Bitter Water: A Memoir of Discrimination in Indian Country

6" x 9" soft cover
by Charlene Delaunay
Diana Rico, editor
Kelly Pasholk, designer

Bitter Water: A Memoir of Discrimination in Indian Country is a timely memoir as tribes across the American West battle in court to secure their historically granted water rights. Marginalized people forcibly relocated during the nineteenth century—their cultures and populations nearly decimated by the westward expansion of Manifest Destiny—no longer defend their land and water with bows and arrows but with the skill of lawyers.

Bitter Water is a rare first-hand look into tribal institutions of the modern-day West through the eyes of a Northern Arapaho woman. As Charlene Delaunay comes face-to-face with a culture she’d never known, she and her French husband Manu struggle to become sheep ranchers on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming. Through a maze of laws and jurisdictions, Charlene and Manu are resolute in their integrity to find justice and maintain their own loving relationship.

Kelly Pasholk also designed:

• Website

• Postcards

• Business cards

• Liaison with printer