Wynema by S. Alice Callahan

Author:S. Alice Callahan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chemeketa Press
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

1. “Little Mith” is the family nickname for Mrs. Weir, Genevieve’s mother.

2. A feeling of awkwardness or unease.

3. Negative stereotypes of Native Americans as prone to drunkenness and senseless violence.

4. High proof alcohol, usually whiskey, especially in reference to its sale or use by Native Americans.

5. Formed in 1874, this organization advocated for making the sale and consumption of alcohol illegal. They also promoted women’s right to vote and prison and labor reform.

6. Suffragists were in favor of women’s right to vote.

7. A reference to I Peter 3:7. “Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.”

8. Twenty-nine years would pass from the point this book was published in 1891 to the ratification of the nineteenth amendment to the US Constitution in 1920 that granted women the right to vote. Callahan did not live to see this happen.

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