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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 ...
On returning to the Northern Plains the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho continued to actively resist white encroachment on their land. Despite the premise of a recent novel about this meeting between Grant and the Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho, there is no evidence that Little Wolf asked the president for one thousand white women when they met.
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 ...
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women Series, 1) Book 1 of 3: One Thousand White Women Series | by Jim Fergus | Feb 15, 1999 4.4 out of 5 stars
1,000 white women for Cheyenne brides Little Wolf came to the nation's capital with a somewhat novel, though from the Cheyenne worldview, perfectly rational plan.
1-16 of over 1,000 results for "1000 white women" Results. One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women Series, 1) Book 1 of 3: ...
Aug 1, 2017 · One Thousand White Women begins with May Dodd's journey west into the unknown. A government program, in which women are brought west as brides for the Cheyenne, is her vehicle. A government program, in which women are brought west as brides for the Cheyenne, is her vehicle.
