Ride the Moon Down (2010)
“she parroted back the two English words she heard so many of the trappers around her shouting at that moment.
“Yep,” Bass told his wife. “They say some white womens gonna be here soon.”
Waits-by-the-Water noticed how his green eyes narrowed with concern as he stared toward the mesa bordering the eastern edge of the river valley.
In Crow she asked, “You Americans really do have white women?”
He looked at her quizzically. “Course we do. Mothers and sisters. Only ones what don’t grow up to be wive...s are the ones what become whores.”
“Whores—I never heard that word from your tongue before.”
“A woman what lays with a man for the money he pays her,” and he turned his eyes away, staring at the growing bustle of activity as the electrifying news spread.
“Women who open their legs for men?” she asked in her language, still somewhat bewildered. “Indian women who take the beads and ribbon to open their legs for you white men?”
“Maybeso,” he admitted as he turned back to gaze down at her face.MoreLess
“Yep,” Bass told his wife. “They say some white womens gonna be here soon.”
Waits-by-the-Water noticed how his green eyes narrowed with concern as he stared toward the mesa bordering the eastern edge of the river valley.
In Crow she asked, “You Americans really do have white women?”
He looked at her quizzically. “Course we do. Mothers and sisters. Only ones what don’t grow up to be wive...s are the ones what become whores.”
“Whores—I never heard that word from your tongue before.”
“A woman what lays with a man for the money he pays her,” and he turned his eyes away, staring at the growing bustle of activity as the electrifying news spread.
“Women who open their legs for men?” she asked in her language, still somewhat bewildered. “Indian women who take the beads and ribbon to open their legs for you white men?”
“Maybeso,” he admitted as he turned back to gaze down at her face.MoreLess
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