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Updated: May 29, 2025
"It is well, Neekewa," she spoke softly. "I have gone through the clouds to where lives Oo-Mee, the Pigeon. I found her crying in a trail. I whispered to her and happiness came, and that happiness is going to live for Neekewa and The Pigeon. It cannot die. It cannot be killed. The Red Coated men of the Great White Father will never destroy it. You will live. She will live.
"Goodby, Neekewa," she whispered. And then, without letting her hands touch him, she was gone. Swiftly she ran to Slim Buck's tepee, and entered, and very soon she came out again with Slim Buck beside her. Jolly Roger did not move, but watched as Yellow Bird and her husband went down to the edge of the lake, and stood there, waiting for the strange canoe to pass or come in. It was approaching.
She did not look at him, but in her low Cree voice, soft as the mellow notes of a bird, she was saying: "You will be going very soon, Neekewa, and I shall not see you again for a long time. Do not forget what I have told you. And you must believe. Somewhere there is this place called the Country Beyond. The spirits have said so. And it is there you will find your Oo-Mee the Pigeon and happiness.
He waited, leaning toward her. "In the Country Beyond," she repeated with a tired little droop of her head. "And where that is I do not know, Neekewa. I could not pass beyond the great white cloud that shut me out. But it is somewhere, I will find it. And then I will tell you and The Pigeon." She stood up, and swayed in the gray light, like one worn out by hard travel.
"In the Country Beyond, Neekewa." Her eyes were looking at him again, big, dark and filled with mystery. "And where is this country, Yellow Bird?" he asked, a strange chill driving the warmth out of his heart. "You mean up there?" And he pointed to the gray sky above them. "No, it is happiness to come in life, not in death," said Yellow Bird slowly. "It is not beyond the stars. It is "
"It is well, Neekewa," she spoke softly. "I have gone through the clouds to where lives Oo-Mee, the Pigeon. I found her crying in a trail. I whispered to her and happiness came, and that happiness is going to live for Neekewa and The Pigeon. It cannot die. It cannot be killed. The Red Coated men of the Great White Father will never destroy it. You will live. She will live.
That they have told me. And you must not go back to where The Pigeon lives, for you will find black desolation there but always you must keep on and on, seeking for the Country Beyond. You will find it. And there also you will find The Pigeon and happiness. You cannot fail, Neekewa, yet my heart stings me that I cannot tell you where that strange country is.
But if you go back to the place where you left The Pigeon when you fled from the red-coated men of the law, you will find only blackness and desolation. Believe, and you shall be guided. If you disbelieve " She stopped. "You heard that, Neekewa? It was not the wing of a duck, nor was it the croak of a loon far up the shore, or a fish leaping in the still water. It was a paddle!"
Yellow Bird held out her hands toward him. "We have been together, The Pigeon and I," she said. "We have slept in each other's arms, and the warmth of her head has lain against my breast. I have learned the secrets, Neekewa all but one. The spirits will not tell me where lies the Country Beyond. But it is not up there beyond the stars. It is not in death, but in life you will find it.
But when I came to it gold and silver clouds shut it in, and I could see nothing, and yet out of it came the singing of birds and the promise of sweet voices that it shall be found if you seek faithfully, Neekewa. I am glad." Each word that she spoke in her soft and tremulous Cree was a new message of hope in the empty heart of Jolly Roger McKay. The world might laugh.
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