The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Old Indian Legends by Zitkala-Sa: rushing out of their wigwams.
"We have not seen your child! What has happened?" queried the
women.
With great tears in her eyes the mother told her story.
"We will search with you," they said to her as she started
off.
They met the returning husbands, who turned about and joined
in the hunt for the missing child. Along the shore of the lakes,
among the high-grown reeds, they looked in vain. He was nowhere to
be found. After many days and nights the search was given up. It
was sad, indeed, to hear the mother wailing aloud for her little
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