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Tipi

A tent used as a home by Indians.

Reservation

This was the land the government set aside for the Indians.

Moccasins

These were soft, leather shoes worn by Indians.

Greenwood

This was the Indian agency where the Indians of the Yankton reservation received their food rations.

Yanktons

These were the Indians on the reservation where Zitkala-Sa lived.

Wigwam

This was a domed and rounded shelter used by Indians.

White's boarding school

This institution was run cruelly, treating Indian children like slaves and stripping them of their Indian identity.

Earlham College

This was a white institution that Gertrude attended and where she entered and won oratorical competitions.

Uintah reservation

This destitute community of Indians was where Gertrude and Raymond lived after marriage.

Peyote

This was a small cactus, which according to some people, including Gertrude, was an addictive drug.

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