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Our people are afro indigenous people","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=0.0,6.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"also, you know, our queer folks, two-spirit people that are really struggling,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=7.0,12.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with their worthiness with, with trauma, with what is still the pain that’s still residing in their DNA,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=13.0,21.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that comes out in so many ways, and sometimes it’s confusing.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=22.0,26.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Doing circles with folks. Like right now I’m doing, uhm, I’m doing a class called  Corazón Sagrado,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=27.0,39.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I think I posted about this the other day so you -- you probably saw it, but just about how there was this --","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=40.0,47.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"his younger, queer person of color who was so fearful of creating this ancestor altar,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=48.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so fearful. I was in tears.  It was a real pain. They really believed, “I’m just not sure if my ancestors are going to accept me and","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=58.0,67.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"are going to accept what I offer, are going to like who I am.” Yeah, that was really deep for me to see so much pain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=68.0,80.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ana-Maurine Lara: What are people in Puerto Rico dealing with right now in terms of what are some of the things you were seeing,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=81.0,91.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what are -- what are some of the conditions, some of the challenges, spiritual, physical, psychological, psychic,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=92.0,100.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uhm, that you were encountering?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=101.0,104.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Myrna: Yeah. We actually and I should say I actually got to experience what some of the tip of what that might feel like because,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=103.0,113.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"uhm, at one point","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=114.0,116.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RaHeni: We’re talking about this trip [in January 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I have I have a form where I take some notes","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=241.0,247.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"on how people are doing in terms of different systems in their body including energetically, emotionally, spiritually so it was that and then,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=248.0,260.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after we would meet, I would put together an herbal protocol for them and give if the medicines were","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=261.0,269.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"available right then and there, I would give them like a blend for them or a tincture that I had,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=270.0,276.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or I would offer to mail it if it’s something I didn’t have prepared, and then for, do you want to talk about the limpias or —","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=277.0,286.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"RaHeni: Yeah.  For the limpias, you know, we would, I would prepare, I always prepare an agua with plantitas and it’s not always the same for everyone.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=287.0,297.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I, I just intuitively, make the agua right before I’m going to give the limpia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=298.0,303.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Although for this, we had many in a row, so for this one, I just made one big pot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=304.0,312.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Usually I like to use a lot of, uhm, tobacco.  Tobacco is a plant that I like to work with a lot,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=313.0,319.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that -- that, you know, that our indigenous peoples have used a lot and it’s pretty sacred","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=320.0,324.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and very purifying, so I always use tobacco, and often I use romero as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=325.0,334.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Those are two that I use a lot. If it’s available, and we didn’t have any available there,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282#t=335.0,340.0"},{"id":"https://uoregon.aviaryplatform.com/collections/2404/collection_resources/108117/file/209282/transcript/64888/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ruda is a very powerful one. 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