No enemy but winter;: A novel

by Richard Allen and Richard Allen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517500574
• ISBN13: 9780517500576
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Crown
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.

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A bold and compelling novel of the explosive clash between two societies. It dramatizes the conflict that erupts when Indians in Montana are forced to defend their ancient way of life against the encroachment of the white man's alien culture. Richard Allen convincingly portrays today's Indians...their problems and weaknesses and strengths. To the forbidding landscape of an Indian reservation comes Everett Sorenson, a Presbyterian minister who truly wants to help his new charges. Seeing the needs of the Indians, he determines to build a modern community center for their social and educational needs, a place of enlightenment where Indian children would learn to adjust to the white world surrounding them. Using every bit of influence he can muster and all his persuasive power, he at last receives an appropriation from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Working for the project with Everett is Jeannie Low Dog, a beautiful young Sioux whose revulsion at the ugliness and sordidness of the reservation leads her into a passionate commitment to the white minister. Helping him also is his wife Sue, whose ambivalence toward the Indians, especially their two adopted Indian sons, adds to Everett's confusion and uncertainty about the future of the relationship between Indian and white. Stacked against Everett and his plan are many of the most influential members of the community, as well as Sammy Knife, a crazed self-appointed chief riddled with hatred for the white man. As the tensions mount between the two opposing factions, Everett's assurance lessens and he begins to fear the growing menace to his grand scheme to revitalize the community. The violence begins slowly. After an ancient burial ground is unearthed, a mysterious explosion occurs at the construction site, killing an innocent worker.This tragedy fills the reservation with foreboding and turns public sentiment even further against the white man's meddling. Then a blazing fire breaks out suddenly and without warning, further deepening the uneasy relationships among the Indians themselves and between Indians and whites. And suddenly terror is in everyone's eyes, for no one knows who will be the next victim of the mad outbreak of violence and hysteria or where the destruction will end.