Like Somebody Died
The night she was fired, people began showing up at her house. Cars were parked around the houses, which is a common sight in Poplar when somebody dies. Red Elk herself said that people were coming by and giving condolences and sending food for her children.
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“These were the sounds that issued from the wigwams of this country before Columbus was born; they have not yet died away; and, with remarkably few exceptions, the language of their forefathers is still copious enough for them. I felt that I stood, or rather lay, as near to the primitive man of America, that night, as any of its discoverers ever did.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)