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“The Song of the Stars” quotation in “The Stars at the Finish Line” on pages 352–353, Stars of the First People: Native American Star Myths and Constellations by –Dorcas S. Miller, published in 1997 by Pruett Publishing Company, PO Box 2140, Boulder, Colorado, 80306, p. 43, reprinted from The Algonquin Legends of New England; or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes by Charles Godfrey Leland, p. 379.