Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School

Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission SchoolIt was a Saturday morning in December...
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Author: Jenness, Theodora R. (Theodora Robinson),1847-
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Language: English
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Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School

Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School

€6,18

Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School

€6,18
Author: Jenness, Theodora R. (Theodora Robinson),1847-
Format: eBook
Language: English

Big and Little Sisters: A Story of an Indian Mission School

It was a Saturday morning in December at the Indian Mission School. Two young Sioux girls were going up the stairsHannah Straight Tree and Cordelia Running Bird. It was their Saturday for cleaning. The two girls drew a heavy breath in prospect of the difficult task that confronted them. The great unplastered mission building was a chilly place throughout the winter, and the halls and stairway that morning were drafty from the blustering wind that swept the Dakota plains and came through the outer doors below, where restless children kept going to and fro continually. The young hall-girls shivered on the upper landing, and stepped back in a sheltered niche in which the brooms were hanging. They had thrown their aprons over their heads and shoulders, and were dreading to begin their work. "Because you have the teachers' side, and that's always nicer, to begin with, than the girls' side," answered Cordelia Running Bird. "You know the teachers never walk whole-feet when you are scrubbing. If they have to go by, they walk tiptoe, and their toes are sharp and clean and do not make big tracks. But all the children on my side walk whole-feet over the wet floor when I am scrubbing, and their shoes are big and muddy. Ugh! big tracks they make! But I have learned the motto, every word, and I can speak that when I feel discouraged with my work." Cordelia Running Bird gazed at the motto, while the dormitory girls flocked by, and when the hall was quiet she repeated it in the peculiar monotonous tone with which an Indian pupil usually recites: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 10902
Author: Jenness, Theodora R. (Theodora Robinson)
Release Date: Feb 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English

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