Passing Words: Caddo

To the sunset of life, the last words were sung. On breath he wrote their names and places, back as many generations as he could remember, and (down to whispers now), humbly made a request for the land to accept him. He marveled that there was no silence in the traveling as it began for, in the echoes of forever, there were other songs being sung - words of mourning and release to another last speaker, last singer, last breath writer. They sang in Eyak … in Yana … in Quiripi … in Adai … in Mutsun … in Wiyot … in Tonkawa … in Amikwa … in Haw … in Ofo …