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51 Denver March For Grace Gillette Surprising to see so many dancers’ outfits sewn with dragonfly material, men’s traditional shirts, jingle dresses, shawls, Gracie Her Many Horses’ floaty fancy dance dress. Then there was my friend, her bedroom dressed to the max in dragonflies, sheets, pillowcases, gauzy scarves, hand sewn jackets, material with painted and jeweled wings, huge faceted brooches, heavy turquoise necklaces, wrap around eyes, brilliant blues, vermillion, pearl. After a car accident, she had sat in her backyard, bruised and shaken. Dragonflies gathered and flew all around me. She called her brother up north, searching for meaning. Didn’t your parents teach you anything? They are our ancestors healing you. My dancing friends, knowing something I didn’t, their awareness, acute vision. I wasn’t paying attention, until Red Lake. ...

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