Cedar Woman (139 page)

on
f
rom
t
h
is s
o
r
r
o
w
.

“
H
au, M
i
kauye
Oyapi, hetchetu
yel
o
⁸⁸
.”

S
m
iling,
B
o
y
La
d
d
c
r
ied,
“
N
o
w,
I
ndi
a
n
,
u
p
a
n
d
m
ove
on
!
”

Walking
ov
e
r
to
Lena
and
e
m
b
r
acing
her,
Boy
Ladd proceeded
to o
f
fer
hu
g
s
a
n
d
w
o
r
d
s
of
co
n
so
lation
to
t
h
e r
e
st of t
h
e
g
u
est
s
.

Nickie
an
d
Sonny prep
a
red
a Sp
i
rit
Plate
for
the gr
a
n
dfathers.
T
h
e
p
latter
co
n
tained
a
little
o
f
e
v
eryt
h
ing
b
eing
ser
v
e
d
,
and
wo
u
ld
b
e
p
laced

upon
a
s
m
a
l
l
t
able
set
up
i
n
front
of
t
h
e
r
e
staur
a
nt’s
e
n
tr
an
ce
so
that
the

Gr
an
dfath
e
rs
c
ou
l
d
eat
w
i
t
h
o
u
t
bei
n
g
dist
ur
be
d
.
As
t
h
ey w
o
r
k
e
d
,
B
o
y Ladd
pray
e
d
over
the
food.
That d
o
n
e
,
t
h
e
m
ourn
e
rs
w
er
e
free
to
eat, re
m
e
m
b
ering
s
tories
ab
o
u
t
t
h
e
dep
a
rted,
and
r
e
veli
n
g
in
t
h
e
m
e
m
o
ries they sh
a
red.

L
o
gan
Si
n
g
i
n
g
Gra
s
s
Yo
u
n
g
Bear
was
a he
a
lt
h
y
bab
y
.
B
o
r
n
M
ay
1,

1
99
5
,
he
a
rr
i
v
e
d
t
w
o we
e
k
s
later
t
h
an
his p
ro
j
ected birth date.
Reva
b
e
nt a
n
d
lifted
t
h
e small c
h
ild
from
h
is
b
assi
n
et.
Cr
o
o
n
in
g
, she e
x
a
m
i
n
ed
t
h
e s
m
a
ll, disfigured
face
of
h
e
r
great-grand
s
o
n.

L
o
ga
n
,
na
m
ed
f
o
r
h
i
s
g
reat
-
g
r
an
d
fat
h
e
r,
was
b
or
n
w
it
h a
m
oderate
l
y severe
cleft
in
g
o
f
th
e
li
p
,
g
u
m
s
and
h
ar
d
a
n
d
s
o
f
t
p
a
lates
.
B
u
t
,
h
e
was
beautiful.
The defect could not
m
ar the
fact that he was, inde
e
d
, a ha
n
d
s
o
m
e
bo
y
,
and
R
e
va
r
e
jo
i
ced
in
the
fact that
her
life
w
a
s
extended
t
o t
h
e
p
o
i
n
t
t
h
at
s
h
e
c
ou
l
d ho
l
d her
g
r
eat
-
g
r
a
n
d
son in h
e
r
a
r
m
s
.

M
ary peer
e
d
o
v
er
her
m
o
t
h
e
r
-
i
n-
la
w’s
sh
ou
l
de
r
,
her
e
y
es
mi
s
t
y w
it
h l
ov
e
and
pr
o
tecti
v
e
n
ess.
Pe
t
er
b
ea
m
ed
h
is
h
ap
p
i
n
ess,
a
s
l
i
gh
t
d
r
o
o
p
still
m
anifesti
n
g
o
n t
h
e
left s
i
de of his
m
out
h
.