Unit 3: Selection Vocabulary 1

I hear the slow, accented echo
How are yu? I ahm fine. How are yu?

I hear the slow, accented echo
How are yu? I ahm fine. How are yu?
of the other women who clutch notebooks and blush

She slides her arms around me:
a warm shawl, lifts my left arm
onto the cold, lined paper.

...opens the ugly, soap-wrinkled fingers of my right hand
with a pen like I pry open the lips of a stubborn grandchild.

The pleasures of book and pen retain
the thrill of danger even now

...and you
may understand why Ottilie Assing,
come into our house to translate me into
German, could command so many hours,
years, of my time

Anna accepted this, and I don’t
have to tell you that her lot was better
and she, happier, than if she’d squatted
with some other man in a mutual
ignorance.

Anna accepted this, and I don’t
have to tell you that her lot was better
and she, happier, than if she’d squatted
with some other man in a mutual
ignorance.

You two are
of an age to be sisters, and of like
temperament—under other circumstances,
you might have found Friendship in each other.

This was all done in order to introduce him properly into the new and natural world, not the world of artificiality, and to protect his sensitive and delicate soul.

Although you in Western society may argue that such a method serves to hinder motor-skill development and abstract reasoning, we believe it forces the child to first develop his intuitive faculties, rational intellect, symbolic thinking, and five senses.

He has played with abalone shells, pine nuts, iris grass string, and leather while watching the women make beaded jewelry and traditional native regalia.

He stems from a long line of hereditary chiefs, medicine men and women, and ceremonial leaders whose accomplishments and unique forms of knowledge are still being studied and recorded in contemporary books.

Millions of dollars have been appropriated by Congress and are being spent each year for "Indian Education.''