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From the Ted Talk by Elizabeth Lindsey: Curating humanity's heritage

Unscramble the Blue Letters


As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian eedlrs — three old weomn who took care of me while my prentas worked. The year is 1963. We're at the ocean. It's twilight. We're watching the rising of the stars and the shifting of the tides. It's a stretch of beach we know so well. The smooth stones on the sand are familiar to us. If you saw these women on the sreett in their faded clothes, you might dismiss them as poor and simple. That would be a mistake. These women are decnetnasds of poalyisenn navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me. They teach me the names of the winds and the rains, of astmrnooy according to a genealogy of stars. There's a new moon on the horizon. hnaiiwaas say it's a good night for fishing. They begin to chant.

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As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian ______ — three old _____ who took care of me while my _______ worked. The year is 1963. We're at the ocean. It's twilight. We're watching the rising of the stars and the shifting of the tides. It's a stretch of beach we know so well. The smooth stones on the sand are familiar to us. If you saw these women on the ______ in their faded clothes, you might dismiss them as poor and simple. That would be a mistake. These women are ___________ of __________ navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me. They teach me the names of the winds and the rains, of _________ according to a genealogy of stars. There's a new moon on the horizon. _________ say it's a good night for fishing. They begin to chant.

Solution


  1. parents
  2. descendants
  3. astronomy
  4. polynesian
  5. hawaiians
  6. elders
  7. street
  8. women

Original Text


As a child, I was raised by native Hawaiian elders — three old women who took care of me while my parents worked. The year is 1963. We're at the ocean. It's twilight. We're watching the rising of the stars and the shifting of the tides. It's a stretch of beach we know so well. The smooth stones on the sand are familiar to us. If you saw these women on the street in their faded clothes, you might dismiss them as poor and simple. That would be a mistake. These women are descendants of Polynesian navigators, trained in the old ways by their elders, and now they're passing it on to me. They teach me the names of the winds and the rains, of astronomy according to a genealogy of stars. There's a new moon on the horizon. Hawaiians say it's a good night for fishing. They begin to chant.

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