There Are Four Trees on Your Stone

When you are a 28-year-old white woman reporter, with a newspaper editor husband and a college administrator father, and you find a stone on a holy Lakota mountain, and a Lakota holy man says, “Do you see the four trees on this stone?” you look and see only four fern leaves fossilized on the stone. When he says “You will meet four men in 9,2,4, and 8” and points to some fossilized numbers in the corner of the stone, you are skeptical and offer to give him the stone. When he says, “No, it is...