The general awareness of the mystery — that he is somewhere in this land, that his people protected him in this specific way — has been part of the community’s self-understanding.

This is different from the experience of outside researchers and enthusiasts for whom the mystery is a puzzle to be solved.

For those who grew up in the community, the mystery is a form of ancestral presence: he is here, somewhere, and the fact that outsiders don’t know where is not a failure but a success.

What Touch the Clouds Might Have Said

Touch the Clouds lived until 1905.