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020 $a9781250093431 (pbk.) :$cNT$595
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100 1 $aFergus, Jim.
245 14$aThe vengeance of mothers :$bthe journals of Margaret McKelly & Molly McGill /$cJim Fergus.
250 $aFirst St. Martin's Griffin edition.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bSt. Martin's Griffin,$c2018.
300 $ax, 337 p. ;$c21 cm.
500 $aSequel to One thousand white women.
520 $a9 March 1876: "My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance." So begins the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation was for One Thousand White Women to be given as brides in exchange for three hundred horses. Mostly fallen women, the brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at freedom. But many fell in love with the Cheyenne spouses and had children with them... and became Cheyenne themselves. The vengeance of mothers explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable".
650 0$aWomen, White$vFiction.
650 0$aCheyenne Indians$vFiction.
650 0$aIndians of North America$zWest (U.S.)$xGovernment.
650 0$aWhites$zWest (U.S.)$xRelations with Indians$vFiction.
650 0$aInterracial marriage$zWest (U.S.)$vFiction.
650 0$aRevenge$vFiction.
700 1 $iSequel to:$aFergus, Jim.$tOne thousand white women.