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  • That Tree Stood for So Much

    07/06/2005 3:53:12 AM PDT · by Cincinatus' Wife · 66 replies · 1,540+ views
    LA Times ^ | uly 6, 2005 | Lee Romney
    ARCATA, Calif. — Jason Wilson was just 21 when a Lakota elder gave him a spirit name. Wilson, she said, was destined to carry a heavy weight. He would need the medicine of the name she offered, she told him, "to carry that weight in a good way, a strong way and as far as it needs to be carried." Three years later, on a September day in 1998, the bearded redhead from Missouri lay in a fetal curl on the floor of a Humboldt County forest, rocking and sobbing in the duff. Next to him was 24-year-old David Nathan...