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Charlene Left Hand Bull is one of Mary’s best friends from missionary school. Like Mary, Charlene despised the missionary school and rebelled against the tyrannical rules of the school. A priest at the school sexually assaulted Charlene, which is one of many examples in the memoir of Native American women being targeted for both their race and their gender.
Charlene Left Hand Bull Quotes in Lakota Woman
The Lakota Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Charlene Left Hand Bull or refer to Charlene Left Hand Bull. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 3
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One of the priests acted as the photographer, doing the enlarging and developing […] One day he invited Charlene into the darkroom. He was going to teach her developing. She was developed already. She was a big girl compared to him, taller too. Charlene was nicely built, not fat, just rounded. No sharp edges anywhere. All of a sudden she rushed out of the darkroom, yelling to me, “Let’s get out of here! He’s trying to feel me up. That priest is nasty.” So there was this too to contend with—sexual harassment. We complained to the student body. The nuns said we just had a dirty mind.
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Charlene Left Hand Bull Quotes in Lakota Woman
The Lakota Woman quotes below are all either spoken by Charlene Left Hand Bull or refer to Charlene Left Hand Bull. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 3
Quotes
One of the priests acted as the photographer, doing the enlarging and developing […] One day he invited Charlene into the darkroom. He was going to teach her developing. She was developed already. She was a big girl compared to him, taller too. Charlene was nicely built, not fat, just rounded. No sharp edges anywhere. All of a sudden she rushed out of the darkroom, yelling to me, “Let’s get out of here! He’s trying to feel me up. That priest is nasty.” So there was this too to contend with—sexual harassment. We complained to the student body. The nuns said we just had a dirty mind.
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