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The bead pot

The bead pot

Book 1993

Toniya Wakanwin is a young girl growing up on the Great Plains many years ago. Every day she sits beside her great-grandmother on the buffalo robe and watches as the old woman takes beads from a bead pot and stitches them onto the moccasins she is making. When the great-grandmother dies Toniya inherits both The Beat Pot and the old woman's role.

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