Life Among the Texas Indians: The WPA NarrativesTexas A&M University Press, 1998 - 270 pages |
Contents
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Chapter Two Southern Plains Cultures | 76 |
A Spiritual life | 120 |
Education and Health | 148 |
Life on the Reservation | 177 |
Old Ways New Ways | 212 |
Epilogue | 231 |
Notes | 235 |
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Page 32 - There they may be secured in the enjoyment of governments of their own choice, subject to no other control from the United States than such as may be necessary to preserve peace on the frontier, and between the several tribes.
Page 32 - If I could build a wall from the Red River to the Rio Grande, so high that no Indian could scale it, the white people would go crazy trying to devise means to get beyond it.