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Thank you very much everyone for being here. Of the smartest writers we have so many wonderful writers who we are blessed to have among us during these two days on culture. You two are some of the best though on culture. One thing i have found when i am traveling is people keep saying to me, and these are people who may or may not have voted for donald trump, depending on the state they live in. Especially if i am in the middle of the country or not on the northeast especially, people will say things like donald trump is president. It is coming from this place like he used to be the host of celebrity apprentice. How did that happen . It is not a dismissal or a criticism. So how are you expecting how are you processing that when people expect you to process that . Are there lessons to learn ere . Once in a while it hits me that donald trump is president. There was a good book by tevi troy who has written for National Review. And it gs through a history of wasidents in terms of what inst
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I dont even know if its a published paper. Jennifer sent to me. This is several years ago and i read it and is talking about a path to nationhood for the native nation. What any native nation would look like. In the sense of where we been in terms of the history and were at this point in time. They took part of the and modified it a bit. Its an article that was published in the quarterly back in 2006. That version is very modified. I still have it. Anything in terms of publication. I talk to people about my ideas. If you ask native people the discussions about what it really means for us simply taking place right now. With all of the allies theres in terms of them wanting to protect not only the water with the people and the way of life. Its going much faster than a lot of us are envisioning. In some ways you can see it. I think youre right. Because of the amount of those people. And getting educated. With our way of life and our language definitely taking place in accelerating. I thin