The White Man's Prayers

Wooden leg was baptized by the priest at Tongue River Mission when he was almost fifty years old. His wife and their two daughters were baptized too. Wooden leg says, I think the white people pray to the same great medicine we do in our old Cheyenne way. Now wooden leg had a couple daughters and he talks about them here. The younger daughter fell into an illness when she was about 14 years old. We expected she would soon be herself again, but she grew worse instead of better. She became so weak she could not stay at school any longer. Finally, her spirit went back to the great medicine.