The Middle Five
Laflesche, Francis Excerpt from The Middle Five: Indian Boys at SchoolThis introduction is a genuine one, for all the boys who appear in these sketches have really lived and played a part in the incidents herein recorded. Each little actor, including the writer, made his entrance upon the stage of life. In the tee-pee or in the dome-shaped earth lodge, for, in the years when we boys were born, only the aboriginal dwellings were in use among our people, the Omaha...