b'Gadugi - Working Together for aCommon GoalAconversationaboutcommunitywithAnagali(Shace) Duncan, TYRC Youth AmbassadorParticipatingintheRemembertheRemoval tostopalongtheseroutesandseethesebikeridein2021wasAnagalisfirsttime placeswherethereweremassgravesites,leaving the Rez. He is Keetoowah and grew anditputseverythingintoperspective.Yes,upinStillwell,OklahomaontheCherokee you do have a lot of trauma from this, but youNationhomelands.Anagaliistwentyyears alsoseethatyouinheritsomuchold,hisparentsareKimandCarneyDuncan, generationalstrength,becauseyourandhehasthirteensiblings.Anagalishares communitymadeit,eventhoughallofthisthat Seeing how we arent really represented was against them. You guys still made it, andinalotofplacesshowedmetheneedfor you guys are still loud and Indigenous and itsIndigenousrepresentationoutsideof beautiful.Indigenouscommunities,andhecreditstheexperienceofthebikeridewithshapinghis When asked how he would define community,understanding of community. In 2021, [myself] Anagali shares that the Keetoowah word forand a group of other bike riders, 9 of us6 of communityisgadugi,whichmeansworkinguswerefromOklahoma,and3ofuswere togetherforacommongoal.ItshowshowfromNorthCarolinaretracedthenorthern intertwined everybody is because we all areroute of the Trail of Tears, which was the trail workingforonething,andifthatisthatourancestorswereplacedon.Just representation, thats representation, or if itsretracing it was breathtaking because we got for the betterment of society, its that. I lookatcommunityasanextensionofmyselfIdontknowwhoIwouldbewithoutmycommunity.Headdsthatcommunityisapillar of identity for Indigenous communities.The closest thing to individuality for me is mycommunity and my family. Anagalispassionlieswithinbringingmycommunity into spaces where they have beenpurposelyexcluded,especiallyinacademia,orspecificallyenvironmentalscience,Indigenous perspectives arent really looked'