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Okay, this is kind of a weird story. A couple of years ago I did a site for a Lakota beadwork craftsman from South Dakota who was living in Richmond at the time. For reasons we couldn’t fathom, the site just laid there and never got ranked by the engines. Nothing was working out for him and he had to pack up and head back to the rez.
So a few weeks ago I noticed that I had a subdirectory on my web design site with his site intact, that I didn’t even know was up there. MSN had found it and is now ranking it #1 for terms like “Native beaded baseball caps.” It’s not a lot of traffic, but could turn a few sales for somebody so I tried to contact him, but had no luck.
Then two days ago a young lady writes me from SD. Her mom’s family is Lakota/Cherokee, and her dad’s family is out of KY/TN. She stumbled on my site since some of his names are mentioned in my Blackfoot article. She signs off with the beadworker’s last name. So I ask her if she knows him.
They’re engaged. With his encouragement, she was just test-driving her new, impending surname.
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What are the statistical probabilities of this?? There are how many millions of people in this country, and this guy is on the other side of the continent, lost somewhere out in the plains of South Dakota, or who knows where, and all I have to do is point my face in the direction of cyberspace and say, “Hey man, I need to ask you something,” and out of the clear blue sky his fiancee I know nothing about writes me about something else.
This is the kind of occurence that gets you hooked on this stuff like a junkie.
She’s got Rains, Turner, Williams, Lane and Critchfield. I searched on Rains and see that Lynella’s got them, so maybe the fiancee and I are connected somehow by way of that Saponi Blackfoot Town/Blackfoot Church community that traipsed along half a continent for a century or so after the Seneca/Tutelo massacre by the British near Blackfoot Town (presently Dagsborough, DE).
Anyway, I’ve invited her to post here. I know I don’t have to say to make her welcome. You all always do, even when there isn’t such a remarkable introduction.
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