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    SQUARE HOUSES

    Apr 09, 2020 4 minutes
    BY ED FOWLER BLADE ®
    FIELD EDITOR
    IMAGES BY THE AUTHOR

    Before I started this article, I had been putting in a lot of time making knives to get ready for BLADE Show 2020*. However, I decided I was ready for a break.

    I put on a DVD about Native Americans before the arrival of the white man. One clan’s future medicine man had a dream that, one day, the buffalo would have all returned to their place inside the Earth, and his people would be living in square houses. His tribe felt that his prophesy must be false. The buffalo had always been there, and his tribe had lived in tepees forever. They

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