Oh my! Or Aho - Why do you guys always call me "A-ho," I used to say to my Cheyenne friends and non-Cheyenne living and visiting in Europe - Switzerland. Once a man from Mongolia told me that we Blackfeet  people from Montana had the same word for fire - He said ,"Match."  And a ho was a whore. You have a strange langage my Mongolian suggested.

If we are to be friends, we are to learn each others' languages. Many well studied anthropologists told me at a conference at the Chicago Field Museum. My most drunken lost relatives on the Native American Rezs' say a warm place to sleep and a good woman will always be traded for a good bottle of whisky. Johnny laughed at this dark rez Indian philosophy that we fully understood together. He had to fight and live with many such dark experiences with men he had to go to war with in Vietnam and their return to our "home!"

His life became one to help his people and more than that - People of the world. It is never easy to have the insight to what will work out best. But, after a war there is a rebuilding. Johnny's legacy is this - His dream will happen to help young people and his Cheyenne people. And those he touched in Europe are helping their people in their own way.

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