Two Old Women — Vocabulary
Velma Wallis
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She hung her head in shame and grief, for her mother refused to acknowledge her presence.†p.8.2alternate pages3 more

There they saw a small, trembling rabbit that lay partially strangled as it eyed them warily.†p.23.2alternate pages1 more

Where the caribou and other migrating animals roamed, The People followed.†p.2.2alternate pages1 more

All right, strange young girl,' he said in a loud voice that I knew was meant to humiliate me.†p.60.4alternate pages1 more

There, they built a fire and, after eating some of the rabbit meat they had carefully rationed, they returned for their sleds and resumed their journey.†p.39.6alternate pages1 more

Ozhii Nelii was in deep turmoil.†p.8.3alternate pages1 more

The women yearned to be as far away as possible from this place of bad memories.†p.33.1alternate pages1 more

Yet I would not yield as I stared unblinkingly into his eyes.†p.60.6alternate pagesmore

He feared that something had happened to his men, yet hope kept intruding on that thought.†p.113.6alternate pages1 more

Perhaps the young ones were right — she and Sa' were fighting the inevitable.†p.45.4alternate pages

Still skeptical, one of the younger men asked Daagoo what he expected to find.†p.97.8alternate pages

Though food was scarce, warmth was their main concern, and at night they would sit and talk, trying to keep each other from the loneliness and fears that threatened to overcome them.†p.64.8alternate pages

The creek where the fish were so abundant that we had to build many caches to dry them?†p.32.6alternate pages

Sighing in dull exasperation, Ch'idzigyaak went outside where the northern lights still danced above and the stars winked in great numbers.†p.23.7alternate pages

As I continued to talk, I was unaware of the shock that awakened the group from its malnourished lethargy.†p.60.2alternate pages1 more

Worse yet, in their famished state, they might do something even more terrible.†p.8.5alternate pages1 more

How long could he hold out before he, too, became lost in the hunger and fatigue that undermined his decisions?†p.89.6alternate pages

Sometimes, to break the monotony, one would present a woven rabbit-fur hat or mittens to the other.†p.66.8alternate pages

Far off in this seemingly dismal land were bands of people dressed in furs and animal skins, huddled close to small campfires.†p.1.7alternate pages

Ch'idzigyaak did not approve but could see that her friend would not be deterred.†p.80.6alternate pages