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"No matter! Her blood is white!" Red Jacket seethed. He went to the fire and tried to kick the dirt to douse it, a signal that the council was over. Jones grabbed him and pulled him back. "But the blood she has shed in bearing her children is Seneca. The blood of her husband when wounded in battle is Seneca. This deed is not given by the Seneca. It is the white nation who owns rights to this land now. They are giving back to a Seneca by giving it to Mrs. Jemison. For this, Red Jacket, you should be glad.

The ensemble characters in this story are women who meet in massage school and become just one of the circles in Baba's life, each a mother, each with her own hard choices, and each loving themselves more as their relationship to Baba, spirituality, and to each other allows them to "find their female."