| 词汇 | grandmother story |
| 词源 | grandmother story. This old American Indian expression is explained in Grant Foreman’s book The Last Trek of the Indians (1946): “The absentee Shawnee cherished a prophetic tradition generally known as the ‘grandmother story’ as told by a Shawnee woman, having reference to certain present and eter- nal judgments that would be visited upon the unfortunate head of any Indian who laid aside the blanket to adopt the white man’s dress.” |
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