Devil Moon
“They also ate a lot of elk and deer and whatever else they could kill and forage, but the white name stuck.
They called themselves the Tukaduka. In the white tongue it meant “people of the high places.” They preferred the high parks and valleys to the flatlands and low valleys and seldom drifted down from the heights.
Other tribes considered them poor. They did not have horses. They did not have buffalo-hide lodges. They did not have white guns or white blankets or white pots and pans. They did... not have white knives or white sewing needles or any of the other thousand and one things the whites had that the other tribes craved. But that was fine by the Tukaduka. They did not envy the whites their many goods. They did not desire to be rich as the other tribes saw rich to be.
To the Tukaduka, richness lay in the simple life. Getting along with others was valued more than all else, even white guns. Devotion to family meant more than white knives or sewing needles. Their families, the whites would say, were everything to them.MoreLess
They called themselves the Tukaduka. In the white tongue it meant “people of the high places.” They preferred the high parks and valleys to the flatlands and low valleys and seldom drifted down from the heights.
Other tribes considered them poor. They did not have horses. They did not have buffalo-hide lodges. They did not have white guns or white blankets or white pots and pans. They did... not have white knives or white sewing needles or any of the other thousand and one things the whites had that the other tribes craved. But that was fine by the Tukaduka. They did not envy the whites their many goods. They did not desire to be rich as the other tribes saw rich to be.
To the Tukaduka, richness lay in the simple life. Getting along with others was valued more than all else, even white guns. Devotion to family meant more than white knives or sewing needles. Their families, the whites would say, were everything to them.MoreLess
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