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Turtle and her old-fashioned digging stick

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Turtle and her old-fashioned digging stick.jpg To eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the timeThumbnailsTurtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoeTo eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the timeThumbnailsTurtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoeTo eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the timeThumbnailsTurtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoeTo eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the timeThumbnailsTurtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoeTo eke out our store of corn and keep the pot boiling, my father hunted much of the timeThumbnailsTurtle, I think, was the last woman in the tribe to use an old-fashioned, bone-bladed hoe
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I was too little to note very much of what was done. I remember that my father set up boundary marks—little piles of earth or stones, I think they were—to mark the corners of the field we claimed. My mothers and Turtle began at one end of the field and worked forward. My mothers had their heavy iron hoes; and Turtle, her old-fashioned digging stick.

Author
Waheenee--An Indian Girl's Story
By Waheenee
as told to Gilbert Livingstone Wilson
Illustrator: Frederick N. Wilson
Published in 1921
Available from gutenberg.org
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