I\u27m not sure that I\u27ve ever read such a light volume that carries such heavy contents. This book\u27s dramatic core encompasses the life stories of three women from the Omaha Tribe in Macy, Nebraska: Eleanor Baxter, the first woman elected tribal chairperson; and Alice Saunsoci and Hawate (Wenona Caramony), language teachers and educators. Their stories collectively describe mid to late twentieth-century experiences of American Indian women, each of whom grew up learning, living, and working on the Omaha reservation and off it in what they describe as multicultural societies such as in Lincoln, Nebraska. Each returned to the reservation later in life to a position of cultural influence
