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One of my favorite things to talk to talk about is family history. Heritage. Roots. What are roots? Why do they matter? When I think about my own identity a number of different ideas, sounds, and images percolate in my mind. My mother’s side of the family is mostly Norwegian; her great grand parents travelled to America from Norway, and with help from the American government they set up a farm on lands taken from the indigenous Lakota people. My father’s family has been in America for many generations, now a mix of many ethnicities. What does that have to do with me?

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