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Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.

Adam Beach

Success isn’t about the biggest house in the world. Success is about loving your family, taking care of your child.
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Biggest Care Child Family House Loving Success Taking
Those traumas when it comes to the historical past generation to generation; our children, our grandchildren, our future grandchildren learn these behaviors.
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Character Children Generation Historical Nice Traumas
Well to me growing, up I’ve had my own psychological war with my parents dying at such a young age. My mother was killed by a drunk driver, then two months later my father drowned.
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Dying Growing Hurt Mother Parent Psychological Up
We [Americans] have a historical trauma when it comes to the past relationships when it comes to Native Americans and the history of how America was created.
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Come Country Historical Native Nice Relationship War
We have to know that they exist and we have to take care of those traumas and learn to heal from them.
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Care Exist God Heal Learn Taken Traumas
We [Native Americans] respect being human beings, but also the natural and spiritual world and I thought that came across wonderfully
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Country Human Being Native Natural Respect Spiritual Warrior World
Smoke Signals really mirrored the way I grew up and how I felt, and that movie was the first time I’d dealt with my parents’ death and how I felt that loss and sadness and anger.
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Anger Deal Felt Grow Mirrored Movie Parent Sadness Signal Smoke
Acting for me was an escape and it wasn’t until Smoke Signals that made me realize that acting is a personal development and challenge to grow.
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And I hope a lot of people get a sense of that; not to take away that we also have that warrior spirit.
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Hope Human Being Natural People Respect Warrior World
I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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Give Giving Hope Inspirational Kid Live Motivate
I could be a ninja, I could be a pirate or I could be in a play y’know.
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Aim Create Creativity Desire Ninja Pirate Play Willing Wish
When faced with structural injustice, especially in the form of oppressive military occupations,
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Energy Especially Faced Military Occupation Oppressive Structural
I have a tendency get a little worked up. So I was interested in learning more about the complicated conflict and decided I would lend some of my time and energy to do so.
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Complicated Conflict Interested Learning Little Tendency Worked
I’m not gonna fall. I’m tired of falling. I’m tired of seeing our people fall. I don’t believe in failure.
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Believe Children Fail Fall Falling People Seeing Tired
I was able to express certain emotions and feelings that I could put into other characters, so it was a good way for me to run away from ho I personally was.
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Character Emotion Express Feeling Good Ninja People Personally View
This movie shows that perspective from Scott’s character, and I love it. It shows the American Indians as the ones who respect and help out when people are needed. It’s a nice little twist.
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Character Country Movie Needed People Perspective Respect Scott Show Twist

Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.

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Growing up with sexual abuse and having to be in gangs and dealing with my own trauma; finding the cultural identity when I was 16, and learning those traditional ways saved me from hurting myself.

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