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American Indian stories, by Zitkala-Sa
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Title: American Indian stories
Author: Zitkala-Sa
Release Date: December 3, 2003 [EBook #10376]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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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 slop