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Belonging: Why It’s Important to Be From Somewhere

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Published: September 13, 2015 by VPR Producer

When you ask an American, “where are you from?” most of them will say it’s where they live now or where they were born. We talk to one man who thought long and hard about that question and went on a journey around the Midwest and Plains States to try to answer it. He learned a lot about his family’s heritage and the cost in lives, land and culture that indigenous peoples paid so European settlers could call themselves Americans.


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  • Allan Johnson, author of Not From Here: A memoir

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  • agjohnson.us
Program #: 15-37segment type: Feature StoriesTopics - Commentary and Criticism| Family and Interpersonal Relationships| Government and Politics| History| Immigration and Deportation| Race and IdentityGuests - Allan JohnsonBooks & Publications - Not From Here: A memoirProducers - Pat Reuter| Reed Pence| Sean Waldron
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