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Surrounded and absorbed, we tread like Etruscans on the edge of useless law; we pray to the giver of prayer, we give the cane whistle in ceremony, we swing the heavy silver chain of incense burners. Migration makes new citizens of Rome.

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The joke used to be that in every Indian home, there is the mother, father, children, grandparents, and the anthropologist.

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Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn

Born: November 17, 1930
Died: July 5, 2023 (aged 92)
Bio: Elizabeth Cook-Lynn was an editor, essayist, poet, novelist, and member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe. She was considered to be outspoken in her views about Native American politics, particularly in regards to tribal sovereignty.
Known for:
  1. From the river's edge (1991)
  2. Anti-Indianism in Modern America (2001)
  3. The power of horses and other stories (1990)

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