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In 1908 easterners Mary Ellicott Arnold and Mabel Reed accepted appointments as field matrons in Karuk tribal communities in the Klamath and Salmon River country of northern California. In doing so, they joined a handful of white women in a rugged region that retained the frontier mentality of the gold rush some fifty years earlier. Hired to promote the federal government's assimilation of American Indians, Arnold and Reed instead found themselves adapting to the world they entered, a complex and contentious territory of Anglo miners and Karuk families.
In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, Arnold and Reed's account of their experiences, shows their irreverence towards Victorian ideals of womanhood, recounts their respect toward and friendship with Karuks, and offers a rare portrait of women's western experiences in this era. Writing with self-deprecating humor, the women recall their misadventures as women "in a white man's country" and as whites in Indian country. A story about crossing cultural divides, In the Land of the Grasshopper Song also documents Karuk resilience despite seemingly insurmountable odds.
New material by Susan Bernardin, André Cramblit, and Terry Supahan provides rich biographical, cultural, and historical contexts for understanding the continuing importance of this story for Karuk people and other readers.
Contents
I. The Unmapped Way, and How, Finally, We Hit the Trail, and the Mountains Closed Around UsII. Innocents Abroad in the Land of the White ManIII. We Cross the River into Indian CountryIV The Course of True Love, Indian WayV. Indians at Home, When There Ain't No Growl, nor No TroubleVI. Indians at Home: the Essie Growl and the Water GrowlVII. Innocents Abroad on the Professional TrailVIII. The Ford at SiwillupIX. Indian Gambling, and Other Topics of the Day in Indian CountryX. We Make the World Over and Leave Out SomethingXI. Everybody Got Trouble When the World Is Made Wrong, Indians and EverybodyXII. We Hit the Trail for Points East, with all the Glories of Iced Tea, Iced Coffee, Fried Chicken, and Ice Cream in the OffingXIII. Return to the Rivers: Everybody Got Trouble, White People and EverybodyXIV. Moving Day on the KlamathXV. Indians at Home in Up-river CountryXVI. The Baby GrowlXVII. We Introduce White Customs in the Form of Two Christmas Trees, and, for a Moment, Fear We May Regret ItXVIII. Ti PosthereeXIX. The Open TrailXX. The Schoolmarms Come Down Like Wolves on Yreka, and Then Celebrate the Fourth in Indian CountryXXI. We Cross Marble Mountain and Find the Indian Ain't Got No Chance in White Men's CountryXXII. The Great Deerskin DanceXXIII. Farewell to the KlamathXXIV. I-to Poo-a-rum
