The Medicine Quilt
Inspired by a True Story
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In the town there were two elder women, each from one side of the town’s divide. Each had lived on the poisoned land for a very long time. They spent their lives carrying the sadness of the people’s anger at one another until finally in their age they were too tired for the burden. Their old eyes saw that their anger was being passed on to the children, and they wept for the pain in their relatives’ hearts. Finally they gave up their fear and the two grandmothers came to speak together about making medicine for their people.
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On a great river lined with chalk rock faces and shedding cottonwoods, amidst a sea of tall grass seeded with feathered tops, there was a small town. In the town, there were those who had been born of the earth and those who had come to the land as strangers; there was never peace between the two groups.
Two grandmothers, one from each sector, grew weary of the constant strife. They believe they must do something to help the people of the small town rewrite their story. The grandmothers pray for four days, and when they come together, they make a plan. They create a work of art to heal the rift between their people.
A fable, The Medicine Quilt tells the story of a small town’s journey from anger and mistrust to forgiveness. It tackles the historical challenges of race relations between white and Native Americans with themes applicable to the universal challenges of finding respect and unity among cultures.
About the Author
Margaret Doom is a writer born and raised on the plains of South Dakota. Her writings are influenced by the diverse peoples and landscapes of the prairie.