Into the West
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For what we are about to receive...
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Grandfather Abraham presided over
the ritual with grandmother Hannah.

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The wheelers pounded iron 6 days a week,
but on the seventh, we pounded each other.

:09:11
President Adams is saying
to europe, "keep out.

:09:14
It's all ours.
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It needs another Jefferson to take it all.
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But isn't the west just one vast desert?
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That's a common untruth, Mama.
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West is all kinds of terrain.
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It's a veritable garden of eden.
:09:25
Yes.
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Jacob's just returned from
the west wing of the house.

:09:29
Jacob, in fact, has yet to discover
the western side of the barn.

:09:34
As with all rituals,
nothing ever much changed.

:09:38
Until that sunday, when
I looked around the table

:09:40
and said my silent good-bye
to each and every wheeler.

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[Speaking lakota language]
:09:57
Old indian: Heyoka, the clown, tried to lift
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their spirits after
growling bear's dark vision.

:10:06
For the boy, white feather,
there were only questions.

:10:09
He sought answers among his family.
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[Speaking lakota language]
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[Speaking lakota language]
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[Speaking lakota language]
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[Speaking lakota language]
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[Speaking lakota language]
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[Speaking lakota language]
:10:37
White feather was determined to
discover the meaning of growling

:10:41
bear's vision and if the future
it predicted could be changed.


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