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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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This is my last piece.

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It's inspired from my
anti-mining organizing

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work I do up in the
Black Hills, at He Sapa.

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And I'm really thankful,
again, for this.

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I'm excited to hear who's next.

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And again, I don't
want this to end,

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but this is a piece I actually
workshopped this week.

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It's a piece that I put
together a few weeks ago,

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and got to work with Rob
Arnold-- the dear Rob Arnold--

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on it.

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And I'm excited to
show the workshop

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crew what I've done with it.

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A letter to Pe'
Sla and the Wasicu.

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Dear Pe' Sla, the wasicu
wants to pierce your skin,

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Stab into your graphite
veins and bleed you dry,

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But we will defend you so that
wakaƞyeja may know your name,

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May know your
place as the center

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of the heart of all that is,

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May know you as you are
now full of medicines,

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uƞjiƞjiƞkta na pejihota
tiƞpsiƞla na icahpe hu

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Home to the winged and
four-legged home to generations

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of our ancestors' prayers,

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We will fight for
you so that the world

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will remember your name,

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uƞniksuyapi,
uƞniksuyapi, uƞniksuyapi.

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Dear Wasicu, we
deserve to carry--

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Dear Wasicu, the
land is our church

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We do not want the places
we stand and pray slashed,

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and cut for profit and greed,

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We deserve to
practice our religion,

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Passed down for
generations in peace,

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We deserve to carry
forward to the wakaƞyeja

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To all future generations,

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Our prayers, our practices,
our language, our culture,

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On a land that is healthy, that
is protected, that is whole,

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The land is our relative, she
deserves to be treated as such,

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I pray the greed that drives you
dissipates like dew on the grass

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at Pe' Sla,

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As the sun rises on a new day,

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And your plan to harm our
relative becomes but a memory,

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Nothing more than the dust
at the bottom of my feet.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE AND CHEERING]

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