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5 Synopein: wil Bi Black Wolf and. his Dakotas rise up and wipe out the Boils des Morts mission? That is the question in the mind of all save Aaron Gadd who-has recently arrived from New England to toil at the mission. It is one of the problems facing Squire Harge and his dying: wife; the scholarly Speezers; the hardworking Wherrymans and the few other whites in the region. Meanwhile Aaron's mind is less filled with’ massacre and religion than with two attractive young women: Seiéne Lanark, daughter of the rich fur trader Caesar Lanark who lives nearby, and the plump and sweet Huldah Purdick, a teacher at the mission who sleeps in the

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CHAPTER THIRTEEN .

ISAAC

WEEPS-by:-Night was the only member. of the Isanti pe

River band who Had taken to white men's ways; that is, to civiliza- white philosophers call a faith ludicrously whiskered on tion. He had a two-room log house and he grew barley as well a8 cre. top and. Judicrously men.

(urged on ‘the horrified on, .|ciliousness, and the Spider sat his clumsy clothes and be reborn,

{ “The old man is giving a good down: again, ‘muttering. re-educated. . [show today. Scarlet spit—that Through her son, Medicine She held up her hind In blessmeans he's drawn out the demon : Ing,

Spider outlined her heresies, curt- PR tient will be cured, and our little ly and firmly: { IN THE AUTI MN dusk, Black {family will get paid a couple of, The Christians are devil-wor- Wolf walked back to the Mission 'deer “later, and some buffalo shipers, with him. They stopped at fhe hides." All white people are constantly wolf's own lodge and spoke to h “Surely, surely, Wolf, you den't angry, from overeating and over- wife. “Her ln a vound Dla believe in that disgusting wakan, heating, " ie : even if it fs your father?’ All white women have a miser- cheery young woman who lost her “Certainly not., Neither does ,v1o {ime even aside from the cheer and ‘tightened her lips when except that It's what You (,.¢ that their men are bald on she saw one of the hated white Their son was playing by By the way, before my peo- the chin. Among us, women mere- the central fire with a toy bow

lof bilious lung. fever. The pa-

corn. He wore trousers instead of leggings and he worked for the pe ever saw the white men, the |y qo the cooking and hoeing and snd arrow.

Mission now and. then; hauled supplies from Traverse des SlouX, wakan man rarely did any of this ping firewdod and erect tents,

plowed, tanned hides He sang loudly in chapel—when he was in such a state of morals as to be allowed in chapel--and he was notably honest. He stole nothing except melons and pumpkins; which never have counted

And it was from the Laodicean

Isaac that Aaron began to learn pn,

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land, and chanting to

ancient ritual tune.

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The white men come in “to trade whisky for our furs or pantaloons

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drop afound te murder us--oh, in for some slight murders on It is refreshing to see a friend with nothing more threatening than curiosity.” want to meet

He was painted 4. hay of young men sitting about A SCAT- green and Orange in spirals and and in. his feather head mitten very much Jike the shell dress nestled a pinfoned live gar- [center hy the fire, mending a pair game at a fair back in New Eng- ter snake, writhing its separate ,¢ it the insane dance. Shining ‘Wind touched the pa- {térmiried,. Black Wolf was among them, tient’s chest with his lips, his hair fancy today in two braids. sprang up to spit a scarlet stream thoughtful but quick to anger.|

As Aaron

They squatted -by a rock that into a birchbark: dish,

was a shelter from the autumnraised his head he saw his son,

wind, and the Wolf said gravely, and waved to him as casually as [head. “1 am glad to see you by yourself. a white surgeon after an operaWe are an exclusive people, you tion, know. We don’t like" strangers..

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They insisted that Aaron eat a comic swindling. He used healing while ‘our men take care of all hunk of.rabbit out of the pot, and bark and roots and the steam tne dangerous labors, such as Her Door served him with the bath. ‘But he learned from the hunting, and fighting the Ojibway punctiliousness of hatred; white blackrobes and traders how and the Satik. But among the, The new ice of the lake was to make a circus and get pald whites, the women have to clean jonely with star-sfine and icy for it.~Mockery and money we'é¢ and memd too many possessions. reeds ‘clattered on the shore. learned and have to travel exhaustingly; Aaron slid and staggered in boots. “80 let us seek wisdom in the not, as with us, for sensible hunt- while Black Wolf's moccasins lodge of my mother. Among using but because white men are cjung to the ice and made him YOUr the women own their houses, you restless and discontented. sure as, in everything, he seemed

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the the Dakota language hited Ts A XO Ly She kBOW: Fach Lushands ale only, White women actually dress up to be more sure than anyone else Aaron and he did not labar only good.” tolerates put t to please their husbands, instead at Bois des Morts. ; hey tlove to. the “She shall tell you (Medicine kicked out. Our women are not of as is normal, the men showing He said, “Look up at what you Over syntax, They tiove 10 ihe) @ ar owned by the men-—they're mere- c¢¢ {5 please the women. And cali the Milky Way, We Dakota theory that “Me want bed and’ Spider, her name is), Come.’ ly free and equal, not like MIS. white men spend all their time believe that it's the soul's ‘path cow-meat” will get a traveler all of ahd Th ! Harge.” inventing néw ways of lighting, way to the land of the dead.” he needs in any language THEY approached a bark lodge “Now you look here, Wolf! I'm g5 that women can sit up and “Do ‘you believe that? Do you Aaron warited to know the front whick-came a sound like a sick of your perpetually claiming work half the night while the honestly believe the Dakota re Indian village. to talk with Black stampede of rmoaning cattle that the Sioux are perfect and the men snore, ligion 2” Wolf, without the spiritual «lum- through shifting sand. Black whites are stinkers:” It was too bad, Medicine Spider “Do you believe the Christian ming of Squire Harge. Unlike a Wolf grinned. It's mv father My friend, don’t you find It an finished "at farewell, that Aaron religion—that God talks only in good many of the villagers, Black ghining Wind, the conjurer and agreeable Thange from hearing could’not marry an Indian girl riddles, and if you don’t have the Wolf never came to the Mission to qatar, healing somebody, He's the opposite as you have all your Perhaps he could. There was no answers, you are tortured forbég for potatoes, or to ask Jake good at it." life’ fundamental reason why a white ever?” or Aaron to repair a gun or fash They stopped at the doar. In Well, mavhe there is , ., Yes! '|man could not be as manly as a| At a late and extremely. cold ion an axe handle stde; an Indian with bare hreast WE AN of ~ Medicing| [Dakota If he would just take off second stipper at Jake's, he would Aaron ynscrupulously ran away Jay on the ground. while above Lh r. Mra, -Shining Wind, was from the task of making an oX- him, leaping, stamping his feet hie] Ve re Re ry il " yoke and crossed to the village shaking a gourd rattle, hellowing 3 Fuh 2 . jad a door at each end. On th on the thickening ice of Lake Bois the medicine man was making a wall hench, on blankets. spread

several warriors were] moking tobacco and dogwood, while Medicine Spider sat in the

moccasins. She sprang up. watched, |ghe was light and quick and delike» her kinswoman, then!gelene: she was much wrinkled, As he gle wore a plain shortgown, with) |a man’s crimson sash over her!

When the Wolf, in Sioux, had, introduced Aaron, the braves as he walked out, with immense super-

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At tie prayer-meeting, Aaron With unexpected force, dia Bo} sive iegkumony Shout bis} Speeser stepped in. “Brother, now spiritual progress, as he was - ' ; den to do, but announced an il-| Brother! You're beginning to fly, licit crusade. off the handle. You do, you know, . I haye. an idea—I hope you'll] {in your Christian zeal!” all exctie ule. it I soem retey| Harge looked devastated. “Am green; a you've tho . how a and nations ought’ Forgive me. ‘Taint just my o Ot get together, the way it says/annoyance at Aaron's stubbornSin the Bible—anyway, I guess it ness; it's my wrath at the way does. But I been thinking what the Sioux still defy God.” a wonderful chance we have to, At home, Huldah. sald, “Oh,] start TU off Tight here, with the Aaron; don't try to get the Squire Indians. I learned something confused! He's such a valiant about them today, and maybe goldier of the crogs.” i they're a lot more reasonable and! «1 know,” said Aaron, slightly moral than we've beet SUP- ashamed, and not at all clear as posing. rn. to what he was ashamed about. THE sky darkened and Harge pos J pitas ble sligntly an thundered: | His room had seemed to him “Young man, after the prayer-jonly too fresh, with the autumn ful interest we have devoted toMwind nipping in about the window your welfare, I am shocked to find and between wall and roof, but § that the seed has fallen by the tonight the air tasted stale and wayside! Here you | had a chance thick and sour, and” the heavyto spend hours with’ this so-called breathing presences of Jake and Black Wolf--though I must say, Anna, audibly .sleeping downwith Bessie's room not plastered stairs, were like dough. Even the and the repairs on the thapel roof warm girl, Huldah, was like sweet dough. He wanted to be with Black Wolf in the thin and spirited air on the icy lake, in his thin and spirited skepticism,

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