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Floats Away Laughing Floats Away Laughing earned her name the summer she was about six months old. Her family was on a canoe journey. She was held securely in her cradleboard and propped up in the bow of the canoe where she could watch everything. One day, Floats Away Laughing was mistakenly left in the canoe at the water's edge while everyone else went on land. Her mother turned around just in time to see the canoe with the cradleboard drifting into the beginning of the rapids.She yelled for her husband, who ran alongside the river trying to catch the canoe. But he was too late. The canoe ran the rapids as if by magic and Floats Away Laughing was safe and sound, drifting in the waters of a large lake.When her parents got to her, she was clapping her hands and laughing. From Dolls & Toys of Native America, by Don and Debra McQuiston, 1995 |