Kakahpa bags = Embroidered bags made by the Wallawalla nation.
Kaooyit = The season’s first feast of a food, such as salmon or qawas
King George men = British
Komsit = a porridge made from qawas
Meiway = Head chief of an entire band
Minnetaree = A native nation that lived along the Missouri (in today’s North Dakota), also known as the Gros Ventres (Big Bellies) of the Missouri, or the Hidatsa.
Near-buffalo = Oxen
Nimíipuu (Nee-mee-poo) = Nez Perce
Old Man = Sweat lodge
Painted Arrow People = Cheyenne
Pointed Hearts = Coeurs d’Alenes
Qawas = Biscuitroot, part of the carrot family, Lomatium cous
Sent Ones = Missionaries
Singing wires = Telegraph wires
Snakes = Shoshone
Soyappo (Soy-ah-po) = Across-water person (an American or European)
Steelhead = Spokan nation
Tewat = Shaman, medicine man
Tota = Father
Walk-Around Sioux = Assiniboines
Water People = Kutenai nation
Whisper Trail = Milky Way
White Buffalo = Bighorn sheep
Wyakin = Spirit guide
FAMILY TREE
A Note on the Author
David Osborne is the author or co-author of five nonfiction books: Laboratories of Democracy; Reinventing Government, a New York Times bestseller; Banishing Bureaucracy; The Reinventor’s Fieldbook; and The Price of Government. He has written for the Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, and many other publications. Osborne is currently a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, directing the Reinventing America’s Schools Project. He lives in Gloucester, Massachusetts.
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