TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fergus,Jim
TI  - The vengeance of mothers
SN  - 9781250093424 (hardcover)
AV  - PS3556.E66 V46 2017
U1  - LP F FER 
PY  - 2017///
PB  - Thorndike Press
KW  - Women, White
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Cheyenne Indians
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Whites
KW  - Relations with Indians
KW  - Interracial marriage
KW  - Retribution
KW  - Western stories
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Diary fiction
N2  - "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." Jim Fergus brings to light a time and place and fills it with unforgettable characters who live and breathe with a passion we can relate to even today" --
ER  -