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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd by Jim Fergus

5.0

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Hugely entertaining ethnography lesson on the life on the plains for some Native Americans in the late nineteenth century. I did not know I would be learning so much while being thoroughly engrossed in a story of love, loss, exploration, and independence! I picked up this book because I was interested in the intersection of two cultures. Little did I know how cleverly Fergus would teach me about the Cheyenne way of life on the plains. Never dry, never in a rut, this story is always evolving and inspirational. In the end, it made me consider much regarding our current lifestyle choices in the US, what we could have learned from those who lived here before us if we only asked or observed, and to be reminded that there are other worldviews than the one we live under today. All presenting in a nonjudgmental story of how one brave woman faced her life's most difficult situations.