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I would say I started out with Inventing my identity and then now I'm trying to maintain. I say this because when I was little I started going to these hmong events to help out and now when I go to these hmong parties and events people know me as a person who will help and lend a hand when needed. Now I'm trying to maintain that because in the hmong committee if you don't really help or do much for the committee you could lose your status and how people think of you. Because of that I tried to go and attend events when I'm not busy, which is usually just about one or two like every couple of months. Now the committee is a bit more flexible because due to covid and other people having jobs and other things to do now. This past weekend I had an important event that I had to attend to because it was a funeral.

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Opal was only a child when she went to Alcatraz to protest, because her mother wanted to protest and say that they can and are natives. Since the protest had given up and people were leaving and issues were happening and with Opal's mother having an incident she felt like she couldn't or shouldn't be native and lost that part of herself. When she went to the powwow to watch Orvil perform she was reminded of when she had heard it when she young.

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Orvil was never introduced to natives because Opal didn't want to because she said that he must find out himself. I felt like Opal said that to stop him from knowing about natives. Orvil took what Opal said to him to heart and found Opal's regalia and decided to be apart of the Powwow Festival.

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Tony had always knew that he was native but people had always pointed out that he had drome. He was told that he had had drome due to his mom drinking, because back then the natives where going through a hard time in America. So people had always saw Tony as a person with drome then a native. So when Tony put on the regalia he was the only one who saw a native person and by wearing the regalia he was trying to maintain the rest of him that was native.

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"Were doing homework in the living room with the TV on when our mom came home with news that we'd be moving to Alcatraz. "Pack your things. We're going over there. Today," our mom said.

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“Opal is listening to the drum.” “She hasn’t heard a big drum like that since she was young.”

(Orange 241)

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“I looked at my face. The Drome. I didn’t see it there. I saw an Indian. I saw a dancer.”

(Orange 26)

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“He gets dressed at home and wears his regalia all the way there”. (Orange 234)

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“He’d asked her why she didn’t teach them anything about being Indian.” “Cheyenne way, we let you learn by yourself, then teach you when you’re ready.

(Orange,119)

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“The men’s locker room is loud with laughter, he puts his regalia slowly, carefully, and puts his earphones in, before he can put a song on he sees a guy across from him gesturing for him to take them out.”

(Orange, 231)