Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction Barbara Loeb xi
Thoughts about My Mother Mardell Hogan Plainfeather xxxi
Genealogies xxxvii
Chapter 1 My Birth and Infancy 1
Chapter 2 My Mother 13
Chapter 3 My Father 25
Chapter 4 My Parents Meet and Marry 47
Chapter 5 My First Memories 57
Chapter 6 Boarding School 73
Chapter 7 Memories of Youth 93
Chapter 8 My Mother Teaches Me to Be a Good Woman 147
Chapter 9 Tobacco Iipche (Sacred Pipe Society) and the Medicine Dance (Tobacco Society) 175
Chapter 10 We Were Always Hard Up 197
Chapter 11 The Last Years in School 205
Chapter 12 My First Marriage Was to Alex 213
Chapter 13 We're Adopted into the Tobacco Society 225
Chapter 14 I Married Robbie Yellowtail 229
Chapter 15 Paul 241
Chapter 16 George 263
Chapter 17 The Kids Are Growing Up 307
Chapter 18 Sacred Experiences 333
Chapter 19 Traditional Healing 341
Chapter 20 I Gave Indian Names 357
Chapter 21 I'm an Old-Timer 363
Chapter 22 Education 379
Chapter 23 Life as an Elder 387
Bibliography 405
Index 409