We started as a Bureau of Indian Affairs school in 1962.
1962年,我们成立了印第安人事务局学校。
We were celebrating culture and not trying to just focus on assimilation and punishing students for speaking their language or practicing their customs so that that was a big difference for us.
我们庆祝文化,而不是试图只专注于同化,因为同学们说本土语言或实践自己习俗而惩罚他们,所以,对我们而言,这是一个很大的不同。
My work is paying homage to the people who raised me my mother and my father and then my cousins who helped shaped me as a person.
我的工作是向养育了我的父母致敬,以及帮助我成长的表兄弟。
Growing up I felt like I was really missing that kind of side of me because my parents never talked about it.
在成长的过程中,我觉得,我真的很想念我的这一面,因为我的父母从来没有提起过。
What I'm hoping to do is go back to my community to document the people back home that I really care for.
我希望回到我的社区去记录那些我真正关心的人。
I always wanted to bring something back to my culture because I've been in a mainstream so long.
我融入主流文化这么久,一直想把一些东西带回自己的文化。
Growing up on the reservation, I was entirely isolated.I was surrounded by you know other natives of the similar tribes and my whole perspective of the world was just Navajo.
我在保留地(美国为土著美洲人划出的)长大,完全与世隔绝。我周围都是类似部落的土著人,我对世界的看法就是纳瓦霍人。
But when I've came here I've learned other perspectives of Yaqui, Tohono O'odham,Pueblos.
但来到这里,我了解了雅基、托霍诺.奥丹、普韦布洛斯的观点。
That's a lot of diversity and of course we also have non-native students as well.We re open to everybody but our mission will always reflect that indigenous or native perspective.
非常多样,当然也有非本地学生。我们对所有人都开放,但我们的任务总是反映本土的观点。
I think that's important aspect of what we have here is a sense of community, almost a sense of family.
我认为,我们在这里拥有的一个重要方面是社区意识(几乎是一种家庭意识)。
It's called shelter and feel symbolic to me.
也叫庇护所,对我来说具有象征意义。
I'm learning how to walk differently, really pay attention because Western culture tends to be a little conquistador, a little aggressive and and you just take that with you wherever you go in the world.
我正在学习如何以不同的方式为人处世,真的要注意这点,因为西方文化往往有点征服者的意味,有点咄咄逼人,无论你走到世界的任何地方,你都会带着这种感觉。
It sort of suits you for the most part. That doesn't work here.
它在很多地方都适合,但在这里行不通。
So I'm learning to just recalibrate everything.
所以我正在学习重新校准一切。
If you ask the average college student why they' re going to college or what they re going to do with their degree.
如果你问普通的大学生为什么要上大学,或者他们要拿学位做什么。
They'll say I want a job.
他们会说,我想要一份工作。
You ask our students and they'll say I want to be of service to my family and my community.
你问我们的学生,他们会说,我想为我的家庭和社区服务。
And so that makes our students different.
这让我们的学生与众不同。
I think they estimate since the inception of Hollywood four thousand movies have involved Native Americans.
我想自从好莱坞成立以来,他们估计有4000部电影涉及印第安人。
My challenge to the industry would be this.We've heard what you have to say about us now you' re going to hear what we have to say about us.
我将向对这个行业发起这样的挑战:我们已经听到了你们对我们的看法,现在你们将听到我们对自己的看法。
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