Sublime

I never did find out what happened to him the night before the morning he went out and blew his trumpet instead of his bugle, blew and blew a song that grew out of him in extended notes that called for the rising of us not out of our beds but out of our bodies. I can’t explain it well, you never can with music. I can say the notes were long and bui

All had the same tale to tell: the brothers had used torture and mutilation as a means of control.

Later, after our family was dispersed in all directions and my grandmother and I were living in that dugout hut on the other side of the Tumen River, she told me a story she’d heard long, long ago from her great-grandmother. It was the story of Princess Bari, whose name meant “Abandoned”. She would always finish the story by singing the last lines

La mujer

Rather, in the Plains in particular, tribes showed supreme adaptability, resourcefulness, and creative syncretization. They took what Europeans brought and made it wholly their own.

In the white man's land one could be comfortable; one might seize opportunities and make one's way. But one would never feel quite at home.

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“Oh, and Watuma the medicine man gave me this name, Tjungarrayi.” Dan, who had a dictionary of Aboriginal language, said, “Let me look that up.” And he looked, and found it. “Oh, that means dying eagle,” he said.

Wolves might have been a novel sight on the Diamond G in the 1990s, but the contest Debbie described—dog and shepherd versus wolf, with livestock as the stakes—was as timeless as any in recorded history.