Shu Mani Tutanka

“Shu Mani Tutanka O Wachee” is “Dances with Wolves.”  (Proper spelling is “Sunkmanitu Tanka Owaci” in Lakota.) If you’ve seen this movie, you know exactly what I’m talking about. Over the last few days we have lived out a chapter of that story, with a Ngobe family.  We call this chapter, first contact. A few days ago, in the evening, Falco and three of his kiddos stopped by for a visit, to play (Falco is the Ngobe man I met on my maiden cayuco voyage.)  On that voyage I told Falco, “mis hijos necesitan amigos”, my kiddos need friends.  Falco responded by saying he would provide my kiddos with friends.  Cool.  They played and played, running from place to place like a herd of wild chonchos (pigs). ...