Where I Come From
Kiowa railroad worker Barnie Botone reflects on working the same tracks that once carried his imprisoned ancestor, Chief Guipago, away from his homeland.
A short, powerful animated oral history linking one man's working life to his ancestor's forced removal.
Barnie Botone was 22 years old when he got his very first job on the railroad. Nearly a hundred years prior, his great-great grandfather Guipago, a chief of the Kiowa Tribe of the Great Plains, was imprisoned by the U.S.
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