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I want to praise activists through the years. I praise those of the past as well, to have them honored.

I'm very interested in heritage restoration, and I'm working with a group of people to create a number of academies and performance spaces to encourage native arts and crafts and to explore African history.

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

I am proud of my heritage and have happily taken advantage of every opportunity to educate my teammates and Steeler Nation about American Samoa, both as a player and in the community, through the Troy and Theodora Polamalu Foundation Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation.

I wish to thank the Nobel Foundation for granting me the greatest honor to which a scientist may aspire.

To receive this award from an organization I admire so much makes me totally happy and grateful.

I want to thank the efforts of the American Public Health Association and its 200-plus partners who have organized events around the Nation that serve to raise everyone's awareness of the need to improve public health.