When I was about
10 years old my grandmother Mable Horseman (1903-1987) told me about a dream she had as a young girl. She
said this happened before she started school. I guess that she was around 5 or 6. She was born in 1903 so
the dream happened about 100 years ago. "She dreamed that she was walking through "the Mission
Canyon" on our reservation. At a curve in the road when the canyon
walls were at their sheerest she came to a man-made wall. The wall reached to the top of the canyon. She could
see people on the wall. They all wore wide pointed hats and called to each other in a language she could not understand."
She found out about the Great Wall of China when she was older and believes it was that wall
in her dream. From that time on I wanted to visit the Great Wall. Our Chinese guide said grandma had her vision
because Native Americans and Chinese people have the same ancestors. Of course the Wall came thousands of years
after my ancestors populated North America...but who knows. An interesting thing I was told is that the guards lived
their entire life on the wall. They married, raised a family and their sons spent their life guarding the wall, and
so on. Also, many people (slave labor) died and were buried inside of the walls of "the wall" as it was built.
