Lightning in the Hand

Twila Cassadore halts, lifts a pebble from clay soil grown with purple flowers and wild onions.

“Pick a pebble, any pebble,” the 52-year-old woman says to the other Apache hunter, a lean young man, the two flanking a dying prickly pear and holding 6-foot-long salt cedar sticks. “In your own way, say thank you, Mother Earth, and know that because we’re going to take his life, throw a rock in. It’s just a way to say, you know, respect for the species.”

Cassadore tosses her pebble into the cactus. The ancient hunt begins.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lightning in the Hand: An Apache Leader Hunts for the Past to Nourish the Future (PNT, 2019)

 

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— Trace kalala Hentz (@StonePony33) October 22, 2019