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I am working on this manuscript now. I have an editor friend to help me tighten and fix the areas that are still needing work. I have decided on a different title....Will My Song Be Heard? Sunshine's Lakota Journey.
Sunshine’s Journey
In the white man’s year of 1834, seventeen year old Sunshine marries mountain man, Joe Morgan, and leaves her family in the Cheyenne village. Joe has promised to bring her back to visit whenever beaver hunting season is over. Learning more about Joe and white men’s ways at the rendezvous, Sunshine longs to come back to see her family. Joe does not keep his promise to her and her father and instead goes further east to hunt. Sunshine has a baby boy, To-mas, who looks like his white father. Her second son, “the Injun brat” as Joe calls him, looks like her. Joe takes his family to a Lakota camp. One morning, Sunshine awakes to find Joe is gone. Now she and her sons must learn to live with the Oglala, Lakota.
What journey must she follow with Watchful One, Thunder Man, and her half white sons when the Lakota encounter the expansion of the United States Government. Along with Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud, Sunshine and her family fight to live and endure the Fetterman Massacre, War for Powder River, Battle at Rosebud, Little Big Horn, and finally the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
Sunshine’s Journey
In the white man’s year of 1834, seventeen year old Sunshine marries mountain man, Joe Morgan, and leaves her family in the Cheyenne village. Joe has promised to bring her back to visit whenever beaver hunting season is over. Learning more about Joe and white men’s ways at the rendezvous, Sunshine longs to come back to see her family. Joe does not keep his promise to her and her father and instead goes further east to hunt. Sunshine has a baby boy, To-mas, who looks like his white father. Her second son, “the Injun brat” as Joe calls him, looks like her. Joe takes his family to a Lakota camp. One morning, Sunshine awakes to find Joe is gone. Now she and her sons must learn to live with the Oglala, Lakota.
What journey must she follow with Watchful One, Thunder Man, and her half white sons when the Lakota encounter the expansion of the United States Government. Along with Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Red Cloud, Sunshine and her family fight to live and endure the Fetterman Massacre, War for Powder River, Battle at Rosebud, Little Big Horn, and finally the Massacre at Wounded Knee.
