Indian scouting party vic Mullineaux w noble braves
Brave-Hunter(Jack) & She-Who-Sleeps-Above (Olivia)
cracks and lines in the tarmac are where snakes have traveled
“what happens when the crack ends in the middle of the
street?” –Jack
<< that’s where he went straight underground . . .
all the way to China >>
<< What is your Indian name ? >>
Olivia said she could tell me only when at their house, but
she did tell Jack and he told me
“Bunk”
<< Bunk ? >>
” Yes, like bunk bed ”
<< Ahh. Now if you were to sleep in a bunk
bed, would you sleep on bottom or top ? >>
” On the top”
<< Then your name shall be
“She-Who-Sleeps-Above >>
” Umm, no, Bunk. ”
<< For the rest of your
natural life, I shall call you
She-Who-Sleeps-Above.
” I’ll have a middle name “– Olivia
<< But Indians only have one name, that and their tribe name >>
” Oh . . . ”
<< What is our tribe name >>
” What is a tribe name >>
<< Like “Sioux”, “Hopi”, “Arapaho”
” Our name is “The Hollow Tribe “—Jack
<< Ah, very good Brave-Hunter >>
“Thank you ”
<< As in: the hollow is not hollow,
it is rather filled with the souls of
our revered ancestor warriors >>
we sat under Coco’s tree, to rest Olivia’s weary feet . . . i
found a stick and my Leatherman and started whittling an arrow
<< is this a good stick for an arrow? >>
<< Have they started to teach you how to wrestle bears in school
yet ? >>
” No”
Pointing to tattoo, << See these lines ? >>
“Yes”
<< You get a new line each time you wrestle a bear
>>
” My substitute teacher wrestled a bear “”
<< Where >>
” On a mountain top ”
<< Do you know how to growl ? >>
<< Can you scare a bear ? >>
Olivia growled
<< See that’s a loud growl, you’ll scare a bear
with that >>
“What are these arrows painted on the street?”
<< Those are to show the snakes which direction to travel >>
” What does that one mean ? ”
That tells the snakes they can go either direction
<< That one without the arrows and in an S-shape tells
them they can lay their safely, in the sun, to get a good
tan >>
<< Now it is important Brave-Hunter to know that sometimes
we all come across signs that we don’t know, that we
haven’t seen yet. At times like those, one must figure
out the meaning. We might see such signs today >>
We came across such a sign, two parallel arrows with a dot
inside, all blue
” What does that one mean Uncle Jay ? ”
<< That is one I’ve not seen in my hunting
Brave-Hunter . . . what can it mean to you ? >>
” Umm . . . it means that two snakes can go
there, with one snake standing on his head in
between them and the other two snakes help hold
him up ”
we found a corn garden
<< There must be Indians around here >>
With Brave Warrior Brett, Bear-Sleeps-Too-Much or
“Big-Chief-Winter-Bear we searched for a path through the teepees
that would get us back sooner . . . much pain & remonstrance
from She-Who-Sleeps-Above for her sore feet
” Ah, interesting path, with no apparent way out ”
<< Ah, much like life itself Winter-Bear >>
i spotted a feather while searching for path through wood back way
to Boones
<< to the Indian, all gifts are provided if one only looks >>
on the way back to Boones w Brett w us by the pines on the
west side, i spotted yet another, bigger, black feather and
scooped it up
<< i’ll carry the feathers until we get back to the teepee,
where the medicine man will bless them, as a gift from the
arrow gods >>
<< do you know how your father found us ? >>
” mmmm, no ”
<< he tracked us . . . he used his tracking skills to
find us . . . remember, we didn’t tell him where we were
going ? >>
” Uncle Jay, are you making this up ? ”
<< What do you think ? >>
” I think so ”
<< that hurts my feelings . . . i think i’ll cry now
>>
” They love it when they make a grown-up cry “–
Brett
<< Let us make our way back to the teepee >>
” You know how a bird needs feathers to fly, an arrow needs
feathers too “– Jack
