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[APPLAUSE]

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OK.

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Thank you, Tyler.

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And thank you on
behalf of our project.

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The Poetry Center has been
an indispensable partner

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in putting this
enterprise together.

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Our other two
primary partners have

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been the program in
American Indian studies

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and the Department of English.

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I have other people to thank.

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We thank them for the labor
that they've given us,

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the goodwill, the energy,
and for the cash, which

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we needed to pull this off.

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Look at my list so that
I don't forget anybody.

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The American Indian Language
Development Program,

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The Institute of
the Environment,

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the Southwest
Center, the College

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of Social and
Behavioral Science,

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and the Confluence
Center have all

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made significant contributions
enabling us to do this.

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This Is the fourth and
final reading in our series.

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Prior readers as you can see
on the poster have been Sherwin

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Bitsui, Simon J Ortiz, Ofelia
Zepeda, and our fourth reader

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tonight will round out the
readings in the series.

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We are fortunate to have been
able, as Tyler just announced,

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to arrange a panel discussion
of legal, cultural, historical

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issues associated with water
in American Indian communities

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in large part because
of the efforts of Robert

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Hershey from the Law School.

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And the event as Tyler announced
will be on a Wednesday evening

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here, April 15, at 7:00 PM.

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Please attend that.

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We have a poster as you
can see for the series that

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was designed by Paul Mirocha.

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I want to thank Paul for
designing the poster for us.

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Paul signed copies
of the poster,

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and we've asked each of
the readers to do the same.

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So, if our reader
tonight is still

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able to move after all that
we've put her through today,

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and is able to sign them.

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You could purchase one
of these posters that's

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signed by the artist and all
four of the readers tonight.

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The cost is $25 and
100% of that money

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will go to a fund in the
American Indian Studies program

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to support the
special commencement

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ceremony that the program has.

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I also need to very quickly,
but sincerely, thank

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the staff of American
Indian Studies for the water

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that they've carried for us
in getting us to this point.

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And that would be Anne
Marie Jones and Anna Suh.

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OK.

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So now I'm going
to turn this over

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to my colleague Ofelia Zepeda,
who will introduce our reader.