Common Ground, Summer 2003
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Painted With Light

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Night in native America, when people lay down in the boreal forests of the North, when the tribes of the vast eastern woodlands drifted off to sleep, when the last fires died out in the stone villages of the Southwest, was complete. Above the continent, the darkness was profound, yet bristling with light and mystery, an intense kind of night that seems to have gone the way of the world that slept beneath it.

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