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It is impossible to overestimate the importance of careful training for Indian girls,β a U.S. government official had stated, adding, βOf what avail is it that the man be hard-working and industrious, providing by his labor food and clothing for his household, if the wife, unskilled in cookery, unused to the needle, with no habits of order or neatness, makes what might be a cheerful, happy home only a wretched abode of filth and squalor?β¦It is the women who cling most tenaciously to heathen rites and superstitions, and perpetuate them by their instructions to the children.
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David Grann (Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI)