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Thank you.

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And I also have a couple of
poems about water and rain,

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which is what I'm
focusing on my manuscript.

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So these are two poems about the
way Diné people's viewpoints see

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rain.

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One is a male rain and
one is a female rain.

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And when it's soft and
falls to the ground,

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it makes things grow.

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And then the male
rain is the opposite.

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It's pretty violent,
sometimes, leading to floods.

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And so these are two
poems about that.

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I'm going to read the
first one in Navajo.

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Níłtsą bi'áád Shá'di'ááhdęę'go
dah naaldogo' alzhish

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k'ós hazlįį' honeezk'ází níltsą

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bi'áád bitázhool bijooltsą
áádóó níłtsą bi'áád biyázhí

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bídii'na' Naaniiniiłkaahgo
níłtsą bi'áád biyázhí

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hazlįį' ch'íl látah hózhóón
dahtoo'bee 'ałch'į' háazhah

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áádóó nihik'inizdidláád

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Female Rain

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Dancing from the south

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Cloudy cool and gray

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Pregnant with rain child

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At dawn she gives
birth to a gentle mist

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Flowers bow with wet sustenance

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Luminescence all around.

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Níłtsą biką' Aadęę łįį'
diłhiłgo tł'éé' nahalingo bił

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ch'éldloozh báhách'į'go
naayéé'ee k'ehgo ts'ida

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deesk'aazgo

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áhoolaa tó yíląąd dóó níyol
tsoh áhoolaa Hashké níłtsą

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biką' naazbaa' tł'éé' bíighah
atah názhnoodahgo yiską áádóó

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łįį bił anááldloozh anaa'
yęę t'áá 'ákǫǫgo 'aliilaa.

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Male Rain

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He comes riding a dark horse

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Angry, malevolent, cold

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Bringing floods and heavy winds

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Warrior rain having
a 49 night dance

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Then rides away,
leaving his enemy behind

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[CHEERING]

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