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The dancers were lead in by Larry Harrison and will be lead out. chanting . All right. One more time. How about a big round of applause for all our dancers, for all our singers . [applause] all right. Its a great honor to bring to the stage at this time liz hunt on behalf of the American Indian Health Center Santa Clara Valley. [applause] thank you earl and thank you everybody. Its an honor to be here. I am liz hunt and we have been honored to serve the American Indian community in the south bay for over 35 years. It is my pleasure to introduce our first honoree. Izatzi hernandez. [applause] s...

California. I am here to speak on behalf of gwen spriar and the American Indian alliance. It was created in the 90s to provide voice to the community in Santa Clara Valley and started by Laverne Robert and provides two annual powwows and numerous fundraisers. Gwen has been part of the alliance for about 15 years now. Gwen is a elder and retired from the American Indian district titles four, seven and nine of the Indian Education act. She has moved beyond the limits of her duties for the families in her district. She spends time volunteers for all Community Functions that the alliance puts on. ...

Indian, and so that gave them reasons to study harder and to be a better student and stay in school. Where you come from is important and what your background is and your family, so we have to have indian education. I dont think im a hero. I just had a job to do, and did it with the children at the School District, but i also like to include the whole community. Thats why we put on the powwows and have different events where everyone could attend. Be proud that youre indian. So we would like to present gwen with this local heros award from kqmd. Thank you very much for what you have done for t...

Here. Because you are my family. Im so far away from home. My family they live in arizona, and today i have my son with me and this is chanto and he is representative. I get to have home with me everyday. I love my children and my grandmother one of the really important lessons that i learned and i carry with me a lot is when my daughter was born she was only a few months old, and we were with my grandma, and she was helping me take care of her one day, and my baby brother was about four or five, and the living room was just full of toys. Every room had some toy in it, and my grandmother she w...

Daughter was only a few months old but boy did she know how to fall. She just rolld and my daughter she was still fully intact. She didnt hit the ground. She wasnt even crying. I was so amazed by the way she was able to roll and fall, and so as an adult thinking back on a lot of my memories and remembering like the different lessons that people have brought to me. I remember my grandmother she knew how to fall but she knew how to fall, and so when i come to those points in my life where i feel like im falling i just know that we know how to do that. We know how to roll and we know how to roll ...