A Native American woman in the community of which I was raised said, and they came and they cut down the trees and they burned them.
John Garamendi: “A Native American woman in the community of which I was raised said, and they came and they cut down the trees and they…”
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Garamendi reflects on historical environmental destruction in California.
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