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My great-grandmother, Vi
taqwšəblu Hilbert, was eighty-three years old when she commissioned the symphony that she titled
The Healing Heart of the First People. Back then the news was all about fighting George W. Bush’s war on terror. She saw beyond the fear to a divided country, the wars across the ocean, and the violent injustices in her own streets. She believed so deeply in our people’s stories, the teachings inherent within them. She knew that no one would listen to an old Indian woman, that she would have to reach them another way.
Somehow she arrived on what she called highbrow music, symphonies. This came as a shock to us, for my great-grandmother hadn’t grown up with this kind of stuff. She loved square dancing and Elvis. But she believed this was the way, that if people could hear our beliefs through song, it could heal this wound with music.