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Perspectives
In my village, most girls stay at home and do domestic work. I was a bit of a wild child.
When I was a little girl, I was confused as to whether I was Armenian or American. Both words sounded alike and looked very similar to me.
A village festival in the middle of snowy January in an unheated barn? No problem!
For Tibetans, Losar (ལོ་གསར་ or “new year”) is the biggest celebration of the year, with sixteen days of feasting, gift-giving, and traditional song and dance.
In the summer, the Ferme Seguin in Southern France provides weekly guided tours in French, English, and Occitan.
Elizabeth LaPensée (Anishinaabe, Métis, and a little Irish) creates video games inspired by her indigenous heritage to help heal intergenerational trauma.
Professor Wesley Thomas and graduate student Sharon Nelson have been key to the program’s inception, relevance, and dramatic growth.
My mother saved 439 letters for each day they were separated, August 1944 through November 1945.
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