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So the pieces I want to share
with you are ones that I wrote,

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that largely came
from ideas and themes

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that Gareth photographed
when he first

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went to that region on
the O'odham homeland

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but on the Sonora side.

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And in a way, it
was a good thing

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that he started
on the Sonora side

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because that's where I'm from.

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Both my parents and all
their people before them,

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that's their homeland and
their traditional village

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is on that side.

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And that's exactly
where Gareth went

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was to Quitovac,
which is my mother's

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home and her parents' home.

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And so it meant a lot to me to
see the images that he captured

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and then also other
parts of the border,

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the villages there,
the O'odham villages.

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And I told them
stories and a lot of it

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was from my early childhood
and then a little bit older.

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I remember going to those places
and spending summers there

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with my mother's
mother, our grandmother.

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And we lived with her
there as young people.

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So it wasn't easy to
write about that region.