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Choosing the dignity of rejecting a false characterization of humankind, racial Indians have a new opportunity to truly liberate themselves from the tyrannical legacies of race in America. Oppressed by an ideology formulated in Europe and implemented by adherents to racial whiteness, Indians can now truly dream of independence. Freeing our world from race, today’s racial Indians can tomorrow reject their racial status. They can take aim at retrieving their former status as independent non-racial sovereigns by exploiting a new opportunity to dream of whatever they wish to happen next in the story.

Giving the psychologist’s words much thought, however, I tried to grasp what she said; I tried to listen and learn. Maybe it does make good sense to see myself as just another typical male with typical male coping strategies. The way the mind works is certainly magic enough without engaging in unneeded efforts to divorce one’s idiosyncratic situation from the larger human continuum. There are people who have never experienced dreams like mine, but whether or not you’ve been experienced, all of us together should consider the nature of dreaming.

In our tales of those years, our family world felt to us like a magic circle. i A strange thing happened among us in the summer of 1992. My brother Walter gave me some old Pawnee ceremonial corn that had been carefully preserved by a Kansas seed bank, and I turned it over to Linda. I helped her plant it in mid-May under the chill twilight of the morning star. This speckled corn grew beautifully in her garden. Green leaves The Bear Enchantments 51 sprouted from the small mounds, and we watched as Jaxon made this ceremonial corn garden his new special place, napping all summer under the growing plants.

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