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Mvto, thank you for
that introduction.

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Thank you, mvto, for Tucson,
for the Poetry Center,

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and for all this place has
given to me in my life.

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I am [SPEAKING MUSCOGEE].

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I'm Muskogee Creek Nation, a
member of Oce Vpofv Hickory

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Ground Ceremonial Ground.

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And from Oklahoma.

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Came to the Southwest
to go to Indian

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School in Santa Fe at the old--
when IAI was a BIA school.

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And was part of
the Kiva club group

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at another part of my education
at University of New Mexico.

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And eventually wound up here
in Tucson for a while teaching.

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And I have to say, it's
nice to see Larry over here.

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And this place has
always been one of my--

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I always think, why
did I leave here?

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's always been my favorite--
one of my favorite teaching

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places.

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And so many memories here,
and so many of people.

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So I want to start
out with a song.

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And I'm thinking of Leslie
tonight and her sons.

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And this whole family here that
includes the saguaro, the sky,

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this beautiful
Earth, and the people

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who take care of this Earth.

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We're all supposed to
take care of the Earth.

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We're all part of it.

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If you look at the Earth from
the moon, we all-- you can see,

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we're one being.

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And you understand how
when that NASA image

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was released, how the
ecological movement emerged,

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because we could see--

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we knew it.

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Our original peoples know it.

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And we all have original--
we all stem from original

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peoples--

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that we're a part of it.

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And so, we're moving
back towards that vision,

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towards that it's a
kind of remembering.

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So this song is to say
especially, for Leslie,

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but for all of us, to say mvto.

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[RECORDER PLAYING]

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