Tausend Monde

"I may be talking about things that happened in 1873 or 1874 in Henry County, Tennessee, but I've never been reliable on dates. And if they did happen, there was no truthful account at the time. There were bare facts and a dead body, and then there were the true events that no one knew. That Jas Jonski was killed was the bare fact."- During the so-called Indian Wars, two Union soldiers, Thomas McNulty and John Cole, adopted a Lakota girl and named her Winona. And it is Winona who tells the story here: of Jas Jonski, her first love and perhaps her rapist, of her childhood with her tribe, of what it was like to grow up with the men who might have killed her family and yet whom she loves so much, of what it is like to be something golden forFor some it is something golden, but for others it is nothing from the farm where she has found a new family with Thomas and John, with Lige Magan and the freed slaves Rosalee and Tennyson. A threatened idyll, because after the lost Civil War the South is starving, there is no money in the banks, the rebels sense their chance - and men with hoods roam the land, from whom not even the whites are safe.