The Day Mother Earth Cried

Elina, a young Cheyenne Indian girl, narrowly escapes death when her village is attacked by White soldiers. She, along with her grandfather, Spotted Owl, and her childhood sweetheart, Little Wolf, are among the few survivors of the massacre.Her search for a better place to live--a place where Mother Earth and her children live in harmony--takes her to new lands, where she encounters oppressed people of other cultures--Negros and Mexicans. They too, she learns, have suffered at the hands of White settlers. It was a time in Amer-ica's history when the U.S. Government--in its quest for additional territory--was rapidly and ruthlessly displacing native American Indians and Mexicans. It was a time when the institution of slavery was being challenged. The Day Mother Earth Cried is Elina's story of the everyday struggles of families from vastly divergent cultures who have been thrust together in a world of violence, hate, and disre-spect. Yet, even with atrocities occurring all around her, Elina senses that a better future is pos-sible if ways can be found to make the White man and the Indian better understand each other. All around her she witnesses things that suggest change is coming. She comes to believe that she and Little Wolf are destined to play a role toward helping her people in their struggle for peace and dignity. The story begins in the year 1864, in a Cheyenne encampment in Colorado Territory.

• | Author: Luman Slade
• | Publisher: Independently Published
• | Publication Date: Mar 22, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 238 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1091289220
• | ISBN-13: 9781091289222