From left, siblings Tony, Harvey, and Charles Pratt wearing old-time Cheyenne and Arapaho regalia. Photo courtesy Harvey Pratt. Harvey’s dad Oscar Pratt was Arapaho and Cheyenne. And Pratt explains that his mother Anna Guerrier Pratt Shadlow, who was half Cheyenne, Holding chickens are Harvey Pratt, left, with his brother Tony. Photo and Sioux, French, and English, “heard great stories, courtesy Harvey Pratt. like tribal stories and legends, from old men who Standing on the right is Anna Guerrier Pratt Shadlow, Harvey Pratt's could not speak English. She traveled, telling her mother. Photo courtesy Harvey Pratt. stories, and teaching them to children in schools. She spoke Cheyenne, Arapaho, Mexican, Sioux, and English. And she became a cultural teacher and story teller. And during the 1980s, she earned the titles of Oklahoma Indian Woman of the Year, and National Indian Woman of the Year.” Anna survived her two husbands, including Oscar Pratt. The sixth of seven children, Pratt was born in 1941 in his mother’s little house in the El Reno area. A rare occurrence took place at Pratt’s birth. He was a veil baby. One in every 500,000 babies is a veil baby, and historically it’s seen as a sign that the child is gifted. The tribal interpretation is that the infant will grow up to be a chief or someone special. So, at his birth, Pratt’s aunts said to his mom, “Oh look! He