I just have a hard time thinking that people would just make this stuff up. Up there, their lives aren’t like ours. They don’t have the time to sit around making things up.

(Not to mention that we have more than a bit of arrogance, bordering on racism, thinking everything Native cultures tell us is charming stuff they just made up.)

Look at the country.

Would an overflight, even in the course of accomplishing something else already on the docket, to see if there’s anything interesting be such a difficult thing to ask?