One Day Short Story

The short story I have read is about how this young girl, her sister and her uncle would go out with the horses and try to find the cattle that may have headed to Gallup and if not then up to Ch'ooshgai Mountains. By that time, it’s noon and they get hungry so they all get out the spam and potatoes that their grandma has packed and later initial their names on the water tank and head back home. Getting closer to the home they stop by at a seven-to-eleven store to get cold sodas and a candy bar.

Next day, comes and Vida and her sister have a school which is a dormitory like they had back in the day when they took any age child to the dorms so they didn’t learn their Navajo language anymore. Vida goes to school and talks about how the other girls call her names and the teachers force her to do things for her disciplinary acts. Vida and her sister, Viv, meet up that night but don’t wanna go back inside yet because they know who they’re going to see and what they’re going to be doing for their punishment of walking in past 10. Walking across campus they see some cowboys and they ask if the girls want to hang out with them this time since Viv and Vida always ignore them. All in the car they drive around until the girls want to get out but don't let them until she says “we are government property and you could get into trouble”, so of course they get back to the dorm.

Thinking they would go inside the rooms, they just stood outside talking because the school installed steel mesh on all the windows when the staff found out that the kids would crawl out to either visit boyfriends or go to the seven-to-eleven store. She asked what they had for dinner and made fun of it because of what the staff made or how they cooked