What does Esther mean by the last two lines of the story, speaking about the murder? "They account for it by the fact that I am a Redskin. They seem to have forgotten I am a woman."
Esther has been suffering tremendously from extreme racism; she got turned down when she requested that she come back home and also she had to let her lover go. It's tragic she couldn't be in love with Laurence because of where she's from and she couldn't love anyone across race. I found it very hard to understand that Father Paul would separate his own blood from Native Americans despite the fact that he was there as a missionary and supposed to take care of and love Native Americans. I can't possibly imagine how I would take in Father Paul's disgust for Native Americans if it were me.
The last two lines of the story mean that although racists claim she killed him due to the characteristics of her skin color, she did so because she loved him as a woman. It's ludicrous to judge a person by a group he/she belongs to, which is called 'generalization.' No matter what the skin color is, some people commit crimes and other people do their best to help others. No one can possibly label anyone just because someone he is close to did something that is traditionally unacceptable in that case.
It's absolutely horrible that something distressful like this had happened no more than a century before. I realized that skin color was a major factor in how people lived their lives then. This read got me thinking about skin color and that racism shouldn't exist.
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