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Excuse me, sir.

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Sorry.

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Oh, thank you very much
for your time, Mr. Vizenor.

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Before we begin the
question and answer period,

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we would like to have a
brief presentation for you,

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as well as I would like to call
up Professor Tapahonso and Dr.

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Evers.

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OK.

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How do you want to do this?

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Let's let [INAUDIBLE].

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Yep.

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This is for you.

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We have this-- oh, talk
into the microphone.

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[LAUGHTER]

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We're presenting Mr.
Vizenor with this "Poetics

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and Politics" plaque.

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So thank you for coming to join
us, and your lovely reading.

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Oh, thank you.

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That's very thoughtful.

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[APPLAUSE]

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What we wanted to
do tonight, this

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is the fifth of
the five readings,

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and Professor Tapahonso and
I wanted to thank all of you

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for being such a great audience,
such a faithful audience

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for our series.

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I, myself, wanted to thank
Luci for coming by one day

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and saying, hey, why
don't we do the "Poetics

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and Politics" again,
giving me the opportunity

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to have this experience.

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Thank you very much.

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Then I think what
we'd like to do

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is ask each of the students who
are currently in our seminar,

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our "Poetics and
Politics" seminar, who've

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done such a fabulous job of
actually organizing and running

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this, would you
all come and stand,

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and we'll give you a hand.

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Come on.

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Matt, come on.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Each of these students
have given so much

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to the class beyond
their presence,

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and beyond just coming and
putting together the events,

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and hosting the events, their
attitude and their generosity

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in sharing their
thoughts, and just giving

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us, Dr. Evers and I, whole new
ways to think about writing,

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to think about literature,
and what we do as teachers.

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And the writers that we
read are writers that we

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have been familiar with.

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And so it's just
such a wonderful--

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it's been really
wonderful putting--

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just having this seminar.

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There's been days when we have
not wanted to have discussions.

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And so we just want
to thank all of them,

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and let you know that
for us, it's been

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a really incredible experience.

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[SPEAKING DINÉ
BIZAAD] Thank you.

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Oh, yeah.

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[APPLAUSE]

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All right, ladies
and gentlemen, now we

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will have a brief question and
answer period with Mr. Vizenor.

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Following that, we will
also have a book signing

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in the bookstore, with light
refreshments over by the doors.

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Mr. Vizenor.

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