Don’t Let the Sun (Chapter 5&6)

Eva’s sister died but before she did they attended school together at St. John’s Indian School. Everyone spoke English so if you didn’t know it you had to learn it. The boys and girls were always separated from each other and they rarely played together or participated in activities together. Music was taught at school and Eva’s brother Joe played the piano and the organ. The second year Eva was at St. Johns she got chicken pox really bad and was in the hospital for a week. Eva did not want to go home for the summer break, she wanted to stay because back at home was only her mother and her mother worked all the time. She didn’t want to go home just to be alone all the time. Eva’s mom also remarried to a man named Charley Marley. She had never met him but already was not fond of him. The next summer she decided to go home for the summer and she discovered Charley was a very kind man and he made her laugh. Eva went back to St Johns after summer break but came back right away to take care of her mother who became blind from trachoma. Eva had to stay with her mother but eventually she got better and Eva went back to school. Eva’s mother and Charley Marley moved form Cibecue to Chedisake and lived on land that belonged to Charley. He built a log home on that land and Eva’s brothers helped. They all lived there, Eva, her brothers, her mother and Charley. It wasn’t big but it stayed warm.