my grandparents were migrants from overwhelm from the shani reservation. they were i try tolings escape difficulty of the dust bowl and i'm so gladeful to them because it is easy to lose who you are and lose your indigenous that ties you to -- you your family is living in poverty your generations and generations so my deep gratitude to them for the sacrifices theyed made as well. i'd like to -- read something i think speaks to that concept america land oask as was so eloquently mentioned we're on native indigenous land right now so i'll read a poem from this collection. that looks closely at the shani land and how it has changed from generation to generation. so this poem is called american town. seneca, missouri seeps through cracked window. the map flutters on the dashboard one corner grits soaked. sparse oh disark wash of to inny green. i heard of buffalo loring in the sad patture. here is the voyage conjured homeland to conjured homeland. no, not that trajectory of the past -- but it scrapes just the same. the drive to ohio will take 11 hours and 48 mi

my grandparents were migrants from overwhelm from the shani reservation.hey were i try tolings escape difficulty of the dust bowl and i'm so gladeful to them because it is easy to lose who you are and lose your indigenous that ties you to -- you your family is living in poverty your generations and generations so my deep gratitude to them for the sacrifices theyed made as well. i'd like to -- read something i think speaks to that concept america land oask as was so eloquently mentioned we're on native indigenous land right now so i'll read a poem from this collection. that looks closely at the shani land and how it has changed from generation to generation. so this poem is called american town. seneca, missouri seeps through cracked window. the map flutters on the dashboard one corner grits soaked. sparse oh disark wash of to inny green. i heard of buffalo loring in the sad patture. here is the voyage conjured homeland to conjured homeland. no, not that trajectory of the past -- but it scrapes just the same. the drive to ohio will take 11 hours and 48 minu

to offer some opening remarks, and then she will moderate a discussion and will introduce jim and shani and glenn. and the podium is now yours. >> well, thank you, strobe come in particular, i thank you to all of you for sharing some of your time this afternoon with me, with brookings and with my colleagues in a few moments. i want to say first of all that writing an essay about 2016 and donald trump and the media, and putting it out there in the context of a post-truth world is kind of like inviting the trolls to a dinner party. and so we can discuss a little bit what their reaction has been to the piece. first of all i do want to thank strobestrobe, because not only e had the vision to really embrace long form and put the commitment of brookings nine this very provocative and powerful series of essays, i've had the privilege of both writing one and editing and partnering with the brookings on versions of these pieces that it had life in many different mediums as a result. i think it's a very valuable contribution. this is finally my moment as a journalist where i'm not entirely sure t

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but shani, we did screw up, right? >> i largely agree with glenn. i the end of the campaign, there was a lot of information, to information out there about both candidates. i think donald trump was actually fairly easy to cover in that digging into his past and his background as a type of business. he is, he's been a public figure since so long, a celebrity figure for so long that fighting to information about him and publishing it wasn't a difficult thing to do. the same for hillary clinton. >> so why did nobody care? that's actually the bigger question which is what you have up there, post-truth, post-fact. for fact. for a lot of people, it's very clear that it given up on their trust, and that maybe if there's anywhere we screwed up, it's how do you bring that back? >> well, so i don't disagree with anything anybody said so far but i really do think the problem is people not believing or not really caring about facts. and that's the subject i think a lot of people have tackled and i spent a lot of time on ever since i was at the state department,