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The Jailing of Cecilia Capture
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The Jailing of Cecilia Capture

Janet Hale
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Cecelia Capture Welles, an Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as an unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white liberal, and her decision to return to college. This mixed inheritance of ambition and despair brings her to the brink of suicide.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Country
United States
Date
1 July 1987
Pages
201
ISBN
9780826310033

Cecelia Capture Welles, an Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as an unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white liberal, and her decision to return to college. This mixed inheritance of ambition and despair brings her to the brink of suicide.

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Country
United States
Date
1 July 1987
Pages
201
ISBN
9780826310033

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