Native connection to place: policies and play.

A late Cheyenne traditionalist, William Tallbull (1921-1996), once explained his tribe's connection to a place this way:

   The Northern Cheyenne have developed a relationship to this place. It is 
   marked by the birth bundles they placed in the trees to ensure that 
   children will always know their way home. To protect the living, they place 
   the powerful medicine bundles and graves in the hills away from the sites. 

Tallbull's description of the Cheyennes' ties to the land is similar to Native people's ties to thousands of places across the Native American landscape on and ...

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