Babs

by Victoria Riley

“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.

220 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 21, 2013