Category: Historical Novels
It was a Saturday morning in December at the Indian Mission School. Two young Sioux girls were going up the stairs--Hannah Straight Tree and Cordelia Running Bird. It was their Saturday for cleaning. The two girls drew a heavy breath in prospect of the difficult task that conf...
It was a Saturday morning in December at the Indian Mission School. Two young Sioux girls were going up the stairs--Hannah Straight Tree and Cordelia Running Bird. It was their...
2. Chapter 2As something quite unusual at that season in the Dakotas, there had been a thaw the day before, and a great quantity of mud had been tracked in on the girls' side by the sewing...
3. Chapter 3The girls had finished working in the dormitories and had gone below. Cordelia Running Bird was relieved that she would not have to meet them and endure such looks as they might...
4. Chapter 4Sunday morning there was wonder in the school to see Cordelia Running Bird in the heavy government shoes that had been lying in her cupboard since the distribution of the clothi...
5. Chapter 5Cordelia Running Bid held her clothes about her with one hand, steering with her feet, and reached the flats in safety. She arose and stood still and looked toward the river to...
6. Chapter 6Cordelia Running Bird carried out her plan of asking Jessie Turning Heart, the playroom girl, to help her make the red dress, and the latter willingly agreed to "trade work," an...