On the lives of Indian adults and children?
Just here a boy of about sixteen years entered the room with an air of assurance. Decked out in the latest style of the “movie” cowboy, ten-gallon hat, leather cuffs and all, he approached Pretty-shield, spoke a few words to her in Crow, and then stood waiting while the old woman dug down into a hidden pouch for a silver dollar, which she gave him without a word.
“My grandson,” said Pretty-shield, when the boy had gone. “I have told you that I have raised two families of grandchildren. This one is of the first lot. They never get over needing me, though,” she smiled, her kind face again merry.
“I wonder how my grandchildren will turn out,” she said, half to herself, a dazed look coming into her eyes. “They have only me, an old woman, to
Source: Pages 20–24 from Pretty Shield: Medicine Woman of the Crows by Frank Linderman. Copy- right 1932 by Frank B. Linderman, renewed © 1960 by Norma Waller, Verne Linderman, and Wilda Linderman. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Heirs of Frank Bird Linderman.
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