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Teresa Iyall-Santos Coeur d’Alene/Yakama Grandmother, Salish Mathematician Grandmother, my Yay-Yay made this dress with purpose: for protection, for legacies, for balance in our worlds. Patterns evoked from song— buckskin called to be her mode. Ooo-Neh! Mathematics here is immense. Measured dimensions hanging abstract, cut-glass beads strung through thread creating a matrix of geometry symmetrical beyond belief, its value absolute. Yay-Yay knew these concepts, constructed with brilliant hands. Tonight dress lives through dance moving through spaces magnetic. Equations of perfect balance, repetitions of patterns complex. Yay-Yay + Spirit = Balance balance infinite in cyclical time. 136 ...

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