ApostolicGirl7

A family separated long ago, then reunites after many years.  A mother leaving her husband and child and taking her daughter to a better place in the city instead of out west. She was looking for something better but could not take her Native son, for she feared he would be killed. The mother had to keep her daughter's identity a secret because she knew if the people knew what her daughter was, then they would look down on her or possibly kill her. But her daughter looked more white than Indian, but the mother did not want to risk it.  The Father was the Native who married a white woman and they had son and daughter. Now the son and daughter are grown and the daughter has three girls now, the girl's father Kicking Horse was killed long ago on the farm,  some men ambushed him in the barn and killed him, now the girls brother is learning the warrior way.

THE HALF-BREED

So they started eating. When they were finished she made Black Elk a plate.


"Do you want me to take it to him? "asked Luther Standing Bear.


"No, you've done enough," upsetted Gloria.


"Honey, put the plate down and let's talk," said Luther Standing Bear.


"You want to talk, fine, let's talk, why did you leave us, why did you separate me from my baby brother. This is the first time I get to see him and his first time seeing me for a long time," said Gloria.


          "Gloria, I did not leave you or your mother. Your mother left me and your brother, she took you from me. She wanted something better than this, she left him, I had to take care of your brother. She loved him very much, I knew it would hurt her to leave him. But now I understood why she did it. Where you guys lived, it was high class very sophisticated, she feared that if he grew up there, or went with her, the people would beat him up, or kill him, or throw him in jail for being an Indian. So this hatred you have towards me, you need to let it go," said Luther Standing Bear.


"What, she told me it was the other way around, but she left him when he was a baby? Growing up, I was wandering why she cried at night, she would talk about him all the time," said Gloria.


"She would," said Luther Standing Bear.


"Yeah, she would always tell me she regretted leaving him, because that was her baby," said Gloria.


"Well she had to do what was best," said Luther Standing Bear.


"I'm going to take him his food, maybe he will be awake to eat," said Gloria.


         She takes his plate and enters the room, her dad is still sitting at the table, so she closes the door behind her and stood there looking at her brother, and then she smiles, and quietly walks up to his bed side and laid his food down on the end table, and sat down in the chair. She put her hand on his hand and tears started rolling down her face, she couldn't believe it was her baby brother all grown up.


"She is in your uncle's room," said Luther Standing Bear.


"Oh, okay then," Madison going back to her room and getting ready for bed.


Chapter 2