This is only the beginning of her life. In my opinion she dealt with more struggles in her childhood than I have dealt with my whole life. Mary and her mother didn’t have a good relationship, due to her mother being strict and not seeming to care about Mary and eventually leaving her and her five siblings with Grandma Louise Flood and her husband Noble Moore. One of the aspects of Mary’s childhood that I found interesting was the fact that the author remarks on North Dakota racism, which to her “everyone” is racist, it’s hard to imagine growing up thinking that everyone dislikes you for your culture and race. Mary’s grandparents coming into Mary’s life seemed to be one of the best things that happened to her because they introduced her to some of the old Indian ways which her mother didn’t want anything to do with. This was due to her grandparents were old Indians where they still spoke old-style Lakota, whereas Mary’s mother didn’t want anything to do with the Indian
This is only the beginning of her life. In my opinion she dealt with more struggles in her childhood than I have dealt with my whole life. Mary and her mother didn’t have a good relationship, due to her mother being strict and not seeming to care about Mary and eventually leaving her and her five siblings with Grandma Louise Flood and her husband Noble Moore. One of the aspects of Mary’s childhood that I found interesting was the fact that the author remarks on North Dakota racism, which to her “everyone” is racist, it’s hard to imagine growing up thinking that everyone dislikes you for your culture and race. Mary’s grandparents coming into Mary’s life seemed to be one of the best things that happened to her because they introduced her to some of the old Indian ways which her mother didn’t want anything to do with. This was due to her grandparents were old Indians where they still spoke old-style Lakota, whereas Mary’s mother didn’t want anything to do with the Indian