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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Yeah, right.
Yeah.
All my life, I always encounter these really big, complicated web of American history in our lifelines as Native American people.
And so how my family encounters organized religion and the LDS church is when they were small.
My dad is out in the Navajo Nation.
There were Mormon missionaries trying to convert people all over the Southwest and on the Navajo Nation.
And the same thing in White River on the Apache Resnick.
And so my parents were both placed on the placement program, which is where in the 50s and 60s and into the 70s, young Native American kids were taken from their homes and placed in Mormon homes in Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, anywhere there was a high population of Mormon families.
And my parents were essentially raised in the Mormon church in a Mormon community until they graduated high school.
And so they, you know, that's a big part of our life.
And so when the three of us, me and my brothers, come into the picture, they decide to name me Nephi.
And, you know, I didn't really know it or think about it at the time, but it's really kind of been there.
I even write it in the book, like this Mormon judge says, like, if you had followed your namesake, you wouldn't have been here.
You'd be a prophet if you followed your namesake.
Yeah, but so it's a lot of complicated elements in how identity forms.
And for me, that's one dimension of how it contributes to substance use, but also freeing myself from it too.
You know what I mean?
So it's an interesting thing how I got my name.
Thank you for having me.
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