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Further Reading 639 below, having completed the same journey, as is their duty. After all, that is what snowflakes do and will continue to do until the end of time. Creating a blank slate for each lonely wanderer to stroll through and tell just one more story, to add its mark to this great planet the Creator made for all of its creatures. A dark black bird lands on the snow. Its feet leave little etchings all over the once-blank surface. I turn to the window to watch him go, both of us unaware where the trail of footprints will lead him. The dark one who flies apart. The bird twitches his head lightly in each direction, then turns and looks up at me curiously. “Achu-ka-yihs,” I whisper. “Uyuqôm.” Dream. (2009) Notes 1. Laura Murray’s note: “Belknap, deacon of his church, had written to Samson Occom on May 4, 1773, requesting that Occom preach in his town, which lacked a settled minister.” 2. Murray’s note: “Occom’s sermon and Johnson’s letter to Moses Paul.” Further Reading mohegan authors Davison, Faith Damon, and Jeffrey Bendremer. “Mohegan Oral Tradition, Archaeology and the Legacy of Uncas.” Bulletin of the Archaeological Society of Connecticut 70 (2008): 3–14. Print. —. “A World Transformed.” Map supplement to ”Jamestown: The Real Story: How Settlers Destroyed a Native Empire and Changed the Landscape from the Ground Up.” National Geographic May 2007: n. pag. Print. Davison, Faith Damon, and Melissa Fawcett Tantaquidgeon. “Mohegan.” Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement 2002: 218–22. Print. Fawcett, Jayne, and Gladys Tantaquidgeon. “Symbolic Motifs on Painted Baskets of the Mohegan-Pequot.” Key into the Language of Woodsplint Baskets. Washington ct: American Indian Archaeological Institute, 1987. 94–102. Print. Fielding, Stephanie M. Mohegan Language Project. http://www.moheganlanguage .com/. Web. 10 June 2011. —. Seven Cities and Other Journeys. Greenfield ny: Bowman Books, 2014. Print. Johnson, Joseph. To Do Good to My Indian Brethren: The Writings of Joseph Johnson 1751– 1776. Ed. Laura J. Murray. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998. Print. Kimball, Carol. Noank Notes: Newspaper Columns of Mary Virginia Goodman. Groton ct: Groton Public Library, 1990. Print. ...

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