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As war overtakes the frontier, Emma's family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war trials begin, each…
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I loved the way the author alternates from the points of view of two young women in Minnesota, Oenikika, a Dakota Indian, and Emma, a white settler, giving me new insight into the limitations imposed on women by two very different patriarchal cultures. I identified with the heroines’ struggles to find a mission in life beyond marriage and motherhood, sympathizing with Emma’s desire to become a teacher and Oenikika’s quest for recognition as a healer.
Although the terrible events of the 1862 war between native Indians and white settlers were deeply disturbing, I was inspired by the way in which…
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