Cedar Woman (62 page)

⁴³
Indians
–
plu
r
al
for
NdN

Blo
o
d
'
.
It do
c
u
m
ents,
not
only
y
o
u
r
fa
m
ily
li
n
eage
a
n
d
tri
b
al m
e
m
b
ers
h
i
p
, b
u
t
also
shows y
o
ur
b
l
ood
qua
n
t
u
m
.
I'm
a
qu
a
r
t
er
b
l
o
o
d myself,
bu
t
I
still
qu
alified
f
o
r
enr
o
ll
m
e
n
t.
It's
k
i
nd
o
f
a
t
ou
c
h
y
s
u
b
j
ect for
m
o
st
of
u
s
,
as
we
are
the
ON
L
Y
race that
has
to
prove our
b
l
ood
qu
a
n
t
u
m to
t
h
e
g
o
v
e
r
n
m
e
n
t
in
or
d
er
to
esta
b
lish
o
u
r
i
d
e
n
tity.
C
h
a!
M
a
y
b
e we
o
u
g
h
t
t
o
s
t
art
m
ak
i
ng
t
h
e
o
t
her
rac
e
s
p
r
o
v
e
t
h
eir
b
lo
o
d qu
a
n
t
um
enn
it
,
a
lt
h
o
u
g
h so
m
eh
o
w I d
ou
b
t
th
at w
o
u
l
d
wo
r
k
.
⁴⁴
”

“
So
yo
u
are
a
Sio
u
x
?
F
rom
Pine
Ridg
e
?
”
Ques
t
i
on
e
d
L
e
na.
She was
i
n
trig
u
e
d
.
S
h
e
c
ou
l
d
n
’t
h
elp
b
u
t
n
o
tice
t
h
e
u
se
of
‘en
n
it,’
a
term us
e
d
by
h
e
r
p
arents.
It
m
ade
her
feel
cl
os
e
to
t
h
is
ki
n
d
wo
m
an
w
hom she’d
just
m
et.

“
Yep,
P
i
ne
R
idge
b
o
r
n
a
n
d
br
e
d!
I'm from
the
Pesla
Oyate,
or fa
m
i
lial
g
r
o
u
p
. My
ex
says
t
h
at
I
h
a
v
e
m
o
re
relati
v
es
than
trees
h
a
v
e leaves!
We
j
o
k
ingly
call
it
'
skinsh
i
p
'
⁴⁵
in
the
NdN
w
o
rld...
y
ou
know
how
i
t
i
s
w
h
e
n
yo
u
g
et
t
wo
N
dN
z
t
og
e
t
h
e
r
ya
?
W
it
h
i
n
f
i
v
e
mi
nu
te
s
we
w
ill
have
figur
e
d
out
how
we
a
re
related
to
each
oth
e
r,
e
v
en
i
f
we
are
from two
d
i
ff
e
rent
nati
o
n
s
e
n
nit!”
Julie
gri
n
n
e
d.
Lena
lau
g
h
e
d,
a
n
d
a
g
ain
no
t
ed
a
similarity.
Her fat
h
er
l
ov
e
d
to tell N
d
N jo
k
es.

“
You
l
o
ok
li
k
e a La
ko
t
a
y
o
urself,
w
h
at
Tiyos
p
i
y
a
⁴⁶
are
y
o
u
?
”
“
W
ell,”
off
e
r
e
d
L
e
na,
“
m
y
m
o
ther
was
born
on
the
Crow
C
re
e
k

_{reser
v
atio
n
,
a
n
d
is
of
the
Pe
h
a
n}
⁴⁷
_{Oyate.
My
fath
e
r
was
born
on}

R
o
sebu
d
,
and
i
s
of
t
h
e
W
iacca
S
k
a
⁴⁸
Oyate.
They
left
R
o
s
e
bud
t
h
e
day they w
e
re
m
arried,
a
n
d tr
a
v
eled to
S
ou
t
he
r
n Oh
i
o wh
e
r
e I was
b
or
n
.”

J
u
lie
n
o
d
d
e
d
,
as
if
reaffir
m
in
g
a
co
ncl
u
s
i
o
n
s
h
e
h
a
d
c
o
m
e
t
o
,
a
n
d then
co
ntinued with
t
h
e “les
s
o
n.”

"See
t
h
at
guy
ov
e
r
t
h
e
re,
t
h
e
one
w
it
h
t
h
e
b
i
g
ball
o
f
feath
e
rs
o
n
h
i
s