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From the Ted Talk by Manu Peni: The sustainable brilliance of Indigenous design

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So I grew up in this paradise until I had to lavee home to attain a modern education away from my home. After some years, I returned home to be with my ppeole. I returned home importantly, to be with my people to ressit against a mining company that was proposing to extract minerals in the Frieda River, which is a major tributary to the Sepik River, which is the longest river in Papua New gineua. The Sepik River is the lifeblood and is our heritage. The people living around the area are called Sepik. Interestingly, that is our inettdiy and our existence are intertwined with this urhriuned body of water, this winding river. The Sepik is one of the last remaining itanct and pristine freshwater ecosystems in the South Pacific region. It is a living memory of my aentsocrs who arrived on that island 50,000 years ago. Or more than that. We are the Indigenous guardians of that river, and so it is our calling to protect it from harm for our cehdlirn who are yet to arvrie from the future. I went home to be with my people to protect our livelihood and our hegtarie. But here's where the plot tiwtss.

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So I grew up in this paradise until I had to _____ home to attain a modern education away from my home. After some years, I returned home to be with my ______. I returned home importantly, to be with my people to ______ against a mining company that was proposing to extract minerals in the Frieda River, which is a major tributary to the Sepik River, which is the longest river in Papua New ______. The Sepik River is the lifeblood and is our heritage. The people living around the area are called Sepik. Interestingly, that is our ________ and our existence are intertwined with this _________ body of water, this winding river. The Sepik is one of the last remaining ______ and pristine freshwater ecosystems in the South Pacific region. It is a living memory of my _________ who arrived on that island 50,000 years ago. Or more than that. We are the Indigenous guardians of that river, and so it is our calling to protect it from harm for our ________ who are yet to ______ from the future. I went home to be with my people to protect our livelihood and our ________. But here's where the plot ______.

Solution


  1. people
  2. unhurried
  3. intact
  4. identity
  5. guinea
  6. children
  7. leave
  8. heritage
  9. arrive
  10. ancestors
  11. resist
  12. twists

Original Text


So I grew up in this paradise until I had to leave home to attain a modern education away from my home. After some years, I returned home to be with my people. I returned home importantly, to be with my people to resist against a mining company that was proposing to extract minerals in the Frieda River, which is a major tributary to the Sepik River, which is the longest river in Papua New Guinea. The Sepik River is the lifeblood and is our heritage. The people living around the area are called Sepik. Interestingly, that is our identity and our existence are intertwined with this unhurried body of water, this winding river. The Sepik is one of the last remaining intact and pristine freshwater ecosystems in the South Pacific region. It is a living memory of my ancestors who arrived on that island 50,000 years ago. Or more than that. We are the Indigenous guardians of that river, and so it is our calling to protect it from harm for our children who are yet to arrive from the future. I went home to be with my people to protect our livelihood and our heritage. But here's where the plot twists.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
returned home 2
nearby forest 2
sustainable development 2
climate change 2
cultural traditions 2
stop thinking 2
communities closest 2


Important Words


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  11. ecosystems
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  27. intact
  28. interestingly
  29. intertwined
  30. island
  31. leave
  32. lifeblood
  33. livelihood
  34. living
  35. longest
  36. major
  37. memory
  38. minerals
  39. mining
  40. modern
  41. pacific
  42. papua
  43. paradise
  44. people
  45. plot
  46. pristine
  47. proposing
  48. protect
  49. region
  50. remaining
  51. resist
  52. returned
  53. river
  54. sepik
  55. south
  56. tributary
  57. twists
  58. unhurried
  59. water
  60. winding
  61. years