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Author:

Fergus, Jim,.

Title:

The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret McKelly & Molly McGill / Jim Fergus.

Edition:

First St. Martin's Griffin edition.

Publisher:

St. Martin's Griffin

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

x, 337 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Women, White--Fiction.
Cheyenne Indians--Fiction.
Interracial marriage--West (U.S.)--Fiction.
Indians of North America--West (U.S.)--Government relations--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Whites--West (U.S.)--Relations with Indians--Fiction.
Diary fiction.
Western fiction.

Other Authors:

Fergus, Jim.

Notes:

Sequel to "One thousand white women". Includes "Reading Group Gold" reading guide.

Summary:

9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance. So begins the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for One Thousand White Women to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses. Mostly fallen women, the brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many fell in love with the Cheyenne spouses and had children with them ... and became Cheyenne themselves. The vengeance of mothers explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable".

ISBN:

1250093430
9781250093431

Locations:

BRPD251 -- Adel Public Library (Adel)

XSPE157 -- Atlantic Public Library (Atlantic)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

SWPB124 -- Dumont Community Library (Dumont)

NWPC663 -- Nissen Public Library (Saint Ansgar)

WAPD715 -- Sheldon Public Library (Sheldon)

BWPD851 -- Bertha Bartlett Public Library (Story City)

LYPB815 -- Wall Lake Public Library (Wall Lake)

BJPD251 -- Waukee Public Library (Waukee)

MUPB553 -- Whittemore Public Library (Whittemore)