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The traditional ways and rituals of all of Earth's peoples are kept in containers of poetry, song, and story. It is how we know who we are, where we are coming from and who we are becoming.

— Joy Harjo Catching the Light (2022)

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To find ourselves spoken for in art gives dignity to our pain, our anger, our losses.

We are story gatherers. That's what we humans do.

The most powerful poetry is birthed through cracks in history, through what is broken and unseen.

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America has always been multicultural, before the term became ubiquitous, before colonization, and it will be after.

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When she broke on Earth, the light in her was not broken. We cannot break light, nor can we destroy it.

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