Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Author’s Note
Prologue
Part One
Chapter 1: Choose the good
Chapter 2: The Midwife
Chapter 3: Cream Shoes
Chapter 4: Apache Women
Chapter 5: Honest Dirt
Chapter 6: Shield and Buckler
Chapter 7: The Lord Will Provide
Chapter 8: Tiny Harlots
Chapter 9: Perfect in His Generations
Chapter 10: Shield of Feathers
Chapter 11: Instinct
Chapter 12: Fish Eyes
Chapter 13: Silence in the Churches
Chapter 14: My Feet No Longer Touch Earth
Chapter 15: No More a Child
Chapter 16: Disloyal Man, Disobedient Heaven
Part Two
Chapter 17: To Keep It Holy
Chapter 18: Blood and Feathers
Chapter 19: In the Beginning
Chapter 20: Recitals of the Fathers
Chapter 21: Skullcap
Chapter 22: What We Whispered and What We Screamed
Chapter 23: I’m from Idaho
Chapter 24: A Knight, Errant
Chapter 25: The Work of Sulphur
Chapter 26: Waiting for Moving Water
Chapter 27: If I Were a Woman
Chapter 28: Pygmalion
Chapter 29: Graduation
Part Three
Chapter 30: Hand of the Almighty
Chapter 31: Tragedy Then Farce
Chapter 32: A Brawling Woman in a Wide House
Chapter 33: Sorcery of Physics
Chapter 34: The Substance of Things
Chapter 35: West of the Sun
Chapter 36: Four Long Arms, Whirling
Chapter 37: Gambling for Redemption
Chapter 38: Family
Chapter 39: Watching the Buffalo
Chapter 40: Educated
Dedication
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
About the Author
The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
—VIRGINIA WOOLF
I believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.
—JOHN DEWEY