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Everybody went to the ball games, too. Even if you had to walk twenty miles, you walked to the ball game. That’s the way they did then, you know. 50 At about this time, when I was ten or eleven, I became interested in the stories and songs of the Omaha people. I told my mother I would like to dance at the next powwow. She immediately contacted her family and they started gathering items and pledges of support for the give-away that would take place at the time of my entrance into the arena. This is a part of the tradition of my people.
One of them was Whiskey. He had Indian names for them all. . Then things got messed up. My father got sick and they put him in the hospital. My parents both lost their jobs then. 54 Ho-tah-moie, Rolling Thunder, was well known to the citizens of Pawhuska. A man of legend, some said he had died in a snowdrift and come back to life in his youth. Another story had it that he passed away in a smallpox epidemic. His body had been rolled in a blanket and placed on the edge of town. Later, he was found alive, starving and filthy, with running sores, hence the name John Stink.
And that’s why I never did meet any Indian girls, because I was always with the white people all the time. It wasn’t that I didn’t like Indian girls, but I never did see any. I didn’t hardly even meet any! 76 Back in Wichita, at the Roe Institute, there were fifty Indian boys and only four Indian girls. Of course, those girls were pretty well taken up, you know. They were a girl called Evelyn, Mabel Perry, and a girl from Alaska adopted by a white family and she was maybe Eskimo. 0pt P ——— Normal P PgEnds: T [21], (21) Wano nshe: Soldier 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 in a big hotel there in Wichita.
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