Chapter 33 Summary

At last the tribal council meets. Annawake recommends that Cash have legal guardianship of Turtle, that Turtle's name be officially recognized as Turtle Stillwater, but that Taylor and Cash have joint custody. The tribe will pay for counseling for Turtle in consideration of her abuse.

Andy opens the meeting for anyone who wishes to speak. Cash stands and suggests that he and Alice Greer get married and the little girl could come and spend the summers with them. Letty, Sugar and Annawake argue about who actually set the courtship up and how soon the marriage should take place.

Alice then speaks up: "Did anybody ask me if I wanted to marry Cash?" She says that she doesn't intend to marry another man with a television set.

Cash invites them all to his house to witness something he is about to do. They all...