Cedar Woman (63 page)

head a
n
d
t
h
e o
l
d
st
y
le
o
u
t
f
i
t
?
"
ask
e
d
J
u
lie,
p
o
i
n
ti
n
g with h
e
r
f
a
n.

"He's
m
y
c
o
usin
Bill
T
hu
n
d
er
h
a
w
k.
He’s
a
Tra
d
iti
o
nal
d
a
n
cer. One
of the
best!
T
h
e guy ov
e
r the
r
e
with the huge
black and white bustles
is
m
y
cous
i
n
C
h
ris
W
ar
B
o
n
n
et,
a
n
d
he
'
s
a
M
en
'
s
Fancy
D
a
ncer. He's
a
D
a
k
o
ta,
b
u
t
t
h
at's
o
k
, we
t
r
y
t
o
o
v
e
r
l
o
ok
h
is speech
i
m
p
e
di
m
e
n
t! T
h
em
Dak
o
ta'
s
, t
h
ey
d
o
n
'
t talk rig
h
t!" J
u
lie
c
hu
c
k
l
ed.

Lena
t
o
o
k
adv
an
t
age
o
f
t
h
e
s
t
a
t
e
l
y wo
m
an’s
ref
e
rence
a
n
d
a
sk
e
d, “Your acc
e
nt,
i
t’s like the
actress on
N
o
rth
er
n
E
x
posur
e
.”

“
Ya,”
r
e
plied
J
u
lie,
“that’s
a Nor
t
h
e
rn Plains
accent
and
most
NdNz have
s
o
m
et
h
ing
si
m
ilar,
ennit.
I
tho
u
ght
y
o
u
r
p
a
rents
are
Lakota.
They

d
on’t s
p
eak
like
m
e
?
”

⁴⁴
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d
i
a
log
b
y
S
pott
e
d
E
a
g
le
H
or
s
e}

⁴⁵
_{NdN term
for
common
ancestors}

⁴⁶
_{Tdee
-
y
osh-pee
-
ya
h
–
Family}

⁴⁷
_{Peh-hahn
–
Crane}

⁴⁸
W
ee-ah-
k
ah-
s
hkah
–
W
h
i
te
P
l
um
e

“
Ate and
I
n
a
li
v
ed
in
S
ou
t
h
e
rn
O
h
io
fo
r
m
any
y
ears
be
fo
re
I
was b
or
n
,
m
o
s
tl
y
ar
ou
nd far
m
ers
and su
c
h
.
I g
u
ess
t
h
ey
m
u
st
have
l
o
st
t
h
eir accents. It’s
lovely,
J
u
lie,”
L
e
na
a
v
erred, s
m
iling.

“
W
o
p
ila,” J
u
lie re
p
lie
d
, retur
n
ing
h
er s
m
i
le.

Julie gaz
e
d
at
Lena f
o
r
a
l
o
ng
m
inute,
as
if
m
aking
a
d
e
cision.

“
Just
a
m
inute,”
Julie
said,
and
hurri
e
d
awa
y
.
Turning
around,
she wav
e
d
an
d
sa
i
d
,
“Be
ri
g
h
t
b
a
ck!”

“
W
ow
!”
L
e
na
brea
t
he
d
.
“
T
h
ere
is
s
o
m
u
ch
to
lea
r
n.
Y
o
u
k
now
, Ate
a
n
d
I
n
a
t
a
u
g
ht
m
e
a
l
o
t
of
t
h
e
la
n
gu
ag
e
and
basic
beliefs,
e
s
pecially

after
At
e
’s
ac
c
ident,
but
I
guess
they
w
a
nt
e
d
to
ble
n
d
i
n
.
Y
o
u
k
no
w,
we were
t
h
e
on
l
y
Nati
v
e
A
m
erica
n
s
in
May
Hill,
at
least
t
h
at
I
k
n
o
w
o
f
,
so
I

ca
n
’t
really
b
l
a
m
e
t
h
e
m
.
Julie
is
so
n
ice
to
tell
u
s
all
o
f
t
h
is,”
Le
n
a

exclai
m
ed.

“
S
h
e li
k
es yo
u
,” Nic
k
ie
offere
d
.