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Earth, ourselves,

breathe and awaken,

leaves are stirring,

all things moving,

new day coming,

life renewing.

Pawnee Prayer

This Pawnee Prayer reminds one of Opal Whiteley. She was a naturalist and child memoirist. The Story of Opal: The Journal of an Understanding Heart, published serially in The Atlantic Monthly, was a best-seller a century ago. Before her popular book was published, Opal had been a student at the University of Oregon in 1916. In all accounts of her, she was short in stature, dark with long braided hair, and appeared to be of Native American descent.