1. People writing to say that they wanted to Pat’s story on their Web sites as well – Minnesota, Hawaii;
2. People who are teachers in elementary schools who have an Aboriginal piece in their curriculum;
3. People who had heard other “little people” or “creation” stories and wanted to share them – Maine, New Mexico;
4. People who were doing genealogy research and wanted Pat to help them make links to their ancestors;
5. Europeans who are deeply interested in the North American Native cultures;
6. People who were either from Tobique, or their families were from Tobique, wanting to say hello to Pat and some of their relatives;
7. Students wanting Pat’s help with their research;
8. Three different people who shared the same story of having been through a very serious illness and who, during the initial recovery period, were visited by the Little People. These Little People were instrumental in helping them through a successful and speedy recovery;
9. People offering interpretation of Native stories;
10. Aboriginal People in other countries wanting to communicate with Aboriginal People in Canada;
11. Requests for permission to translate the story into a foreign language and add it to the public school curriculum of that country.

To date, Pat Paul’s story is shown on thirty Web sites. What a celebration and cross-fertilization of culture.

I would like to begin to build on Dr. Fitznor’s reminder to me of Aboriginal “technology.” From our perspective, the items that make up our medicine bundles have a purpose. They help us to perform a ceremony, to focus on and communicate with the Creator, to transmit and receive messages.

Through many of the faith systems that I’ve had the good fortune to study over the past few years, I’ve come to understand that our modern inventions are really just a prototype of what we’re capable of if we remember who we are, that we are Spirit, that we are each Creator individualized. Many of us have grandparents who did not need a telephone or an e-mail to know that we were coming to visit. They just knew – a twitch over the eye, meaning that they were going to “see” someone.