Bead on an Anthill
eBook - ePub

Bead on an Anthill

A Lakota Childhood

  1. 146 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Bead on an Anthill

A Lakota Childhood

About this book

Bead on an Anthill is the story of a Lakota girl's experiences growing up in Nebraska and on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the 1960s and 1970s. Raised in a home without books, Delphine Red Shirt relied on family and friends as her "books" and wove their stories into her own. Like her ancestors, she felt a powerful connection to the openness of the Plains. She participated in coming-of-age ceremonies and learned the special rules for stringing beads together and the messages conveyed by hairstyles. At the same time, Red Shirt became increasingly aware of the distance between her world and that of her ancestors. Ringing with insight and honesty, this memoir gives voice to an emerging generation of Lakota women who attempt to navigate the difficult paths of a bicultural world.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Beads on an Anthill
  9. Le Ina mitąwa kį e, That Mother of Mine
  10. Wįyą, Nupa, Double Woman
  11. Weighed Down by Buckskin
  12. Death Part 1
  13. Death Part 2
  14. Our Resurrected Selves
  15. Carnival at the Sun Dance
  16. Wide Open Space
  17. Winter
  18. Lakota Words
  19. Waṡicuiaya he? Do you speak English?
  20. I’ll Play the Drum for You
  21. Wild Plum Trees
  22. My Grandfather’s Sak ye
  23. Sitting on Red Cloud’s Grave
  24. Back Cover