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MICHELSON. ] AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A FOX WOMAN. 309 
I threw away those which I had formerly been wearing around. And 
then for the first time I looked around to see. And again I had to 
cook alone for myself outside for ten days. After ten days I again 
went to bathe. And then for the first time I began to eat indoors 
with (the others). 
I told my mother, “My grandmother has always been instructing 
me what I should do,” I said to her. She laughed. “That is why 
I went after her, so she would instruct you thoroughly in what is 
right. ‘She might listen to her,’ is what [ thought of you.” 
And I began to be told to make something more than ever. More- 
over, when she made a basket,!* she said to me, “ You (make one).”’ 
I would make a tiny basket. Later on the ones which I made were 
large ones. And then I was fifteen years old. 
“You may now try to sew bead and appliqué ribbon work. If you 
know how to sew you are to make things to wear when you dance. 
If it is known that you can already sew, (people) will hire you. Not 
merely that. You will be paid. You will be benefited by knowing 
how to sew,” my mother told me. Then indeed I began to practice 
sewing. It took me a long time to sew well. It (must have) taken 
me two years to sew well. From then I was always making some- 
thing. 
I was sixteen years old when we were making mats in the sum- 
mer. In the winter we were making sacks and yarn belts, (and) 
we were sewing appliqué ribbon work and bead work. Behold, it 
was true that I was constantly asked (to make) something, (and) I 
would be paid. “That is why,’ I would be told, “TI continuously 
told you to learn to know how to make things. After these mats 
are completed, and any one is given them, soon he (she) (will) give 
something in return. And also in regard to these sacks, when (any- 
one) is given them, he (she) gives something in return, no doubt. 
That is why one is willing to make things, because they are benefited 
by what is made,” I was told. Lo, surely when I began to realize 
it, what I had been told was true. 
Now when I was more than seventeen, while living outside some- 
where, after two days, late at night while I was still sleeping, (some 
one) said to me, “Wake up.” (The person) was holding a match, 
and lit it. Lo, it was a man when I looked at him.’ I was as 
frightened as possible. I trembled as I was frightened. When I 
ordered him away, (my voice) did not (sound) natural when I spoke. 
I was barely able to speak to him. And from then on, now and then 
men tried to come to me. I always had been instructed what was 
proper. When it was known (what kind of a person) I (was), they 
began to try to court me. 
