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Stories

Watch and listen to full-length oral histories of BYU Native American alumni.

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Shane Wood

'There is so much beauty in what we are given to experience.'
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Tyler Youngbull

'I’m torn, because sometimes I want to take them back to that and let them experience that, and at the same time, you know, you don’t want your kids to grow up in that.'
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Tacey M. Atsitty

'It’s my challenge to be able to teach all of those things with you, knowing that goal of having them come back and feeling like ‘Yeah. I learned something.''
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Eugene Tapahe

'The struggles and challenges I had here at BYU have prepared me for everything I have done so far.'
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Bryan Howard Jansen

'In my mind it is realizing that people value different things, and to respect that value.'
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Margaret Red Elk

'And we should, we should be proud of ourselves. Proud of [being Native].'
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Alvin & Edna Watchman

'Language is something you have to deal with. No matter what situation you are in.'
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Farina King

'Seek to reconnect. You are wanted. You are needed. You are important.'
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Donna Sitake

'And I heard a voice distinctly tell me that I need to go.'
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Chauma Kee-Jansen

'Well, that’s a good question. That is something you’re going to have to decide.'
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Cynthia Watts Connell

'I feel that on my mission I was given back an identity that I hadn’t had an opportunity to have any other way.'
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