to be<br >:e faith-<br >)n scaf-<br >.~ulture.<br >)oints，<br >For A<br >~mselves<br >a time<br >gained<br >Earth<br > Great<br >)eoples<br >llions<br >great<br >~t sacred<br >ss"Hills，<br >genous<br > rejoice<br >[ebraska<br >Lnd for-<br >[e of<br >Lnd honor<br >Lrtle Is-<br >eservlng<br >contact:<br >To Mother:<br >Fat Takers<br >--But what date is that， Aunt Laura?<br >--Oh..August 23rd or so， she answered.<br > Yesterday Josie saw the last weekend in Au-<br >gust getting closer on Uncle Walt s office cal-<br >endar: Saturday and Sunday marked: Macy. That was<br >the name of the town or village on the Omaha<br >Indian Reservation Josie kept thinking about:<br >what will my new school be like?; what s Granny<br >Tenna like?; when will I see Aunt Laura， Uncle<br >Walt and Dennis again?<br > Walter Bird， Pine Ridge， South Dakota s 29-<br >year-old Tribal Chairman， was praying for the<br >exact same thing as his wife Laura as he drove<br >their 1970 white Fairlane out of Custer s United<br >Methodist Church parking lot: please let Josie<br >feel her grief and begin to heal before that aw-<br >ful drive to Macy.<br ><br >