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By Delphine Red Shirt

Told of their personal phrases, Turtle Lung Woman’s Granddaughter is the unforgettable tale of numerous generations of Lakota girls who grew up at the open plains of northern Nebraska and southern South Dakota. Delphine purple blouse has delicately woven the existence tales of her mom, Lone lady, and pink Shirt’s great-grandmother, Turtle Lung girl, right into a non-stop narrative that succeeds triumphantly as a relocating, epic saga of Lakota ladies from conventional instances within the mid–nineteenth century to the current. specially revealing are Turtle Lung Woman’s courting together with her husband, Paints His Face with Clay, her therapeutic perform as a drugs girl, Lone Woman’s hardships and celebrations starting to be up within the early 20th century, and lots of extraordinary information in their household lives earlier than and through the early reservation years.

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