Cedar Woman (81 page)

"Ya,
I
k
n
o
w"
J
u
lie replie
d
,
s
h
aki
n
g
h
e
r
head and
m
aking
a wry fac
e
. "I get t
h
at a
l
o
t!"

⁷²
Shee-kahn-
g
joo
–
t
h
e
n
a
me
of t
h
e
domi
n
ant
gro
u
p
or
"camp"
that
inhabits

_{Rosebud.
One
of
the
Seven
Camps
of
the
Sioux
N
a
tio
n
.}

⁷³
Wahmblee
Glay-shkah
–
Spotted
Ea
g
le

Once
sk
i
n
sh
i
p
was
esta
b
lis
h
e
d
,
Julie
felt
co
m
for
ta
b
le
with
l
o
o
k
ing

Re
v
a
d
i
rectly in
t
h
e eye, a
n
d felt free
t
o offer h
e
r
ho
m
e for
t
h
e
Hunkapi. “Unci,”
s
h
e
o
f
fer
e
d,
“
I
li
v
e
a
b
o
u
t
a
n
h
ou
r
n
o
r
t
h
of
h
e
re,
a
n
d
I
h
a
ve

an
in
i
p
i
⁷⁴
set
u
p
at
ho
me
.
Y
o
u
a
re welco
m
e
to
use
bo
t
h
t
h
e
L
o
d
g
e
an
d
m
y
ho
m
e f
o
r
the
c
ere
m
onies.”

R
eva
gaz
e
d
at
Ju
li
e
w
it
h
grat
i
t
ude.
S
h
e
h
a
d
p
l
a
n
ned
t
o
a
s
k
Joe
R
ed

Bear
for
the
u
s
e
of
his
lodge,
but
he was
c
a
lled
away
suddenly
to
help
a relati
v
e
in
S
ou
t
h
D
ak
o
ta.
T
h
is
w
o
u
l
d
so
l
v
e
her
p
ro
b
lem nicely
and
all
o
w
h
er
t
o
g
et
t
o
kn
o
w
t
h
i
s
fa
sci
n
ati
n
g
you
n
g
k
i
ns
w
o
m
an
b
e
tte
r
.

“
O
h
a
n
,” Re
v
a
n
od
d
ed. “I
will
b
e
g
ratef
u
l and
h
on
o
re
d
.”

T
h
e
air was ripe
with
m
o
ist
u
re
a
n
d
sat
h
eavy
u
p
o
n
t
h
e
sweat
l
o
d
g
e, l
o
cated
i
n
t
h
e
m
iddle
of
t
h
e
l
o
n
g
ba
c
k
y
a
r
d
beh
i
nd
t
h
e
sm
all
house
o
f Julie
S
p
otted
Eagle
H
o
rs
e
.
Her
hu
s
b
an
d
,
M
att
h
ew,
who
m
she
j
o
ki
n
g
ly ref
e
rr
e
d
to
as
h
er
“to
k
en
cow
bo
y
,”
w
a
s
act
i
ng
a
s
the
Door
Keep
e
r
for
the Lo
dg
e
,
and
was
g
etting
rea
d
y
to
tra
n
sfer
t
h
e
lar
g
e
s
t
on
es,
w
h
ich
h
a
d
b
een
h
eati
n
g
all
d
a
y,
i
n
to
t
h
e
ce
n
t
ral
p
it
o
f
the
sweat
lod
g
e. As
it
was
a wo
m
an
'
s
l
odg
e
,
no
m
en
wou
l
d
be
enter
i
ng
i
t w
it
h
t
h
e
m
,
but
t
h
ey were
p
er
m
itted
to
act as Do
o
r Keepers a
n
d He
l
p
ers.

Julie
was
overseeing
the fea
s
t
t
h
at
wou
l
d
f
o
ll
o
w
,
a
n
d
g
r
e
eting
t
h
e gu
e
sts who
w
e
re arriv
i
ng for
this
m
o
st solemn
occasion.