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TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2002

"A good fabric store always has plenty of calico prints, eye-popping colors ranging from greens and purples to yellow and blues. I recently bought 20 yards of calico in five patterns -- blue-petaled roses, fluorescent-orange tulips, powder blue florals. ...

The sales clerk who cut the material smiled and asked what I was going to make.

I said I wasn't going to make anything, that I was going to give it away.

As she cut some tangerine cloth from the last bolt, she again asked, "What are you going to make?"

Again, I told her, "I'm going to give it away."

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JODI RAVE LEE COLUMN: Giveaways central to Native culture, tradition (The Lincoln Journal Star 8/19)