CONTENTS

IMPRESSIONS OF AN INDIAN CHILDHOOD I. MY MOTHER.

II. THE LEGENDS.

III. THE BEADWORK.

IV. THE COFFEE-MAKING.

V. THE DEAD MAN'S PLUM BUSH.

VI. THE GROUND SQUIRREL.

VII. THE BIG RED APPLES.

THE SCHOOL DAYS OF AN INDIAN GIRL I. THE LAND OF RED APPLES.

II. THE CUTTING OF MY LONG HAIR.

III. THE SNOW EPISODE.

IV. THE DEVIL.

V. IRON ROUTINE

VI. FOUR STRANGE SUMMERS.

VII. INCURRING MY MOTHER'S DISPLEASURE.

AN INDIAN TEACHER AMONG INDIANS I. MY FIRST DAY.

II. A TRIP WESTWARD.

III. MY MOTHER'S CURSE UPON WHITE SETTLERS.

IV. RETROSPECTION.

THE GREAT SPIRIT

THE SOFT-HEARTED SIOUX I.

II.

III.

IV.

V.

THE TRIAL PATH

A WARRIOR'S DAUGHTER

A DREAM OF HER GRANDFATHER

THE WIDESPREAD ENIGMA CONCERNING BLUE-STAR WOMAN

Title: American Indian stories

Author: Zitkala-Sa

Language: English

Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Brett Koonce and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team

AMERICAN INDIAN STORIES

BY

ZITKALA-SA (Gertrude Bonnin)

Dakota Sioux Indian

Lecturer; Author of "Old Indian Legends," "Americanize The First
American," and other stories; Member of the Woman's National Foundation,
League of American Pen-Women, and the Washington Salon

"There is no great; there is no small; in the mind that causeth all"

1921