Another Cool Day

St. Stevens Mission

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The church at St. Stevens is beatiful, and lavishly decorated on both the inside and outside with Indian motifs.

The Catholic cemetery is on the north side of the mission grounds. It is a large cemetery and has everything from unpainted leaning wooden crosses to large marble headstones. This is the grave of a young Indian boy who was a high school basketball player at St. Stevens High School. (St. Stevens Eagles) He had just died a short time before I visited there. His grave had a large wooden cross with his name, and another painted one at the foot of the grave. The one at the foot was in the shape of an Eagle, and painted black with the number "24" on it, and the nickname "Bonez". It is decorated with beads, feathers, crystals, crosses, artificial flowers, cans of pop, balloons, and Halloween decorations. There are two basketballs on the grave, autographed by his team mates, and his basketball shoes hang on the eagle cross, also autographed. The edge of the grave is outlined with smooth rocks, all spray painted with images of a basketball or eagle. The grave next to this one is decorated in a similar way, with the same painted rocks and basketballs.

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