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This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.
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poetry
true-stories
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Margaret Atwood |
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As Rachel ran with her 18-month-old son James Pratt, she was knocked down to the ground by a hoe, dragged by her hair, and separated from her child. She found herself taken to the area where her uncle Benjamin had been mutilated; arrows had been stuck in his body, and passing warriors thrust spears into it.
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native-americans
parker-s-fort
southwest
texas
true-stories
western
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Noel Marie Fletcher |
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One time, a 16-year-old member of Vicente's group risked his safety trying to save a captive Texas girl, who had been seized by Comanches while taking clothes to wash at a stream near her house.
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hispanic
history
new-mexico
southwest
tribe
true-stories
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Noel Marie Fletcher |
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She worked there for several months as a slave in a Mexican family until they sold her to a wealthy Hispanic man from Santa Fe, N.M. He also purchased another young captive Apache woman from New Mexico to accompany them. Both women were loaded onto an oxcart bound for Santa Fe in a journey that could take at least three months.
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history
méxico
native-american
santa-fe
southwest
tribe
true-stories
women
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Noel Marie Fletcher |