Seven Generations — Margaret Martin

Seven Generations is a historical novel of Native America taking place from 1825-2013. There are seven parts, one for each generation. The first part is the stories of Trees-Told-It; a Shoshone Indian who was born to the “old way” in 1825 then lived a life of change until he died on a reservation in 1910. In the second generation, Lupineflower becomes a Mormon and the second wife in a polygamist family in Utah to escape hunger on the reservation. Follow a Shoshone family from before white people came to the West, through the various Indian “periods” like the numerous treaties, early reservations, allotment, religious evangelism, boarding schools, the world wars, relocation, the building of the hydroelectric dams, the war in Afghanistan, and present day reservation life. In the last generation, the living family members come together to decide whether to allow oil and gas drilling on Trees-Told-It's original allotment. They rediscover long kept secrets that will influence the next seven generations.