Histoire et histoires du Nebraska . ka. Son père était un chef de la tribu Omaha, le fils d'un homme et d'une femme indienne Ponca.Sa mère était fille de Nicomi,une femme indienne de l'lowaytribe, et le Dr John Gale, un surgeonof l'armée des États-Unis. Lorsque les yeux brillants est né shewas nommé ou byher Yosette Susette parents. Ce n'est qu'elle yearslater a reçu son deuxième nom.Son père nom Indien wasEsta-maza fer ou les yeux. Quelqu'un qui connaissait cette regarda la fille et dit, devrait être Hername yeux brillants, ou à l'Omaha langue, InsthaTheamba. Alors, elle en vint à être connu sous le nom BrightE
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History and stories of Nebraska . ka. Her father was a chief ofthe Omaha tribe, the son of a French-man and a Ponca Indian woman.Her mother was daughter of Nicomi, an Indian woman of the lowaytribe, and Dr. John Gale, a surgeonof the United States army. When Bright Eyes was born shewas named Yosette or Susette byher parents. It was not until yearslater she received her second name.Her fathers Indian name wasEsta-maza or Iron Eyes. Someone who knew this looked at the daughter and said, Hername should be Bright Eyes, or in Omaha language, InsthaTheamba. So she came to be known by the name BrightEyes and to sign it to her writings. Bright Eyes grew up on the Omaha Indian reservationwith the other Indian children. She spoke nothing but theOmaha language until she was eight years old. Then shewent to the mission school on the reservation. She learnedEnglish faster than any other child in the school and wassoon able to read and write. Every one loved her because shewas so bright and cheerful and winning in her ways. When 175. Bright Eyes. (InsthaTheamba) Mrs. T. H. TiBBLES 176 STORIES OF NEBRASKA she was fifteen she was asked what she most wished for aChristmas.present and replied, a good education. This wastold to the president of a womans seminary at Elizabeth, New Jersey. Very soon Bright Eyes was invited to attendschool there, and became at once one of the best students, beloved by her teachers and by the young white women whowere her schoolmates. At the end of four years she graduat-ed and came back to the Omaha reservation. The Omaha Indians were very poor. Grasshoppers cameand ate their crops. Part of the tribe lived in the old Indianway and kept up the old Indian customs. There were nopleasant rooms and beautiful books and pictures and educat-ed girl companions as there were at the school at Elizabeth, New Jersey. The wild game was fast going. The Indianshad not yet learned how to farm as the white men did.Idleness and its bad results were seen in the tribe. Therewas
