Taken by the Indians by Alice Dickinson (1976, Reinforced Hardcover)
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Author: Alice Dickinson
Publisher: Scholastic Library Pub
Publication Date: 1976-03-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0531011070
ISBN-13: 9780531011072
Product ID: EPID2052099
Description: Narrates the captivities of three women and three men by North American Indians during 1676 to 1864 using excerpts from their original accounts.
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6 True Tales of CaptivityReview created: 10/18/06
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Quite an interesting book with excerpts from diaries and factual accounts.
I disagree that the captives "came to understand their captors and to view them with friendship and affection." Learning to survive under hostile conditions may cause one to "accept" the captors, but it is not reality. Murdering and torturing is nothing to accept. If someone chose to go live with the Indians, then that was a freely made choice, but to take someone's freedom and terrorize that person is unacceptable.
Elizabeth Smart seemed to "accept" her captors and did not seem to want to be rescued either, but she's probably a lot happier now than she was with her abductors.
Frederick Drimmer’s books Scalps and Tomahawks & Captured by Indians are more detailed and less politically correct.
I disagree that the captives "came to understand their captors and to view them with friendship and affection." Learning to survive under hostile conditions may cause one to "accept" the captors, but it is not reality. Murdering and torturing is nothing to accept. If someone chose to go live with the Indians, then that was a freely made choice, but to take someone's freedom and terrorize that person is unacceptable.
Elizabeth Smart seemed to "accept" her captors and did not seem to want to be rescued either, but she's probably a lot happier now than she was with her abductors.
Frederick Drimmer’s books Scalps and Tomahawks & Captured by Indians are more detailed and less politically correct.
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