{"id":182,"date":"2021-04-01T11:37:05","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/flintandfeather\/?post_type=chapter&p=182"},"modified":"2022-02-04T09:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:45:26","slug":"the-quill-worker","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/chapter\/the-quill-worker\/","title":{"raw":"The Quill Worker","rendered":"The Quill Worker"},"content":{"raw":"Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills,\r\nTo the north the open country, southward the Cyprus Hills;\r\nNever a bit of woodland, never a rill that flows,\r\nOnly a stretch of cactus beds, and the wild, sweet prairie rose;\r\nNever a habitation, save where in the far south-west\r\nA solitary tepee lifts its solitary crest,\r\nWhere Neykia in the doorway, crouched in the red sunshine,\r\nBroiders her buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.\r\n\r\nNeykia, the Sioux chief\u2019s daughter, she with the foot that flies,\r\nShe with the hair of midnight and the wondrous midnight eyes,\r\nShe with the deft brown fingers, she with the soft, slow smile,\r\nShe with the voice of velvet and the thoughts that dream the while,\u2014\r\n\u201cWhence come the vague to-morrows? Where do the yesters fly?\r\nWhat is beyond the border of the prairie and the sky?\r\nDoes the maid in the Land of Morning sit in the red sunshine,\r\nBroidering her buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine?\u201d\r\n\r\nSo Neykia, in the westland, wonders and works away,\r\nFar from the fret and folly of the \u201cLand of Waking Day.\u201d\r\nAnd many the pale-faced trader who stops at the tepee door\r\nFor a smile from the sweet, shy worker, and a sigh when the hour is o\u2019er.\r\nFor they know of a young red hunter who oftentimes has stayed\r\nTo rest and smoke with her father, tho\u2019 his eyes were on the maid;\r\nAnd the moons will not be many ere she in the red sunshine\r\nWill broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.","rendered":"

Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills,
\nTo the north the open country, southward the Cyprus Hills;
\nNever a bit of woodland, never a rill that flows,
\nOnly a stretch of cactus beds, and the wild, sweet prairie rose;
\nNever a habitation, save where in the far south-west
\nA solitary tepee lifts its solitary crest,
\nWhere Neykia in the doorway, crouched in the red sunshine,
\nBroiders her buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.<\/p>\n

Neykia, the Sioux chief\u2019s daughter, she with the foot that flies,
\nShe with the hair of midnight and the wondrous midnight eyes,
\nShe with the deft brown fingers, she with the soft, slow smile,
\nShe with the voice of velvet and the thoughts that dream the while,\u2014
\n\u201cWhence come the vague to-morrows? Where do the yesters fly?
\nWhat is beyond the border of the prairie and the sky?
\nDoes the maid in the Land of Morning sit in the red sunshine,
\nBroidering her buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine?\u201d<\/p>\n

So Neykia, in the westland, wonders and works away,
\nFar from the fret and folly of the \u201cLand of Waking Day.\u201d
\nAnd many the pale-faced trader who stops at the tepee door
\nFor a smile from the sweet, shy worker, and a sigh when the hour is o\u2019er.
\nFor they know of a young red hunter who oftentimes has stayed
\nTo rest and smoke with her father, tho\u2019 his eyes were on the maid;
\nAnd the moons will not be many ere she in the red sunshine
\nWill broider his buckskin mantle with the quills of the porcupine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":20,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-182","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":136,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182\/revisions\/183"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/136"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/182\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/flintandfeather\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}