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Doug Pakonye

Jul 13, 2026

39:27
Doug Pakonye showed me their lacrosse field.
39:29
And the great thing about this game and how it really connects us as a community is you hear Myaamia twang out there when we're playing.
39:38
So you hear people saying, "Mahanto," scoop it.
39:43
"Mililo," give it to me.
39:45
You get that connection back to the way our relatives played when they were here 150, 200 years ago.
43:06
What does it mean for you knowing that, like, you grew up without that connection to Myaamia people, but that future generations will grow up always having had it?
43:16
Yeah.
43:17
So for me, it starts with my kids.

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