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Article: AFTER MANY YEARS, WE ARE HOME; "ISHKWA NIIBAWA DASOBIBOON NIIAWIND ABI ENDAD"; At a homecoming on the White Earth Indian Reservation, some who were adopted out were welcomed to their place in the circle.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 14, 2007
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Byline: Curt Brown; Staff Writer
Mahnomen, Minn. -- Duane Reynolds and Rachel Kupcho had never met until last weekend, when they each drove 250 miles from their suburban Twin Cities homes to the lake-dotted land of the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota. Amid the sweet smell of burning sage and the heartbeat thumping of Ojibwe drummers, Reynolds, 60, and Kupcho, 30, stood side by side in a circle of 60 people as tribal spiritual elder Joe Bush prayed and performed pipe rituals. The hand-stitched banner on the wall proclaimed in Ojibwe: Ishkwa Niibawa Dasobiboon Niiawind Abi Endad. And in English: After Many Years, We Are Home.
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