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Content: The eagle
        and hawk feathers I have were given to my grandmother by Nez
        Perce Chief Joseph in 1876 for her acts of bravery against the
        Blackfeet. It's not just wearing these same eagle or hawk
        feathers every day, going to the grocery store, in honor of my
        grandmother, my people the Eastern Shoshoni. It's more. Most Indians today wear the white clothing of JC Penny and not
        our Native ribbon shirts and calico dresses. "Being Indian is not just what clothes
            are being worn or not worn." It's more. I speak to my blood Shoshoni grandmother Annie Yellow Hawk every
        day even though we burned her body atop an ancient burial
        scaffold 36 years ago. Then, in 1960, she was 100 years
        old. Still, being Indian is more. Daily my prayers are made before a 150-year-old buffalo medicine
        skull, and my words are by the Creator.