(March 28, 2006) When Sandrow’s path crossed with a large white bird (l, a Padovana cockeral later named Shinnecock for where they met) on Hills: his feathered crest reminded her of Edward S. Curtis’s series of portraits “The North American Indian”  (l, top Portfolio plates 408). And their regalia (pictured, below l) Eastern Woodland headdress (pictured, at Shinnecock Indian Nation Annual Pow Wow, Shinnecock Nation Performance Artist Shane Weeks.)

Her Chance Encounter (Surrealist doctrine of objective chance) on hills where Native Americans had roamed freely before the Town founded,1640, seized the  lands (1859).

At this time their efforts to regain ancestral lands was on appeal of a federal judge’s ruling (December 2006) “that Shinnecock Nation tribe waited too long to bring the case”.

“The Sky is Falling” is the central phrase in the folk tale "Chicken Little" aka “Henny Penny” selected by Sandrow as her title ....

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