![]() ![]() ![]() They ate the sprouts of new flowers and the buds of apples and the tough leaves of oak trees and even last year’s chaff. They ate the wheat seedlings and the rye and started on the corn. But the doves ate their crops just the same. In fact, they disregarded everybody but themselves and were quite clannish. Unlike the French, who mingled with my ancestors, the Norwegians took little interest in the women native to the land and did not intermarry. My great-uncle’s human flock had taken up the plow and farmed among Norwegian settlers. ![]() From that place, they would proceed to walk the fields in a long, sweeping row, and with each step loudly pray away the doves. Gabriel’s, wearing scapulars and holding missals. Some years before the turn of the last century, my great-uncle, one of the first Catholic priests of aboriginal blood, put the call out to his congregation, telling everyone to gather at St. ![]()
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