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    --Mira, she said, this is where you come from.

    (Lorna Dee Cervantes)

    What does it mean to be Indigenous? Made in America or Mestizo? Navajo, Dine, Lakota, or Sioux? But these are mere Exonyms not You For you have come from the Stars, Lorna Dee, you belong here, insist on the Truth, Do you wear braids or a buzz hair cut? Worship your ancestors like Tonantzin? Are you an Immigrant or a Mexican? Do you have your papers or just a Dream? I see a Brown Virgin hangs from your Neck that you are overly formal, even. Dont start with indirect objects again They dont even matter to anyone *(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lorna-dee-cervantes)

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