FREE: Dear America, My Heart is on the Ground, The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl

The listing, Dear America, My Heart is on the Ground, The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl has ended.

Ex-library book (hardcover) with the usual stampings and due date envelope. Some major wear to the corners of the book.


February 6

Names were carved on the boards that are black...

When my turn came, I asked Mrs. Mary,..."Why must I take a new name? I have a name, Little Rose."
"Your old names are hard to say," she tells it.
"Little Rose is not hard to say."
s not "They tie you to your savage past."
"My past is not savage," I told her.
"You are Sioux. Your people killed Custer."
My under-where is itching me all this time. I feel silly in my citizen's clothes. I trip on the skirts when I walk. I am angry...

Then Mrs. Camp Bell told me not be dis-re-spect-ful. And to pick a name. So I did, for Mrs. Camp Bell. So now I am Nannie Little Rose. And now I am here. And I have learned to wear this citizens' clothes and write their words. But I will never forget my past.