Nephi Craig
speaker
419 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 25 Jul
Nephi Craig’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, as indigenous people, we experience oppression differently.
We experience being an American citizen differently.
We experience capitalism, imperialism, and colonialism differently.
The systems that enable...
Those three monsters were not designed and built by us.
And as Native American peoples, we've inherited a legacy of historical trauma and colonial violence.
So it's not that we are different biologically.
It's that we have a different legacy in encounters with colonial violence in America.
That's what I feel is one of the root causes of this multidimensional monster that is addiction.
Yeah, so that's so amazing that you're going to play a piece of it.
My late father, Vincent Craig, was a singer and songwriter and a cartoonist.
He was a police officer, Marine Corps sergeant and sharpshooter.
He was a mountain rescue guy.
He was a good dad.
He was a sober dad.
He was so many things.
And one of his songs that he wrote, Someone Drew a Line, it talks about reservation boundaries being created in Navajo land and people's reactions and elders' reactions to this new concept of land ownership that was different from how we experienced it as Navajo Diné people.
My grandfather used to take me to the mountains in my youth And there he would tell me the legends of long ago Between the four sacred mountains we lived in harmony And now you tell us that we've got to go
Cause someone drew a line.
Someone drew a line.
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