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of the old Blackfoot Confederacy who live apart. High in the Chelan

Mountains, in Washington State, there is a peaceful camp where they live out
their lives in the old way. I go there often. I like to breathe the smoke from my
tepee, reflect on life, talk to my ancestors.’
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Brokenclaw had gone off to this ‘peaceful camp’ as he had called it. This was
logic. If Brokenclaw believed in his own powers of escape, evasion and
ability to remain outside the law, the camp in the Chelan Mountains was the
one place he would go. Maybe to recharge his batteries, possibly to take stock,

to think out his next move. He would have funds outside the United States, and
in the peace of the mountains, he could, as he put it, breathe the smoke from his
tepee and make a decision.
If he wanted revenge on the two people who had been the cause of his
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downfall, it was in those mountains he would wreak that revenge. Chi-Chi
would be there, and Brokenclaw’s logic must have told him that Bond would
eventually follow.
‘Not just Blackfoot people?’ he queried.

Rushia took the car on to the airport road. ‘Nope. Around twelve years ago
a number of Indians from various tribes settled in the Yakima, Colville, Warm
Springs and Nez Perce Reservations, asked if they could live outside their
allotted reservations in a camp of their own choice. There were Blackfoot

Confederacy people, Cheyenne, Sioux, Crow and Mandans. They swore an
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oath that they would live together in peace, but they wanted to live in the old
way. Up there they don’t bother anyone. They’re self-supporting, they use
original tools, they hunt game and small animals and they keep to themselves.

‘Somehow they’ve worked out a common understanding with one another.
There have been rumours that they practise a lot of their old, somewhat
barbarous ceremonies, but, as long as nobody bothers them, they don’t cause
any trouble. I have a map that’ll take you right up to the camp.’

‘Where do we go first?’
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‘We hire an air taxi, James. That’d be our fastest route, a jet if possible, to
the field at Wenatchee. Then we hire a Range Rover or some such. There’s a
track that’ll take us to within five miles of the place. It’s uphill, through

wooded country, but the paths are there if you look for them. Map’s in the
glove compartment here.’
‘I’ll look at it on the aircraft. If we can get an aircraft.’

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