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"Laura Hicks makes this imaginative work splendidly. She is vivacious and expressive as May Dodd...Her vocal characterizations, especially of the many immigrant women Dodd encounters, are exciting. A work this unconventional requires a performance that is flexible and out of the ordinary, both of which have been achieved." - AudioFile on One Thousand White Women. The stunning sequel to Jim Fergus' award-winning One Thousand White Women. 9 March 1876
My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We've nothing left, significantly less than nothing. The town of your People has been demolished, all our property burnt, our friends butchered by the soldiers, our baby daughters gone, frozen to loss of life on an ungodly trek across these rocky mountains. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, everything that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. federal government, we curse the Military, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian similarly. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of a mother's vengeance.... So starts the journal of Margaret Kelly, a woman who participated in the government's "Brides for Indians" program in 1873, a program whose conceit was that the best way to peace between the United States and the Cheyenne Land was for one thousand white women to be given as brides in exchange for 300 horses. These "brides" were largely fallen women; ladies in prison, prostitutes, the occasional adventurer, or those incarcerated in asylums. No one expected the program to work. The brides themselves thought it was simply a chance at independence. But most of them fell in love with the Cheyenne's spouses and got children with them...and became Cheyenne themselves. The Vengeance of Mothers is an audiobook that explores what happens to the bonds between wives and husbands, children and mothers, when society sees them as "unspeakable". Exactly what does it signify to be white, to be Cheyenne, and what lengths will these women go to avenge the ones they love? As he does in One Thousand White Women, Jim Fergus brings to light a period and place in American background and fills it with remarkable personas who live and inhale with a interest we can relate with even today.
