Tipis may have stood here in the past.

This is not just Romanticism.

We live in Montana, in the Western United States, all of which was once home to the indigenous First Nations, and 55 miles from the site of the Battle of the Little Bighorn, which is easily the last highwater mark of Native American strength and cohesion.

Furthermore, we live about five miles from the current Crow Indian Reservation and are within the bounds of the original one agreed upon by treaty with the U. S. government. (The Crow understood from an early vision that their traditional way of life was going to disappear and that of the white settlers would prevail. They chose not to fight against the settlers and the army, therefore, but to aid them. In the Battle of the Little Bighorn, for example, they served as scouts for the army.)

We also have found two artifacts here on the little piece of land we live on. One is a small, flint arrowhead with the tip broken off; the other a smooth, fistsized stone that had been worked to accept a cord so that it could be attached to a handle.

Living history.

May we walk together in beauty from now on....