Considerations “I have a rule when quoting elders and traditional leaders in a book. Basically, the story belongs to them, and so I do not want to be the first person to put a story in print. I therefore try to find published account that confirms what an elder has told me and use that version instead of the tradition is related to me by the elder. Thus, there are a considerable number of stories that I could have put into this book that will not appear until the elders themselves authorize them to be published.” Red Earth, White Lies, Vine Deloria Jr. at xv.
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