Turtle Lung Womans Granddaughter (American Indian Lives)

263 Pages·2002·0.66 MB·English

by  Delphine Red Shirt, Lone Woman

Turtle Lung Woman’s Granddaughter
  
Editorial Board
General Editor
A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff
University of Illinois at Chicago (emerita)
Kimberly Blaeser
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Brenda J. Child
University of Minnesota
R. David Edmunds
University of Texas at Dallas
Clara Sue Kidwell
University of Oklahoma
Daniel F. Littlefield
University of Arkansas
Tsianina Lomawaima
University of Arizona
Gerald Vizenor
University of California, Berkeley
Turtle Lung
Woman’s
Granddaughter
Delphine Red Shirt
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln and London
©  by the University of
Nebraska Press
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Data
Red Shirt, Delphine, –
Turtle Lung Woman’s
granddaughter / Delphine
Red Shirt p. cm. –
(American Indian lives)
 ---
(cl. : alk. paper)
. Lone Woman.
. Turtle Lung Woman.
. Red Shirt, Delphine,
–
. Teton women –
Biography.
. Teton women – Social
life and customs.
. Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation (S.D.) –
History.
. Pine Ridge Indian
Reservation (S.D.) – Social
life and customs.
I. Title: Keglezela Cagu
Win’s granddaughter.
II. Title. III. Series.
.  
.'—dc

Publication of this volume was
assisted by The Virginia Faulkner
Fund, established in memory of
Virginia Faulkner, editor-in-chief of
the University of Nebraska Press.
Hená ehni wąbláke These things
ehni hená I saw
Thatéya kį ékɉaš wašté long ago
táku echpikte when
hená iyóptepteya even the wind blowing
Thatéya hé thąɉ was good
wóchekiye na táku kį In all things
Ho lehl the people did
áta otúyachį the wind
tuktógna thąɉšni made itself known
ųkɉyap sɉeleca In prayer
in all things
it was good
Now it seems
we have no purpose
no reason
no direction
We are lost
Lone Woman
(Wyą Išnála),
November 
This book is dedicated in memory of
Kheglézela Chaǧúwį Wyą Išnála
– –
Contents
xi Acknowledgments
xiii Orthographic and Pronunciation Key
xv Introduction
 :
Turtle Lung Woman (Kheglézela Chaǧúwį )
5 . Beading by Moonlight
15 . Khąǧí Wicháša, CrowMen
25 . Turtle Lung Woman
33 . Stones and Turtle Shells
43 . Wakyela, The Mourning Dove
55 . Ité Sįykhiya’s Wives
63 . Lakota Code of Conduct – Part 
73 . Lakota Code of Conduct – Part 
79 . Thathka Nážį, Standing Buffalo
85 . Mathó ChWígni Iyá, Bear Goes in the Wood
95 . ‘‘Akhé Iktó,’’ Again, Iktomi, the Trickster
103 . ‘‘Blihéɉicɉiya Waɉ,’’ With Dauntless Courage, I Live
 :
Lone Woman (Wyą Išnála)
111 . Raised on Canned Milk
121 . ‘‘Wichcalala,’’ Small Girl
129 . Horses of Many Colors