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Thank you.

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Thank you, Chris.

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Our next poet, Sunni Parisien,
is an Anishinaabe poet

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from the Turtle Mountain Band
of Chippewa in North Dakota.

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Her poetry is interested
in pushing American empire

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beyond its imaginative
and material borders,

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disrupting the archive
and honoring the ringing

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presence of the
homelands, peoples

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and stories she emerges from.

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Please welcome Sunni.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Bright lights.

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These are bright guys.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Boozhoo ...[ ] indizhinikaaz
Makwa nindoodem Mikinaak Wajiw

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Anishinaabe Ishkoniganing
nindonjibaa.

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Hello, everyone.

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My name is Sunni Parisien.

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I am from the Turtle
Mountain Band of Chippewa

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in North Dakota, and I'm
very grateful to be here

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with you all tonight.

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So thank you for sharing
your time with all of us.

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So this weather is very
different from what

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it's like at home right now.

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It's very beautiful.

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I got sun-burnt, if you
couldn't see that, I

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need more sunscreen clearly.

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I was talking to
my sister today,

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and she said, enjoy it while you
can because as soon as you come

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back home, you're
going to see that it's

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been snowing for days now.

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So I'm like, that's awesome.

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And so I was like,
I think I have

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to open with a poem
that is about the snow,

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because that's something that is
an important part of who I am.

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And this one is called Solstice.

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In December, years ago,
evening, eclipsing the city

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and snowflakes.

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It was the first of the season
when we walked together,

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postured, particular
in our spines,

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but syncopating our steps.

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I noticed you nearly slipped
and cursed the fresh sleet.

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I offered my hand while you
blamed bad distractions,

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bleak seasons, abysmal days,
the wrong shoes, the wrong girl,

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the wrong anything to
feel less red beside me,

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less fevering and afraid
of the white gauze

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offering itself softly,
earnestly over the wound.

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[APPLAUSE]

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