One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd
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Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd is an alternative history novel written in the form of letters and the journal of one of the "white" women, May Dodd.
In the early 1870s, the chief of the Cheyenne nation requested a thousand white women to inter-marry with the men of his tribe as part of a peace settlement. The women would help the men learn to live in the white man's world, once the buffalo were gone. (In exchange, the Cheyenne gave the "white" men 1000 horses.) This was an actual proposal that was rejected by the US government, but the book carries out the story as if this did happen.
May Dodd joins the group of woman who go to marry the Cheyenne as a way to escape from the insane asylum which she had been sent to because she'd chose to have children (and NOT marry) a man who was beneath her station in life.
Her journals and letters talk about why she chose to join the group, what life with the Cheyenne was like for the women and how she and the other women influenced the Cheyenne.
I found the story to be a fascinating look into what the world of the Cheyenne was like in the late 1800s and what there was about their life they the "white men" could learn from them.
The end of the story brought me to tears.
In the early 1870s, the chief of the Cheyenne nation requested a thousand white women to inter-marry with the men of his tribe as part of a peace settlement. The women would help the men learn to live in the white man's world, once the buffalo were gone. (In exchange, the Cheyenne gave the "white" men 1000 horses.) This was an actual proposal that was rejected by the US government, but the book carries out the story as if this did happen.
May Dodd joins the group of woman who go to marry the Cheyenne as a way to escape from the insane asylum which she had been sent to because she'd chose to have children (and NOT marry) a man who was beneath her station in life.
Her journals and letters talk about why she chose to join the group, what life with the Cheyenne was like for the women and how she and the other women influenced the Cheyenne.
I found the story to be a fascinating look into what the world of the Cheyenne was like in the late 1800s and what there was about their life they the "white men" could learn from them.
The end of the story brought me to tears.
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