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  • "At a Sundance they prayed for me..."
  • "Do those braids make you Ute?"
  • "I had a younger brother and I loved him dearly..."
  • "One night they heard somebody by the door..."
  • "She would bring pickles...so delicious!"
  • "Value yourself as a woman, stand up for your rights..."
  • "Always connect with your traditional ways to come down to earth."
  • "The drum is our heartbeat...you need to keep that heartbeat going..."
  • "Running, I always see something different out there..."
  • "I never had new clothes. Everything was from Goodwill."
  • "I'd never seen a rat as big as a cat until I was in Vietnam..."
  • "You had chopped off your brothers' braids, but I could not get mad...."
  • "There's no such thing as 'uncivil' and...'poverty' and 'racism'...in Ute..."
  • "You get home, you're so happy, and then all of sudden something changes..."
  • "As soon as I kicked it, I just took off running toward the sidelines..."
  • "Bear Dance makes us uniquely Ute..."
  • "Growing up, we didn't have a hang out spot..."
  • "One time, I took a whipping in school for a friend..."
  • "Dialysis was kind of like a jail, like a prison....."
  • "We wore earrings because we disobeyed..."
  • "They called me 'little white boy', 'Cracker', 'Opie'..."
  • "Why did I always have to play the cowboy?"
  • "Our tribe never talked about being gay..."
  • "Worship songs are some of the oldest ceremonies the Ute people have."
  • "My dad had a partner...he looked just like Roy Rogers..."
  • "The drum represents our mother's heart..."
  • "You get to a point where you think you're invincible..."
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