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There [in Tucson] Scarlet picks up the voice of the Native American ancestors on WAMPUM
PRAYER after visiting the site of a massacre of the Apache people. "She has
a dream and follows the voice and prayer of an old woman who survived and
whose song is woven into the land." There's an obvious parallel with the
songlines of Aboriginal folklore in Australia as Scarlet is propelled by the
dream until she reaches Cherokee country and the ancestry of her own people.
-- Scarlet's Walk bio
"The Southwest has this effect on her [Scarlet] where she looks deeper into things. And she's able to hear the ancestors more clearly. And she's been to a place where a long time ago there was a massacre that happened to the Apache, to most of the women and children. And there's a voice that she begins to hear of an old woman that's sitting by a fire. She's hearing in her dream time, and she's hearing it more and more with every day. And she starts to follow this trail, this voice, this story that she's picking up historically. So on some level, I guess, the aboriginal idea of song-lines has begun to sort of, mm, wrap itself around. That another culture is sort of supporting this concept that a song is, mmm, is determining where she goes. But if you don't know the song, you can't get into the next landspace. That's how song-lines work."
-- Scarlet Stories CD
Learn more about the significance of the Wampum Prayer at The Dent.
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