Description:Homesteading isn’t easy. Especially on someone else’s land.Living with her in-laws is stifling. Paulina longs for a home of her own. Her husband needs land to farm and jumps at the chance of a free homestead in Oklahoma. It’s the craziest lottery in history - the great Land Rush of 1893. But how secure will Paulina and Gerhard’s young family be on territory stolen from the Cherokee? Tsali seeks security for his family too, but the white men are trampling over his Cherokee heritage. Will he conform to the settlers' way of life, or be drowned by it? As drought bites and cultures collide, Gerhard is forced to leave the homestead in search of work. Paulina encounters the Cherokee family living nearby, and is grateful for Tsali’s help during her husband’s absence. But their friendship threatens to tear her family and close-knit Mennonite community apart.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cherry Stone: A Family's Struggle to Homestead in Cherokee Territory. To get started finding The Cherry Stone: A Family's Struggle to Homestead in Cherokee Territory, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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SJSalisbury
Release
2023
ISBN
1999362195
The Cherry Stone: A Family's Struggle to Homestead in Cherokee Territory
Description: Homesteading isn’t easy. Especially on someone else’s land.Living with her in-laws is stifling. Paulina longs for a home of her own. Her husband needs land to farm and jumps at the chance of a free homestead in Oklahoma. It’s the craziest lottery in history - the great Land Rush of 1893. But how secure will Paulina and Gerhard’s young family be on territory stolen from the Cherokee? Tsali seeks security for his family too, but the white men are trampling over his Cherokee heritage. Will he conform to the settlers' way of life, or be drowned by it? As drought bites and cultures collide, Gerhard is forced to leave the homestead in search of work. Paulina encounters the Cherokee family living nearby, and is grateful for Tsali’s help during her husband’s absence. But their friendship threatens to tear her family and close-knit Mennonite community apart.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Cherry Stone: A Family's Struggle to Homestead in Cherokee Territory. To get started finding The Cherry Stone: A Family's Struggle to Homestead in Cherokee Territory, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.