“Saint Marie” by Louise Erdrich
You can Read Louise Erdrich’s short story ” Saint Marie” at this link. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1984/03/saint-marie/376314/
Louise Erdrich was born on June 7, 1954, in Little Falls, Minnesota and studied at Dartmouth College. Here she was a part of the first class of women at the college to earn an A.B. in English. Erdrich has written 28 books and is one of the most significant writers of the second wave of the Native American Renaissance.