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This is the-- I'm going to
leave you with this next poem.

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And as important
as it was for me

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to read the poem
about my mother's song

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and what's happening in this
picture, I also wanted you--

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I also wanted to leave you with
a hope of the children poem,

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and this poem, because when I
look into the faces of the women

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I'm going to be showing
you, I feel a hopefulness.

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"[SPEAKING TEWA].

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I am a singing water woman
like my mother and her mother

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and her mother, Nan chu
Kweejo, clay mother,

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whose roots bed deep beyond
crust of layered skin to

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[SPEAKING TEWA], to the
center of her abode,

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down into the core of her
relentless drive, determination,

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and spirit to her well opening,
to the birthing place, sacred,

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deep, [SPEAKING TEWA].

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Sacred, warm.

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[SPEAKING TEWA]

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Her center is this dance,
is this dance of feet

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lifting into plowed--

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[SOUND OF SLIDE BEING ADVANCED]
Is this dance

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of feet lifting
into plowed fields

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to become nourishment
for our men?

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We dance behind.

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We lay with.

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We work beside.

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[SPEAKING TEWA]

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These men we bring
forth from our center.

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[SPEAKING TEWA]

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I am a singing water woman
who plasters endless walls

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with skinned knuckles, who will
run wild into coyote nights

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singing death
songs, birth songs.

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I am a singing water
woman, born from matriarchs

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who call themselves gia,
mothers of our mother,

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wrinkled, worn, weathered,
unyielding with eggshell hearts.

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Daughters who become
their mothers.

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Matriarchs who will
take their turn

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singing death songs,
baking wedding breads,

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soothing broken hearts,
compassionate, tender,

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willful, stubborn, and loyal,
with the same enduring spirit,

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determination, and drive.

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My daughter, [SPEAKING TEWA].

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My daughter is a
singing water woman."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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