One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (published by St. Martin's Press in 1998) is the first novel by journalist Jim Fergus.
Will Dodd's" ostensibly real ancestor in an imagined "Brides for Indians" program of the United States government.
[3] The premise of the story is that the Northern Cheyenne Indians are shrinking in numbers and seek a way to assimilate into white society.
The Cheyenne Chief Little Wolf approaches President Ulysses Grant with the proposal to trade 1000 white women for 1000 horses, an offer publicly refused by the government.
"[4] The book also met with criticism about its depiction of Native people and women, with one reviewer writing: "This is also a case of a truly badly written woman.