Mother was very tired from her hard work in the field and her long walk, so with her tiny papoose on her back she entered the wigwam.
Mewanee stayed outside to watch some of the Indian women at work near by.
He asked if he might help them, but they laughed as they said, “You are too young, Mewanee; you could not lift these heavy poles.”
II
THE HOME
Mewanee was interested in watching these two Indian women build a wigwam. They had already set the poles in a circle in the earth and tied them together at the top with strong deer sinews.
When Mewanee came up they were wrapping the skins about the poles.
There were twelve buffalo skins which had been dried in the sun and sewed together very firmly.
How quickly they stretched the skins about the poles and fastened them to the earth with strong pegs!