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And then I want to close
with this one, which

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is bringing us back to home.

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And just a couple
of notes, there's

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reference to some
of the villages

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that you pass by as you
go from here into Sells,

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for instance and then
beyond Sells as well.

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And also, there is--

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O'odham people
believe that wherever

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you stand in this
region, if you can

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see what we call
Waw Giwulik and you

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all might know it
as Baboquivari Peak.

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If you can see it, then you're
then you're in O'odham land.

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That's your home.

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And I like that notion and
O'odham truly believe that--

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and I truly believe that.

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And a couple of years ago,
I was up at Ventana Canyon,

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just in the parking
lot, and I looked out

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and I saw Waw Giwulik.

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And I said Ventana Canyon, this
resort is O'odham homeland.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So anyways, this is
called "Blacktop,"

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the highway, that's what
people refer to this highway.

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"Blacktop."

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"The blacktop carries
me past Three Points,

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the security of
homelands passes by me.

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It carries me past
San Pedro where

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weavers sit under the
watto, their voices

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drift into the tangle of
desert where all language goes.

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The blacktop carries
me into the tohono,

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into the heat
making me delirious.

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San Lucy sounds like a
country western song.

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The blacktop carries
me in all directions.

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Sometimes I'm traveling with
a lone eagle, other times

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I roam with worse scavengers.

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The blood or the heat of
the blacktop calls me.

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

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Anonymity is my desire,
walking instead in sandy washes

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and rocky hills unseen,
leaving the debris of my life

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under a mesquite tree.

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I rush toward an
imaginary new life.

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The blacktop carries
me in all directions.

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It knows my name.

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I never told it my
name, but it calls me.

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It wants to carry me
in all directions.

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It whispers, you will always
see Waw Giwulik in your rearview

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mirror."

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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