Tommy Pico: How Not To Be One With Nature

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Tommy Pico: How Not To Be One With Nature

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Tommy Pico talks about growing up on a Native American reservation, trying to tame the English language with his poetry, and why labeling himself as an “NDN” is a powerful act of reclamation. He also talks about how people often don’t know enough about indigenous people to be able to stereotype them, and then he […]

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