Morgan Talty

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Dear Reader, My friends and I are in the woods on the rez talking about being Indian. We’re eleven or twelve. I don’t know why or how the subject came up. Perhaps we all learned of “The Book.” We all have one. Or our parents do. It’s a small book, held together with a black binding