For the world ends every day. And it begins. They grow up. They move again. Others are born.
Old friends drift apart.
Our perceptions of that Earth are altered by time, science, faith, experience, disaster and triumph. The prophecy was well known to the many Kickapoo, to the band that has lived in Kansas since 1833 and the band that has lived in Texas and Mexico nearly as long. It was known enough to, as Harris News Service reporter Mike Shields reported last week, cause some concern among those taking part in the reunion. Too respectful of their own heritage to simply reject the prophecy, some of the Kickapoo applied the modern practice of looking for loopholes. They noted that there are not many full-blood Kickapoo any more, so a foretelling of what happens to Kickapoo no longer holds.