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American Indian stories


Zitkala-Sa, 1876-1938 / 2008-08-25 00:00:00

EBOOK AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES ***


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AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES
BY
ZITKALA-SA _(Gertrude Bonnin)_
Dakota Sioux Indian
Lecturer; Author of "Old Indian Legends," "Americanize The First
American," and other stories; Member of the Woman's National Foundation,
League of American Pen-Women, and the Washington Salon

"_There is no great; there is no small; in the mind that causeth all_"
1921


CONTENTS
Impressions of an Indian Childhood
The School Days of an Indian Girl
An Indian Teacher Among Indians
The Great Spirit
The Soft-Hearted Sioux
The Trial Path
A Warrior's Daughter
A Dream of Her Grandfather
The Widespread Enigma of Blue-Star Woman
America's Indian Problem


IMPRESSIONS OF AN INDIAN CHILDHOOD
I.
MY MOTHER.

A wigwam of weather-stained canvas stood at the base of some irregularly
ascending hills. A footpath wound its way gently down the sloping land
till it reached the broad river bottom; creeping through the long swamp
grasses that bent over it on either side, it came out on the edge of the
Missouri.
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