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Horshetu he hem man y, canakra at Vincent Medina at

Kalkin Tarih.

So hello to you all, my name is Vincent Medina. I'm a

whole-kane man from the Hawken region. Kanamu, Ekmana,

nahraakatoulouse tribunal at Waka I Rumsen Tareesh. I'm here with my partner

Lewis Trevino who's Rumsen Aloni. There's an elder in the Rumson community named Gloria Castro, and she is my great-grandfather's first cousin.

She remembers my great-great-great-grandmother and all the generations since then.

When Gloria went to school with her sister, it was a one-room schoolhouse,

and her sister and her were always forced by their teacher,

who is a white woman, to stay back

while all the other kids went inside.

And she and her sister were made to wash their hands and their arms up past their elbows every morning before they were allowed into the schoolhouse.

And the teacher in front of all of the other students said that you need to clean yourselves because you're dirty Indians.

So that generation endured those kinds of things. That false sense of shame and pain was put on them and yet when she would go home to her mother and her father and her grandfather,

her grandfather would always say never forget that you are a princess and that you are valuable and that you're beautiful.

So that's how our family made it through those things, was through kindness and through love for one another and that's a central value that

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