Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office of Indian Affairs Field Matron

Authors

Lisa E. Emmerich, California State University, Chico

Date of this Version

1993

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:3 (Summer 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

"I am an Indian girl fifteen years old .... Sometimes I am sorry that the white people ever came to America. What nice times we used to have before we were old enough to go to school, for then father used to take us on the buffalo hunt."l