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The White

par Deborah Larsen

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In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now named Two-Falling-Voices--begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American.… (plus d'informations)
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Young woman is raised by Shawnee Indians in 1758; integrates into Shawnee life; eventually fulfills her life-long dream of owning land.
  lauriehill | Sep 7, 2019 |
This is a GREAT book! Very lyrical and poetic. Highly recommended. ( )
  CarmenMilligan | Jan 18, 2016 |
I read of Mary Jemeson first as a child in Lois Lenski's book, Indian Captive, a book I read many times. So I was interested in reading a different telling. And Deborah Larsen's telling was very different.

Larsen's tale has much more to do with Mary's inner journey than her outer one. We see Mary change and come to grips with her life --and the words are beautiful, almost poetic - but in the end we still don't have the answer to that nagging question -- why?

Mary seems to be simply captured by inertia. She is, and that in the end leaves us wanting - its like taking a bite of a rich pastry, getting a taste, but when you look for more - there's only air. ( )
  sdunford | Nov 14, 2014 |
I didn't plan this, but this book fit well with The Unredeemed Captive which I read last year. This is a fictionalized account of another white woman who was captured by Indians and chose to stay with them, and who told her story late in life to a historian.

It's kind of a dull book, though. Not a whole lot happens except gathering and preparing food, with an occasional battle. Our heroine Mary of the Senecas is kind of a Mary Sue: red hair and blue eyes (of course). She's patient and kind, forgives her hateful father and her Indian captives, and teaches her children about the loving Great Spirit. She becomes a wise woman and shares her wisdom with a historian, humbling him with her forgiving spirit. Zzzzzzz. ( )
  piemouth | May 28, 2010 |
Though based on the actual captivity narrative of a Mary Jamison in the 18th century, Larsen has her own Mary tell a tale. A beautiful, lyrical tale. ( )
  kalafel | Mar 18, 2010 |
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In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now named Two-Falling-Voices--begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American.

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