Swallow Wahweap: Drink Bitter Water

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About the Author

Sarah Feather West is a Lakotan native of Swallow Wahweap, in the western United States. She is currently a surgeon. Her great-great-grandmother was of the largest tribe of the Nadowessioux, forced west by the Ojibwa with their French guns. But somewhere along her branch of the tree there is a little Cheyenne from a raiding party, some Wahpekute, some Sisseton. She is more Dakota than Lakota, more Santee than Teton. In Swallow Wahweap, she is believed to be pure Lakotan, and her father says that is close enough.