Turtle Lung Woman's granddaughter
By: Delphine Red Shirt.
Contributors: Lone Woman.
Series: American Indian lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
Subjects: Lone Woman.; Turtle Lung Woman.; Red Shirt, Delphine, 1957-; Teton women -- Biography.; Teton women -- Social life and customs.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- History.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.) -- Social life and customs.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter is the unforgettable story of several generations of Lakota women told in their words. Delphine Red Shirt - like her mother, Lone Woman, and her mother's grandmother, Turtle Lung Woman - grew up on the wide open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. Lone Woman told her daughter the story of her life growing up on Pine Ridge in the early and mid-twentieth century.

Remarkably, Lone Woman also recounted the life of her own grandmother, Turtle Lung Woman, who had grown up Lakota before her people had been forced to live on reservations in the late nineteenth century. These two women's lives overlapped by fifteen years, allowing the younger to learn many fascinating details and stories about the life and times of the elder.".

"Delphine Red Shirt has delicately woven the life stories of her mother and great-grandmother into a continuous narrative that succeeds triumphantly as a moving, epic saga of Lakota women from traditional times to the present.

Especially revealing and riveting are Turtle Lung Woman's relationship with her husband, Paints His Face with Clay, her healing practice as a medicine woman (where turtle shells become animated and crawl during the Yuwipi ceremony), Lone Woman's hardships and celebrations growing up in the early twentieth century, and many wonderful details of their domestic lives before and during the early reservation years. Lone Woman passed away just after telling her story to her daughter.

This splendid, magical story is a legacy for her and for all Lakota women."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART 1:; title: Turtle Lung Woman (Khegl6zela Chag6wj); title: 5 1. Beading by Moonlight; title: 15 2. Khagi Wichisa, Crow Men; title: 25 3. Turtle Lung Woman; title: 33 4. Stones and Turtle Shells; title: 43 5. Wakiyela, The Mourning Dove; title: 55 6. Ite Sjiykhiya's Wives; title: 63 7. Lakota Code of Conduct - Part 1; title: 73 8. Lakota Code of Conduct - Part 2; title: 79 9. Thathaka Niii, Standing Buffalo; title: 85 10. Math6 Cha Wigni Iya, Bear Goes in the Wood; title: 95 11. "Akh6 Ikt6," Again, Iktomi, the Trickster; title: 103 12. "BlihC'ic'iya Wa'y,' With Dauntless Courage, I Live; title: PART 2:; title: Lone Woman (W'ya Isnala); title: 111 13. Raised on Canned Milk; title: 121 14. "Wichjcalala," Small Girl; title: 129 15. Horses of Many Colors; title: 135 16. Whispers; title: 141 17. The Grasses They Grew - Part 1; title: 151 18. The Grasses They Grew - Part 2; title: 159 19. Canvas Moccasins; title: 165 20. My Father Was a Dancing Man; title: 173 21. My Father's Dreadful Dream; title: 179 22. Kettle Dance; title: PART 3:; title: Death; title: 187 23. Rations; title: 193 24. "T[gy Wgblake," Clear Eyes; title: 201 25. "4p6tu ki h6l,"; title: On a Given Day, I Became a Woman; title: 211 26. Buffalo Ceremony; title: 217 27. Mata, A Cheyenne Woman; title: 225 28. "Phei6ta," Peyote; title: 231 29. "Thawicuku," Marriage; title: 237 30. Brooks Horse; title: 241 Epilogue.