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NOTE Placeholder transcript for the Phase 2B prototype. Real interview
     ships only after full partnership review with the descendant
     community per the consultation statement on /about.

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Chapter one of the story is a chapter of ours. Not a prologue.

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The Navesink lived along this shore for thousands of years before

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the first sail. Longer than any other era of human life you can

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name here. The Minisink Trail came down out of the Delaware and

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ended right about where we are standing. It was a summer path.

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Families came for the fish, for the shellfish. There is a very

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old translation of the word Navesink that means good fishing place.

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I believe it. The middens are up and down this shore, and every

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midden is a summer camp made permanent by patience. Contact was

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brutal. Dispossession followed, and the Sand Hill families carried

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the thread through it all. We are still here. You are welcome to

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tell this story. You are not welcome to tell it without us.