I turned back to the telecom. It was chiming softly, indicating that I already had a response. I scanned the reply, and wasn’t surprised by what I found. According to the professor of Native American Studies in the Sioux Nation who had answered my query, the graphic on the cover of the chip case wasn’t a cross at all—it was the ancient Mesoamerican "tree of life," with the four colors representing the four directions. So the religious chip wasn’t Christian at all, but Aztlaner.