One thousand white women. 2, The vengeance of mothers : the journals of Margaret Kelly & Molly McGill

Fergus, Jim (1950-....). Auteur

Edité par St. Martin's Griffin - 2018

Margaret is one among the so-called One Thousand White Women who participated to the Brides for Indians program in 1873. Margaret and her fellow brides were pawns in a peace plan between the United States and the Cheyenne Nation. Given to Cheyenne warriors in exchange for three hundred horses, these brides were mostly fallen women -rejected by their families, deemed unfit for society- for whom marriage to an "uncivilized" man seemed their only hope. But many of them fell in love with their Cheyenne spouses and bore their children, only to experience a whole new kind of prejudice, horror, and loss.

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