TO SMAIL ALL HE DID WAS THIS ... 6600 05:38:32,562 --> 05:38:37,267 AND I WAS LIKE HA HA HA HA, 6601 05:38:37,267 --> 05:38:37,734 WAIT. 6602 05:38:37,734 --> 05:38:39,602 JUST KNOWLEDGE KNOW THAT WHEN 6603 05:38:39,602 --> 05:38:41,771 YOU'RE A LITTLE KID THOUGH AND 6604 05:38:41,771 --> 05:38:45,742 YOUR DAD IS SO FRICIN STOIC THAT 6605 05:38:45,742 --> 05:38:47,510 YOU COULD TRY TO SCREAM, DO 6606 05:38:47,510 --> 05:38:48,745 ANYTHING TRY TO GET THEIR 6607 05:38:48,745 --> 05:38:49,679 ATTENTION BUT JUST LIKE YOU 6608 05:38:49,679 --> 05:38:56,486 SAID, HE'S NOT THERE, HE'S 6609 05:38:56,486 --> 05:38:57,887 SOMEWHERE ELSE AND SO I THINK 6610 05:38:57,887 --> 05:38:59,923 FOR A LARGE PART OF MY 6611 05:38:59,923 --> 05:39:06,029 CHILDHOOD, MY DAD WAS JUST SOME 6612 05:39:06,029 --> 05:39:06,429 GUY. 6613 05:39:06,429 --> 05:39:07,463 I KNEW HE WAS FUNNY. 6614 05:39:07,463 --> 05:39:10,667 I KNEW HE WAS A HARD WORKER, I 6615 05:39:10,667 --> 05:39:16,272 KNEW THAT HE WAS VERY SMART IN 6616 05:39:16,272 --> 05:39:18,708 FACT, IT'S ANNOYING HOW SMART HE 6617 05:39:18,708 --> 05:39:21,477 IS, IN OUR FAMILY HE'S A GRAMMAR 6618 05:39:21,477 --> 05:39:24,147 NUTS AND HE GETS ON US WHEN WE 6619 05:39:24,147 --> 05:39:25,815 HAVE POOR GRAMMAR, IT'S ANNOYING 6620 05:39:25,815 --> 05:39:28,218 BUT IT WASN'T UNTIL HE DECIDED 6621 05:39:28,218 --> 05:39:29,352 TO SHARE HIS EXPERIENCE OF 6622 05:39:29,352 --> 05:39:33,022 BOARDING SCHOOL WHERE I ACTUALLY 6623 05:39:33,022 --> 05:39:37,794 AM LEARNING WHO HE IS AS A 6624 05:39:37,794 --> 05:39:38,027 PERSON. 6625 05:39:38,027 --> 05:39:41,564 HE'S FUNNY AND ANNOYING AND HE'S 6626 05:39:41,564 --> 05:39:42,599 A SOCIAL BUTTERFLY. 6627 05:39:42,599 --> 05:39:44,767 I'M SURE HE HAS TALKED TO HOW 6628 05:39:44,767 --> 05:39:46,102 MANY PEOPLE HAS HE TALKED TO AND 6629 05:39:46,102 --> 05:39:49,505 COME UP AND INTRODUCED -- YEP, 6630 05:39:49,505 --> 05:39:51,574 YEP, YEP, AMANDA, THANKS FOR 6631 05:39:51,574 --> 05:39:52,175 RAISING YOUR HAND. 6632 05:39:52,175 --> 05:39:59,449 I HAVE THE SAME QUALITIES IN ME. 6633 05:39:59,449 --> 05:40:01,951 SO IT'S WONDERFUL, WHAT THE 6634 05:40:01,951 --> 05:40:03,052 HEALING THING IS IS THAT I KNOW 6635 05:40:03,052 --> 05:40:05,555 WHO HE IS NOW AND HE'S WONDERFUL 6636 05:40:05,555 --> 05:40:08,191 AND I'M LUCKY THAT HE IS MY DAD. 6637 05:40:08,191 --> 05:40:12,028 AND I'M LUCKY THAT HE IS THE 6638 05:40:12,028 --> 05:40:15,999 GRANDPA TO MY NIECES BECAUSE 6639 05:40:15,999 --> 05:40:17,533 HE'S A GOOD [INDISCERNIBLE]. 6640 05:40:17,533 --> 05:40:20,169 HE LOVES THEM SO MUCH AND IT'S 6641 05:40:20,169 --> 05:40:21,771 WONDERFUL TO SEE HIM PICK THEM 6642 05:40:21,771 --> 05:40:23,106 UP FROM SCHOOL AND TAKE THEM TO 6643 05:40:23,106 --> 05:40:24,607 DANCE ASK ALL THOSE THINGS HE 6644 05:40:24,607 --> 05:40:26,142 DIDN'T DO WITH US BECAUSE HE 6645 05:40:26,142 --> 05:40:28,011 COULDN'T BECAUSE HE WAS WORKING 6646 05:40:28,011 --> 05:40:29,646 AND THAT'S AMAZING, SO, I THINK 6647 05:40:29,646 --> 05:40:32,282 WHEN OUR BOARDING SCHOOL 6648 05:40:32,282 --> 05:40:34,784 SURVIVORS ARE ABLE TO ACCESS 6649 05:40:34,784 --> 05:40:36,319 THEMSELVES WHEN THEY WERE LITTLE 6650 05:40:36,319 --> 05:40:39,622 AND START HEALING, THAT THEY -- 6651 05:40:39,622 --> 05:40:41,324 THEY DO HEAL AND THEIR 6652 05:40:41,324 --> 05:40:42,759 PERSONALITY COMES OUT AND ALL 6653 05:40:42,759 --> 05:40:52,168 THE GOODNESS COMES OUT, TOO. 6654 05:40:52,168 --> 05:40:53,970 >> I JUST HAD TO ASK THE 6655 05:40:53,970 --> 05:40:55,171 QUESTION OVER AGAIN WHAT JOANY 6656 05:40:55,171 --> 05:40:56,673 SAID TO MY NIECE. 6657 05:40:56,673 --> 05:41:02,078 I WAS SO INTERESTED IN 6658 05:41:02,078 --> 05:41:02,612 LISTENING. 6659 05:41:02,612 --> 05:41:04,247 BUT WHAT HEALING LOOKS LIKE TO 6660 05:41:04,247 --> 05:41:05,948 ME IS SEEING MY FAMILY WHEN WE 6661 05:41:05,948 --> 05:41:07,684 GET TOGETHER AND SEEING THE LOVE 6662 05:41:07,684 --> 05:41:09,752 THAT CAN GO BETWEEN THEM AND 6663 05:41:09,752 --> 05:41:11,454 SEEING US ALL GET ALONG AND THEN 6664 05:41:11,454 --> 05:41:13,923 LEARNING A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT 6665 05:41:13,923 --> 05:41:16,826 MY ROOTS AND THEIR ROOTS AND 6666 05:41:16,826 --> 05:41:19,929 WHERE THEY CAME FROM, AND WHO 6667 05:41:19,929 --> 05:41:24,334 THEY ARE AND YOU KNOW MY 6668 05:41:24,334 --> 05:41:28,237 DAUGHTER ASKED ME WHO AM I MOM? 6669 05:41:28,237 --> 05:41:29,038 THAT'S [INDISCERNIBLE]'S MOTHER 6670 05:41:29,038 --> 05:41:30,473 AND I SAID WHAT DO YOU MEAN AND 6671 05:41:30,473 --> 05:41:32,241 I SAID WHAT DO YOU MEAN WHO YOU 6672 05:41:32,241 --> 05:41:32,875 ARE? 6673 05:41:32,875 --> 05:41:34,777 SHE SAID YES, SHE SAID THE WHITE 6674 05:41:34,777 --> 05:41:40,583 PEOPLE CAN TRACE THEIR ANCESTRY 6675 05:41:40,583 --> 05:41:41,951 BACK TO 1200 YEARS WHAT CAN YOU 6676 05:41:41,951 --> 05:41:42,118 DO? 6677 05:41:42,118 --> 05:41:46,456 AND I SAID I CAN TRACE MY FAMILY 6678 05:41:46,456 --> 05:41:49,792 BECOME TO MY GRANDMOTHER AND SHE 6679 05:41:49,792 --> 05:41:54,931 SAID, THAT'S ONLY 3 GENERATION, 6680 05:41:54,931 --> 05:41:56,132 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE 1200? 6681 05:41:56,132 --> 05:42:06,042 I SAID I DO NOT KNOW. 6682 05:42:06,042 --> 05:42:13,216 SO ANYWAY, BUT HEALING IS 6683 05:42:13,216 --> 05:42:14,917 GETTING MYSELF BACK TO EARTHLY 6684 05:42:14,917 --> 05:42:15,151 THINGS. 6685 05:42:15,151 --> 05:42:20,189 GETTING BACK TO SIMPLE THINGS. 6686 05:42:20,189 --> 05:42:24,527 HAVING EVERYTHING RIGHT IN ITS 6687 05:42:24,527 --> 05:42:26,028 PLACE AND WHEN IT'S SIMPLE, IT 6688 05:42:26,028 --> 05:42:32,902 IS IN ITS PLACE, BUT STILL, I 6689 05:42:32,902 --> 05:42:35,071 HAVE TO -- I WANT MY FAMILY 6690 05:42:35,071 --> 05:42:35,271 CLOSE. 6691 05:42:35,271 --> 05:42:36,406 THAT'S HEALING TO ME. 6692 05:42:36,406 --> 05:42:38,207 I WANT TO KNOW THEY'RE SAFE, I 6693 05:42:38,207 --> 05:42:41,177 WANT TO KNOW THAT YOU KNOW 6694 05:42:41,177 --> 05:42:41,911 THEY'RE GETTING ALONG. 6695 05:42:41,911 --> 05:42:47,383 THAT'S THE HEALING THAT I GET 6696 05:42:47,383 --> 05:42:49,552 FROM BEING IN BOARDING SCHOOL 6697 05:42:49,552 --> 05:42:52,088 AND BEING TREATED THE WAY I DID. 6698 05:42:52,088 --> 05:42:58,594 AS LONG AS I HAVE THE LOVE OF MY 6699 05:42:58,594 --> 05:42:59,929 FAMILY IT'S LIKE NOTHING ELSE 6700 05:42:59,929 --> 05:43:04,100 MATTERS TO ME AND YOU KNOW, 6701 05:43:04,100 --> 05:43:08,404 KNOWING THAT I HAVE GOOD FAMILY 6702 05:43:08,404 --> 05:43:12,475 THAT YOU KNOW IS BEHIND ME, AND 6703 05:43:12,475 --> 05:43:14,844 KNOWING THAT I'M CAPABLE OF 6704 05:43:14,844 --> 05:43:19,115 STANDING UP NOW FOR MYSELF AND 6705 05:43:19,115 --> 05:43:29,625 OPENING MY MOUTH WITHOUT BEING 6706 05:43:30,460 --> 05:43:31,928 SLAPPED, WITHOUT BEING HIT IN 6707 05:43:31,928 --> 05:43:33,729 ANY WAY OR RIDICULED OR PUT DOWN 6708 05:43:33,729 --> 05:43:38,868 AND I DO NOT LIKE TO SEE THAT 6709 05:43:38,868 --> 05:43:41,571 AND YOU KNOW MY -- WITH ANYBODY 6710 05:43:41,571 --> 05:43:52,114 WHEN THEY PUT SOMEONE DOWN, THAT 6711 05:43:52,582 --> 05:43:55,551 GOES RIGHT TO THE BOTTOM AND 6712 05:43:55,551 --> 05:43:58,187 OPENS UP TO WOUND IN ME WHEN 6713 05:43:58,187 --> 05:44:00,490 WHEN I HAD IN BOARDING SCHOOL. 6714 05:44:00,490 --> 05:44:02,225 I DON'T EVEN LIKE IT WHEN I'M 6715 05:44:02,225 --> 05:44:05,895 OUT AND I SEE A WHITE KID 6716 05:44:05,895 --> 05:44:07,096 BEHAVING SO BADLY TOWARDS 6717 05:44:07,096 --> 05:44:08,664 THERAPIST PARENT THAT YOU KNOW 6718 05:44:08,664 --> 05:44:15,805 IT JUST -- IT JUST GALLS ME 6719 05:44:15,805 --> 05:44:18,007 BECAUSE TO ME THAT BRINGS BACK 6720 05:44:18,007 --> 05:44:18,808 TAKEN--THEY PAIN AND THAT WOUND 6721 05:44:18,808 --> 05:44:22,478 THAT I WENT THROUGH WHEN I WAS 6722 05:44:22,478 --> 05:44:25,815 IN BOARDING SCHOOL, SO HEALING 6723 05:44:25,815 --> 05:44:26,983 MY FAMILY HAS HELPED ME HEAL 6724 05:44:26,983 --> 05:44:31,320 BECAUSE OF THE LOVE THEY GIVE 6725 05:44:31,320 --> 05:44:33,022 ME, BECAUSE OF THE CARING AND 6726 05:44:33,022 --> 05:44:34,557 BECAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE I CAN TELL 6727 05:44:34,557 --> 05:44:40,930 THEM, YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED, I 6728 05:44:40,930 --> 05:44:44,033 TRY TO TELL THEM WITHOUT GETTING 6729 05:44:44,033 --> 05:44:45,401 EMOTIONAL BUT SIEMS I CAN'T 6730 05:44:45,401 --> 05:44:47,503 SPEAK TO IT BECAUSE IT GOES 6731 05:44:47,503 --> 05:44:50,506 RIGHT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF IT 6732 05:44:50,506 --> 05:44:52,208 SORE AND IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY PUT 6733 05:44:52,208 --> 05:44:56,612 A SON OF SALT IN IT. 6734 05:44:56,612 --> 05:45:00,249 BUT MY FAMILY UNDERSTANDS. 6735 05:45:00,249 --> 05:45:03,553 THEY WAIT FOR ME PATIENTLY TO 6736 05:45:03,553 --> 05:45:04,620 LET THEM KNOW ABOUT THIS BUT 6737 05:45:04,620 --> 05:45:05,788 THAT'S WHAT THE HEALING IS TO 6738 05:45:05,788 --> 05:45:06,122 ME. 6739 05:45:06,122 --> 05:45:09,025 IT IS TO BE WITH MY FAMILY AND 6740 05:45:09,025 --> 05:45:11,994 TO SEE THAT LOVE AND CARE, YOU 6741 05:45:11,994 --> 05:45:14,597 KNOW SO THAT GIVES ME THE 6742 05:45:14,597 --> 05:45:17,567 COURAGE TO GO ON A LITTLE BIT 6743 05:45:17,567 --> 05:45:19,201 FURTHER AND LET THEM KNOW WHAT 6744 05:45:19,201 --> 05:45:20,570 HAPPENED TO ME AND YOU KNOW 6745 05:45:20,570 --> 05:45:28,010 THINGS THAT HAPPEN TO ME BEFORE 6746 05:45:28,010 --> 05:45:30,680 I WAS IN HARBOR SPRINGS AND 6747 05:45:30,680 --> 05:45:32,114 THINGS THAT HAPPENED TO ME WHEN 6748 05:45:32,114 --> 05:45:35,084 I WAS IN HARBOR SPRINGS, SOME 6749 05:45:35,084 --> 05:45:37,954 THINGS WERE FUNNY, SOME THINGS 6750 05:45:37,954 --> 05:45:42,358 WERE HORRIBLE, SO BUT HEALING IS 6751 05:45:42,358 --> 05:45:43,659 THE LOVE I'M SURROUNDED WITH AND 6752 05:45:43,659 --> 05:45:46,195 YOU PEOPLE HAVE GIVEN ME THAT, 6753 05:45:46,195 --> 05:45:46,395 TOO. 6754 05:45:46,395 --> 05:45:47,697 AND I THANK YOU. 6755 05:45:47,697 --> 05:45:58,074 AND I THANK MY FAMILY. 6756 05:46:02,244 --> 05:46:02,545 [ APPLAUSE ] 6757 05:46:02,545 --> 05:46:04,046 >> OKAY, I'LL BE QUICK, HEALING 6758 05:46:04,046 --> 05:46:06,882 TO ME IS TRUTH SEEKING, FINDING 6759 05:46:06,882 --> 05:46:08,217 ANSWERS, PUTTING PIECES 6760 05:46:08,217 --> 05:46:09,919 TOGETHER, FINDING OUT THE WHY 6761 05:46:09,919 --> 05:46:14,423 BEHIND THINGS ESPECIALLY WITH MY 6762 05:46:14,423 --> 05:46:14,657 FAMILY. 6763 05:46:14,657 --> 05:46:16,926 LEARNING THINGS THAT MAKE YOU 6764 05:46:16,926 --> 05:46:20,796 GO, OH, NO WONDER WHY, THAT'S 6765 05:46:20,796 --> 05:46:22,398 REALLY HEALING TO ME. 6766 05:46:22,398 --> 05:46:25,501 BRINGING MY AUNTIE HERE AND 6767 05:46:25,501 --> 05:46:30,940 MAKING SURE SHE'S INVOLVED WITH 6768 05:46:30,940 --> 05:46:33,275 NAVs IS MORE VALUABLE THAN 6769 05:46:33,275 --> 05:46:35,578 ANYTHING AND I'M GLAD -- I'M 6770 05:46:35,578 --> 05:46:38,314 GLAD THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO BE HERE 6771 05:46:38,314 --> 05:46:41,917 AND FALCON AND THEN LISTENING 6772 05:46:41,917 --> 05:46:43,919 LISTENING AND LEARNING IS ALSO 6773 05:46:43,919 --> 05:46:49,492 VERY HEALING, NOT ONLY TO ME BUT 6774 05:46:49,492 --> 05:46:50,559 ALSO HOPEFULLY WITH JUST 6775 05:46:50,559 --> 05:46:53,229 LYNCHING TO THEIR STORIES, YOU 6776 05:46:53,229 --> 05:46:55,197 KNOW THAT'S A RECIPROCAL 6777 05:46:55,197 --> 05:46:55,898 RELATIONSHIP. 6778 05:46:55,898 --> 05:46:57,199 YOU'RE GAINING INFORMATION, 6779 05:46:57,199 --> 05:46:58,134 LEARNING, THEY'RE RELEASING, SO 6780 05:46:58,134 --> 05:47:02,238 YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WOULD SAY. 6781 05:47:02,238 --> 05:47:06,375 >> I'LL BE EVEN QUICKER. 6782 05:47:06,375 --> 05:47:08,044 I THINK A BIG PART OF HEALING TO 6783 05:47:08,044 --> 05:47:12,782 ME IS JUST KNOWING -- WELL TO US 6784 05:47:12,782 --> 05:47:15,051 IS JUST KNOWING THAT YOU DON'T 6785 05:47:15,051 --> 05:47:16,686 HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL SOMEONE 6786 05:47:16,686 --> 05:47:22,692 LEAVES THE ROOM TO CRY OR IT'S 6787 05:47:22,692 --> 05:47:26,195 JUST KNOWING THAT YOU CAN OPEN 6788 05:47:26,195 --> 05:47:29,498 UP, THAT PEOPLE WILL LISTEN AND 6789 05:47:29,498 --> 05:47:35,805 TO THEY WANT TO LISTEN AND THAT 6790 05:47:35,805 --> 05:47:37,440 WE CAN ALL LINE ON EACH OTHER 6791 05:47:37,440 --> 05:47:39,141 AND RELY ON EACH OTHER, THAT'S A 6792 05:47:39,141 --> 05:47:47,416 BIG PART OF HEALING TO ME ALSO 6793 05:47:47,416 --> 05:47:51,387 KNOWING THAT NAVs HAS HELPED 6794 05:47:51,387 --> 05:47:59,795 UTION, AND SHARE AND SPEAK, AND 6795 05:47:59,795 --> 05:48:08,938 GET MORE THAN 1 SENTENCE AND 6796 05:48:08,938 --> 05:48:13,809 IT'S BEAUTIFUL AND -- AND ETCH'S 6797 05:48:13,809 --> 05:48:24,320 EXPERIENCE, AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL 6798 05:48:26,122 --> 05:48:27,189 ESPECIALLY THINKING THAT I 6799 05:48:27,189 --> 05:48:37,733 DIDN'T REALLY NEED TO KNOW THAT 6800 05:48:41,370 --> 05:48:43,105 MUCH, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW I 6801 05:48:43,105 --> 05:48:49,245 EVER THOUGHT THAT BECAUSE THIS 6802 05:48:49,245 --> 05:48:59,789 IS SEEING MY GRANDMA THRIVE AND 6803 05:49:19,875 --> 05:49:30,119 THANK YOU SO MUCH. 6804 05:49:33,622 --> 05:49:33,923 [ APPLAUSE ] 6805 05:49:33,923 --> 05:49:36,091 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH, THE 6806 05:49:36,091 --> 05:49:37,793 TIGHTNESS IN THE CHEST AND 6807 05:49:37,793 --> 05:49:40,896 ANSWERS COMING TO THIS SPACE 6808 05:49:40,896 --> 05:49:43,833 WITH US, THANKS SO MUCH AND I 6809 05:49:43,833 --> 05:49:48,370 JUST WANT TO GIVE OUR PANELISTS 6810 05:49:48,370 --> 05:49:53,676 AND LET'S GIVE THEM ANOTHER 6811 05:49:53,676 --> 05:49:58,948 ROUND OF APPLAUSE AND I THINK 6812 05:49:58,948 --> 05:50:01,450 OUR TAKE AWAY IS LOOKS LIKE 6813 05:50:01,450 --> 05:50:02,585 FAMILY, FORGIVENESS, LOVE, 6814 05:50:02,585 --> 05:50:07,723 SILENT LOVE AND DAD JOKES. 6815 05:50:07,723 --> 05:50:12,695 [LAUGHTER] 6816 05:50:12,695 --> 05:50:22,695 >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.