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alive under the snow, wrapped in shawls and lying' beside their dead 

 mothers, whose last thought had been of them. They were all badly 

 frozen and onlv one lived. The tenacity of life so characteristic of wild 



Kiit. 79— Survivors of Wounded Knee— Blue Whirlwind and children (1891). 



people as well as of wild beasts was strikingly illustrated in the case 

 of these wounded and helpless Indian women and children who thus 

 lived three days through a Dakota blizzard, without food, shelter, or 

 attention to their wounds. It is a commentary on our boasted Christian 



