The Chief (2010)
“At first it was like a foreign country, every sight and sound exotic. I still have my notes from those first days, two years ago.
…back roads become green tunnels boring through forest into sudden clearing of dazzling sunlight…the Longhouse where the elders meet…the Stump, where any Moscondaga can call out the Nation…tangy smell of cooking sausage…woodsmoke curling out of chimneys…sun winks off hundreds of windshields in Jake’s auto junkyard…sacred mountain Stonebird jabs into cloudless pale-blue sky…buffalo grazing…fad bangs lacrosse ball against family trailer…Alice Benton, Stump Clan Mother, ancient queen of wisdom….
I filled three audio cassettes with Jake’s stories about how the Moscondaga fought in every American war since the French and Indian, how they were cheated out of their lands and squashed into what was left of their reservation as the city of Sparta grew around them, and how the Nation lost its spirit.
Of all his stories, I liked best the ones about the Running Braves,... a secret society of warrior-diplomats, always on call, always in training.MoreLess
…back roads become green tunnels boring through forest into sudden clearing of dazzling sunlight…the Longhouse where the elders meet…the Stump, where any Moscondaga can call out the Nation…tangy smell of cooking sausage…woodsmoke curling out of chimneys…sun winks off hundreds of windshields in Jake’s auto junkyard…sacred mountain Stonebird jabs into cloudless pale-blue sky…buffalo grazing…fad bangs lacrosse ball against family trailer…Alice Benton, Stump Clan Mother, ancient queen of wisdom….
I filled three audio cassettes with Jake’s stories about how the Moscondaga fought in every American war since the French and Indian, how they were cheated out of their lands and squashed into what was left of their reservation as the city of Sparta grew around them, and how the Nation lost its spirit.
Of all his stories, I liked best the ones about the Running Braves,... a secret society of warrior-diplomats, always on call, always in training.MoreLess
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