please join me in welcoming roxanne dunbar ortiz. ask the [applause] thank you for coming out on this cold night. i come from san francisco where we think that it's cooled when it gets 60. so i have a lot of clothes on. can you hear me? okay. first i want to acknowledge that we are here today on stolen land prior to invasion and occupation this is the home of part of the territory of the algonquin speaking peoples made up of farmers, fishers and traders who lived in town right here where washington is now that's were the center of a thriving trade from all the nations in the interior. it's been going on for some time and is not original to me but i put it in this form most of it is academic, but a number of native scholars have theorized the same interpretation as have african-american scholars. some commentators in th and the public, not these scholars, they say look for reasons they have such a strong appeal in the united states in comparison to other societies. but few of them explore those reasons, so that is the purpose of this