Below a mountain whose ridges hint at fractals from the last Ice Age, there's a pond where it follows that part of the creation of an alternative native past and an understanding of material culture will, of necessity, be to write it in a different way than fledgling birds float- ing, dipping their heads underwater, slide in. Before 10,000 years ago, we had a mind that hunted mammals much larger than ourselves. Now we hunt their shadows within our own.