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Tausend weiße FrauenReihe

Diese epische Saga begleitet das Schicksal von tausend weißen Frauen, die 1873 im Rahmen eines Regierungsprogramms zur Friedenssicherung als Bräute an die Cheyenne-Krieger gesandt wurden. Viele dieser Frauen, oft aus den Randgebieten der Gesellschaft, sind Gefangene, Prostituierte oder Außenseiterinnen, die auf der Suche nach einem Neuanfang sind. In eine unbekannte Welt geworfen, stehen sie vor immensen Herausforderungen, entdecken aber auch unerwartete Möglichkeiten zum Überleben und zur Selbstfindung. Die Erzählung erforscht Themen wie kulturelle Kollision, Widerstandsfähigkeit und die tiefen Bindungen, die über Gräben hinweg entstehen können, während diese Frauen ihren Weg zu Liebe und einer neuen Identität finden.

Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill
One Thousand White Women
La Vengeance des mères (2)
One Thousand White Women (20th Anniversary Edition): The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
VENGEANCE OF MOTHERS

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    One Thousand White Women (20th Anniversary Edition): The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel

    • 494 Seiten
    • 18 Lesestunden
    3,9(184)Abgeben

    One Thousand White Women is the story of May Dodd and a colorful assembly of pioneer women who, under the auspices of the U.S. government, travel to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry among the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and controversial "Brides for Indians" program, launched by the administration of Ulysses S. Grant, is intended to help assimilate the Indians into the white man's world. Toward that end May and her friends embark upon the adventure of their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the American West that it is as if these diaries are a capsule in time.

    One Thousand White Women (20th Anniversary Edition): The Journals of May Dodd: A Novel
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    One Thousand White Women

    • 304 Seiten
    • 11 Lesestunden
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    May Dodd, born to wealth in Chicago in 1850, left home in her teens and through a family disgrace is imprisoned in a monstrous lunatic asylum. In 1875 Little Wolf, chief of the Cheyenne nation, comes to Washington to seal a treaty with President Ulysses S. Grant and suggests that peace between Whites and Cheyenne could be established if the Cheyenne were given white women as wives, and that the tribe would agree to raise the children from such unions. Grant secretly recruits 1,000 women from jails, penitentiaries, debtors' prisons, and mental institutions offering full pardons or unconditional release. May, who jumps at the chance, embarks upon the adventure of her lifetime, along with a colourful assembly of pioneer women. She keeps the fictional journal we read, marries Little Wolf, lives in a crowded tipi with his two other wives and their children and lives the life of a Cheyenne squaw. 'Jim Fergus so skillfully envelops us in the heart and mind of his main character, May Dodd, that we weep when she mourns, we shake our fist at anyone who tries to sway her course, and our hearts pound when she is in danger'--Colorado Springs Gazette

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    VENGEANCE OF MOTHERS

    • 367 Seiten
    • 13 Lesestunden
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    "The vengeance of mothers" explores the bonds among family and community, the search for identity and belonging, during a time of tumultous change in our nation's history. What is a "native" American? Are all men and their wives created equal? How far wil Margaret and her countrywomen go to fight for what's theirs, and what's already gone?

    VENGEANCE OF MOTHERS
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    La Vengeance des mères (2)

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    1875. En dépit de tous les traités, la tribu du chef cheyenne Little Wolf, qui avait échangé mille chevaux contre mille femmes blanches pour les marier à ses guerriers, ne tarde pas à être exterminée par l'armée américaine. Quelques femmes blanches seulement échappent à ce massacre. Parmi elles, deux soeurs, Margaret et Susan Kelly. Prêtes à tout pour venger la mort de leurs enfants, elles décident de prendre le parti du peuple indien et vont se lancer à corps perdu dans une lutte désespérée pour leur survie..."

    La Vengeance des mères (2)
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    Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill

    • 400 Seiten
    • 14 Lesestunden
    3,9(982)Abgeben

    "Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses for one thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate the way of life of the Cheyenne, at the time when the great massacres of the tribes begin. After the battle of Little Big Horn, some female survivors decide to take up arms against the United States, which has stolen from the Native Americans their lands, their way of life, their culture and their history. This ghost tribe of rebellious women will soon go underground to wage an implacable battle, which will continue from generation to generation. In this final volume of the One Thousand White Women trilogy, Jim Fergus mixes with rare mastery the struggle of women and Native Americans in the face of oppression, from the end of the 19th century until today. With a vivid sense of the 19th century American West, Fergus paints portraits of women as strong as they are unforgettable"-- Provided by publisher

    Strongheart: The Lost Journals of May Dodd and Molly McGill