Title: The June rise
First published: 1994
Description: The story of a "squawman," as whites married to Indian women were called. In 1840, in Colorado, Joseph Janis tries to create a settlement of such families, but is turned down by the U.S. government and given a choice: remain on his homestead without his wife, or join her on a reservation. He chooses the latter. By the author of Duhamel: Ideas of Order in Little Canada.
Subjects: Fiction, Indians of North America, French Americans, Government relations, Trappers, Wars, Indians of north america, fiction, Fiction, historical, Colorado, fiction, Fiction, historical, general
Places: Colorado
People: Joseph Antoine Janis (b. 1824)