My friend Sterling once told me that it's impossible to convey in words the significance the bison skull holds for the Plains Indians. It's something like life-god-sustenance-survival-hope-existence-emptiness-death-genocide-decay-oblivion-evil-sorrow-rage all upon the altar and all in one flash that enters the eye and tears down through the chest, gut and out the bottom of the feet clear through to the center of the world's red hot mystery.
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