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Thank you, Frances, for that
very beautiful and generous

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introduction.

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It's good to be here.

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Thank you for coming out and
to all the organizations that

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helped put this event together.

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I don't remember
everyone's names, sorry.

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But you've been
treating me so well.

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I feel like a star.

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I'm glad to be here, and I want
to introduce myself in my own

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language, because I know
there are some Diné students

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in the audience.

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[SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD]

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I'm sorry.

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Let's start over here.

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[SPEAKING DINÉ BIZAAD]

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What I said is that
I gave you my clans.

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I am Sleepy Rock People clan,
born for the Bitter Water clan.

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And I have two
grandfather clans.

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One is the Laguna People
and Sun Clan People.

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And my other grandfather clan
are the Coyote Pass People.

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My family's originally
from Lupton, Arizona.

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And my parents
are both moved on.

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My mother was instrumental
in me becoming a writer.

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My father was in
World War II, and was

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one of the code talkers.

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I have two sons.

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And you probably heard the
part about me teaching at ASU.

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You probably understood that.

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But I'm very happy to be here.

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And I want to share some of
my older words that I've done

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and some of my new work
that I'm almost finished,

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a manuscript of poetry and
stories about Canyon De Chelly

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up in northeastern Arizona
on the Navajo reservation.

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And I'm collaborating this work
with Stephen Strom, who I'm

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glad to see here this evening.

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And I put him on
the spot earlier

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and asked him if he could
come up and say a few words

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about his photography.

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He does very beautiful work.

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And he said he
thought he was just

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going to come here and sort
of melt into the audience.

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But now he has to come
up and say a little bit

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about his work.

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