reading the essay that got me in ~ USC Graduate School edition (part 1)

Reading my personal statement really took me back 🥲
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Music:
99Instrumentals - Coffeehouse (Copyright Free Music)
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00:00-01:11 - intro (hi besties)
01:11-05:33 - background + video agenda
05:33-08:04 - reading my personal statement, page 1
08:04-10:12 - reading my personal statement, page 2
10:12-13:06 - reading my personal statement, page 3
13:06-15:28 - reading my personal statement, page 3
15:28-16:14 - reading my personal statement, last part
16:14-17:42 - some tips I thought of
17:42-19:09 - tip #1: do your best to get specific
19:09-20:13 - tip #2: don’t be afraid to get personal
20:13-21:23 - tip #3: stay true to you
21:23-23:35 - outro (bye besties)

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The land I recorded this video on is the traditional territory of the Kizh/Gabrieleño (pronounced Keech) Nation, the Gabrielino/Tongva Nation, and the Chumash Nation according to Native Land (https://native-land.ca/). I recognize that this land was stolen from these peoples, and that they had to endure suffering, forced labor, displacement, and a stripping of much of their language, traditions, and history as a result of colonialism and oppression. Despite this, Indigenous people are still here. This is still Indigenous land.
If you like to support these Nations, I’ve pasted some places to start:

KIZH Nation
https://gabrielenoindians.org/
“The Kizh Kitc Gabrieleños are the indigenous people of the Los Angeles basin that were enslaved to build the San Gabriel mission as well as the Los Angeles Plaza Church and who’s history has attempted to be erased by politics on both local and federal levels. We are talking about a conspiracy through the 20th century to avoid the question of repatriation.”

Gabrielino/Tongva Nation
http://gabrielino-tongva.com/
“We are the Tongva people. We have inhabited, since time immemorial, the region we call Tovangar, known today as the Los Angeles Basin. Our natural, ancestral boundaries are from the Santa Susanna Mountains to the North, Aliso Creek to the South, the San Bernardino Mountains to the East, and the Pacific Ocean to the West, including the four channel islands of Santa Catalina, San Clemente, Santa Barbara, and San Nicolas.” (http://gabrielino-tongva.com/document... Constitution Amended February 22, 2020.pdf)

Chumash Nation
“The name “Chumash” does not represent a traditional name employed by the aboriginal speakers of related Chumashan languages. According to Anthropologist Sally McLendon, “There was, in fact, no single term of self-designation that was used by all the peoples now referred to as Chumash, since they did not consider themselves part of a single group.” John Wesley Powell first used the term in an 1891 publication on North American Indian languages. The term “Chumash” used to refer to native peoples as a group began with the 1925 publication of the Handbook of California Indians by UC Berkeley Anthropologist Alfred Kroeber. Chumash is accepted today by Indian people and researchers as an ethnic designation.”
Feel free to start here for a bit of background: https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=24435
You can also support the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation (Malibu, CA) and learn more here: https://www.wishtoyo.org/
I chose to link this foundation because they represent the Indigenous people (the Chumash) who owned the land I record on based on the above website, and they were closest ones I could find to where I’m located in Los Angeles.

If there is anything that I can add to this list or correct in my acknowledgement above, please let me know.

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IG: @erynduhnay | @designedbyduhnay
LinkedIn: Eryn D. Burnett
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