-
From Tatanka we took our food,our clothing,our shelter.
-
Then the whites cameand brought strange new things with them
-
They traded with our enemies the Crow and other tribes
-
We Lakota traded little with the whites.
-
This caused anger among some of us
-
l had passed many joyous years among Thunder Heart Woman's people,
-
but with the start of my own family,
-
l felt a strong yearning to return to the place of my birth
-
so that our daughter,Margaret Light Shines,
-
would know something of her father's world.
-
Just who might you be?
-
This is the Wheeler house,is it not?