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OK.

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Thanks to everyone for
coming out tonight.

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This series is called The
Poetics and Politics of Water.

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It's a series that Professor
Ofelia Zepeda and I

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organized in connection with
a graduate class this spring.

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The series explores
how water works

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in contemporary
American Indian writing.

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The writer's reading
in the series

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are custodians and stewards
of Indigenous conceptions

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of water.

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And through their
words, their creativity,

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they can help us to
think more deeply

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about an element in our lives
that we just can't do without.

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We have many people to thank.

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First and foremost, I'd like
to thank our primary sponsors,

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the Department of English,
the American Indian Studies

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program, and the University
of Arizona Poetry Center.

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These organizations have
given, not only resources,

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but time and real
labor to making

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this event and others possible.

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In addition to those, others
who have helped us out

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are, the American Indian
language Development Institute,

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the Institute of the
Environment, the Southwest

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Center, the College of Social
and Behavioral Science,

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and the Confluence Center.

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Thanks, thanks to
all the sponsors.

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And thanks too, to the
students in our class

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for your engagement, your
ideas, and this afternoon,

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for the wonderful food that you
prepared for tonight's speaker.

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Upcoming, as Tyler
mentioned, we have

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Natalie Diaz as the fourth
reader in our series.

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She's reading on
Thursday, April 2nd.

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We've added a final
event thanks to the help

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of Robert Hershey and others.

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We're going to have a roundtable
discussion on The Poetics

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and Politics of Water with three
panelists, James Anaya, who's

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a Regents Professor
at the College of Law

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here at the U of
A, Jim Enote, who

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is the executive director of
the Museum at Zuni Pueblo.

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And thirdly, Charles
Wilkinson, who is a regents,

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or a distinguished
professor I think

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they're called, at the
University of Colorado,

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Boulder.

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It should be a very exciting
roundtable discussion

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on water issues, and that will
be on Wednesday, not Thursday

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night, but Wednesday, April
15, 7 o'clock, same place.

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Finally, I'd like to
mention two opportunities.

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We have prepared a finer version
of our poster in, kind of,

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a limited edition.

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All of these posters have been
signed by the previous two

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speakers.

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And we hope that
our speaker tonight

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will do the same, as
will Natalie, April 2nd.

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So you have an opportunity to
have a signed poster by all

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of the poets in the series.

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I think we're selling those
for $25 over on this table,

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and the proceeds from
the sale of this poster

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will go to benefit graduate
students in the American Indian

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Studies program.

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Also, the Tohono O'odham
Student Association

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has set up a table back
there, they're waving.

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So if you would like
to have some dessert

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or a little something
after the reading,

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please, please help them out.

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Finally, I'd like to
recognize the artist who

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created our poster.

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I just notice that he
walked in, Paul Mirocha

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did the artwork here.

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OK, so without
further ado, I'd like

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to now introduce Ofelia Zepeda,
who will introduce our speaker.

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Been dying to say that.

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