WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.980 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.980 --> 00:00:05.370 align:middle line:84% In regards to the Easter ceremonies coming up, 00:00:05.370 --> 00:00:07.560 align:middle line:84% Yaqui Easter ceremonies, in particular 00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:11.010 align:middle line:84% here in the city of Tucson, our guest 00:00:11.010 --> 00:00:12.570 align:middle line:90% that evening is Felipe Molina. 00:00:12.570 --> 00:00:14.700 align:middle line:84% And other members from the Yaqui community 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:18.330 align:middle line:84% will be presenting a special presentation on that ceremony, 00:00:18.330 --> 00:00:20.880 align:middle line:90% including a videotape viewing. 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:23.880 align:middle line:84% In two weeks, on April 20, we'll be back 00:00:23.880 --> 00:00:25.830 align:middle line:84% at the Center for Creative Photography 00:00:25.830 --> 00:00:29.190 align:middle line:84% where our reader that night will be Nora Naranjo Morse. 00:00:29.190 --> 00:00:33.540 align:middle line:84% Nora is a Santa Clara Pueblo Indian. 00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:36.660 align:middle line:90% She's a potter and a poet. 00:00:36.660 --> 00:00:40.050 align:middle line:84% Right now, some of her pieces of ceramics 00:00:40.050 --> 00:00:42.960 align:middle line:84% is on exhibit at the Arizona State Museum, 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:46.380 align:middle line:84% which is on this main campus over by the west gate 00:00:46.380 --> 00:00:48.630 align:middle line:90% of the university. 00:00:48.630 --> 00:00:51.480 align:middle line:84% Both of those performances will start at 30. 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:55.260 align:middle line:84% The one where we go back to the center is also at 7:30. 00:00:55.260 --> 00:00:59.790 align:middle line:84% And then our final reading will be Joy Harjo on April 27. 00:00:59.790 --> 00:01:03.510 align:middle line:84% So I invite you all to come for all of those upcoming 00:01:03.510 --> 00:01:05.010 align:middle line:90% performances. 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:10.950 align:middle line:84% Real quickly, I'd like to invite Ernie. 00:01:10.950 --> 00:01:12.360 align:middle line:90% Are you going to-- 00:01:12.360 --> 00:01:17.070 align:middle line:84% Ernie Frost to do his commercial again. 00:01:17.070 --> 00:01:31.660 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:31.660 --> 00:01:33.160 align:middle line:90% I'm not moving so quick. 00:01:33.160 --> 00:01:35.050 align:middle line:84% I had to go to the dentist this afternoon. 00:01:35.050 --> 00:01:38.020 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:38.020 --> 00:01:41.260 align:middle line:90% You guys ever had a root canal? 00:01:41.260 --> 00:01:43.750 align:middle line:84% All the horror stories they tell about them are true. 00:01:43.750 --> 00:01:47.200 align:middle line:90% 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:48.400 align:middle line:90% The shirt. 00:01:48.400 --> 00:01:50.560 align:middle line:90% You've all seen it. 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:52.570 align:middle line:90% It's a wonderful shirt. 00:01:52.570 --> 00:01:54.850 align:middle line:84% Artist is a [? wonderful ?] person. 00:01:54.850 --> 00:01:56.500 align:middle line:90% Buy the shirt. 00:01:56.500 --> 00:01:57.850 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:01:57.850 --> 00:02:03.820 align:middle line:84% I got people that are really on my case about this. 00:02:03.820 --> 00:02:05.170 align:middle line:90% Buy the shirt. 00:02:05.170 --> 00:02:08.199 align:middle line:84% If you can't buy the shirt, go to the table. 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:11.410 align:middle line:84% Give the girls $1, just because you've been 00:02:11.410 --> 00:02:13.270 align:middle line:90% able to come here for free. 00:02:13.270 --> 00:02:15.310 align:middle line:84% If everybody gave us $1, we could 00:02:15.310 --> 00:02:18.912 align:middle line:84% make sure we can do this again next semester. 00:02:18.912 --> 00:02:25.660 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:25.660 --> 00:02:27.160 align:middle line:90% Everybody's seen this poster. 00:02:27.160 --> 00:02:28.090 align:middle line:90% You like this poster? 00:02:28.090 --> 00:02:30.790 align:middle line:90% 00:02:30.790 --> 00:02:31.450 align:middle line:90% They're $2. 00:02:31.450 --> 00:02:33.670 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:33.670 --> 00:02:37.330 align:middle line:84% But we came up with a brilliant idea. 00:02:37.330 --> 00:02:40.420 align:middle line:84% We thought this would make a great t-shirt, 00:02:40.420 --> 00:02:43.540 align:middle line:84% since you guys obviously don't dig this one that well. 00:02:43.540 --> 00:02:48.200 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:48.200 --> 00:02:50.540 align:middle line:84% If you'd be interested in getting 00:02:50.540 --> 00:02:53.180 align:middle line:84% one of these as a t-shirt, let us know later. 00:02:53.180 --> 00:02:55.970 align:middle line:84% And we'll see what we can do about knocking some of them 00:02:55.970 --> 00:02:56.480 align:middle line:90% out. 00:02:56.480 --> 00:02:59.600 align:middle line:84% But we're not going to cut you the deal we will on this one. 00:02:59.600 --> 00:03:00.710 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:00.710 --> 00:03:01.760 align:middle line:90% That one will cost more. 00:03:01.760 --> 00:03:06.680 align:middle line:84% But if you can't handle the t-shirt, get the poster, $2. 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.560 align:middle line:84% Go by and see the bookstore people. 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:10.850 align:middle line:90% Buy their books. 00:03:10.850 --> 00:03:14.100 align:middle line:84% Make Leslie sign the book for you. 00:03:14.100 --> 00:03:17.460 align:middle line:90% And my tooth hurts like heck. 00:03:17.460 --> 00:03:20.150 align:middle line:84% I ain't going to stay up here too long. 00:03:20.150 --> 00:03:20.900 align:middle line:90% Buy the shirts. 00:03:20.900 --> 00:03:21.980 align:middle line:90% Buy the posters. 00:03:21.980 --> 00:03:23.150 align:middle line:90% Buy the other t-shirts. 00:03:23.150 --> 00:03:23.960 align:middle line:90% Give us some money. 00:03:23.960 --> 00:03:24.470 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:03:24.470 --> 00:03:34.020 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:34.020 --> 00:03:34.860 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Ernie. 00:03:34.860 --> 00:03:38.010 align:middle line:90% 00:03:38.010 --> 00:03:40.943 align:middle line:84% For those of you that have come to our series 00:03:40.943 --> 00:03:42.360 align:middle line:84% here for the first time, we'd like 00:03:42.360 --> 00:03:48.060 align:middle line:84% to let you know who is partially responsible 00:03:48.060 --> 00:03:50.490 align:middle line:90% for this wonderful series. 00:03:50.490 --> 00:03:52.860 align:middle line:84% Dr. Rudy Troike from the Department of English, 00:03:52.860 --> 00:03:55.650 align:middle line:84% the acting chair of the English Department. 00:03:55.650 --> 00:03:57.090 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:57.090 --> 00:04:00.060 align:middle line:84% Dr. Joseph Stauss, the acting director American Indian 00:04:00.060 --> 00:04:00.945 align:middle line:90% Studies Program. 00:04:00.945 --> 00:04:04.000 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.321 align:middle line:84% The Inter Tribal Graduate Council, as Ernie 00:04:06.321 --> 00:04:07.363 align:middle line:90% was their representative. 00:04:07.363 --> 00:04:10.720 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:10.720 --> 00:04:14.350 align:middle line:84% The University of Arizona Library, the Poetry Center, 00:04:14.350 --> 00:04:16.105 align:middle line:84% and the Creative Photography Center. 00:04:16.105 --> 00:04:19.720 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:19.720 --> 00:04:22.420 align:middle line:84% We're all very grateful for their participation. 00:04:22.420 --> 00:04:24.260 align:middle line:84% One thing that sticks in my mind, 00:04:24.260 --> 00:04:26.950 align:middle line:84% and when I've introduced these particular sponsors, 00:04:26.950 --> 00:04:29.260 align:middle line:84% is the fact that in particular American Indian Studies 00:04:29.260 --> 00:04:30.843 align:middle line:84% and the English Department, you notice 00:04:30.843 --> 00:04:35.200 align:middle line:84% that they're all acting directors or acting chairs. 00:04:35.200 --> 00:04:39.340 align:middle line:84% So that sort of says something about our administration 00:04:39.340 --> 00:04:43.190 align:middle line:84% here at this campus, one way or the other. 00:04:43.190 --> 00:04:43.690 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:43.690 --> 00:04:48.430 align:middle line:84% This evening, it's my pleasure to introduce tonight's 00:04:48.430 --> 00:04:51.550 align:middle line:90% guest, Leslie Marmon Silko. 00:04:51.550 --> 00:04:55.690 align:middle line:84% Today, some of us have been able to spend some time with her 00:04:55.690 --> 00:05:03.040 align:middle line:84% as she talked about her work and her experience in coming here. 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:07.390 align:middle line:84% Leslie Silko is Laguna Pueblo from the New Mexico area. 00:05:07.390 --> 00:05:10.630 align:middle line:84% However, she's been living here in Tucson for quite some time. 00:05:10.630 --> 00:05:13.600 align:middle line:90% Leslie is a storyteller. 00:05:13.600 --> 00:05:16.130 align:middle line:90% She is a poet. 00:05:16.130 --> 00:05:18.850 align:middle line:84% She's a novelist, she's a filmmaker. 00:05:18.850 --> 00:05:21.790 align:middle line:90% And she's also a muralist. 00:05:21.790 --> 00:05:25.900 align:middle line:84% She's a very busy person, to say the least. 00:05:25.900 --> 00:05:31.210 align:middle line:84% She was the recipient of the very prestigious MacArthur 00:05:31.210 --> 00:05:34.660 align:middle line:84% Fellowship early in the '80s, which partially, 00:05:34.660 --> 00:05:38.770 align:middle line:84% of course, helped her to get started with her most 00:05:38.770 --> 00:05:42.220 align:middle line:84% current work, Almanac of the Dead. 00:05:42.220 --> 00:05:44.050 align:middle line:84% She's perhaps one of the most important 00:05:44.050 --> 00:05:47.770 align:middle line:84% Native American writers of this era. 00:05:47.770 --> 00:05:50.680 align:middle line:84% She has numerous publications, including, of course, 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.860 align:middle line:84% short stories and essays, along with her poetry 00:05:53.860 --> 00:05:55.720 align:middle line:90% and her fiction. 00:05:55.720 --> 00:05:58.180 align:middle line:84% Leslie Silko is perhaps best known 00:05:58.180 --> 00:06:02.230 align:middle line:84% for her novel Ceremony and her book Storyteller. 00:06:02.230 --> 00:06:04.330 align:middle line:84% Storyteller which tells basically 00:06:04.330 --> 00:06:09.490 align:middle line:84% of her family, herself, sort of woven within Laguna Pueblo 00:06:09.490 --> 00:06:11.680 align:middle line:90% oral tradition. 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:15.430 align:middle line:84% Her current work, her much talked-about novel, 00:06:15.430 --> 00:06:19.370 align:middle line:84% Almanac of the Dead, is truly a great piece of work. 00:06:19.370 --> 00:06:24.220 align:middle line:84% It proves once again Leslie Silko's versatility and talent. 00:06:24.220 --> 00:06:25.960 align:middle line:90% The work is massive. 00:06:25.960 --> 00:06:29.050 align:middle line:84% It's a piece of work that once you read it, 00:06:29.050 --> 00:06:32.350 align:middle line:84% it will, if you have a mind to, cause 00:06:32.350 --> 00:06:36.010 align:middle line:84% you to sort of rethink yourself as a person, 00:06:36.010 --> 00:06:40.900 align:middle line:84% to rethink of us as a people, and perhaps 00:06:40.900 --> 00:06:44.860 align:middle line:84% to rethink of us and our history here in this place. 00:06:44.860 --> 00:06:49.930 align:middle line:84% Leslie Marmon Silko, for some of us, in this particular work 00:06:49.930 --> 00:06:52.700 align:middle line:90% shows us what we have become. 00:06:52.700 --> 00:06:57.850 align:middle line:84% And as an almanac should, shows us what we will become. 00:06:57.850 --> 00:07:00.670 align:middle line:84% Would you please welcome Leslie Marmon Silko. 00:07:00.670 --> 00:07:19.610 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:07:19.610 --> 00:07:21.540 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:07:21.540 --> 00:07:23.460 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:07:23.460 --> 00:07:24.960 align:middle line:84% OK, I'm going to do this, so I don't 00:07:24.960 --> 00:07:26.760 align:middle line:90% talk for more than an hour. 00:07:26.760 --> 00:07:28.350 align:middle line:90% It didn't start. 00:07:28.350 --> 00:07:28.890 align:middle line:90% Too bad. 00:07:28.890 --> 00:07:30.480 align:middle line:90% Timepiece fails. 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.440 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:31.440 --> 00:07:34.680 align:middle line:84% What I'd like to do tonight is just talk about, for about 00:07:34.680 --> 00:07:36.780 align:middle line:84% an hour so that nobody gets uncomfortable-- 00:07:36.780 --> 00:07:37.920 align:middle line:90% feel free to move around. 00:07:37.920 --> 00:07:40.680 align:middle line:84% If you get sick or you get horrified, just run out. 00:07:40.680 --> 00:07:41.250 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:07:41.250 --> 00:07:44.550 align:middle line:84% The storyteller is used to people moving around. 00:07:44.550 --> 00:07:47.160 align:middle line:84% There's a natural flow that should be around. 00:07:47.160 --> 00:07:49.110 align:middle line:84% And this isn't quite storytelling, 00:07:49.110 --> 00:07:52.560 align:middle line:84% but I still believe that human comfort is the last thing that 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:53.940 align:middle line:90% goes before the storyteller. 00:07:53.940 --> 00:07:58.500 align:middle line:84% We'll go ahead and make the storyteller accommodate. 00:07:58.500 --> 00:08:03.270 align:middle line:84% But what I'd like to do is warm up 00:08:03.270 --> 00:08:07.050 align:middle line:90% with some old favorites of mine. 00:08:07.050 --> 00:08:09.030 align:middle line:90% They help me to feel better. 00:08:09.030 --> 00:08:11.980 align:middle line:84% Probably people who've heard me read are sick of them. 00:08:11.980 --> 00:08:13.560 align:middle line:84% But then, after all, we're trying 00:08:13.560 --> 00:08:17.790 align:middle line:84% to look after the storyteller a little bit tonight. 00:08:17.790 --> 00:08:21.000 align:middle line:84% And if I get too nervous, why, I'll really 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:23.220 align:middle line:84% start forgetting what I was talking about, 00:08:23.220 --> 00:08:24.540 align:middle line:90% like I did all day. 00:08:24.540 --> 00:08:29.526 align:middle line:90% And things will deteriorate. 00:08:29.526 --> 00:08:33.390 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:08:33.390 --> 00:08:36.900 align:middle line:84% "Prayer to the Pacific" is the first poem-- 00:08:36.900 --> 00:08:38.580 align:middle line:84% seems weird, like I can't see over this. 00:08:38.580 --> 00:08:42.000 align:middle line:84% Anyway, "Prayer to the Pacific" is the first poem 00:08:42.000 --> 00:08:44.350 align:middle line:90% that I ever wrote. 00:08:44.350 --> 00:08:46.380 align:middle line:84% I started out writing short fiction 00:08:46.380 --> 00:08:49.140 align:middle line:90% at the University of New Mexico. 00:08:49.140 --> 00:08:52.260 align:middle line:84% I found that because of my background at Laguna Pueblo 00:08:52.260 --> 00:08:56.160 align:middle line:84% with people constantly telling stories 00:08:56.160 --> 00:09:03.070 align:middle line:84% and the whole way of interacting being built with narrative, 00:09:03.070 --> 00:09:06.720 align:middle line:84% I just sort of took to writing short fiction pretty easily. 00:09:06.720 --> 00:09:09.210 align:middle line:90% But poetry is a mystery. 00:09:09.210 --> 00:09:11.310 align:middle line:90% And it still is to me. 00:09:11.310 --> 00:09:14.130 align:middle line:84% I've not written-- it's been years 00:09:14.130 --> 00:09:15.750 align:middle line:90% since I've written a poem. 00:09:15.750 --> 00:09:20.070 align:middle line:84% And actually that poem was for my friend Lou Bernal. 00:09:20.070 --> 00:09:23.970 align:middle line:84% So I don't know that I'm a poet, or still a poet, 00:09:23.970 --> 00:09:24.960 align:middle line:90% or ever was a poet. 00:09:24.960 --> 00:09:26.460 align:middle line:90% But I have written poems. 00:09:26.460 --> 00:09:27.960 align:middle line:90% Poems are like gifts. 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:30.120 align:middle line:90% Anyway, they happen to me. 00:09:30.120 --> 00:09:33.840 align:middle line:84% And I had been taking a creative writing class. 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:40.580 align:middle line:84% I think it was about in 1968 or '69. 00:09:40.580 --> 00:09:42.470 align:middle line:90% It was in '69. 00:09:42.470 --> 00:09:46.940 align:middle line:84% I saw the Pacific Ocean for the first time 00:09:46.940 --> 00:09:49.640 align:middle line:84% since I guess I'd seen it once when I was a child. 00:09:49.640 --> 00:09:54.440 align:middle line:84% And I was greatly moved by the ocean. 00:09:54.440 --> 00:10:01.100 align:middle line:84% Because suddenly, all of the stories Aunt Susie had told us, 00:10:01.100 --> 00:10:04.370 align:middle line:84% stories about Grandfather Turtle, 00:10:04.370 --> 00:10:10.220 align:middle line:84% stories about coral and mother of pearl and the shells 00:10:10.220 --> 00:10:12.890 align:middle line:84% and the clouds and the rain, all of a sudden, 00:10:12.890 --> 00:10:18.200 align:middle line:84% all of these sorts of memories came together 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:19.230 align:middle line:90% when I saw the ocean. 00:10:19.230 --> 00:10:21.167 align:middle line:90% And so I wrote this. 00:10:21.167 --> 00:10:23.000 align:middle line:84% And I didn't know it was going to be a poem. 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.080 align:middle line:90% I just felt all of these things. 00:10:25.080 --> 00:10:28.880 align:middle line:84% And so I wrote "Prayer to the Pacific." 00:10:28.880 --> 00:10:33.410 align:middle line:84% I traveled to the ocean, distant from my Southwest land 00:10:33.410 --> 00:10:36.650 align:middle line:84% of Sandrock, to the moving blue water, 00:10:36.650 --> 00:10:39.260 align:middle line:90% big as the myth of origin. 00:10:39.260 --> 00:10:42.800 align:middle line:84% Pale, pale water and the yellow white light 00:10:42.800 --> 00:10:48.590 align:middle line:84% of sun floating west to China, where ocean herself was born. 00:10:48.590 --> 00:10:52.250 align:middle line:84% Clouds that blow across the sand are wet. 00:10:52.250 --> 00:10:55.820 align:middle line:84% Squat in the wet sand and speak to the ocean. 00:10:55.820 --> 00:11:00.650 align:middle line:84% I return to you turquoise, the red coral you sent us, 00:11:00.650 --> 00:11:02.480 align:middle line:90% sister spirit of Earth. 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:05.060 align:middle line:90% Four round stones in my pocket. 00:11:05.060 --> 00:11:08.960 align:middle line:84% I carry back the ocean to suck and to taste. 00:11:08.960 --> 00:11:13.430 align:middle line:84% 30,000 years ago, Indians came riding across the ocean, 00:11:13.430 --> 00:11:16.100 align:middle line:90% carried by giant sea turtles. 00:11:16.100 --> 00:11:18.290 align:middle line:90% Waves were high that day. 00:11:18.290 --> 00:11:24.290 align:middle line:84% Great sea turtle did slowly out from the gray sundown sea. 00:11:24.290 --> 00:11:28.370 align:middle line:84% Grandfather turtle rolled in the sand four times 00:11:28.370 --> 00:11:31.310 align:middle line:84% and disappeared, swimming into the sun. 00:11:31.310 --> 00:11:34.760 align:middle line:84% And so from that time immemorial, 00:11:34.760 --> 00:11:37.490 align:middle line:84% as the old people say, rain clouds 00:11:37.490 --> 00:11:41.780 align:middle line:84% drift from the west, gift from the ocean. 00:11:41.780 --> 00:11:46.070 align:middle line:84% Green leaves in the wind, wet earth on my feet, 00:11:46.070 --> 00:11:48.905 align:middle line:84% swallowing raindrops clear from China. 00:11:48.905 --> 00:11:52.150 align:middle line:90% 00:11:52.150 --> 00:11:53.460 align:middle line:90% That was the first one. 00:11:53.460 --> 00:11:57.360 align:middle line:84% And then the second one-- then I lose count. 00:11:57.360 --> 00:11:59.920 align:middle line:84% The second one was something I wrote. 00:11:59.920 --> 00:12:05.228 align:middle line:84% It's called "Indian Song: Survival." 00:12:05.228 --> 00:12:06.020 align:middle line:90% Of course I never-- 00:12:06.020 --> 00:12:09.170 align:middle line:90% I always have trouble finding. 00:12:09.170 --> 00:12:10.982 align:middle line:84% I think I have it right there, and I don't. 00:12:10.982 --> 00:12:12.440 align:middle line:84% I'll have to look it up on my dear. 00:12:12.440 --> 00:12:15.280 align:middle line:90% 00:12:15.280 --> 00:12:20.680 align:middle line:84% I think the storyteller and the writer have this ongoing-- 00:12:20.680 --> 00:12:24.100 align:middle line:84% you don't misplace story easily as you misplace-- 00:12:24.100 --> 00:12:27.590 align:middle line:84% oral stories as you misplace written things. 00:12:27.590 --> 00:12:29.350 align:middle line:90% So let's see. 00:12:29.350 --> 00:12:32.440 align:middle line:84% Where is "Indian Song: Survival"? 00:12:32.440 --> 00:12:33.550 align:middle line:90% Oh, yes, here it is. 00:12:33.550 --> 00:12:34.270 align:middle line:90% Page 35. 00:12:34.270 --> 00:12:39.420 align:middle line:90% 00:12:39.420 --> 00:12:43.680 align:middle line:84% We went north to escape winter, climbing pale cliffs. 00:12:43.680 --> 00:12:46.140 align:middle line:90% We pause to sleep at the river. 00:12:46.140 --> 00:12:49.410 align:middle line:84% Cold river, river cold from the north. 00:12:49.410 --> 00:12:54.630 align:middle line:84% I sink my body in the shallow, sink into sand and cold river 00:12:54.630 --> 00:12:56.070 align:middle line:90% water. 00:12:56.070 --> 00:12:59.820 align:middle line:84% You sleep in the branches of pale river willows above me. 00:12:59.820 --> 00:13:03.510 align:middle line:84% I smell you in the silver leaves, mountain lion men. 00:13:03.510 --> 00:13:07.640 align:middle line:84% Green willows aren't sweet enough to hide you. 00:13:07.640 --> 00:13:09.220 align:middle line:90% I have slept with the river. 00:13:09.220 --> 00:13:11.680 align:middle line:90% And he is warmer than any man. 00:13:11.680 --> 00:13:16.330 align:middle line:84% At sunrise, I heard ice on the cattails. 00:13:16.330 --> 00:13:19.330 align:middle line:84% Mountain lion with dark yellow eyes, 00:13:19.330 --> 00:13:22.360 align:middle line:84% you nibble moon flowers while we wait. 00:13:22.360 --> 00:13:28.560 align:middle line:84% I don't ask, why do you come on desperation journey north. 00:13:28.560 --> 00:13:30.570 align:middle line:90% I am hunted for my feathers. 00:13:30.570 --> 00:13:34.860 align:middle line:84% I hide in spider's web, hanging in a thin gray tree 00:13:34.860 --> 00:13:36.270 align:middle line:90% above the river. 00:13:36.270 --> 00:13:40.530 align:middle line:84% In the night, I hear music, song of branches, 00:13:40.530 --> 00:13:43.350 align:middle line:90% dry leaves scraping the moon. 00:13:43.350 --> 00:13:46.290 align:middle line:84% Green spotted frogs sing to the river. 00:13:46.290 --> 00:13:48.360 align:middle line:90% And I know he is waiting. 00:13:48.360 --> 00:13:51.660 align:middle line:84% Mountain lion shows me the way, path 00:13:51.660 --> 00:13:57.270 align:middle line:84% of mountain wind climbing higher up, up to cloudy mountain. 00:13:57.270 --> 00:13:59.640 align:middle line:84% It is only a matter of time, Indian. 00:13:59.640 --> 00:14:02.580 align:middle line:84% You can't sleep with the river forever. 00:14:02.580 --> 00:14:05.610 align:middle line:90% Smell winter and know. 00:14:05.610 --> 00:14:09.420 align:middle line:84% I swallow black mountain dirt while you catch hummingbirds, 00:14:09.420 --> 00:14:12.090 align:middle line:84% trap them with wildflowers, pollen, 00:14:12.090 --> 00:14:15.150 align:middle line:84% and petals fallen from the Milky Way. 00:14:15.150 --> 00:14:19.810 align:middle line:84% You lie beside me in the sunlight, warmth around us. 00:14:19.810 --> 00:14:23.280 align:middle line:84% And you ask me if I still smell winter. 00:14:23.280 --> 00:14:25.890 align:middle line:84% Mountain forest wind travels east. 00:14:25.890 --> 00:14:27.900 align:middle line:90% And I answer, taste me. 00:14:27.900 --> 00:14:32.550 align:middle line:84% I am-- touch me, I am the lean, gray deer, running 00:14:32.550 --> 00:14:35.860 align:middle line:90% on the edge of the rainbow. 00:14:35.860 --> 00:14:36.360 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:14:36.360 --> 00:14:37.470 align:middle line:90% I'll just read you-- 00:14:37.470 --> 00:14:40.820 align:middle line:90% 00:14:40.820 --> 00:14:43.190 align:middle line:90% so time's sort of going slow. 00:14:43.190 --> 00:14:46.350 align:middle line:84% There's really no such thing as clock time. 00:14:46.350 --> 00:14:49.730 align:middle line:84% So it just sort of-- you can do whatever 00:14:49.730 --> 00:14:51.350 align:middle line:84% with it you like, and it sort of does 00:14:51.350 --> 00:14:53.120 align:middle line:90% whatever it likes with you. 00:14:53.120 --> 00:14:53.885 align:middle line:90% It's not real. 00:14:53.885 --> 00:14:54.770 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:14:54.770 --> 00:14:56.990 align:middle line:90% So we'll just sort of go along. 00:14:56.990 --> 00:15:00.780 align:middle line:90% We'll see how that clock can do. 00:15:00.780 --> 00:15:01.620 align:middle line:90% Oh, thank you. 00:15:01.620 --> 00:15:05.070 align:middle line:90% 00:15:05.070 --> 00:15:09.840 align:middle line:84% Storyteller, as Ophelia said in a great introduction, 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:12.420 align:middle line:84% really is a statement about myself 00:15:12.420 --> 00:15:18.480 align:middle line:84% and family in relation to the imagined fiction that 00:15:18.480 --> 00:15:21.660 align:middle line:84% is the short story, written fiction. 00:15:21.660 --> 00:15:28.050 align:middle line:84% And also just the interplay with a sort of a history 00:15:28.050 --> 00:15:32.730 align:middle line:84% and where one can see where humma-hah stories that Aunt 00:15:32.730 --> 00:15:38.250 align:middle line:84% Susie told leave off and where my sort of imagination 00:15:38.250 --> 00:15:40.810 align:middle line:90% took over. 00:15:40.810 --> 00:15:46.660 align:middle line:84% Aunt Susie and Aunt Alice, too, always 00:15:46.660 --> 00:15:49.060 align:middle line:84% told us lots of humma-hah stories. 00:15:49.060 --> 00:15:52.300 align:middle line:84% And it wasn't until I'd been taking creative writing 00:15:52.300 --> 00:15:54.160 align:middle line:84% classes for a couple of years and really 00:15:54.160 --> 00:15:57.700 align:middle line:84% had to start thinking about the stories I'd heard 00:15:57.700 --> 00:16:02.080 align:middle line:84% and the way people at home like to talk and gossip that-- 00:16:02.080 --> 00:16:04.480 align:middle line:84% all of a sudden, it dawned on me one day 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:07.321 align:middle line:84% that there was something that was-- 00:16:07.321 --> 00:16:11.210 align:middle line:84% that time, whatever that is, hadn't changed 00:16:11.210 --> 00:16:12.310 align:middle line:90% and didn't change. 00:16:12.310 --> 00:16:17.230 align:middle line:84% And that the old stories, they would ring so true. 00:16:17.230 --> 00:16:21.520 align:middle line:84% And that you almost started to wonder-- 00:16:21.520 --> 00:16:24.790 align:middle line:84% the idea that the old time stories were far in the past 00:16:24.790 --> 00:16:27.220 align:middle line:84% and couldn't possibly be here now with us, 00:16:27.220 --> 00:16:29.860 align:middle line:84% all of a sudden, I realized that couldn't be so. 00:16:29.860 --> 00:16:33.670 align:middle line:84% The next piece is called "Storytelling." 00:16:33.670 --> 00:16:39.520 align:middle line:84% And I got inspired from all of the Kochininako Yellow Woman 00:16:39.520 --> 00:16:40.750 align:middle line:90% stories. 00:16:40.750 --> 00:16:44.020 align:middle line:84% Kochininako Yellow Woman is all women. 00:16:44.020 --> 00:16:47.800 align:middle line:84% And Kochininako Yellow Woman does all things. 00:16:47.800 --> 00:16:50.590 align:middle line:84% In some of the stories, she's a hunter. 00:16:50.590 --> 00:16:52.900 align:middle line:84% In many of the stories, she's very brave. 00:16:52.900 --> 00:16:54.910 align:middle line:90% In others of the story, she-- 00:16:54.910 --> 00:16:58.630 align:middle line:84% thanks to her love affairs, her wild love affairs, 00:16:58.630 --> 00:17:01.450 align:middle line:84% extramarital love affairs with Buffalo Man, 00:17:01.450 --> 00:17:04.960 align:middle line:84% Whirlwind Man, wonderful things and goodness and riches 00:17:04.960 --> 00:17:06.130 align:middle line:90% come to the people. 00:17:06.130 --> 00:17:08.770 align:middle line:84% So that sexual misbehavior by women 00:17:08.770 --> 00:17:12.500 align:middle line:84% is a very positive and good force, actually. 00:17:12.500 --> 00:17:15.579 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:17:15.579 --> 00:17:17.131 align:middle line:90% It's so-called misbehavior. 00:17:17.131 --> 00:17:18.339 align:middle line:90% It's just the only way to be. 00:17:18.339 --> 00:17:18.839 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:17:18.839 --> 00:17:21.980 align:middle line:84% So that's what Yellow Woman would say. 00:17:21.980 --> 00:17:25.510 align:middle line:84% Unfortunately, during times of great crisis, 00:17:25.510 --> 00:17:28.810 align:middle line:84% extraordinary means must be found. 00:17:28.810 --> 00:17:30.400 align:middle line:90% And she'd find them. 00:17:30.400 --> 00:17:31.762 align:middle line:90% So I heard these stories. 00:17:31.762 --> 00:17:33.970 align:middle line:84% And then when I was growing up, I heard these other-- 00:17:33.970 --> 00:17:35.230 align:middle line:90% you'd hear all this gossip. 00:17:35.230 --> 00:17:40.210 align:middle line:84% So one day, I just put it all together into "Storytelling." 00:17:40.210 --> 00:17:43.900 align:middle line:84% You should understand the way it was back then. 00:17:43.900 --> 00:17:47.860 align:middle line:84% Because it is the same, even now. 00:17:47.860 --> 00:17:51.280 align:middle line:84% Long ago, it happened that her husband left to hunt deer 00:17:51.280 --> 00:17:52.750 align:middle line:90% before dawn. 00:17:52.750 --> 00:17:56.200 align:middle line:84% And then she got up and went to get water. 00:17:56.200 --> 00:17:59.450 align:middle line:84% Early in the morning, she walked to the river 00:17:59.450 --> 00:18:03.370 align:middle line:84% when the sun came over the long, red mesa. 00:18:03.370 --> 00:18:05.740 align:middle line:84% He was waiting for her that morning 00:18:05.740 --> 00:18:10.630 align:middle line:84% in the tamarack and willow beside the river, Buffalo Man 00:18:10.630 --> 00:18:13.190 align:middle line:90% in buffalo leggings. 00:18:13.190 --> 00:18:15.110 align:middle line:90% Are you here already? 00:18:15.110 --> 00:18:16.790 align:middle line:90% Yes, he said. 00:18:16.790 --> 00:18:18.380 align:middle line:90% He was smiling. 00:18:18.380 --> 00:18:21.020 align:middle line:90% Because I came for you. 00:18:21.020 --> 00:18:23.570 align:middle line:84% She looked into the shallow, clear water. 00:18:23.570 --> 00:18:26.360 align:middle line:84% But where shall I put my water jar? 00:18:26.360 --> 00:18:28.670 align:middle line:84% Upside down, right here, he told her. 00:18:28.670 --> 00:18:31.980 align:middle line:90% On the riverbank. 00:18:31.980 --> 00:18:35.610 align:middle line:84% Then there's sort of a space on the page. 00:18:35.610 --> 00:18:37.040 align:middle line:90% You better have a-- 00:18:37.040 --> 00:18:42.040 align:middle line:84% [LAUGHTER] have a damn good story, 00:18:42.040 --> 00:18:44.200 align:middle line:84% her husband said, about where you've 00:18:44.200 --> 00:18:46.210 align:middle line:90% been for the past 10 months. 00:18:46.210 --> 00:18:50.960 align:middle line:84% And how you-- [LAUGHTER] and how you explain these twin baby 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:51.460 align:middle line:90% boys. 00:18:51.460 --> 00:18:54.520 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:18:54.520 --> 00:18:56.950 align:middle line:90% No, that gossip isn't true. 00:18:56.950 --> 00:18:58.240 align:middle line:90% She didn't elope. 00:18:58.240 --> 00:19:01.780 align:middle line:84% She was kidnapped by that Mexican at Seama Feast. 00:19:01.780 --> 00:19:05.120 align:middle line:84% You know my daughter isn't that kind of girl. 00:19:05.120 --> 00:19:07.090 align:middle line:84% Of course, we all know about her daughter. 00:19:07.090 --> 00:19:08.860 align:middle line:90% We all saw them together. 00:19:08.860 --> 00:19:11.890 align:middle line:90% It was in the summer of 1967. 00:19:11.890 --> 00:19:14.440 align:middle line:90% TV news reported a kidnapping. 00:19:14.440 --> 00:19:17.620 align:middle line:84% Four Laguna women and three Navajo men 00:19:17.620 --> 00:19:21.910 align:middle line:84% headed north along the Rio Puerco river in a red '56 Ford. 00:19:21.910 --> 00:19:24.370 align:middle line:84% And the FBI and state police were hot 00:19:24.370 --> 00:19:27.760 align:middle line:84% on their trail of wine bottles and size 42 panties 00:19:27.760 --> 00:19:30.940 align:middle line:84% hanging in bushes and trees all along the road. 00:19:30.940 --> 00:19:33.190 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:19:33.190 --> 00:19:36.130 align:middle line:84% We couldn't escape them, he told police later. 00:19:36.130 --> 00:19:37.390 align:middle line:90% We tried. 00:19:37.390 --> 00:19:40.375 align:middle line:84% But there were four of them, and only three of us. 00:19:40.375 --> 00:19:44.410 align:middle line:90% 00:19:44.410 --> 00:19:49.210 align:middle line:84% Seems like it's always happening to me, outside the dance hall 00:19:49.210 --> 00:19:53.140 align:middle line:84% door, late Friday night in the summertime, 00:19:53.140 --> 00:19:57.850 align:middle line:84% and those brown-eyed men from Cubero smiling. 00:19:57.850 --> 00:20:00.070 align:middle line:84% They usually ask me, have you seen 00:20:00.070 --> 00:20:03.190 align:middle line:84% the way the stars shine up there in the Sandhills? 00:20:03.190 --> 00:20:04.900 align:middle line:90% And I usually say, no. 00:20:04.900 --> 00:20:06.070 align:middle line:90% Will you show me? 00:20:06.070 --> 00:20:07.930 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:07.930 --> 00:20:09.865 align:middle line:90% It was that Navajo from Alamo. 00:20:09.865 --> 00:20:12.520 align:middle line:84% You know, the tall, good-looking one? 00:20:12.520 --> 00:20:15.700 align:middle line:84% He told me he'd kill me if I didn't go with him. 00:20:15.700 --> 00:20:17.560 align:middle line:90% And then it rained so much. 00:20:17.560 --> 00:20:19.540 align:middle line:90% And the roads got muddy. 00:20:19.540 --> 00:20:23.600 align:middle line:84% That's why it took me so long to get back home. 00:20:23.600 --> 00:20:26.260 align:middle line:84% My husband left after he heard the story 00:20:26.260 --> 00:20:28.690 align:middle line:84% and moved back in with his mother. 00:20:28.690 --> 00:20:31.580 align:middle line:84% It was my fault. And I don't blame him either. 00:20:31.580 --> 00:20:34.461 align:middle line:84% I could have told the story better than I did. 00:20:34.461 --> 00:20:35.934 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:20:35.934 --> 00:20:37.898 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:20:37.898 --> 00:20:38.880 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:20:38.880 --> 00:20:44.290 align:middle line:90% 00:20:44.290 --> 00:20:45.940 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:20:45.940 --> 00:20:48.340 align:middle line:84% The twins that she has, of course, 00:20:48.340 --> 00:20:52.223 align:middle line:84% are the twin brothers, the hero brothers as Aunt Alice 00:20:52.223 --> 00:20:53.140 align:middle line:90% sometimes called them. 00:20:53.140 --> 00:20:55.210 align:middle line:84% But the twin brothers who helped the people. 00:20:55.210 --> 00:20:59.620 align:middle line:84% So you see, after all, it was for the best. 00:20:59.620 --> 00:21:00.730 align:middle line:90% Always for the best. 00:21:00.730 --> 00:21:04.180 align:middle line:84% And also I have a section in storyteller 00:21:04.180 --> 00:21:08.890 align:middle line:84% that has the whole Buffalo story with Kochininako which 00:21:08.890 --> 00:21:09.970 align:middle line:90% is sort of tragic. 00:21:09.970 --> 00:21:12.350 align:middle line:90% It's very moving. 00:21:12.350 --> 00:21:13.502 align:middle line:90% See how we're doing on-- 00:21:13.502 --> 00:21:15.085 align:middle line:84% so you know how that clock's behaving. 00:21:15.085 --> 00:21:17.700 align:middle line:90% 00:21:17.700 --> 00:21:19.075 align:middle line:90% OK, let's see. 00:21:19.075 --> 00:21:21.760 align:middle line:90% 00:21:21.760 --> 00:21:25.810 align:middle line:90% Maybe some sort of-- 00:21:25.810 --> 00:21:28.540 align:middle line:84% in the fall and winter, I was on book tour with Almanac. 00:21:28.540 --> 00:21:30.520 align:middle line:84% I've been reading and reading the Almanac. 00:21:30.520 --> 00:21:34.960 align:middle line:84% And so I sort of want to read some poetry and stuff, 00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:38.320 align:middle line:84% so I don't have to read so much of the Almanac. 00:21:38.320 --> 00:21:42.370 align:middle line:84% I lived with the Almanac for 10 years. 00:21:42.370 --> 00:21:44.740 align:middle line:90% Almanac doesn't let go of you. 00:21:44.740 --> 00:21:50.110 align:middle line:84% OK, "A Hunting Story," for my grandpa, H.C. Marmon. 00:21:50.110 --> 00:21:53.860 align:middle line:84% You have my grandfather's feet, light brown, 00:21:53.860 --> 00:21:56.870 align:middle line:84% smooth with the years he's been gone. 00:21:56.870 --> 00:22:01.420 align:middle line:84% Your hands are familiar, like moonlight on December snow. 00:22:01.420 --> 00:22:05.020 align:middle line:84% Only sometimes, I don't recognize the sandstone cliff 00:22:05.020 --> 00:22:06.910 align:middle line:90% behind you. 00:22:06.910 --> 00:22:09.670 align:middle line:90% All night, your eyes. 00:22:09.670 --> 00:22:13.060 align:middle line:84% Something burns dark in old Juniper trees. 00:22:13.060 --> 00:22:15.850 align:middle line:84% The she-owl echoes along the cliff. 00:22:15.850 --> 00:22:19.480 align:middle line:84% The stars pull down the sky with them. 00:22:19.480 --> 00:22:23.470 align:middle line:84% I smooth your belly with my hand, round and round. 00:22:23.470 --> 00:22:27.640 align:middle line:84% We whisper precise, wet sand, spreading wide 00:22:27.640 --> 00:22:31.380 align:middle line:90% down the Pacific coast. 00:22:31.380 --> 00:22:33.270 align:middle line:90% I knelt above you that morning. 00:22:33.270 --> 00:22:37.320 align:middle line:84% I counted the rattles, the last whistles in your throat. 00:22:37.320 --> 00:22:39.870 align:middle line:90% I put my mouth on yours. 00:22:39.870 --> 00:22:41.850 align:middle line:84% It might have been possible then, 00:22:41.850 --> 00:22:44.040 align:middle line:90% except you clenched your teeth. 00:22:44.040 --> 00:22:48.030 align:middle line:84% I could not push through with my breath or my fingers. 00:22:48.030 --> 00:22:51.540 align:middle line:84% I saw how you would go, spilling out 00:22:51.540 --> 00:22:53.460 align:middle line:84% between ivory [INAUDIBLE] seeping 00:22:53.460 --> 00:22:57.870 align:middle line:84% under the tall gate where Earth sucked you in like rainwater. 00:22:57.870 --> 00:22:59.580 align:middle line:90% I couldn't stop you. 00:22:59.580 --> 00:23:03.510 align:middle line:84% Fragile dust, sparks of sunlight dispersing 00:23:03.510 --> 00:23:08.610 align:middle line:84% into horses of many colors, stony gray, blue steel 00:23:08.610 --> 00:23:13.440 align:middle line:84% dust, pink mesa stone, the yellow buckskin, leaping out 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:14.610 align:middle line:90% of the east. 00:23:14.610 --> 00:23:18.870 align:middle line:84% You scattered in all directions of the winds. 00:23:18.870 --> 00:23:23.790 align:middle line:84% Your wife and sons burned your jacket, sold your car. 00:23:23.790 --> 00:23:27.120 align:middle line:84% They stood holding their own fingers. 00:23:27.120 --> 00:23:31.020 align:middle line:84% There was a song you never sang to me, the same way you'd never 00:23:31.020 --> 00:23:34.320 align:middle line:84% been to Zuni, not in all those years of Arkansas, 00:23:34.320 --> 00:23:36.750 align:middle line:90% Santa Fe, and Colorado. 00:23:36.750 --> 00:23:38.790 align:middle line:90% There was a dance, sweetheart. 00:23:38.790 --> 00:23:41.500 align:middle line:90% You never came to take me home. 00:23:41.500 --> 00:23:45.720 align:middle line:84% But when I hold fingers, they will be yours. 00:23:45.720 --> 00:23:48.570 align:middle line:84% If I could see you clearly only once, 00:23:48.570 --> 00:23:51.480 align:middle line:84% if I could come upon you parked in your truck 00:23:51.480 --> 00:23:54.690 align:middle line:84% sleeping in Juniper trees by Otter Lake, 00:23:54.690 --> 00:23:56.250 align:middle line:84% then we could [INAUDIBLE] fluttering 00:23:56.250 --> 00:23:59.280 align:middle line:84% dark-feathered dreams before they startle, 00:23:59.280 --> 00:24:02.430 align:middle line:90% before they fly far away. 00:24:02.430 --> 00:24:04.740 align:middle line:90% The big star is Polaris. 00:24:04.740 --> 00:24:06.510 align:middle line:90% And we hunt for you. 00:24:06.510 --> 00:24:09.510 align:middle line:84% Around smokey campfires our first night, 00:24:09.510 --> 00:24:12.750 align:middle line:84% our Navajo women feed you mutton and tell you, 00:24:12.750 --> 00:24:16.440 align:middle line:84% you are from the mountains above fluted rock. 00:24:16.440 --> 00:24:19.860 align:middle line:84% All night, I track sudden sounds. 00:24:19.860 --> 00:24:22.620 align:middle line:84% All night, I track sudden sounds that crack 00:24:22.620 --> 00:24:24.540 align:middle line:90% through moonlight thickets. 00:24:24.540 --> 00:24:27.660 align:middle line:84% Up ahead, there was a small clearing. 00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:30.945 align:middle line:84% When you step out into sight, I will be waiting. 00:24:30.945 --> 00:24:43.528 align:middle line:90% 00:24:43.528 --> 00:24:46.810 align:middle line:84% I spent some time up in Navajo country teaching 00:24:46.810 --> 00:24:50.650 align:middle line:84% at Navajo Community College in the '70s. 00:24:50.650 --> 00:24:54.430 align:middle line:84% And the impact of that country and the people, 00:24:54.430 --> 00:24:58.600 align:middle line:84% my friend Ben Barney and my friend Albert Henderson, 00:24:58.600 --> 00:24:59.730 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE]. 00:24:59.730 --> 00:25:02.860 align:middle line:90% It was something. 00:25:02.860 --> 00:25:06.820 align:middle line:84% I didn't realize what an impact the two years in Navajo country 00:25:06.820 --> 00:25:11.830 align:middle line:84% had until I went to Alaska and started writing Ceremony 00:25:11.830 --> 00:25:16.650 align:middle line:84% and also started writing this piece. 00:25:16.650 --> 00:25:18.920 align:middle line:84% This piece is called "Story from Bear Country." 00:25:18.920 --> 00:25:21.860 align:middle line:84% And what I meant to do was write a piece of prose. 00:25:21.860 --> 00:25:26.180 align:middle line:84% But when I sat down to try to write about-- 00:25:26.180 --> 00:25:29.780 align:middle line:84% actually, the piece of prose that I did end up writing is 00:25:29.780 --> 00:25:32.210 align:middle line:90% follows later on. 00:25:32.210 --> 00:25:35.300 align:middle line:84% But this first attempt to write about a phenomenon, which 00:25:35.300 --> 00:25:38.240 align:middle line:84% I had discussed with my friend Ben Barney, about how Navajo 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:40.730 align:middle line:84% people see bears and relate to bears as 00:25:40.730 --> 00:25:42.560 align:middle line:90% compared to the Pueblo people-- 00:25:42.560 --> 00:25:44.300 align:middle line:84% the first time I tried to work with it, 00:25:44.300 --> 00:25:47.360 align:middle line:90% it just turned into this piece. 00:25:47.360 --> 00:25:50.570 align:middle line:90% 00:25:50.570 --> 00:25:54.920 align:middle line:84% Pueblo people and Navajo people don't fear that bears-- 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:59.510 align:middle line:84% because bears will eat them or tear them to pieces. 00:25:59.510 --> 00:26:04.130 align:middle line:84% We are taught to respect bear country where the bears are, 00:26:04.130 --> 00:26:09.320 align:middle line:84% because the bears are able to seduce human beings. 00:26:09.320 --> 00:26:12.050 align:middle line:84% And there are many stories both in the Pueblo way 00:26:12.050 --> 00:26:15.380 align:middle line:84% and the Navajo way of small children wandering away from 00:26:15.380 --> 00:26:17.480 align:middle line:90% picnics or piñon picking. 00:26:17.480 --> 00:26:20.420 align:middle line:90% And the children don't die. 00:26:20.420 --> 00:26:22.460 align:middle line:84% They are adopted by the bear people. 00:26:22.460 --> 00:26:24.170 align:middle line:84% And they're raised by the bear people. 00:26:24.170 --> 00:26:27.320 align:middle line:84% And they are sighted from a distance. 00:26:27.320 --> 00:26:30.950 align:middle line:84% And sometimes adult human beings have been sighted on all fours. 00:26:30.950 --> 00:26:33.590 align:middle line:84% And so the reason you stay away from bear country 00:26:33.590 --> 00:26:37.820 align:middle line:84% is not because of death at all, but something 00:26:37.820 --> 00:26:41.120 align:middle line:90% far more complicated. 00:26:41.120 --> 00:26:42.860 align:middle line:84% And I was trying to figure that out. 00:26:42.860 --> 00:26:44.750 align:middle line:84% And I'd been talking with Ben Barney. 00:26:44.750 --> 00:26:46.070 align:middle line:90% And so I wanted-- 00:26:46.070 --> 00:26:48.050 align:middle line:84% the way I figure out things is to write. 00:26:48.050 --> 00:26:51.560 align:middle line:84% And I meant, like I said, to write prose. 00:26:51.560 --> 00:26:53.090 align:middle line:90% But it came out like this. 00:26:53.090 --> 00:26:56.300 align:middle line:90% And it was very startling. 00:26:56.300 --> 00:26:58.880 align:middle line:90% "Story from Bear Country." 00:26:58.880 --> 00:27:02.000 align:middle line:84% You will know when you walk in bear country 00:27:02.000 --> 00:27:05.660 align:middle line:84% by the silence flowing swiftly between the trees, 00:27:05.660 --> 00:27:10.130 align:middle line:84% by the sundown colors of sandrock all around you. 00:27:10.130 --> 00:27:12.830 align:middle line:84% You may smell damp earth scratched away 00:27:12.830 --> 00:27:14.330 align:middle line:90% from yucca roots. 00:27:14.330 --> 00:27:19.160 align:middle line:84% You may hear snorts and growls, slow and massive sounds 00:27:19.160 --> 00:27:22.570 align:middle line:84% from caves in the cliffs high above you. 00:27:22.570 --> 00:27:26.350 align:middle line:84% It is difficult to explain how they call you. 00:27:26.350 --> 00:27:29.170 align:middle line:84% All but a few who went to them left 00:27:29.170 --> 00:27:34.760 align:middle line:84% behind families, grandparents, and sons, a good life. 00:27:34.760 --> 00:27:38.020 align:middle line:84% The problem is, you will never want to return. 00:27:38.020 --> 00:27:40.750 align:middle line:84% Their beauty will overcome your memory, 00:27:40.750 --> 00:27:44.440 align:middle line:84% like winter sun melting ice shadows from snow. 00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:49.450 align:middle line:84% And you will remain with them, locked forever inside yourself. 00:27:49.450 --> 00:27:54.670 align:middle line:84% Your eyes will see you, dark, shaggy, and thick. 00:27:54.670 --> 00:27:58.330 align:middle line:84% We can send bear priests loping after you, their medicine 00:27:58.330 --> 00:28:01.060 align:middle line:84% bags bouncing against their chests, 00:28:01.060 --> 00:28:04.930 align:middle line:84% naked legs painted black, bear claw necklaces 00:28:04.930 --> 00:28:07.780 align:middle line:84% rattling against their capes of blue spruce. 00:28:07.780 --> 00:28:11.050 align:middle line:84% They will follow your trail into the narrow canyon 00:28:11.050 --> 00:28:14.830 align:middle line:84% through the blue gray mountain sage to the clearing, where 00:28:14.830 --> 00:28:18.400 align:middle line:84% you stopped to looked back and saw only bear 00:28:18.400 --> 00:28:20.770 align:middle line:90% tracks behind you. 00:28:20.770 --> 00:28:25.240 align:middle line:84% When they call, faint memories will writhe around your heart 00:28:25.240 --> 00:28:27.850 align:middle line:84% and startle you with their distance. 00:28:27.850 --> 00:28:31.210 align:middle line:84% But the others will listen, because bear priests 00:28:31.210 --> 00:28:33.070 align:middle line:90% sing beautiful songs. 00:28:33.070 --> 00:28:36.640 align:middle line:84% They must, if they are ever to call you back. 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:40.150 align:middle line:84% They will try to bring you, step by step, 00:28:40.150 --> 00:28:44.080 align:middle line:84% back to the place you stopped and found only bear 00:28:44.080 --> 00:28:47.590 align:middle line:84% prints in the sand where your feet had been. 00:28:47.590 --> 00:28:49.420 align:middle line:90% Whose voice is this? 00:28:49.420 --> 00:28:52.300 align:middle line:84% You may wonder hearing this story. 00:28:52.300 --> 00:28:56.230 align:middle line:84% When after all, you are alone hiking in these canyons 00:28:56.230 --> 00:28:59.290 align:middle line:84% and hills while your wife and sons are waiting back 00:28:59.290 --> 00:29:01.000 align:middle line:90% at the car for you. 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.550 align:middle line:84% But you have been listening to me for some time 00:29:03.550 --> 00:29:06.400 align:middle line:84% now, from the very beginning, in fact. 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:10.000 align:middle line:84% And you are alone in this canyon of stillness. 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.430 align:middle line:90% Not [INAUDIBLE] birds flutter. 00:29:12.430 --> 00:29:15.760 align:middle line:90% See, the sun is going down now. 00:29:15.760 --> 00:29:19.360 align:middle line:84% The sandrock is washed in its colors. 00:29:19.360 --> 00:29:20.860 align:middle line:90% Don't be afraid. 00:29:20.860 --> 00:29:22.180 align:middle line:90% We love you. 00:29:22.180 --> 00:29:25.180 align:middle line:84% We've been calling you all this time. 00:29:25.180 --> 00:29:26.350 align:middle line:90% Go ahead. 00:29:26.350 --> 00:29:27.580 align:middle line:90% Turn around. 00:29:27.580 --> 00:29:30.610 align:middle line:84% See the shape of your footprints in the sand. 00:29:30.610 --> 00:29:33.150 align:middle line:90% 00:29:33.150 --> 00:29:35.074 align:middle line:90% So that's how they do it. 00:29:35.074 --> 00:29:43.340 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:29:43.340 --> 00:29:43.840 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:29:43.840 --> 00:29:46.670 align:middle line:90% 00:29:46.670 --> 00:29:48.380 align:middle line:90% Well. 00:29:48.380 --> 00:29:51.440 align:middle line:84% Maybe we'll start reading in the Almanac. 00:29:51.440 --> 00:29:54.542 align:middle line:84% I guess sooner or later, the Almanac. 00:29:54.542 --> 00:30:06.390 align:middle line:90% 00:30:06.390 --> 00:30:08.880 align:middle line:84% I've told the story of the Almanac so many times. 00:30:08.880 --> 00:30:11.490 align:middle line:84% And I have to tell it differently every time. 00:30:11.490 --> 00:30:14.370 align:middle line:84% And I'm not sure that it improves when I try--when I 00:30:14.370 --> 00:30:17.490 align:middle line:90% tell the story of what happened. 00:30:17.490 --> 00:30:23.880 align:middle line:84% But basically, this book wanted to be written. 00:30:23.880 --> 00:30:26.790 align:middle line:90% And the narratives were like-- 00:30:26.790 --> 00:30:29.130 align:middle line:84% all of the narratives and stories 00:30:29.130 --> 00:30:31.950 align:middle line:84% that I think that I've ever heard, 00:30:31.950 --> 00:30:36.730 align:middle line:84% they all demanded to be put together. 00:30:36.730 --> 00:30:38.580 align:middle line:90% They wanted to be together. 00:30:38.580 --> 00:30:43.950 align:middle line:84% And I was sort of working in the dark as to-- 00:30:43.950 --> 00:30:48.510 align:middle line:84% I thought I was writing a simple cops and robbers 00:30:48.510 --> 00:30:50.160 align:middle line:90% novel about Tucson. 00:30:50.160 --> 00:30:54.930 align:middle line:84% And then realized that all the reading 00:30:54.930 --> 00:31:00.060 align:middle line:84% I had been doing about fragments of Aztec and Mayan almanacs, 00:31:00.060 --> 00:31:05.100 align:middle line:84% that I really had somehow fallen under the spell of the notion 00:31:05.100 --> 00:31:09.690 align:middle line:84% of symbolizing or notating or knowing time 00:31:09.690 --> 00:31:12.630 align:middle line:84% through narrative, not through numbers 00:31:12.630 --> 00:31:14.880 align:middle line:84% or through calculations, necessarily. 00:31:14.880 --> 00:31:16.650 align:middle line:84% Though for just giving [INAUDIBLE] the way 00:31:16.650 --> 00:31:17.578 align:middle line:90% we use the clock. 00:31:17.578 --> 00:31:19.870 align:middle line:84% It's not that we really believe that time is like that. 00:31:19.870 --> 00:31:22.090 align:middle line:84% But just to sort of find our way. 00:31:22.090 --> 00:31:25.230 align:middle line:84% And so I got really intrigued with-- 00:31:25.230 --> 00:31:31.650 align:middle line:84% there's just fragments of these books that escaped destruction 00:31:31.650 --> 00:31:36.058 align:middle line:84% in the holocaust of the invasion 500 years ago. 00:31:36.058 --> 00:31:38.100 align:middle line:84% But now that it's all over with, and I've come up 00:31:38.100 --> 00:31:41.700 align:middle line:84% with this thing, I realize that the timing and everything-- 00:31:41.700 --> 00:31:43.320 align:middle line:84% that there's something too uncanny. 00:31:43.320 --> 00:31:48.930 align:middle line:84% And I did feel very used by the narratives, forced 00:31:48.930 --> 00:31:50.460 align:middle line:90% to write this book. 00:31:50.460 --> 00:31:55.630 align:middle line:84% And it wasn't a controlled or conscious kind of thing. 00:31:55.630 --> 00:31:59.310 align:middle line:84% And so now I realize that these narratives, like I've always 00:31:59.310 --> 00:32:02.400 align:middle line:90% said, have a separate life. 00:32:02.400 --> 00:32:06.570 align:middle line:84% In the oral tradition, the storyteller is often anonymous. 00:32:06.570 --> 00:32:08.350 align:middle line:84% The storyteller is not important. 00:32:08.350 --> 00:32:10.030 align:middle line:90% What's important is the story. 00:32:10.030 --> 00:32:12.360 align:middle line:90% It's the story that lives on. 00:32:12.360 --> 00:32:15.060 align:middle line:84% Stories always stay alive long after the tellers 00:32:15.060 --> 00:32:16.785 align:middle line:90% are gone, just like ideas. 00:32:16.785 --> 00:32:19.530 align:middle line:90% 00:32:19.530 --> 00:32:21.390 align:middle line:90% And they can't be killed. 00:32:21.390 --> 00:32:24.000 align:middle line:84% Anyway, the section I want to read to you 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:27.570 align:middle line:84% is called "From the Ancient Almanac." 00:32:27.570 --> 00:32:30.540 align:middle line:84% It has an account in there of the trials and tribulations 00:32:30.540 --> 00:32:33.420 align:middle line:90% of Lecha, my almanac keeper. 00:32:33.420 --> 00:32:36.600 align:middle line:84% But what happened, as the novelist, 00:32:36.600 --> 00:32:39.690 align:middle line:84% I think I always start out-- novelists do-- 00:32:39.690 --> 00:32:42.900 align:middle line:84% feeling very much in control and somehow 00:32:42.900 --> 00:32:47.490 align:middle line:84% calling the shots and very powerful and all-controlling. 00:32:47.490 --> 00:32:49.350 align:middle line:90% But of course, this is illusory. 00:32:49.350 --> 00:32:52.950 align:middle line:84% And novelists delude themselves in many ways 00:32:52.950 --> 00:32:55.440 align:middle line:84% in order to get launched into something. 00:32:55.440 --> 00:32:57.660 align:middle line:84% Because if you really knew what it 00:32:57.660 --> 00:33:00.900 align:middle line:84% means in terms of turning yourself inside out, 00:33:00.900 --> 00:33:04.020 align:middle line:84% I think we would all want to stop. 00:33:04.020 --> 00:33:08.100 align:middle line:84% But I believed I could keep control over all of this. 00:33:08.100 --> 00:33:10.920 align:middle line:84% And yet, I created my character Lecha 00:33:10.920 --> 00:33:12.720 align:middle line:84% in here, who at some point-- she's 00:33:12.720 --> 00:33:15.330 align:middle line:84% dealing with the fragments of all of the old stories 00:33:15.330 --> 00:33:17.100 align:middle line:90% are all mixed together. 00:33:17.100 --> 00:33:20.160 align:middle line:84% Well, strangely enough, in the editorial process 00:33:20.160 --> 00:33:23.820 align:middle line:84% of this novel, it sort of got all mixed together too. 00:33:23.820 --> 00:33:28.110 align:middle line:84% And so I had to live out, in a sense, 00:33:28.110 --> 00:33:30.640 align:middle line:84% and had to deal with some of the challenges. 00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:32.400 align:middle line:90% So I like this part. 00:33:32.400 --> 00:33:38.190 align:middle line:84% And it also contains some sort of fragmentary supposed pieces 00:33:38.190 --> 00:33:40.920 align:middle line:90% that have been saved. 00:33:40.920 --> 00:33:43.750 align:middle line:84% And then another story that I really like. 00:33:43.750 --> 00:33:51.810 align:middle line:84% So this is from part five, "The Fifth 00:33:51.810 --> 00:33:58.170 align:middle line:84% World," book one, "The Foes," from the ancient almanac. 00:33:58.170 --> 00:34:00.150 align:middle line:90% Excuse me. 00:34:00.150 --> 00:34:02.790 align:middle line:84% Lecha could read the old notebooks and scraps 00:34:02.790 --> 00:34:07.140 align:middle line:84% of newspaper clippings for hours and forget all about the pain. 00:34:07.140 --> 00:34:09.630 align:middle line:84% The first time Lecha opened the notebooks, 00:34:09.630 --> 00:34:13.520 align:middle line:84% she had recognized here was the real thing. 00:34:13.520 --> 00:34:16.500 align:middle line:84% Despite all of Yoeme's lying and boasting, 00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:19.949 align:middle line:84% the almanac was truly a great legacy. 00:34:19.949 --> 00:34:23.670 align:middle line:84% Yoeme and others believe the almanac had living power 00:34:23.670 --> 00:34:25.889 align:middle line:84% within it, a power [INAUDIBLE] all 00:34:25.889 --> 00:34:27.870 align:middle line:84% the tribal people of the Americas 00:34:27.870 --> 00:34:30.480 align:middle line:90% together to retake the land. 00:34:30.480 --> 00:34:34.020 align:middle line:84% For hundreds of years, guardians of the almanac notebooks 00:34:34.020 --> 00:34:37.469 align:middle line:84% had made clumsy attempts to repair torn pages. 00:34:37.469 --> 00:34:40.199 align:middle line:84% Some sections had been splashed with wine, 00:34:40.199 --> 00:34:42.210 align:middle line:90% others with water or blood. 00:34:42.210 --> 00:34:44.820 align:middle line:84% Only fragments of the original pages 00:34:44.820 --> 00:34:48.389 align:middle line:84% remained, carefully placed between blank pages. 00:34:48.389 --> 00:34:50.639 align:middle line:84% Those of ancient paper had yellowed. 00:34:50.639 --> 00:34:54.420 align:middle line:84% But the red and black painted glyphs had still been clear. 00:34:54.420 --> 00:34:56.699 align:middle line:84% The outline of the giant plumed serpent 00:34:56.699 --> 00:35:00.690 align:middle line:84% could be made out in pale blue on the largest fragment. 00:35:00.690 --> 00:35:02.760 align:middle line:84% The pages of ancient paper had been 00:35:02.760 --> 00:35:05.730 align:middle line:84% found between the pages of horse gut parchment, 00:35:05.730 --> 00:35:08.280 align:middle line:84% carried by the fugitive Indian slaves, 00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:13.950 align:middle line:84% the children who had fled north to escape European slavery. 00:35:13.950 --> 00:35:17.040 align:middle line:84% Lecha speculated that some keepers of the old almanac 00:35:17.040 --> 00:35:19.950 align:middle line:84% had been illiterate, but had not bothered to hire someone 00:35:19.950 --> 00:35:21.750 align:middle line:90% to read the pages for them. 00:35:21.750 --> 00:35:24.300 align:middle line:84% If they had any curiosity about the writing, 00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:27.073 align:middle line:84% than their fear, which was greater, had prevailed. 00:35:27.073 --> 00:35:28.740 align:middle line:84% What they had feared [INAUDIBLE] spirits 00:35:28.740 --> 00:35:32.220 align:middle line:84% described in the writing and the glyphs on the pages. 00:35:32.220 --> 00:35:34.710 align:middle line:84% There was evidence that substantial portions 00:35:34.710 --> 00:35:37.800 align:middle line:84% of the old manuscript had been lost or condensed 00:35:37.800 --> 00:35:42.420 align:middle line:84% into odd narratives, which operated like codes. 00:35:42.420 --> 00:35:45.390 align:middle line:84% The great deal of what had accumulated with the almanac 00:35:45.390 --> 00:35:47.910 align:middle line:84% fragments had been debris, gathered here and there 00:35:47.910 --> 00:35:51.660 align:middle line:84% by agent keepers of the almanac after they had gone crazy. 00:35:51.660 --> 00:35:55.560 align:middle line:84% A few of the keepers had fallen victim to delusions of sorts. 00:35:55.560 --> 00:35:58.110 align:middle line:84% Here and there were scribbles and scratches. 00:35:58.110 --> 00:36:01.710 align:middle line:84% Lecha found pages where old Yoeme had scribbled arguments 00:36:01.710 --> 00:36:06.420 align:middle line:84% in margins with the remarks and vulgar humor 00:36:06.420 --> 00:36:08.850 align:middle line:84% Lecha and Zeta had enjoyed so many times 00:36:08.850 --> 00:36:10.320 align:middle line:90% with their grandmother. 00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.170 align:middle line:84% Whole sections had been stolen from other books 00:36:13.170 --> 00:36:15.930 align:middle line:84% and from the proliferation of farmer's almanacs 00:36:15.930 --> 00:36:18.300 align:middle line:84% published by patent drug companies and medicine 00:36:18.300 --> 00:36:21.990 align:middle line:84% shows that gave away the almanacs as advertisements. 00:36:21.990 --> 00:36:25.260 align:middle line:84% Not even the parchment pages or fragments of ancient paper 00:36:25.260 --> 00:36:26.500 align:middle line:90% could be trusted. 00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:28.620 align:middle line:84% They might have been clever forgeries, 00:36:28.620 --> 00:36:31.920 align:middle line:84% recopied, drawn, and colored painstakingly. 00:36:31.920 --> 00:36:34.230 align:middle line:90% Europeans called it coincidence. 00:36:34.230 --> 00:36:37.560 align:middle line:84% But the Almanacs had prophesied the appearance of Cortes 00:36:37.560 --> 00:36:39.130 align:middle line:90% to the day. 00:36:39.130 --> 00:36:42.000 align:middle line:84% All Native American tribes had similar prophecies 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:44.310 align:middle line:84% about the appearance, conflict with, 00:36:44.310 --> 00:36:47.220 align:middle line:84% and eventual disappearance of things European. 00:36:47.220 --> 00:36:49.800 align:middle line:84% The almanacs had warned the people hundreds of years 00:36:49.800 --> 00:36:51.630 align:middle line:90% before the Europeans arrived. 00:36:51.630 --> 00:36:54.810 align:middle line:84% The people living in large towns were told to scatter, 00:36:54.810 --> 00:36:59.430 align:middle line:84% to disperse to make the murderous work of the invaders 00:36:59.430 --> 00:37:02.160 align:middle line:84% more difficult. Without the almanacs, 00:37:02.160 --> 00:37:05.400 align:middle line:84% the people would not be able to recognize the days and months 00:37:05.400 --> 00:37:07.740 align:middle line:84% yet to come, days and months that would 00:37:07.740 --> 00:37:10.440 align:middle line:90% see the people retake the land. 00:37:10.440 --> 00:37:14.040 align:middle line:84% Yoeme alleged the Aztecs ignored the prophecies and warnings 00:37:14.040 --> 00:37:15.930 align:middle line:84% about the approach of the Europeans, 00:37:15.930 --> 00:37:19.140 align:middle line:84% because Montezuma and his allies had been sorcerers 00:37:19.140 --> 00:37:22.350 align:middle line:84% who had called or even invented the European invaders 00:37:22.350 --> 00:37:24.090 align:middle line:90% with their sorcery. 00:37:24.090 --> 00:37:27.990 align:middle line:84% Those who worshipped destruction and blood secretly 00:37:27.990 --> 00:37:29.250 align:middle line:90% knew one another. 00:37:29.250 --> 00:37:31.500 align:middle line:84% Hundreds of years earlier, the people 00:37:31.500 --> 00:37:33.450 align:middle line:84% who hated sorcery and bloodshed had 00:37:33.450 --> 00:37:35.610 align:middle line:84% fled north to escape the cataclysm 00:37:35.610 --> 00:37:38.820 align:middle line:84% prophesied when the blood worshipers of Europe 00:37:38.820 --> 00:37:41.370 align:middle line:84% met the blood worshippers of the Americas. 00:37:41.370 --> 00:37:45.270 align:middle line:84% Montezuma and Cortes had been meant for one another. 00:37:45.270 --> 00:37:49.320 align:middle line:84% Yoeme always said sorcery had been the undoing of people here 00:37:49.320 --> 00:37:52.920 align:middle line:90% and everywhere in the world. 00:37:52.920 --> 00:37:56.040 align:middle line:84% Fragments from the ancient notebooks. 00:37:56.040 --> 00:37:59.700 align:middle line:84% The month was created first, before the world. 00:37:59.700 --> 00:38:02.100 align:middle line:84% Then the month began to walk himself. 00:38:02.100 --> 00:38:04.560 align:middle line:84% And his grandmothers and aunt and his sister-in-law 00:38:04.560 --> 00:38:08.010 align:middle line:84% said, what do we say when we see a man in the road? 00:38:08.010 --> 00:38:09.990 align:middle line:84% There were no humans yet, so they 00:38:09.990 --> 00:38:12.540 align:middle line:84% discussed what they would say as they walked along. 00:38:12.540 --> 00:38:15.660 align:middle line:84% They found footprints when they arrived in the East. 00:38:15.660 --> 00:38:17.190 align:middle line:90% Who passed by here? 00:38:17.190 --> 00:38:18.810 align:middle line:90% Look at these footprints. 00:38:18.810 --> 00:38:20.500 align:middle line:90% Measure them with your foot. 00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:22.650 align:middle line:84% The mother creator said this to the month, 00:38:22.650 --> 00:38:24.120 align:middle line:90% who measured the footprint. 00:38:24.120 --> 00:38:28.110 align:middle line:84% The footprint belonged to Lord God. 00:38:28.110 --> 00:38:29.730 align:middle line:84% That was the beginning for month, 00:38:29.730 --> 00:38:32.550 align:middle line:84% because he had to measure the whole world by walking it off, 00:38:32.550 --> 00:38:33.790 align:middle line:90% day by day. 00:38:33.790 --> 00:38:37.080 align:middle line:84% Month made sure his feet were even before he began the count. 00:38:37.080 --> 00:38:40.080 align:middle line:84% Month spoke day's name when day had no name. 00:38:40.080 --> 00:38:41.790 align:middle line:90% So the month was created. 00:38:41.790 --> 00:38:45.000 align:middle line:84% Then the day, as it was called, was created. 00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:48.810 align:middle line:84% And the rain stairway to Earth, the rocks and the trees, 00:38:48.810 --> 00:38:52.120 align:middle line:84% all creatures of the sea and land were created. 00:38:52.120 --> 00:38:56.580 align:middle line:84% And then there's some kind of little drawing separation 00:38:56.580 --> 00:38:58.560 align:middle line:90% thing on the page. 00:38:58.560 --> 00:39:01.620 align:middle line:84% Death dog traveled to the land of the dead, 00:39:01.620 --> 00:39:05.040 align:middle line:84% where the god of death gave him the bone the human race was 00:39:05.040 --> 00:39:06.840 align:middle line:90% created with. 00:39:06.840 --> 00:39:10.710 align:middle line:84% Scorpion uses his tail as a noose to lasso deer. 00:39:10.710 --> 00:39:12.690 align:middle line:90% Scorpion is a good hunter. 00:39:12.690 --> 00:39:18.570 align:middle line:84% He has a net bag in which he carries his fire driller 00:39:18.570 --> 00:39:20.070 align:middle line:90% and fire sticks. 00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:22.260 align:middle line:84% The sign of the human hand equals 00:39:22.260 --> 00:39:25.380 align:middle line:84% two, the hand that holds the hilt of the dagger 00:39:25.380 --> 00:39:27.765 align:middle line:84% is plunged into the lower body of the deer. 00:39:27.765 --> 00:39:30.540 align:middle line:90% 00:39:30.540 --> 00:39:33.750 align:middle line:84% Those cursed with the anguish and the despairs 00:39:33.750 --> 00:39:37.020 align:middle line:84% all were born during the five nameless days. 00:39:37.020 --> 00:39:39.630 align:middle line:84% On the five nameless days, people stay in bed 00:39:39.630 --> 00:39:41.760 align:middle line:90% and then confess sins. 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:46.250 align:middle line:84% Those cursed with the [INAUDIBLE] black zip 00:39:46.250 --> 00:39:47.540 align:middle line:90% whistles a warning. 00:39:47.540 --> 00:39:49.280 align:middle line:90% He is the deer god. 00:39:49.280 --> 00:39:53.360 align:middle line:84% In the year 10 sky, the principal ruler is Venus. 00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:56.540 align:middle line:84% Big star's a drunkard, a deformed dog 00:39:56.540 --> 00:39:58.760 align:middle line:84% with the head of a jaguar and the hind end 00:39:58.760 --> 00:40:00.560 align:middle line:90% of a dog with a purple dick. 00:40:00.560 --> 00:40:03.740 align:middle line:84% He staggers like rabbit, who is also a drunkard. 00:40:03.740 --> 00:40:07.460 align:middle line:84% Nasty, arrogant liar, troublemaker and experimental 00:40:07.460 --> 00:40:11.910 align:middle line:90% in mutual hate and torture. 00:40:11.910 --> 00:40:15.060 align:middle line:84% Venus, color red, direction east, 00:40:15.060 --> 00:40:18.090 align:middle line:84% herald of the dawn and measurer of night. 00:40:18.090 --> 00:40:20.190 align:middle line:90% Envious rivaled. 00:40:20.190 --> 00:40:22.260 align:middle line:90% Sin in his face and in his talk. 00:40:22.260 --> 00:40:23.880 align:middle line:90% He had no virtue in him. 00:40:23.880 --> 00:40:25.440 align:middle line:90% He is without understanding. 00:40:25.440 --> 00:40:27.060 align:middle line:90% He had no virtue in him. 00:40:27.060 --> 00:40:31.410 align:middle line:84% Mighty carnivorous teeth and a body withered like a rabbit. 00:40:31.410 --> 00:40:32.670 align:middle line:90% Deities return. 00:40:32.670 --> 00:40:35.070 align:middle line:90% Better get to know them. 00:40:35.070 --> 00:40:37.980 align:middle line:84% Venus of the celestial dragon with eight heads. 00:40:37.980 --> 00:40:41.490 align:middle line:84% Each head hurls shafts of affliction down on mankind. 00:40:41.490 --> 00:40:44.040 align:middle line:84% Europeans call [INAUDIBLE] for the bright one 00:40:44.040 --> 00:40:46.140 align:middle line:90% who fell from grace long ago. 00:40:46.140 --> 00:40:48.330 align:middle line:84% Venus resides in darkness until he 00:40:48.330 --> 00:40:52.095 align:middle line:84% rises as morning star, dog face partially blackened, 00:40:52.095 --> 00:40:53.790 align:middle line:90% a fish in his headdress. 00:40:53.790 --> 00:40:58.870 align:middle line:84% He swims up from the dark underworld. 00:40:58.870 --> 00:41:01.000 align:middle line:84% I'm not going to read through the whole-- these 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:01.750 align:middle line:90% are the fragments. 00:41:01.750 --> 00:41:06.520 align:middle line:84% But when Yoeme gets through all of the fragments, 00:41:06.520 --> 00:41:10.690 align:middle line:84% she comes to some pages that-- when 00:41:10.690 --> 00:41:15.880 align:middle line:84% Lecha finishes with this whole section of fragments, 00:41:15.880 --> 00:41:18.490 align:middle line:84% she comes to pages that old Yoeme has 00:41:18.490 --> 00:41:20.950 align:middle line:90% added in just on her own. 00:41:20.950 --> 00:41:25.390 align:middle line:84% And this section is called the Great influenza of 1918. 00:41:25.390 --> 00:41:27.700 align:middle line:84% And these are pages that old Yoeme, 00:41:27.700 --> 00:41:31.810 align:middle line:84% who has been a revolutionary and a freedom fighter 00:41:31.810 --> 00:41:33.970 align:middle line:84% among the Yaqui people, resisting 00:41:33.970 --> 00:41:37.570 align:middle line:84% the Mexican government, fighting for the land-- 00:41:37.570 --> 00:41:40.690 align:middle line:84% Yoeme puts this story in here about something that happened 00:41:40.690 --> 00:41:44.740 align:middle line:90% when she was a younger woman. 00:41:44.740 --> 00:41:45.880 align:middle line:90% It's her great escape. 00:41:45.880 --> 00:41:48.670 align:middle line:90% Great influenza of 1918. 00:41:48.670 --> 00:41:52.660 align:middle line:84% Old Yoeme herself had added a number of pages to the almanac. 00:41:52.660 --> 00:41:57.430 align:middle line:84% Lecha could easily recognize the handwriting. 00:41:57.430 --> 00:42:00.970 align:middle line:84% Late in the summer, the pigs chew corncobs. 00:42:00.970 --> 00:42:04.420 align:middle line:84% And I wait for execution in the Alamo's jail. 00:42:04.420 --> 00:42:07.210 align:middle line:84% I have been convicted of sedition and high treason 00:42:07.210 --> 00:42:09.040 align:middle line:90% against the federal government. 00:42:09.040 --> 00:42:12.220 align:middle line:84% They hate me because I'm an Indian woman who kicked dirt 00:42:12.220 --> 00:42:14.950 align:middle line:84% in the faces of the police and army. 00:42:14.950 --> 00:42:18.550 align:middle line:84% They stand outside my cell and gloat over my death. 00:42:18.550 --> 00:42:24.310 align:middle line:84% Soon I must die, because I had already lived too long. 00:42:24.310 --> 00:42:26.710 align:middle line:90% I have blemished their honor. 00:42:26.710 --> 00:42:30.880 align:middle line:84% Me, the short, square-shouldered woman with deadly aim. 00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:32.950 align:middle line:90% That's my title. 00:42:32.950 --> 00:42:35.860 align:middle line:84% In twos and threes they come to stare at me. 00:42:35.860 --> 00:42:38.920 align:middle line:84% They relish the words they repeat again and again, 00:42:38.920 --> 00:42:43.400 align:middle line:84% their daydreams of my hanging and dismemberment. 00:42:43.400 --> 00:42:47.220 align:middle line:84% My execution is delayed by their needs for pageantry. 00:42:47.220 --> 00:42:49.220 align:middle line:84% Elected officials from [? other jurisdictions ?] 00:42:49.220 --> 00:42:50.120 align:middle line:90% arrive. 00:42:50.120 --> 00:42:55.370 align:middle line:84% I am on display, an example to all who dare defy authority. 00:42:55.370 --> 00:42:58.700 align:middle line:84% Postponement is due to the governor's busy schedule. 00:42:58.700 --> 00:43:01.790 align:middle line:84% They don't miss a day outside my cell. 00:43:01.790 --> 00:43:04.760 align:middle line:84% The police chief carries a paper with days crossed off 00:43:04.760 --> 00:43:06.080 align:middle line:90% in charcoal. 00:43:06.080 --> 00:43:08.930 align:middle line:84% Count them, he tells me in low tones. 00:43:08.930 --> 00:43:12.170 align:middle line:84% He is outraged, because an Indian can read and write, 00:43:12.170 --> 00:43:14.510 align:middle line:90% while he, a white man, cannot. 00:43:14.510 --> 00:43:18.200 align:middle line:84% I laugh and call him barbarian in my language. 00:43:18.200 --> 00:43:19.250 align:middle line:90% You will die. 00:43:19.250 --> 00:43:21.350 align:middle line:90% That is certain. 00:43:21.350 --> 00:43:24.290 align:middle line:84% All the others of my kind have already been sent to hell, 00:43:24.290 --> 00:43:25.220 align:middle line:90% he says. 00:43:25.220 --> 00:43:28.150 align:middle line:90% My death is certain. 00:43:28.150 --> 00:43:30.010 align:middle line:90% I am not afraid to die. 00:43:30.010 --> 00:43:33.540 align:middle line:84% I am sorry to leave the people I love when the struggle is only 00:43:33.540 --> 00:43:34.440 align:middle line:90% beginning. 00:43:34.440 --> 00:43:38.910 align:middle line:84% I pray to God for justice for myself and all our people. 00:43:38.910 --> 00:43:42.430 align:middle line:84% I pray for the success of the revolution. 00:43:42.430 --> 00:43:46.630 align:middle line:84% The day before my execution, the news reaches town. 00:43:46.630 --> 00:43:49.630 align:middle line:84% At first, the officials refused to believe the reports 00:43:49.630 --> 00:43:51.400 align:middle line:90% of so many sick and dead. 00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:54.460 align:middle line:84% Influenza travels with the moist, warm winds 00:43:54.460 --> 00:43:55.780 align:middle line:90% off the coast. 00:43:55.780 --> 00:43:59.470 align:middle line:84% Influenza infects the governor and all the others. 00:43:59.470 --> 00:44:02.680 align:middle line:84% The police chief burns to death from fever. 00:44:02.680 --> 00:44:04.810 align:middle line:84% The jailer leaves bucket of water 00:44:04.810 --> 00:44:07.390 align:middle line:90% and a bowl of parched corn. 00:44:07.390 --> 00:44:09.220 align:middle line:84% The authorities want to keep you alive, 00:44:09.220 --> 00:44:12.460 align:middle line:84% he says, until they recover enough to hang you. 00:44:12.460 --> 00:44:14.920 align:middle line:90% The jailer has bloodshot eyes. 00:44:14.920 --> 00:44:17.950 align:middle line:84% He says entire households have the dead lying 00:44:17.950 --> 00:44:22.420 align:middle line:84% next to the living, who are too ill to drag corpses outside. 00:44:22.420 --> 00:44:26.440 align:middle line:84% I laugh out loud, but the jailer reacts slowly. 00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:29.530 align:middle line:84% Someone will come to hang you, he reassures me. 00:44:29.530 --> 00:44:34.000 align:middle line:84% But when I ask who, the jailer shakes his head. 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:38.140 align:middle line:84% He is tired this morning, or he would kill me himself. 00:44:38.140 --> 00:44:40.030 align:middle line:90% The town is silent. 00:44:40.030 --> 00:44:42.970 align:middle line:84% Church bells no longer ring the angelus. 00:44:42.970 --> 00:44:44.950 align:middle line:84% And I listen with all my strength 00:44:44.950 --> 00:44:48.190 align:middle line:84% for the footsteps of my executioners. 00:44:48.190 --> 00:44:50.650 align:middle line:84% I could hear the big buzzards and smell 00:44:50.650 --> 00:44:53.050 align:middle line:90% what they ate with such relish. 00:44:53.050 --> 00:44:54.910 align:middle line:90% I was still locked up. 00:44:54.910 --> 00:44:56.980 align:middle line:90% Human scavengers followed. 00:44:56.980 --> 00:44:59.440 align:middle line:84% And I heard the sounds of looting. 00:44:59.440 --> 00:45:01.840 align:middle line:84% I did not think anyone would come. 00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:05.860 align:middle line:84% But then they came to loot the jails' guns and ammunition. 00:45:05.860 --> 00:45:08.740 align:middle line:84% The scavengers were afraid to open my cell, 00:45:08.740 --> 00:45:12.220 align:middle line:84% because they saw my legs and wrists were shackled. 00:45:12.220 --> 00:45:15.040 align:middle line:84% But I told them the blessed virgin of the Indians 00:45:15.040 --> 00:45:17.110 align:middle line:90% had just worked me a miracle. 00:45:17.110 --> 00:45:19.480 align:middle line:84% I had been saved by the hand of God. 00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:22.108 align:middle line:90% And they must set me free. 00:45:22.108 --> 00:45:31.400 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:45:31.400 --> 00:45:32.420 align:middle line:90% I always wanted-- 00:45:32.420 --> 00:45:35.240 align:middle line:84% I studied up on the great influenza of 1918. 00:45:35.240 --> 00:45:40.820 align:middle line:84% And they estimate between 20 and 40 million people died 00:45:40.820 --> 00:45:46.130 align:middle line:90% in the great influenza of 1918. 00:45:46.130 --> 00:45:48.680 align:middle line:84% Even if you take 25 million or 30 million, 00:45:48.680 --> 00:45:52.730 align:middle line:84% it's the greatest single natural disaster, because, of course, 00:45:52.730 --> 00:45:55.610 align:middle line:84% viruses and bacteria are natural things. 00:45:55.610 --> 00:45:59.390 align:middle line:84% And it was one of the greatest natural disasters ever. 00:45:59.390 --> 00:46:05.060 align:middle line:84% And I just knew that somewhere, somebody 00:46:05.060 --> 00:46:14.300 align:middle line:84% got saved during that time, unlike what happened last night 00:46:14.300 --> 00:46:16.940 align:middle line:90% in the Arizona gas chamber. 00:46:16.940 --> 00:46:20.750 align:middle line:84% People wonder why there's so much-- 00:46:20.750 --> 00:46:26.340 align:middle line:84% among young males especially, so much suicide. 00:46:26.340 --> 00:46:30.960 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] sort of television is like death television. 00:46:30.960 --> 00:46:32.700 align:middle line:84% There's a great deal of death around. 00:46:32.700 --> 00:46:36.780 align:middle line:84% And as long as you have cold blooded, 00:46:36.780 --> 00:46:41.640 align:middle line:84% there's nothing colder than state executions. 00:46:41.640 --> 00:46:44.100 align:middle line:84% And there is nothing-- if you want-- 00:46:44.100 --> 00:46:47.424 align:middle line:84% people ask me, well, what [INAUDIBLE] I just don't know, 00:46:47.424 --> 00:46:52.860 align:middle line:84% read a detailed description of a state execution. 00:46:52.860 --> 00:46:58.380 align:middle line:90% That's pornography. 00:46:58.380 --> 00:47:08.340 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:47:08.340 --> 00:47:10.860 align:middle line:84% That piece that I just read, I think 00:47:10.860 --> 00:47:14.850 align:middle line:84% that we should all at some time or another imagine ourselves. 00:47:14.850 --> 00:47:21.020 align:middle line:84% I think it's a good spiritual exercise to imagine yourself 00:47:21.020 --> 00:47:24.600 align:middle line:90% into that position, really. 00:47:24.600 --> 00:47:28.390 align:middle line:90% And so I work to do that. 00:47:28.390 --> 00:47:31.140 align:middle line:84% One of the other things that has sort of emerged-- 00:47:31.140 --> 00:47:32.640 align:middle line:84% I'll just say this before I go ahead 00:47:32.640 --> 00:47:36.570 align:middle line:90% and read this last section-- 00:47:36.570 --> 00:47:40.620 align:middle line:84% that emerged from my work is that-- 00:47:40.620 --> 00:47:44.940 align:middle line:84% with the Almanac is, as long as the killing 00:47:44.940 --> 00:47:48.240 align:middle line:84% that serial murders, people that freak out and shoot up 00:47:48.240 --> 00:47:53.790 align:middle line:84% cafeterias, that all of these things are connected. 00:47:53.790 --> 00:47:57.210 align:middle line:84% That being surrounded with death, 00:47:57.210 --> 00:48:03.210 align:middle line:84% with the images of death, with the kind of worshiping 00:48:03.210 --> 00:48:09.510 align:middle line:84% of mass death, sudden mass death like you had with Desert Storm, 00:48:09.510 --> 00:48:13.230 align:middle line:84% that all of these things impinge upon human beings. 00:48:13.230 --> 00:48:16.110 align:middle line:84% But the most important connection-- and this 00:48:16.110 --> 00:48:18.000 align:middle line:84% is I want to talk about, talk especially 00:48:18.000 --> 00:48:23.490 align:middle line:84% to people concerned about rape and child molestation and child 00:48:23.490 --> 00:48:24.630 align:middle line:90% murder. 00:48:24.630 --> 00:48:28.380 align:middle line:84% If we don't stop murdering the Earth 00:48:28.380 --> 00:48:34.620 align:middle line:84% and tearing the Earth open and destroying owls and squirrels 00:48:34.620 --> 00:48:41.550 align:middle line:84% and fish, you can't expect that the destruction and the tearing 00:48:41.550 --> 00:48:45.990 align:middle line:84% to pieces of our children and ourselves, our female bodies, 00:48:45.990 --> 00:48:48.580 align:middle line:84% that all of these things are tied together. 00:48:48.580 --> 00:48:54.420 align:middle line:84% And so when you talk about a series like this-- 00:48:54.420 --> 00:48:59.280 align:middle line:84% I came into the class today and said, every breath you take 00:48:59.280 --> 00:49:04.590 align:middle line:84% is political, just literally because of how much air 00:49:04.590 --> 00:49:06.450 align:middle line:90% there might be left to breathe. 00:49:06.450 --> 00:49:10.320 align:middle line:84% But in terms of violence and women, our women and children, 00:49:10.320 --> 00:49:13.170 align:middle line:84% we've finally become a culture in which you can't safely 00:49:13.170 --> 00:49:15.460 align:middle line:84% nurture and raise the little ones. 00:49:15.460 --> 00:49:16.950 align:middle line:90% It's gotten too strange. 00:49:16.950 --> 00:49:18.780 align:middle line:84% And even when you don't tell the kids, 00:49:18.780 --> 00:49:21.220 align:middle line:84% while you run outside in the front yard all the time 00:49:21.220 --> 00:49:23.640 align:middle line:84% and get like this when you don't see them-- 00:49:23.640 --> 00:49:27.150 align:middle line:84% you don't tell them that the destroyers, 00:49:27.150 --> 00:49:33.810 align:middle line:84% that these creatures that destroy living growing things, 00:49:33.810 --> 00:49:35.323 align:middle line:90% cut them down. 00:49:35.323 --> 00:49:36.990 align:middle line:84% And of course, the University of Arizona 00:49:36.990 --> 00:49:39.110 align:middle line:84% likes to cut down trees wherever they find them. 00:49:39.110 --> 00:49:41.160 align:middle line:84% I think they've been cutting down trees again 00:49:41.160 --> 00:49:43.830 align:middle line:90% in the neighborhoods nearby. 00:49:43.830 --> 00:49:46.540 align:middle line:84% There's not really might say what to do. 00:49:46.540 --> 00:49:48.690 align:middle line:84% But I think that the University of Arizona I hear 00:49:48.690 --> 00:49:51.160 align:middle line:84% has lots of buildings but no money 00:49:51.160 --> 00:49:53.880 align:middle line:84% for teachers or for utilities or things like that. 00:49:53.880 --> 00:50:02.960 align:middle line:84% I mean, I-- [APPLAUSE] like I said in Almanac, 00:50:02.960 --> 00:50:04.340 align:middle line:90% you don't have to do anything. 00:50:04.340 --> 00:50:06.410 align:middle line:84% At the very end, I mean, you can just sit. 00:50:06.410 --> 00:50:08.390 align:middle line:90% And it's already in motion. 00:50:08.390 --> 00:50:10.050 align:middle line:90% It's already happening. 00:50:10.050 --> 00:50:17.180 align:middle line:84% And so in a sense, once things are set into motion, 00:50:17.180 --> 00:50:19.910 align:middle line:84% it's not to call out and say that people 00:50:19.910 --> 00:50:22.610 align:middle line:84% have to run out and throw themselves 00:50:22.610 --> 00:50:23.660 align:middle line:90% in front of bulldozers. 00:50:23.660 --> 00:50:26.480 align:middle line:84% But since there aren't any teachers, 00:50:26.480 --> 00:50:28.610 align:middle line:84% and there's not any electricity, pretty soon 00:50:28.610 --> 00:50:32.090 align:middle line:84% I think people will find their way to doing what's right. 00:50:32.090 --> 00:50:35.540 align:middle line:84% And I also think that it's really suspicious 00:50:35.540 --> 00:50:38.030 align:middle line:84% that the Vatican, the great destroyer 00:50:38.030 --> 00:50:41.270 align:middle line:84% of Native American religions and the Catholic church 00:50:41.270 --> 00:50:44.360 align:middle line:84% that always has been so prominent 00:50:44.360 --> 00:50:47.180 align:middle line:84% and burned so that there's only fragments of almanacs-- 00:50:47.180 --> 00:50:50.420 align:middle line:84% that the Vatican's ugly snout should 00:50:50.420 --> 00:50:52.220 align:middle line:90% rear into this whole thing. 00:50:52.220 --> 00:50:59.460 align:middle line:84% And that I think that [APPLAUSE] there's 00:50:59.460 --> 00:51:03.660 align:middle line:84% something highly suspect about this Mount Graham site. 00:51:03.660 --> 00:51:05.940 align:middle line:84% I think that we all know that there's secret 00:51:05.940 --> 00:51:09.540 align:middle line:84% money, secret money that the Pentagon gets to use. 00:51:09.540 --> 00:51:11.520 align:middle line:84% And I really think that there's something 00:51:11.520 --> 00:51:14.580 align:middle line:84% suspicious about the behavior of the Circuit Court of Appeals. 00:51:14.580 --> 00:51:17.720 align:middle line:84% There must be something when it's a super secret thing 00:51:17.720 --> 00:51:19.470 align:middle line:84% that the CIA and the Pentagon are funding, 00:51:19.470 --> 00:51:21.000 align:middle line:84% they must have a little black thing 00:51:21.000 --> 00:51:23.417 align:middle line:84% that they slide under the door to the judges or something. 00:51:23.417 --> 00:51:26.010 align:middle line:84% But I really think that people need 00:51:26.010 --> 00:51:29.100 align:middle line:84% to question why at a time like this with a budget-- 00:51:29.100 --> 00:51:33.090 align:middle line:84% with things shaking down here, why 00:51:33.090 --> 00:51:35.363 align:middle line:84% that there's something so inexorable about this. 00:51:35.363 --> 00:51:36.780 align:middle line:84% And it makes me think that it must 00:51:36.780 --> 00:51:39.250 align:middle line:84% be part of secretly-- they're not telling 00:51:39.250 --> 00:51:40.792 align:middle line:90% anybody-- part of Star Wars. 00:51:40.792 --> 00:51:42.750 align:middle line:84% And the thing that's disturbing about Star Wars 00:51:42.750 --> 00:51:45.000 align:middle line:84% is they can aim those things at anybody. 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:47.920 align:middle line:84% They can point telescopes in any direction. 00:51:47.920 --> 00:51:49.980 align:middle line:90% And so anyway. 00:51:49.980 --> 00:51:55.650 align:middle line:84% But all of the things that need to happen-- 00:51:55.650 --> 00:51:58.680 align:middle line:84% I have a great faith that there's already 00:51:58.680 --> 00:52:05.850 align:middle line:84% things set in motion so that the tide will definitely 00:52:05.850 --> 00:52:07.530 align:middle line:90% be turning. 00:52:07.530 --> 00:52:09.190 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:52:09.190 --> 00:52:09.690 align:middle line:90% All right. 00:52:09.690 --> 00:52:17.310 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:52:17.310 --> 00:52:18.480 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:52:18.480 --> 00:52:19.230 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:52:19.230 --> 00:52:22.470 align:middle line:84% The last section that I want to read to you 00:52:22.470 --> 00:52:27.070 align:middle line:84% is a section that's really important to me. 00:52:27.070 --> 00:52:31.350 align:middle line:84% It's because I was able to make in a really important way 00:52:31.350 --> 00:52:34.570 align:middle line:84% a connection with something that I'd known for a long time. 00:52:34.570 --> 00:52:37.200 align:middle line:84% And that was about black Indians, 00:52:37.200 --> 00:52:40.440 align:middle line:84% the great African-Native American connection. 00:52:40.440 --> 00:52:43.380 align:middle line:84% So important, and yet played down so much. 00:52:43.380 --> 00:52:46.620 align:middle line:84% And of course, in working through Almanac 00:52:46.620 --> 00:52:50.190 align:middle line:84% I finally realized that the greatest fear, the greatest 00:52:50.190 --> 00:52:52.920 align:middle line:84% fear that the slave masters have always had, 00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:58.260 align:middle line:84% was that you would have these coalitions and a joining 00:52:58.260 --> 00:53:02.790 align:middle line:90% together of forces. 00:53:02.790 --> 00:53:05.790 align:middle line:90% 00:53:05.790 --> 00:53:08.460 align:middle line:84% In the list of dates that I threw in here, 00:53:08.460 --> 00:53:13.260 align:middle line:84% I chose to put American slave rebellions 00:53:13.260 --> 00:53:15.780 align:middle line:84% in which Native Americans rose up with Africans. 00:53:15.780 --> 00:53:17.820 align:middle line:84% Because that was the thing that terrified 00:53:17.820 --> 00:53:19.680 align:middle line:90% the slave keepers the most. 00:53:19.680 --> 00:53:23.610 align:middle line:84% And the way that I work into this 00:53:23.610 --> 00:53:28.020 align:middle line:84% is with this character, my character Clinton. 00:53:28.020 --> 00:53:30.780 align:middle line:84% Clinton was the black veteran with one foot. 00:53:30.780 --> 00:53:33.510 align:middle line:84% But he wore the best, the top of the line, the best 00:53:33.510 --> 00:53:36.720 align:middle line:84% kind of prosthetic foot you could buy. 00:53:36.720 --> 00:53:40.050 align:middle line:84% Clinton had to wear his full Green Beret uniform every day, 00:53:40.050 --> 00:53:42.000 align:middle line:84% otherwise there would just be trouble for him, 00:53:42.000 --> 00:53:45.210 align:middle line:84% because Clinton didn't bow and scrape to no Arizona honky 00:53:45.210 --> 00:53:46.300 align:middle line:90% trash crackers. 00:53:46.300 --> 00:53:46.800 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:53:46.800 --> 00:53:48.720 align:middle line:84% Clinton had grown up outside of Houston 00:53:48.720 --> 00:53:50.580 align:middle line:84% where the cops and Texas Rangers really 00:53:50.580 --> 00:53:53.700 align:middle line:90% hated African-American folks. 00:53:53.700 --> 00:53:55.620 align:middle line:84% Clinton lives alone in a Sears garden 00:53:55.620 --> 00:53:57.270 align:middle line:90% shed he bought for himself. 00:53:57.270 --> 00:54:00.390 align:middle line:84% Roy hears rumors Clinton has relatives in Tucson, 00:54:00.390 --> 00:54:02.940 align:middle line:84% but Roy doesn't ask questions, because that sets off 00:54:02.940 --> 00:54:04.620 align:middle line:90% something in Clinton. 00:54:04.620 --> 00:54:05.730 align:middle line:90% Roy is also ramble. 00:54:05.730 --> 00:54:10.200 align:middle line:84% This is from the homeless section in my novel. 00:54:10.200 --> 00:54:11.010 align:middle line:90% Sort of spooky. 00:54:11.010 --> 00:54:12.510 align:middle line:84% The other day I picked up the paper 00:54:12.510 --> 00:54:14.700 align:middle line:84% and saw that the homeless people have a camp. 00:54:14.700 --> 00:54:17.010 align:middle line:84% The homeless Vietnam veterans put a camp right 00:54:17.010 --> 00:54:19.960 align:middle line:84% where the camp was put in my novel, which was really weird. 00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:24.540 align:middle line:84% But anyway, these are my two characters there. 00:54:24.540 --> 00:54:26.220 align:middle line:90% Some days, Clinton says he's OK. 00:54:26.220 --> 00:54:30.060 align:middle line:84% Other days, he warns you ahead of time you better steer clear. 00:54:30.060 --> 00:54:32.370 align:middle line:84% Roy is not afraid of Clint's bad days. 00:54:32.370 --> 00:54:35.610 align:middle line:84% On Clint's bad days, Roy is free to wild talk right back 00:54:35.610 --> 00:54:37.170 align:middle line:90% at that crazy black fucker. 00:54:37.170 --> 00:54:38.550 align:middle line:90% They don't talk to one another. 00:54:38.550 --> 00:54:39.990 align:middle line:90% They talk at each other. 00:54:39.990 --> 00:54:42.690 align:middle line:84% And neither one of them bothers to listen to the other. 00:54:42.690 --> 00:54:45.090 align:middle line:84% What is important is Clinton's outrage, 00:54:45.090 --> 00:54:49.200 align:middle line:84% Clinton's pure, pure contempt for any authority but his own. 00:54:49.200 --> 00:54:51.360 align:middle line:84% Clinton reads books when he goes to wash up 00:54:51.360 --> 00:54:53.760 align:middle line:84% at the downtown branch of the public library. 00:54:53.760 --> 00:54:55.380 align:middle line:84% What he can't get off his mind is 00:54:55.380 --> 00:54:58.380 align:middle line:84% what man does to man over and over again. 00:54:58.380 --> 00:55:00.930 align:middle line:84% A slave was the first thing any man thought of, 00:55:00.930 --> 00:55:02.670 align:middle line:90% someone to do the dirty work. 00:55:02.670 --> 00:55:05.190 align:middle line:84% Clinton thought women were correct about being enslaved 00:55:05.190 --> 00:55:08.040 align:middle line:84% by men, otherwise Clinton had no use for bitches, 00:55:08.040 --> 00:55:11.370 align:middle line:84% because what had at one time had been so good in them had been 00:55:11.370 --> 00:55:13.830 align:middle line:90% ruined by their enslavement. 00:55:13.830 --> 00:55:16.080 align:middle line:84% Clinton's paranoia knows no boundaries. 00:55:16.080 --> 00:55:18.180 align:middle line:84% He has cousins and step brothers in the army. 00:55:18.180 --> 00:55:20.940 align:middle line:84% And the word gets around among the brothers and the sisters. 00:55:20.940 --> 00:55:23.370 align:middle line:84% The army has to have lab technicians. 00:55:23.370 --> 00:55:24.660 align:middle line:90% There are security guards. 00:55:24.660 --> 00:55:26.280 align:middle line:90% There must be cleaning crews. 00:55:26.280 --> 00:55:28.110 align:middle line:90% The word leaks out. 00:55:28.110 --> 00:55:30.540 align:middle line:84% Clinton always prefaces his remarks. 00:55:30.540 --> 00:55:33.500 align:middle line:84% He says, no black American would ever betray his country. 00:55:33.500 --> 00:55:36.000 align:middle line:84% But a black man's country was different from the white man's 00:55:36.000 --> 00:55:40.980 align:middle line:84% country, no matter they both called it the same thing, 00:55:40.980 --> 00:55:42.870 align:middle line:90% United States of America. 00:55:42.870 --> 00:55:45.090 align:middle line:84% Clinton says the AIDS virus was developed 00:55:45.090 --> 00:55:48.210 align:middle line:84% in a bio-warfare laboratory by the US government 00:55:48.210 --> 00:55:51.000 align:middle line:84% and was stolen by military personnel 00:55:51.000 --> 00:55:53.970 align:middle line:84% sympathetic to white supremacists in South Africa. 00:55:53.970 --> 00:55:55.950 align:middle line:84% Naturally, they had been careful to set 00:55:55.950 --> 00:55:58.890 align:middle line:84% AIDS loose in the African-controlled states. 00:55:58.890 --> 00:56:00.960 align:middle line:84% Whites in South Africa would never 00:56:00.960 --> 00:56:02.490 align:middle line:84% have risked setting loose the virus 00:56:02.490 --> 00:56:04.350 align:middle line:90% on their valuable labor force. 00:56:04.350 --> 00:56:07.260 align:middle line:84% Still, the growth of populations in all African states 00:56:07.260 --> 00:56:08.490 align:middle line:90% had to be stopped. 00:56:08.490 --> 00:56:11.010 align:middle line:84% Somewhere the men who had paid for the stolen virus 00:56:11.010 --> 00:56:13.800 align:middle line:84% sat around a conference tent storming. 00:56:13.800 --> 00:56:17.820 align:middle line:84% Mad scientists, Roy tried to interject. 00:56:17.820 --> 00:56:20.280 align:middle line:84% But Clinton had waved away Roy's remarks. 00:56:20.280 --> 00:56:22.140 align:middle line:84% White man's words were always being shoved 00:56:22.140 --> 00:56:23.580 align:middle line:90% in the black man's mouth. 00:56:23.580 --> 00:56:27.270 align:middle line:84% Mad scientists, mad generals, mad church of god preachers. 00:56:27.270 --> 00:56:30.330 align:middle line:84% All of them want to see black folks disappear, 00:56:30.330 --> 00:56:32.490 align:middle line:90% but sort of gradually, you know? 00:56:32.490 --> 00:56:35.010 align:middle line:84% Clinton says J. Edgar Hoover ordered the assassination 00:56:35.010 --> 00:56:36.270 align:middle line:90% of Martin Luther King. 00:56:36.270 --> 00:56:38.460 align:middle line:84% Right there, Hoover's clips got winged. 00:56:38.460 --> 00:56:40.200 align:middle line:90% The old faggot was crazy. 00:56:40.200 --> 00:56:41.940 align:middle line:90% Assassination wasn't gradual. 00:56:41.940 --> 00:56:45.510 align:middle line:84% And assassination had a way of creating folk myths and heroes. 00:56:45.510 --> 00:56:48.240 align:middle line:84% A secret bipartisan congressional panel 00:56:48.240 --> 00:56:51.570 align:middle line:84% had hastily concluded only a cover-up 00:56:51.570 --> 00:56:53.850 align:middle line:84% would save US cities from burning 00:56:53.850 --> 00:56:55.860 align:middle line:90% and the outbreak of a race war. 00:56:55.860 --> 00:57:00.630 align:middle line:84% Clinton said J. Edgar had first practiced assassination 00:57:00.630 --> 00:57:03.810 align:middle line:84% on John F. Kennedy, because Hoover hated the Kennedys. 00:57:03.810 --> 00:57:06.570 align:middle line:84% Kennedy supported civil rights, but John Kennedy 00:57:06.570 --> 00:57:08.010 align:middle line:90% hadn't been the big fish. 00:57:08.010 --> 00:57:09.360 align:middle line:90% Hell no, Clinton said. 00:57:09.360 --> 00:57:11.340 align:middle line:84% All you whites can think about is white. 00:57:11.340 --> 00:57:13.080 align:middle line:84% John Kennedy couldn't lead no one. 00:57:13.080 --> 00:57:15.300 align:middle line:84% He couldn't even lead the US Congress. 00:57:15.300 --> 00:57:17.960 align:middle line:84% Clinton had warmed up good on this topic. 00:57:17.960 --> 00:57:20.720 align:middle line:84% Later Clinton told Roy he was the first white man ever 00:57:20.720 --> 00:57:23.310 align:middle line:84% to listen through the whole rap to every last word 00:57:23.310 --> 00:57:24.470 align:middle line:90% Clinton said. 00:57:24.470 --> 00:57:26.870 align:middle line:84% Roy could see why Clinton pissed people off, 00:57:26.870 --> 00:57:28.590 align:middle line:90% even some black people. 00:57:28.590 --> 00:57:30.290 align:middle line:84% Because Clinton said Kennedy had only 00:57:30.290 --> 00:57:32.030 align:middle line:90% been used for target practice. 00:57:32.030 --> 00:57:33.890 align:middle line:90% J. Edgar's dress rehearsal. 00:57:33.890 --> 00:57:36.380 align:middle line:84% Martin Luther King had been dangerous, 00:57:36.380 --> 00:57:37.860 align:middle line:90% because he was a leader. 00:57:37.860 --> 00:57:40.590 align:middle line:84% He could lead all different kinds of people. 00:57:40.590 --> 00:57:43.880 align:middle line:84% More and more white people had listened to and followed King. 00:57:43.880 --> 00:57:46.670 align:middle line:84% That was what had driven J. Edgar, the old butt-fucker, 00:57:46.670 --> 00:57:48.890 align:middle line:90% over the edge. 00:57:48.890 --> 00:57:51.350 align:middle line:84% Clinton understood the cover-up, the whitewash. 00:57:51.350 --> 00:57:53.270 align:middle line:84% Clinton said young blacks would have 00:57:53.270 --> 00:57:55.250 align:middle line:84% burned down the United States that summer 00:57:55.250 --> 00:57:56.540 align:middle line:90% if the truth had come out. 00:57:56.540 --> 00:57:59.210 align:middle line:84% Clinton understood the need to be practical. 00:57:59.210 --> 00:58:01.220 align:middle line:84% He will be the only black unit leader. 00:58:01.220 --> 00:58:03.260 align:middle line:84% But he won't have an all-black unit. 00:58:03.260 --> 00:58:05.840 align:middle line:84% Roy wants integrated units in this new army. 00:58:05.840 --> 00:58:09.210 align:middle line:84% They're planning an army of the homeless. 00:58:09.210 --> 00:58:11.300 align:middle line:84% They have more whites than blacks anyway. 00:58:11.300 --> 00:58:14.450 align:middle line:84% What Roy does not say for now is that it is better 00:58:14.450 --> 00:58:17.400 align:middle line:84% to have whites outnumber blacks in integrated units. 00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:19.100 align:middle line:90% Otherwise, [INAUDIBLE] uneasy. 00:58:19.100 --> 00:58:21.830 align:middle line:84% Roy and Clinton get along, because neither man tries 00:58:21.830 --> 00:58:25.550 align:middle line:84% to argue good or bad, right or wrong, only what is necessary. 00:58:25.550 --> 00:58:28.100 align:middle line:84% Clinton likes to test Roy's reactions. 00:58:28.100 --> 00:58:30.710 align:middle line:84% What if I get me an all-black unit? 00:58:30.710 --> 00:58:31.940 align:middle line:90% Roy shrugs. 00:58:31.940 --> 00:58:34.040 align:middle line:84% None of them are fortune tellers, are they? 00:58:34.040 --> 00:58:36.950 align:middle line:84% For all they know, they may end up on opposite sides, 00:58:36.950 --> 00:58:38.210 align:middle line:90% battling one another. 00:58:38.210 --> 00:58:40.220 align:middle line:84% Neither man rules out a race war. 00:58:40.220 --> 00:58:41.750 align:middle line:90% But both tend to agree. 00:58:41.750 --> 00:58:46.340 align:middle line:84% Battle lines will be drawn according to color-- 00:58:46.340 --> 00:58:50.240 align:middle line:84% green, the color of money, the only color that ever mattered. 00:58:50.240 --> 00:58:53.270 align:middle line:84% The richest, whatever their color, had always escaped. 00:58:53.270 --> 00:58:54.860 align:middle line:84% Clinton had read about the wealth 00:58:54.860 --> 00:59:00.380 align:middle line:84% and the greed of slave-dealing African tribes. 00:59:00.380 --> 00:59:03.080 align:middle line:84% Some of the richest Jews had escaped Hitler's ovens. 00:59:03.080 --> 00:59:04.970 align:middle line:90% Only poor Jews had died. 00:59:04.970 --> 00:59:07.640 align:middle line:84% Roy said he didn't know if Clinton was right about that. 00:59:07.640 --> 00:59:09.080 align:middle line:90% Clinton nodded his head. 00:59:09.080 --> 00:59:10.520 align:middle line:90% The rich got the news. 00:59:10.520 --> 00:59:13.850 align:middle line:84% Then the rich had the money to get away. 00:59:13.850 --> 00:59:22.420 align:middle line:84% OK, I'm just going to skip over to Clinton's prayer, his-- 00:59:22.420 --> 00:59:26.710 align:middle line:84% Clinton plans a series of radio broadcasts 00:59:26.710 --> 00:59:28.990 align:middle line:90% for after the takeover. 00:59:28.990 --> 00:59:35.320 align:middle line:90% And he prepares them on tapes. 00:59:35.320 --> 00:59:37.900 align:middle line:84% Clinton's first broadcast in the reborn United States 00:59:37.900 --> 00:59:39.970 align:middle line:84% was going to be dedicated to the children born 00:59:39.970 --> 00:59:44.290 align:middle line:84% to escaped African slaves who married Carib Indian survivors. 00:59:44.290 --> 00:59:46.120 align:middle line:84% The first broadcast would be dedicated 00:59:46.120 --> 00:59:49.660 align:middle line:84% to them, the first African Native Americans. 00:59:49.660 --> 00:59:51.280 align:middle line:84% Clinton talked about the tapes he 00:59:51.280 --> 00:59:53.230 align:middle line:84% was making for radio stations, but he never 00:59:53.230 --> 00:59:54.610 align:middle line:90% let Roy hear any of them. 00:59:54.610 --> 00:59:57.130 align:middle line:84% Clinton said he could describe all the tapes, 00:59:57.130 --> 01:00:01.840 align:middle line:84% and Roy would have a better idea if he just let Clinton talk. 01:00:01.840 --> 01:00:09.020 align:middle line:90% And so in one of them Clinton-- 01:00:09.020 --> 01:00:11.090 align:middle line:84% before he left, the old women in his family 01:00:11.090 --> 01:00:14.840 align:middle line:84% gave him a knife that saved his life. 01:00:14.840 --> 01:00:15.800 align:middle line:90% He had a shrine. 01:00:15.800 --> 01:00:18.440 align:middle line:84% So I'll read that part before the prayer. 01:00:18.440 --> 01:00:21.500 align:middle line:84% Clinton's shrine held the knife, or the blade of a knife, 01:00:21.500 --> 01:00:24.560 align:middle line:84% and what remained of a handle, a skeleton of metal. 01:00:24.560 --> 01:00:27.440 align:middle line:84% Clinton had kept the blade razor sharp. 01:00:27.440 --> 01:00:29.180 align:middle line:84% He had carried the knife in combat, 01:00:29.180 --> 01:00:31.520 align:middle line:84% because it had never failed him in the dangerous alleys 01:00:31.520 --> 01:00:32.840 align:middle line:90% and streets at home. 01:00:32.840 --> 01:00:36.230 align:middle line:84% Clinton's people, women and men alike, all carried knives. 01:00:36.230 --> 01:00:38.180 align:middle line:84% Clinton had been hit by flying shrapnel 01:00:38.180 --> 01:00:39.890 align:middle line:90% that killed three men nearby. 01:00:39.890 --> 01:00:42.410 align:middle line:84% The handle of the knife had been shattered by shrapnel. 01:00:42.410 --> 01:00:45.770 align:middle line:84% But miraculously, Clinton had escaped with minor injuries. 01:00:45.770 --> 01:00:48.650 align:middle line:84% Clinton woke up and learned the medic had sent the knife along. 01:00:48.650 --> 01:00:52.370 align:middle line:84% Because anyone could see the knife had saved Clinton's life. 01:00:52.370 --> 01:00:54.410 align:middle line:90% The knife had power all its own. 01:00:54.410 --> 01:00:59.900 align:middle line:84% Clinton felt this power long before he studied 01:00:59.900 --> 01:01:02.090 align:middle line:84% African religions in Black Studies 01:01:02.090 --> 01:01:04.700 align:middle line:84% and realized his family's regard for knives 01:01:04.700 --> 01:01:07.640 align:middle line:84% was a remnant of old African religion. 01:01:07.640 --> 01:01:09.560 align:middle line:84% Clinton had carried the blade wrapped 01:01:09.560 --> 01:01:12.110 align:middle line:84% in a piece of red velvet he had cut from the draperies 01:01:12.110 --> 01:01:14.000 align:middle line:90% in a whore's room in Manila. 01:01:14.000 --> 01:01:16.010 align:middle line:84% When he was not wearing the knife sheath 01:01:16.010 --> 01:01:19.460 align:middle line:84% on his combat belt, Clinton kept the knife on a shrine. 01:01:19.460 --> 01:01:21.470 align:middle line:84% He had bought the local incense to burn 01:01:21.470 --> 01:01:23.240 align:middle line:84% for the shrine, which, of course, worked 01:01:23.240 --> 01:01:24.500 align:middle line:90% to cover the odor-- 01:01:24.500 --> 01:01:26.900 align:middle line:84% this is in Vietnam-- the odor of opium or reefer. 01:01:26.900 --> 01:01:29.240 align:middle line:84% He bought tiny Japanese porcelain dishes 01:01:29.240 --> 01:01:31.850 align:middle line:84% he put in front of the red Velvet bundle, surrounded 01:01:31.850 --> 01:01:34.250 align:middle line:84% by small candles burning in glasses. 01:01:34.250 --> 01:01:37.610 align:middle line:84% Clinton put pinches of food on the tiny dishes 01:01:37.610 --> 01:01:40.010 align:middle line:84% and sprinkled rum on the blade each time 01:01:40.010 --> 01:01:43.612 align:middle line:90% he unwrapped the red velvet. 01:01:43.612 --> 01:01:45.320 align:middle line:84% Roy had pointed out that people might not 01:01:45.320 --> 01:01:47.510 align:middle line:84% want someone burning candles and spilling rum, 01:01:47.510 --> 01:01:49.160 align:middle line:90% because it might cause a fire. 01:01:49.160 --> 01:01:51.050 align:middle line:90% Typical white man thinking. 01:01:51.050 --> 01:01:53.420 align:middle line:84% Clinton had learned to expect even the best of them, 01:01:53.420 --> 01:01:55.760 align:middle line:84% such as Roy, sometimes just didn't see. 01:01:55.760 --> 01:02:00.710 align:middle line:84% Candles, rum, and incense didn't necessarily mean a fire. 01:02:00.710 --> 01:02:04.172 align:middle line:84% The white man would stop everything before it started. 01:02:04.172 --> 01:02:05.630 align:middle line:84% The white man would pretend to know 01:02:05.630 --> 01:02:07.160 align:middle line:90% all the answers ahead of time. 01:02:07.160 --> 01:02:10.110 align:middle line:84% But of course, really, the white man didn't have a clue. 01:02:10.110 --> 01:02:13.850 align:middle line:84% The white man had made some monumental errors in the 500 01:02:13.850 --> 01:02:16.760 align:middle line:84% years Europeans had disrupted Africa, China, 01:02:16.760 --> 01:02:18.080 align:middle line:90% and the Americas. 01:02:18.080 --> 01:02:20.480 align:middle line:84% The Chinese and Africans had broken free. 01:02:20.480 --> 01:02:23.450 align:middle line:84% Now it was only a matter of time before all captive people 01:02:23.450 --> 01:02:25.340 align:middle line:90% on the Earth would rise up. 01:02:25.340 --> 01:02:28.310 align:middle line:84% Clinton talked to the blade when he poured the rum over it. 01:02:28.310 --> 01:02:30.260 align:middle line:84% The cutting metal edge of [INAUDIBLE] Ogou's 01:02:30.260 --> 01:02:31.430 align:middle line:90% favorite dwelling. 01:02:31.430 --> 01:02:34.520 align:middle line:84% In Africa, metalworkers were Ogou's priests. 01:02:34.520 --> 01:02:36.800 align:middle line:84% Clinton's people all revered the knife. 01:02:36.800 --> 01:02:38.870 align:middle line:90% Clinton offered this prayer. 01:02:38.870 --> 01:02:41.450 align:middle line:90% Ogou, warrior and metal maker. 01:02:41.450 --> 01:02:43.970 align:middle line:90% Ogou wages war every day. 01:02:43.970 --> 01:02:47.270 align:middle line:84% Ogou, we suffer a great deal in this battle 01:02:47.270 --> 01:02:48.800 align:middle line:90% with our oppressors. 01:02:48.800 --> 01:02:51.560 align:middle line:84% Ogou protects those who serve him. 01:02:51.560 --> 01:02:53.390 align:middle line:90% Ogou is watchful. 01:02:53.390 --> 01:02:55.790 align:middle line:90% Ogou has boundless energy. 01:02:55.790 --> 01:02:58.190 align:middle line:90% Ogou is powered by anger. 01:02:58.190 --> 01:03:01.100 align:middle line:90% Ogou Feray, you magnet power. 01:03:01.100 --> 01:03:03.770 align:middle line:90% Pull iron fragments together. 01:03:03.770 --> 01:03:06.080 align:middle line:90% Gather the loss to your chest. 01:03:06.080 --> 01:03:08.810 align:middle line:84% Ogou, your father love heals them. 01:03:08.810 --> 01:03:10.850 align:middle line:90% All the scattered fragments. 01:03:10.850 --> 01:03:13.130 align:middle line:90% Ancestor spirits gathered. 01:03:13.130 --> 01:03:16.610 align:middle line:84% Ogou Feray, you lead them to war for the sake 01:03:16.610 --> 01:03:18.500 align:middle line:90% of us, their descendants. 01:03:18.500 --> 01:03:23.000 align:middle line:84% Ogou Feray, commander of the army of the lost is found. 01:03:23.000 --> 01:03:26.660 align:middle line:84% Ogou fires the cannon to announce the uprising. 01:03:26.660 --> 01:03:30.290 align:middle line:84% Rage, blind rage, destroys all in reach. 01:03:30.290 --> 01:03:34.030 align:middle line:90% Mad dog warrior Ogou. 01:03:34.030 --> 01:03:36.760 align:middle line:84% The shrine had made people, even the other blacks, 01:03:36.760 --> 01:03:39.130 align:middle line:84% afraid of Clinton, because Americans 01:03:39.130 --> 01:03:41.200 align:middle line:84% had swallowed all that Hollywood bullshit 01:03:41.200 --> 01:03:43.030 align:middle line:90% about voodoo and the devil. 01:03:43.030 --> 01:03:45.520 align:middle line:84% Some guys even objected to the apples 01:03:45.520 --> 01:03:47.920 align:middle line:84% Clinton left out for the spirits. 01:03:47.920 --> 01:03:50.770 align:middle line:84% Clinton did not blame the people for their ignorance. 01:03:50.770 --> 01:03:54.340 align:middle line:84% But at some point, a man had to teach himself or learn 01:03:54.340 --> 01:03:55.180 align:middle line:90% something. 01:03:55.180 --> 01:03:58.090 align:middle line:84% He explained the apples had to be left to rot, 01:03:58.090 --> 01:04:02.610 align:middle line:84% so the ancestor spirits could eat them. 01:04:02.610 --> 01:04:05.820 align:middle line:84% OK, well, I think everybody's been sitting on the hard floor 01:04:05.820 --> 01:04:09.840 align:middle line:84% and sitting so quietly and been such a great audience that 01:04:09.840 --> 01:04:12.870 align:middle line:84% in appreciation for that that you 01:04:12.870 --> 01:04:14.550 align:middle line:90% should be allowed your freedom. 01:04:14.550 --> 01:04:17.800 align:middle line:84% So I thank you so much for coming tonight. 01:04:17.800 --> 01:04:18.300 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 01:04:18.300 --> 01:04:19.350 align:middle line:90% You were a great group. 01:04:19.350 --> 01:04:21.200 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 01:04:21.200 --> 01:04:24.000 align:middle line:90%