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Mountain Wolf Woman

They took me out of school. Alas, I was enjoying school so much and they made me stop. They took me back home. They had let me go to school and now they made me quit. It was then that they told me I was going to be married. I cried but it did not do any good. What would my crying avail me? They had already arranged it.

Forced marriage was not only practiced by some white cultures but also by some Indian nations. She was forced into two unhappy marriages by her brothers.

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Born: April 1, 1884
Died: November 9, 1960
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Mountain Wolf Woman, or Xéhachiwinga, was a Native American woman of the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe whose autobiography was one of the earliest firsthand accounts of the experience of a Native American woman.

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