My family had no special powers or connections with healing spirits or sacred animals...We owned a Superpumper. I was Mary Potts, daughter and granddaughter of Mary Potts, big sister to another Mary Potts, in short, just another of many Mary Potts reaching back to the colonization of this region, many of whom now worked at the Superpumper franchise first stop before the casino.
-- Cedar (Part I (August 7))

Importance: Cedar notes that she enjoyed the distinction of being Native American when she was in primary school surrounded by white children. She was made to feel special, as if she had a special connection to nature or the earth. She then became disenchanted when she met other Native Americans in college and discovered that they were just normal people. She feels especially disappointed when she learns that her biological family does not consist of magical Native Americans with special abilities, but ordinary women who share the...