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And the reference to Waw
Giwalik is Baboquivari Peak

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on the O'odham reservation,
the most sacred mountain

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for the O'odham people.

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And with that, this one is also
in reference to Waw Giwalik.

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But it's in English and
just has some place names

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listed for reference,
at least in the piece.

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And O'odham people
say that no matter

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where you are in this
large Southwest region,

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if you can see Waw
Giwalik, that you are home.

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And there's many places
from the Tucson area

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that you can certainly
see Waw Giwalik.

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So we're always home.

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This one's called
"Blacktop," and it's just

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a reference to driving
around the reservation

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and always seeing the mountain
from one place or another.

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"The blacktop carries
me past Three Points.

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The security of the
homelands passes by me.

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It carries me past
San Pedro, where

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weavers sit under the watto.

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Their voices drift into
the tangle of desert

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where all languages go.

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The blacktop carries me into
the tohono, into the heat,

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making me delirious.

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San Lucy sounds like a
country western song.

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The blacktop carries
me in all directions.

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Sometimes, I'm traveling
with the lone eagle.

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Other times, I roam
with worse scavengers.

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The blood of the heat of
the blacktop calls me.

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It calls me as if it has
always known my name.

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Anonymity is my desire.

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Walking instead in sandy
washes and rocky hills

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unseen, leaving the debris of
my life under a mesquite tree,

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I rush toward an
imaginary new life.

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The blacktop carries
me in all directions.

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It knows my name.

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I never told it my name.

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It calls me.

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It wants to carry me
in all directions.

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It whispers, 'You will
always see Waw Giwalik

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in your rear-view mirror.'"

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And then finally, I
just want to close

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with a couple of
real short pieces.

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These are pieces that
technically aren't published,

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but they appear on boulders.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Those of you that are
living in this part of town,

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my husband and I have always
lived down Mountain Avenue,

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north of campus.

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And when they did the
widening and construction

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on Mountain Avenue, myself
and another public artist,

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Simon Donovan, had the
project of doing the landscape

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along Mountain Avenue.

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And so the boulders
along Mountain Avenue

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have some of my work
etched into stone.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So, um-- and they were
all bilingual pieces.

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So that was an
intentional project.

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And so they turned out nicely.

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And some of them referenced
the little animals

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that we still see in
that area of town.

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And so I'm just going
to read a couple

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of these little short
pieces for you, because they

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are bilingual, and I
wanted to make sure that we

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heard the language tonight.

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This first one's
called "Okokoi."

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And this one also has
appeared in a little broadside

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from Kore Press.

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"Okokoi," "Mourning Dove."

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Ḍ 'o si we:pegkam ḍ 'o si we:pegkam hegai mo an je:k

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g s-ke:g bahidaj ñi'a, ñi'a s-wa 'usim cewagĭ 'o 'i:bhe


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"Mourning Dove."

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"She is the first one,
she is the first one

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who tastes the first fruit.

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See here, see here.

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She breathes clouds of wetness."

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And this one's another bird one.

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It's called "Kakaichu
Mamad," "Quail Babies."

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[SPEAKING O'ODHAM]

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"Quail Babies."

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"Yellow month,
little wings flutter.

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Summer month, dance
a traditional dance.

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Your mother is the lead."

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And then finally, "Javelina."

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And this is based
on a true experience

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down on Mountain Avenue as well.

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We had left our jack-o-lanterns
out too long on Halloween.

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And early in the morning, our
neighbor across the street

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called us and said, you have
to get rid of those pumpkins.

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The javelinas are out there.

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And we went out, but we
didn't see the javelinas.

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But we saw their prints
and the eaten pumpkins.

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And in O'odham, they call it
tasi'ikol or mischiñ kooji

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or javelina.

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[SPEAKING O'ODHAM]

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"Javelina."

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"You roam the
neighborhood shrubs.

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We see you wandered the
dry riverbed, searching

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for your dreams, maybe.

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We see your tracks
when you found your way

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to our house, rotting pumpkin
your delicacy that day."

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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