A New National Park to Reclaim Indigenous Land | Tracie Revis | TED

翻译人员: Jinnie Sun 校对人员: Lening Xu

In February of 2021, I landed in Atlanta, Georgia.

2021 年 2 月，我降落在 佐治亚州的亚特兰大。

To be back in Georgia, the ancestral homelands of my people,

回到佐治亚， 我的先祖们曾经的家园，

gave me very mixed emotions.

我的感觉很复杂。

At that time, I was living in Tulsa, Oklahoma,

当时，我住在 俄克拉荷马州的塔尔萨，

where I was serving as chief of staff

在那里我担任

to the Principal Chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation,

马斯科吉（克里克）部落保留地 （Muscogee (Creek) Nation）的幕僚长，

the tribe who’s Indigenous to this area.

该部落是当地的土著部落。

And we were in Georgia that day

那天我们在佐治亚州

for a meeting in Macon at the Ocmulgee Mounds.

参加了在梅肯的奥穆吉丘举行的会议。

This area of Macon grew up along the beautiful Ocmulgee River.

梅肯的这片地区位于 美丽的奥穆吉河沿岸。

This area has over 17,000 years of human history

该地区有超过 17,000 年的人类历史，

and was the former capital city of our tribal towns,

它曾是我们部落城镇的首府，

the Atlanta of its day.

即当时的亚特兰大。

Now, you would think that to be back in the homelands

你可能认为回到家乡

would bring feelings of peace and joy.

会带来平和与快乐的感觉。

But for many of us, there is still a deep-rooted hurt connected to this land,

但是对于我们中的许多人来说， 这片土地仍然存在着根深蒂固的伤害，

a hurt that comes from knowing

这种伤害源于知道

that your family were forcibly required to leave their homes.

你的家人曾被迫离开他们的家园。

Yet everywhere you go in this state, you see our words, our language

然而，在这个州无论你走到哪里，

你都能看到我们的文字，我们的语言，

that serve as a blueprint to this state, etched on this landscape.

它们是这个州的蓝图， 刻在这片土地上。

Words like Towaliga or Dalwa-leg-it’s,

像Towaliga或Dalwa-leg-it、

Tybee or Dabe, Coweta, Muscogee, Ocmulgee.

Tybee或Dabe、Coweta、 Muscogee、Ocmulgee 这样的词。

They serve as a whisper from our ancestors who were once here.

它们是曾经在这里的 我们的祖先的耳语。

(Speaks Yuchi)

（优奇语）

Good morning. My name is Tracie Revis.

早上好，我是特蕾西·雷维斯。

I am a Yuchi woman and of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

我是一名优奇族女性，来自 马斯科吉（克里克）部落保留地。

My Yuchi name is sahAsAfanE.

我的优奇族名字叫sahAsAfanE。

I’m D@th@, or wolf clan,

我是D@th@，或者狼族，

and come from the Polecat Ceremonial Ground.

我来自臭鼬纪念地 （Polecat Ceremonial Ground）。

And you're all on my family's ancestral lands.

你们现在都在我家祖传的土地上。

Lands that I and others are working to reclaim.

我和其他人正在努力夺回的土地。

Now all too often,

现在很多时候，

Indigenous stories often have stories of colonization

土著故事往往含有殖民化

and forced removal.

和强行驱逐的内容。

(Video) (Singing)

（视频） （歌声）

The Trail of Tears, or The Road of Misery

眼泪之路，或叫苦难之路，

removed tens of thousands of Indigenous people

使数以万计的原住民

from their ancestral lands.

离开了他们祖先的土地。

The violence of the 1830s Indian Removal Act

19 世纪 30 年代 《印第安人驱逐法》造成的暴力

did not end when we made it into Oklahoma,

在我们移民到俄克拉荷马州时 并没有结束，

and for many of us, removal is not that far removed.

而且对于我们中的许多人来说， 驱逐移民这件事并不遥远。

Its impact has stretched throughout generations.

它的影响已经延续了几代人。

My grandmother, my father,

我的祖母、父亲、

my aunts and uncles were all sent

阿姨和叔叔都被送到

to the government-run Indian boarding schools.

政府开办的印第安寄宿学校。

My grandmother, whose first language was Yuchi,

我的祖母，她的母语是优奇语，

was only allowed to speak English in these schools

只被允许在这些学校讲英语，

and had to relearn her native tongue as an adult.

而在成年后必须重新学习母语。

Now to be clear, we call these buildings “schools,”

现在需要明确一下， 我们称这些建筑为“学校”，

but they really served as a place to silence the community

但它们确实是一个让社区沉默的地方，

and to steal the future culture from generations.

从几代人那里偷走了未来的文化。

And as the first generation of my family

作为家庭中第一代

to not have been sent to these government-run schools,

没有被送到这些政府开办的学校的人，

I still did not escape the impacts of this trauma.

我仍然无法逃脱这种创伤的影响。

But back to Georgia.

但是说回佐治亚州。

So that day, we're at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park.

那一天，我们在 奥穆吉丘国家历史公园。

And we began to walk out to one of the mound sites.

我们开始走到其中一个土丘遗址。

And as we cross a bridge,

当我们过桥时，

immediately my heart skips a beat

我的心脏立刻跳了起来，

and I smell a medicine, or a plant that we still use today

我闻到了一种药物， 或者说一种我们今天仍在用的植物，

in our annual ceremonies, E’apane, or our Green Corn.

用于年度仪式的E’apane， 是一种绿色玉米。

And immediately I am transformed,

我马上就变了，

because I know in that moment that my ancestors are still here.

因为那一刻我知道我的祖先还在这里。

And it was like taking a black and white photo

这就像拍一张黑白照片

and turning it into color.

然后把它变成彩色一样。

It was vibrant and real, and it was now.

它充满活力和真实感，它就在当下。

And as we began to walk out to another mound site,

接着当我们开始走到 另一个土丘所在地时，

I hear a voice inside of me that says,

我听到我内心有个声音说：

"What would it feel like to ever live back in these lands?

“重新生活在这些土地上 会是什么感觉？

To be here in the homeland?"

生活在这儿，在家乡？”

And as we walk a little farther into another mound site,

当我们走得更远一点， 进入另一个土丘所在地时，

I hear another voice that says,

我听到另一个声音说：

"We need to create a relationship with this community,

“我们需要与这个社区建立联系，

and we need to heal together."

我们需要一起治愈。”

Fast-forward one year later,

快进到一年后，

I am now living in Macon, Georgia.

我现在住在佐治亚州的梅肯。

(Applause)

（掌声）

I proudly serve as the director of advocacy

我很荣幸担任奥穆吉国家公园 和保护区倡议组织的宣传主任。

to the Ocmulgee National Park and Preserve Initiative.

I work every day to bring the tribal voice back to these lands,

我每天都在努力将部落的声音 带回这些土地，

and to make my nation, my tribe, a co-manager,

让我的民族、我的部落 成为共同管理者，

all while creating Georgia's first national park and preserve.

同时也建立佐治亚州的 第一个国家公园和保护区。

(Applause)

（掌声）

In September of 2022, the Ocmulgee Mounds had its first visit ever

2022 年 9 月， 内政部长首次访问了奥穆吉丘，

from a Secretary of the Interior, who happened to be Secretary Deb Haaland,

德布·哈兰恰好也是首位原住民部长。

the first Indigenous secretary.

(Applause)

（掌声）

And that day, she’s in Georgia

那天，她在佐治亚州

to look at some land that we had just acquired

看我们刚获得的一些土地，

and we were donating toward the expansion of the park.

我们正在为扩建公园捐款。

And as we go to look at this piece of land that is a very sacred piece of land ...

当我们要去看这片土地， 一块非常神圣的土地时...

It was slated for industrialization.

它被计划用于工业化建设。

This land that was very sacred,

这片非常神圣的土地，

had been raped, overmined,

被蹂躏、被过度开采、

stripped all the way down to the silt.

被剥削直到变成泥沙。

And that day I watched the secretary bend down and place her hand on the ground

那天我看着部长弯下腰把手放在地上，

on an erosion scar.

放在一道侵蚀疤痕上。

And it was in that moment that I knew

正是在那一刻，我知道

that she understood what I had come to understand.

她明白了我曾明白的。

And as we began to walk back, she says,

当我们开始走回去时，她说：

"They are still here, your ancestors are still here,

“他们还在这里，你的祖先还在这里，

and the land will bring back who and what it needs to heal it."

这片土地将带回 它需要的人和物来治愈它。”

To which I can only reply, "Yes, ma'am."

对此我只能回答：“是的，女士。”

(Laughter)

（笑声）

If my journey has taught me anything, it's that if you take care of this land,

如果我的经历教会了我什么， 那就是如果你照顾好这片土地，

it will take care of you.

它就会照顾好你。

This land that brought me home.

这片土地把我带回家了。

In the state of Georgia, we have zero federally recognized tribes,

在佐治亚州，联邦政府 认可的部落数量是零，

but in the city of Macon, where we have now created a relationship,

但是在我们现已建立关系的梅肯市，

we are seeing ourselves beyond the landscape.

我们在景观之外看到了自己。

As we reclaim our names and our words,

当我们重新主张自己的名字和语言时，

we are seeing ourself in a part of the culture.

我们正在将自己视为文化的一部分。

Recently, we passed legislation in the city

最近，我们在该市通过了立法，

that requires that our tribal flag, our sovereign flag,

要求我们的部落旗帜， 即我们的主权旗帜，

permanently fly over City Hall.

永久悬挂在市政厅上空。

(Applause)

（掌声）

Thank you.

谢谢。

In a land we were never meant to return, this is extremely powerful.

在这片我们从不想 交出的土地上，它非常强大。

Today, as we continue to heal a community,

今天，当我们继续治愈一个社区时，

this land is healing us.

这片土地也在治愈着我们。

And with that, I say thank you, mvto.

最后，我要说谢谢，mvto。

(Applause)

（掌声）