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But Jones found it difficult to escape the vitriol aimed at her, including from friends, who, like her, grew up in Christian homes in a town outside Baton Rouge, where kids swam in the creek and the local branch of the library was once “in a room next to a washeteria.”

He initially relied on a washeteria but found the equipment unreliable.

“When I looked out the window, my husband and a few other men were trying to get into the water plant and washeteria. They had to break the door, but they were a little too late,” said Tribal Council Secretary Kristy Napoka, who lives next door and works at the plant.

To get water for brining, Sinnok hauls a 200-gallon tank attached to a four-wheel ATV from the Washeteria, the community building that houses showers, washing machines, and spigots for filling personal buckets.

My husband and I took her to her first show, Soho Rep’s antic, site-specific kiddie play, “Washeteria,” when she was a year and a half, and she still remembers how the performers reached into the crowd and gave high fives.