- Daughter, save me!
- I am an old woman now
- Skull
- Indian
- Marriage
- Making a booth -3
- many families floated their stuff over in tent covers
- With horn spoon she filled her mouth with water
- In his shadow he saw what he had been. It was a thorn bush
- Making a booth -1
- The Lodge - 1
- Each paddle had a large hole cut in the center of the blade. Without this hole, a paddle wobbled in the current
- An ear was parched by thrusting a stick into the cob, and holding it over the coals
- The Lodge - 2
- And she turned the leggings up and poured the rose berries out on the ground
- Suddenly a Sioux warrior
- The Voyage Home
- Another form of Drying Meat
- As we two girls sat on the floor, with ankles to the right, as Indian women always sit
- Making a booth -2
- Suddenly the knoll began to shake
- I had hewn this paddle from a cottonwood log, only the day before. My own, lighter and better made
- The Sioux fired
- Cooking Dried Meat
- Drying meat
- We made our eleventh camp on the north side of the Missouri
- The Lodge - 3
- A big fire was built
- Our stages were now hung with slices of drying meat
- I put on my copper kettle and made blood pudding
- Strikes-Many Woman parched ripe sweet corn, pounded it in a mortar with roast buffalo fats, and kneaded the meal into little balls
- My two mothers, I knew, were planning a big feast
- The smaller ears we bore to the village in our baskets
- The Hunting Camp
- Waheenee and Her Husband, Son-of-a-Star
- They saw two great fires sweeping toward them over the prairie
- My mothers dipped each a big horn spoon full of water
- The hunters came in
- We were fond of squashes and ate many of them
- Hidatsas Earth lodge
- A Buffalo Hunt
- She had a little fawn-skin bag, worked with red porcupine quills
- Then he arose and took my baby tenderly in his arms
- Corn Husking
- We were clad warmly, for the weather was chill. All had robes
- At one side of our field Turtle had made a booth
- Old Turtle made me a dolly of deer skin stuffed with antelope hair
- My grandmother Turtle made scarecrows to frighten away the birds
- ver all she bound a wildcat skin, drawing the upper edge over the baby’s head, like a hood.
- When my sack was filled, I tied it shut and slung it on my back by my packing strap
- Buffalo heart skin bucket
- I loaded my boats on the travois of two of my dogs
- In daytime lookouts were always on the roofs of some of the lodges
- Winter clothing
- Turtle’s hoe was made of the shoulder bone of a buffalo set in a light-wood handle, the blade firmly bound in place with thong
- I would lay the puppy between my shoulders and draw my tiny robe up over his back
- Snake Head-Ornament came close to her and fired off his gun
- She laid the grass thickly over the sides of the little tepee
- Turtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoe
- At this hour, fires burned before most of the tepees