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I don't mean by all of this to imply that Navajo is a dying culture (or Fiji or Lenape or Makah, for that matter) or that the appellation 'Diné' is in any way appropriate. I mean to indicate that members of my own Euro-American culture are attempting to eradicate this culture. The attempt is entirely transparent to us- it just
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Unfortunately I cannot dismiss the trauma experienced every day, for three generations, by many of my students and neighbors by reckoning that one of these days things will be peaceful here again. I also am acutely aware that simply recognizing that there are ongoing problems isn't enough either. Gallup's a gordian knot of a town; I don't know anyone here, who's wrestled with these dilemmas, who has any clear solution.
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