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Well I finally heard back from the Rez. There records show no one living on either Nez Perce reservation with my family name. So either they have all moved away or are as I feared. My father and half brother as well as myself are all that remain of our family name.

On happier notes. I have officially joined the intertribal council for Maine and New Hampshire. I will be driving to Laconia Saturday with Chief Newell. To help load a eighteen wheeler full of food, clothes, toys, and blankets for a pueblo in New Mexico. I have also gotten word that I might be able to partake in a Sun Dance ritual I really want to. It is something my people have done for hundreds of years and I have given serious thought to it and would like to partake. I wish I could explain more about it but as some of you may know our wonderful government finds "our" ( native american ) religious ceremonies and rituals to be barbaric so there for it is illegal to hold this ceremony in the United states.

*Randomness*
My thoughts fall often on you. Do you ever think of me?

If you're ever going to love me
Love me now while I can know
All the sweet and tender feelings
Which from real affection flow.
Love me now while I am living
Do not wait till I am gone.
And then chisel into marble......Warm
Love words on ice cold stone.
If you're dear sweet thoughts
Ever wonder to me.
Why not whisper them
To me.
Don't you know 'twould make
Me happy and as glad as glad could be.
If you wait till I am sleeping
Ne're to waken here again,
There'll be walls of earth between
Us and I couldn't hear you then.
So dear, if you love me any
If it's but a little bit.
Let me know it now while living.