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This is going to come across to
you as a piece of information,

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but it's a piece of
a poem or something

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I'm working on that in a
way has been working on me.

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And this is a piece
of information

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I found when I was doing
research on letters

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and journals that
had been written

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about the Mojaves both at
Parker and at Fort Mojave, what

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became Fort Mojave.

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"When Mojave children were
taken from their mothers,

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roped like cows or
beasts," because that verb

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is used often, and it's
the verb for roping.

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It's not the verb for arresting.

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It's not the verb for
taking or removing.

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It's the verb for
roping an animal.

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"When Mojave children were
taken from their mothers,

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roped like cows or beasts,
and led to the school

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to learn less of
themselves, the mothers

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followed, pressed their breasts
through holes in the fence

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to feed their little ones."

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And that image is
just an image that's

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haunted me for the last
probably eight years,

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like that a mother
would have to press

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her breasts through a
fence and her child being

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held on the other
side of it in order

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to breastfeed their child.

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