Running Fawn was down by the river washing clothes when Red Dog came by and became interested in her sensuous posterior, sort of waggling while she was unloading her basket. ![]() ![]() Then all hell breaks loose encouraging separatism on the part of the older White residents. Most of the intermingling of culture is occurring with the children that seem to integrate quite well, until puberty. The year is 1910 the town is a whistle stop in Kansas, racing to become a ghost town! The villagers permit a small band of Indians to camp along a small river (big stream) three miles away, and they try to help civilize the "heathens" by exposing them to book lar'nen, and church! Five tepees compose of the tribe, thus they believe some of the education is taking root however, the old Indian ways are still paramount (that the White folk find troubling). Indians are very individualistic, so one shoe does not fit all, and this presentation of attitude is only demonstrating fictional opinions and practices without prejudice on my part, of a very small sample size. This story is an assemblage of bits and pieces of information gathered from Hopi, Cherokee, and Comanche Indians that I have known, along with some historical writings.
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