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[Extended] Joy Harjo with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

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You're the Ace of Your Childhood?

M: I grew up in shawny o, k. And so for me, that's a big point of connection in starting to read you. In the places of my childhood, am had this completely different realm of story and song and spirit. i feel like i'm learning about the place i came from in a way i've longed to but was certainly not offered to me. M: What kind of puzzles me at this stage in our waking up as a civilization, which i do think is happening, however fitfully, is that the place names were retained. Why they retained the place names when all the stories and the meanings and the significance were removed? Im for people growing

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