Transcript of trailer, Daughter of a Lost Bird
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- [Kendra] When I was adopted,
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the agency had said to her,
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be careful if someone saw her
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and was like, that's a Native baby
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you're white, you shouldn't have her.
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(choir singing)
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Somehow she was terrified
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someone was gonna try to take me.
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(choir singing)
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- OK, now I wanna get you and your mama.
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- [April] I was adopted at birth
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and at six years clean,
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I got two letters.
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One was from my birth mother
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and one was from my birth father.
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- Hi April.
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This is Kendra Potter.
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Your birth daughter.
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I don't know if leaving a voicemail is too weird.
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- [April] I knew that I was not capable
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of doing anything but bringing her to her parents.
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I was afraid that I would
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create more questions for her
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than provide answers.
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I was so far from who that was.
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And I'm so grateful you weren't a part of any of that.
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It's taken a long time for me
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to believe that I belong places.
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When someone says, "You're Lummi"
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it's very hard for me.
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I can't wrap my mind around that.
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I don't know what that means.
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What I know is that
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I'm Cha-das-ska-dum daughter.
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(native chanting and drumming)
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- [Kendra] This desire to be recognized as Native,
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but what is Native anymore?
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If you are a Native American person
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living in an urban environment
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who's never set foot on any kind of reservation,
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knows nothing about your culture and heritage,
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what is that Native-ness?
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What is it?
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I don't know.
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I'm not saying that there's not a right to want it,
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but it's elusive.
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It's elusive.
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- [April] And if we don't know who we are,
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we can't do anything about it.
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(solemn music)
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