
- 146 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Beads on an Anthill
- Le Ina mitąwa kį e, That Mother of Mine
- Wįyą, Nupa, Double Woman
- Weighed Down by Buckskin
- Death Part 1
- Death Part 2
- Our Resurrected Selves
- Carnival at the Sun Dance
- Wide Open Space
- Winter
- Lakota Words
- Waṡicuiaya he? Do you speak English?
- I’ll Play the Drum for You
- Wild Plum Trees
- My Grandfather’s Sak ye
- Sitting on Red Cloud’s Grave
- Back Cover