This season on reel Midwest, homegrown, that bias that has driven our cultural norms within the district is going to take a lot of disrupting.

I just have to keep reminding myself we didn't get here overnight, it's not gonna go away overnight.

I know some language, my kids know some of the language, but my grandkids, they're gonna take it further than what I what I want.

I want my kids to take it further than what I did.

And I want my grandkids to take it further than what they did.

And to keep the language alive, and everybody should do that inspire people to speak language so they can take it further than what you did.

We use corn as most tribes do.

In every celebration, there is pow wows ceremonies.

And there's just so much reverence to it.

When we were on the verge of extinction, it was just a miracle that we found some of our court I mean, what adventure it has been.

My hope for the black string triage ensemble in in the immediate is that the people in that space will come away feeling unburdened and like a different reality is possible.

That what has happened does not have to be the everyday and or shooting.

The people that live here, they want more, they want better.

They don't want to just move away and leave it desolate.

No, they want to put their hands to the plow too.

Poverty is not a lack of character, it's a lack of cash.

Nobody wants to be in poverty.

Even the ones that accepted it do not want to be in any form of poverty, and sometimes a little help financially, it will just turn a light on because they see a possibility.

My plan has always been pretty simple.

I learn English.

I study to be a nurse.

And then I can stay here hopefully.

When my parents came to Detroit in the early 80s Nigerians in the metro Detroit area started social organizations.

This is what it means to be Nigerian in Detroit.

Art in all its form essentially tell a story, and we are part of the American story.

Whether it is the story of Minneapolis the story of Minnesota the story of the Midwest or America at large.

We get to tell our story through the arts.

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