1000 White Women / myLot

Atlanta, Georgia

May 21, 2019 8:16pm CST

I've been in the apartment all day and grateful for it .It was 92 degrees outside. I've cleaned, did laundry, cooked and worked on a quilt. I carried a book out to the deck about 6 this evening and read awhile. I thought I might take a nap but I didn't. My book wasn't as interesting as I expected. It's a novel about 1000 white women being sent out as brides for Indians to bind the Indians and whites together. Actually that might have been a good idea if it has really happened.

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paigea

@paigea (35678)

• Canada

22 May 19

I wonder if we could use some form of that idea today, and bind us all together.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

I doubt it, people would probably be as horrified today as they were then. It would be a good solution.

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paigea

@paigea (35678)

• Canada

23 May 19

@RubyHawk in reality, many are intermarrying. I hope it leads to accepting one another as time goes by. (couldn't think of a better word than intermarry, but I do think there is one human race.)

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

30 May 19

@paigea I like the idea, I have family and friends who are married to different races. Probably in a couple of hundred years we'll all be one race.

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RasmaSandra

@RasmaSandra (73408)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

22 May 19

It does sound like an interesting idea in the book. Except I have a funny feeling that not all the women could adjust to life with the Indians and not all the Indian could adjust to life with them. Stay cool.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

Yes, I'm anxious to find out what actually happens.I think there will be disappointments.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458006)

• Switzerland

22 May 19

It would have surely been a better idea than killing Indians.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

I think so. We would have all been family. Evidently our fore fathers didn't like the idea.

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Anna

@LadyDuck (458006)

• Switzerland

23 May 19

@RubyHawk The Indians trusted the immigrants and they welcomed them offering their products. It is sad how bad the white men treated them.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

30 May 19

@LadyDuck that's so true, The Indians were treated horribly. It will always be a blot on our history.

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MARILYN

@Marilynda1225 (79706)

• United States

22 May 19

The premise of the book sounds good but sorry that it was disappointing. The weather here today was beautiful

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

It 's hotter today than yesterday. I believe they said on the news that it broke all records.I'm still reading, I think it will be more interesting when the brides get to the Indians villages.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (306113)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

22 May 19

Sounded like a good day to stay inside. No need to be out in that heat. I'm sorry the book didn't hold interest.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (306113)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

23 May 19

@RubyHawk I'm sorry you have heat now. I know it won't get cool now until fall.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

30 May 19

@just4him No, and summer not here yet.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

It's even hotter today and I had to go out. I was happy to get home to the cool.

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PsalmOneCares

@everwonderwhy (6697)

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22 May 19

Do you plan to finish reading the book through to the end? There might a dramatic or situational irony somewhere there. Enjoy the rest of your evening.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

Yes, when I start a book I almost always finish it. I think it will get more interesting.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61047)

• United States

29 May 19

That is quite a unique idea, the reverse of what usually happened at least in my particular case it is a white man and a native wife.

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Belle Starr (Iz)

@BelleStarr (61047)

• United States

30 May 19

@RubyHawk usually it is white men who take natives as wives not white women with native men. I have a native woman as my ancestors

Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

30 May 19

Sorry, I must be dense I don't understand your meaning.

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Judy Story

@jstory07 (134433)

• Roseburg, Oregon

22 May 19

That does sound like a good book.

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

It is better as I get further into the story.

Jabo

@jaboUK (64361)

• United Kingdom

22 May 19

92 is much too hot for me. Do you mean actual Indians or native US Indians?

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Ruby Hawk

@RubyHawk (99425)

• Atlanta, Georgia

23 May 19

American Indians. Actually native Indians did ask for brides for their young in order for the country to unite and live peacefully but they were refused and sent packing. The book I'm reading is fiction.

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