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And on that note, And reading, like, the research for this, the people who carried this forward, the people who had to keep this in secret, we were not allowed to do our performing arts for generations. So many of these things were literally illegal for us to do. Our regalia was torn, was burned. So many of our ancestors, and really even my parents' generation, not quite ancestors yet, had to hold these for us. They had to keep these and really do them on an individual basis for the most part.