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I also think about working for
National Indian Youth Council.

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They had the [? seeder ?]
program out of there.

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So every Native in
Albuquerque worked there

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at one point or the other.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I was working with their
newspaper "Americans Before

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Columbus," and I remember
having to go over to Church Rock

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to report a uranium
spill and a lot of talk

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about how that shifted things.

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And also, which your
presentation reminded

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me was that we--

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I remember the people sitting
in with some of the linguists

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trying to figure out how do you
come up with a word for uranium

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that will tell the people that
you cannot see it but it is

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destructive.

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And the children had
always played in the water

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and the animals were always
taken there to drink.

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And how do you--

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how do you change a language?

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Period.

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How do you change
any language to deal

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with those kinds of atrocities?

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Which now we would
have never believed

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how they've multiplied.

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But yet at the same time,
like many of us I sat in those

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circles in the '60s--

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late '60s and the
'70s with people

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who were telling about
how if we did not

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change our relationship,
if we did not remember

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our relationship to
this place that these

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are the kinds of
things we would see.

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"Once the world was perfect and
we were happy in that world.

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Then we took it for granted.

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Discontent began a small
rumble in the earthly mind.

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Then doubt pushed through
with its spiked head.

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And once doubt ruptured the web
all manner of demon thoughts

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jumped through.

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We destroyed the
world we had been

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given for inspiration for life.

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Each stone of jealousy.

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Each stone of fear, greed, envy,
and hatred put out the light.

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No one was without a
stone in his or her hand.

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There we were right back
where we had started.

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We were bumping into
each other in the dark

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and now we had no place to
live because we didn't know

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how to live with each other.

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Then one of the stumbling
ones took pity on another

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and shared a blanket, a spark
of kindness made a light.

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The light made an
opening in the darkness.

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Everyone worked together
to make a ladder.

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A wind clan person climbed
out into the next world.

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And then the other clans, and
the children of those clans,

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and their children, and their
children, and their children,

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and their children, all the
way through time to now,

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to right now, to you."

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