MOIST-ure

The second day on the Crow Reservation made for the fourth consecutive day of rain…  but that never stopped a crew of archaeologists-in-the-making!  We talked to the students at Pretty Eagle Elementary school during breakfast (we’ve been sleeping in their community room), then headed over to Ft. Smith to check out Yellowtail Dam.

Being at the dam always gets me a little pissed off at politics, so I was glad we followed it up by meeting Kelly’s sister Tanya who brought us to Pretty Eagle Point, the grave site of Chief Pretty Eagle, whose remains were repatriated to the Crow Nation in 1990.  The view is spectacular (usually), and being there helps me relax.

 

(A soggy Becca stands in front of a mist-shrouded view of Bighorn Canyon.)

Today I felt quite wound up – as though I needed to finish what I was doing so I could move on and do something else, but whatever could that something else be?  After Pretty Eagle Point I calmed down and tried to get back to the present….which was rain-soaked.

 

(The crew listens to Tanya talk about Chief Pretty Eagle….in the rain!)

In the afternoon we headed back to Pretty Eagle School and got a very special treat.  The upper grade students showed us Crow hand games and the round dance!  I didn’t really get it, but it was still fun to see the kids so pumped up.

AND FOR DINNER, we had Chef Willy’s famous Indian tacos!  Burdeck and Noel Two Leggins, as well as a bunch of Kelly’s family and friends came to join us for dinner.

 

(A table full of tacos!)

A long day + a belly full of friend food = complete contentment!