Babs: The Story of My Native American Mother & the Life Lessons She Taught Me

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“My mother became a private woman later in her life| choosing to put away the details and memories of what it meant growing up American Indian in the early part of the twentieth century. I felt that her story| no matter how brief| had to be written. Throughout these pages I speak about two different mothers I had| though they were the same woman.” In this heartfelt Memoir about Barbara “Babs” John Brown we learn about the painful reality of what it is to be bonded to a tribe of people who ostracized her entire family. A reservation in Northern Montana where burdensome times were lived through for many| but| for Barbara involved the loss of a mother at the age of three| poverty| racism and an angry father who would not be broken. It tells of “Babs” who emerged from a place that she did not embrace any longer with her need to fulfill the duties of being a loving mother and her solid Spirituality.