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<div>Attached is the musical notation for a song reflection on Chicago Accelerate 77 (Saturday, September 15): "Footprints of Sikaakwa". Below are the lyrics. </div>
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<div>Ellie</div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>FOOTPRINTS
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Footprints
of Sikaakwa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>journeyed
lakeshore sands,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>creatures
spinning stories<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>in
winds haunting the land,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>swimming,
creeping, crawling—they came;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>flying,
walking, stalking—they gamed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>hunters,
warriors, growers—they remained,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>living
lightly on the earth of Sikaakwa.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Footprints
of Sikaakwa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>turned
rivers, changed terrain,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>paving
trails and forging rails,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>farm
ways to factory days—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>exploring,
trading, supplanting—they came;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>building,
inventing, investing—they gamed,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>artist,
industrialist, politician—they remained,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>sculpting
rising skyline peaks of Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Footprints
of Sikaakwa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>converged
from all directions,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>cultures
clashed and merged,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>stewing
desire and introspection—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>laboratory
of urban life—they came;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>microcosm
of courage and strife—they gamed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>movements
calling for justice—they remained,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>stirring
brewing cauldron hope of Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>Footprints
of Sikaakwa<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>blaze
new community,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>people
working together<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>to
thrive sustainably—<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>welcoming
young and old—they came;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>joining
the gifts of all—they gamed;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>waking
to Earth’s vision—they remained,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>living
boldly a real dream of Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>ejhs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>9/09/12<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'><span style="mso-tab-count: 2;"> </span>reflection on Accelerate
77, Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 1in;" class="MsoNormal"><span style='font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;'>“Sikaakwa” (pronounced: “Sheekakwa”):<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>namesake of Chicago;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>French pronunciation of Algonquian (Miami/Illinois)
name for a wild garlic/leek (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Allium
Tricoccum</i>) (striped skunk) growing along the shores of Lake Michigan and
the Des Plaines (branch of Chicago River) in the 1600s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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