And there we were showing up. And that made a huge difference for our research. But with the ojibwe, no legitimacy, the history and prior work of the university with that community had so eroded the trust that my principal investigator of the project had to go for 4 hours and just be yelled at in order to build back trust, people needed the catharsis and then over time they were able to get to a place of collaboration, actually. But I just want to sort of give you that as sort of my own background in thinking about how different institutions, different civil society institutions, different government institutions, have different forms of credibility, again with different constituents and how easy it is to lose it.

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