Chapter 17: XV

XV The Superior Race … So well His legendary song could tell— On ancient deeds, so long forgot! Of feuds, whose memory was not; Of forests, now laid waste and bare. Lay of the Last Minstrel Cogewea and Densmore left the Stemteemä in her lodge, to dream of the past. Thus would she live to the close of her days. The teepee would never be deserted for the dwellings of civilization, which had only proven deathtraps for her race. Strolling to the river ban…