In One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus, May's beloved Cheyenne tribe commits an appalling act of revenge on a rival tribe. What do they do?
a. Scalp all the squaws
b. Kill all the horses
c. Cut one hand off of the babies and bring the appendages back to camp in a bag
d. Kidnap all of the children so as increase the size of their own tribe
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a. Scalp all the squaws
b. Kill all the horses
c. Cut one hand off of the babies and bring the appendages back to camp in a bag
d. Kidnap all of the children so as increase the size of their own tribe
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Jim Fergus
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Jim Fergus was born in Chicago on March 23, 1950. He attended high school in Massachusetts and graduated as an English major from Colorado College in 1971. He has traveled extensively and lived over the years in Colorado, Florida, the French West Indies, Idaho, France, and Arizona. For ten years he worked as a teaching tennis professional in Colorado and Florida, and in 1980 moved to the tiny town of Rand, Colorado (pop. 13), to begin his career as a full-time freelance writer. He was a contributing editor of Rocky Mountain Magazine, as well as a correspondent of Outside magazine. His articles, essays, interviews and profiles have appeared in a wide variety of national magazines and newspapers, including Newsweek, Newsday, The Denver Post, ...more
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"As I squat to pee I look upward at the billions of stars and planets in the heavens and somehow my own insignificance no longer terrifies me as it once did, but comforts me, makes me feel a part, however tiny, of the whole complete and perfect universe. . . and when I die the wind will still blow and the stars still shine, for the place I occupy on earth is no more permanent than the water I now make, absorbed by the the sandy soil, dried instantly by the constant prairie wind . . ."
— Jim Fergus (One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd)
— Jim Fergus (One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd)
"that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a highly overrated human condition invented by white folks"
— Jim Fergus (One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd)
— Jim Fergus (One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd)
"Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will."
— Jim Fergus (The Wild Girl: A Novel)
— Jim Fergus (The Wild Girl: A Novel)
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