River People Lukas MargaretPaperback / softback
River People Lukas MargaretPaperback / softback River People is a powerful novel with unforgettable images. In the late 1890s, they must struggle to survive religious patriarchy at a time when women…
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River People Lukas MargaretPaperback / softback
River People is a powerful novel with unforgettable images. In the late 1890s, they must struggle to survive religious patriarchy at a time when women have few rights and society looks upon domestic abuse as a private, family matter. Set in Nebraska, it centers around 17-year-old Effie and 11-year-old Bridget.
Jackdaw, preaches in Omaha. They are taken to a shanty to survive the harsh winter, while Effie's husband, 63-year-old Rev. They have almost no clothing, only the food they can beg or steal, and only a few housewares--once splattered with blood--which survived an Indian attack during the great Sious Uprising.
The story is told through the eyes of the girls as they try to survive Rev. Jackdaw and the tyrannical ideas he asserts from the Old Testament in an effort to control them. River People is full of unexpected and often horrifying aspects of male dominance in a