CONTENTS
I. Hadakah, “The Pitiful Last”
II. Early Hardships
III. My Indian Grandmother
IV. An Indian Sugar Camp
V. A Midsummer FeastII. AN INDIAN BOY’S TRAINING
III. MY PLAYS AND PLAYMATESVII. THE END OF THE BEAR DANCE
VIII. THE MAIDENS’ FEAST
IX. MORE LEGENDS
WHAT boy would not be an Indian for a while when he thinks of the freest life in the world? This life was mine. Every day there was a real hunt. There was real game. Occasionally there was a medicine dance away off in the woods where no one could disturb us, in which the boys impersonated their elders, Brave Bull, Standing Elk, High Hawk, Medicine Bear, and the rest. They painted and imitated their fathers and grandfathers to the minutest detail, and accurately too, because they had seen the real thing all their live