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I was watching the world news of all these statues coming down and all this national attention to these iconic figures of history and what they represent and the energy and power that it generated through Black Lives Matter.

我当时正在看全球新闻，看到所有这些雕像被推倒，看到全国都在关注这些具有标志性意义的历史人物以及他们所代表的意义，还有“黑人的命也是命”运动所引发的那种能量和影响力。

People who are angry, people who are vandalizing and getting out all this anger and frustration of all these generations of all colors.

愤怒的人们，破坏公物的人们，正在发泄不同肤色人群几代人积累的愤怒和失望。

I called my tribal group. I sent them emails, "Look, something needs to happen here."

我联系了我的部族亲人，给他们发电子邮件：“我们这里得采取些行动了。”

Father Serra was the man who came in, in the 1700s, to start establishing those missions all along Alta California. Here we were the workforce.

塞拉神父是在18世纪来到这里的人，他开始在整个上加利福尼亚地区建立那些传教站。而我们当时就是劳动力。

We were the ones that, my family, my direct family, my great grandfather was part of that mission system, that mission period.

我的家人，我的直系亲属，我的曾祖父曾参与过那个传教体系。

They were told, "You're going build this for us and you're going to change your way of life."

他们被告知：“你们要为我们建设这座城市，你们要改变自己的生活方式。”

And the punishment for disobeying was physical punishment. As time went on and more people kept coming in, the diseases came in.

不遵守命令的后果就是体罚。随着时间的推移，越来越多的人不断涌入，疾病也随之而来。

That was a very detrimental time for us. It changed us completely and, in fact, le