Thunder in the waning light, not from the sky but from guns awakens two powerful women in the midst of the first Puritan War in America in 1675. Weetamoo, the powerful squaw sachem of the Pocasset Wampanoag people and Mary White Rowlandson, a prosperous minister’s wife from Lancaster, Massachusetts Bay Colony, are swept up in the calamity of King Philip’s War after both their homes are raided in bloody battles.
By reading between the lines of Rowlandson’s own true captivity narrative and exhaustively researching historical records and Wampanoag oral tradition, author Christine Duffy Zerillo imagines how the two women survived together for eleven weeks during the bloodiest war of its time. After losing their homes, families, and friends in parallel events, they endured the challenges of winter, starvation, disease, and terror while relying upon one another for survival.
As their cultures collide and struggle to preserve their own ways of life, can Weetamoo and Mary learn from one another and see themselves as anything but sworn enemies? Or is their hatred and fear too deep-seated to find the common threads that bind them to one another.
Contents
Maps and Photograph xi
Voices from the Seventeenth Century
a preface by Christine Duffy Zerillo xiii
Redemption Rock xv
Church Pays a Visit 1
Trouble Stirs in Massachusetts 13
Metacomet Steals Away 18
Lancaster Listens 23
A Wedding of the Tribes 28
Dining with a Captain 42
Thunder in the Night 53
A Call to Arms 58
A Tribe Scatters 64
Lancaster Ruined 68
Gathering Up the Christian Indians 79
Hasty Flight • First Remove 85
Snowy Retreat • Second Remove 88
Arrival at Menameset • Third Remove 91
A New Hearth 93
Quannopinn’s Gift 99
Where Are the Children? 103
Weetamoo’s Lament 109
Sagamores’ Council 116
Meeting Mr. Pepper 125
Grains of Discontent 132
A Brief Moment 138
Warriors Return from Medfield 141
Ceremony of Triumph 143
Medfield Spoils 147
Leaving Menameset • Fourth Remove 157
The Path to Nichewaug 160
Flight Again • Fifth Remove 167
Across the Baquoag • Sixth Remove 174
Baquoag 178
Mary’s Descent into Exile • Seventh Remove 181
Weetamoo Walks with the Grandfathers 185
Squakeag 189
Change in Plans 192
Rest for the Weary 195
The Sachems’ Treaty 197
The Lord Hath Chastened Me Sore 200
Eve of Reunion 202
Arriving at Coasset • Eighth Remove 204
Reunion with Metacomet 207
By the Waters of Babylon 213
Pesuponk 219
Thanksgiving 225
Mary’s Renewal 234
Warriors Unite 238
War Drums 241
Northward Path • Ninth Remove 244
A Fair Bargain 247
No Return for Canochet 252
Small Comforts • Tenth Remove 255
Across Ashuelot River • Eleventh Remove 259
Weetamoo Turns Back • Twelfth Remove 263
A Papoose Lullaby 267
Hostages Meet • Thirteenth Remove 272
Leaving for Mount Wachusett 277
A Dream of Home 281
With Empty Heart • Fourteenth Remove 285
Who Will Buy This Woman? 291
Word from Home 296
Freedom at Hand • Fifteenth to Seventeenth Removes 300
Gathering Courage • Eighteenth Remove 303
Council of the Powwows • Nineteenth Remove 311
Sudbury Fight 316
The Deal Is Struck 319
Different Paths 330
From Mary’s Journal 336
Weetamoo’s Reflection from the Spirit World 340
Maps 343
Notes 349
Clothing 349
Native Seasons or Moons 349
Spirituality or Ceremonies 351
Spirit Beings 352
Animals 353
Foods 354
Places 355
Native People 356
Native Words 356
Cast of Characters 359
Native People 359
British People 365
Christian People 366
Bibliography 369
About the Author 377
Acknowledgments 379
Colophon 381
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.10.2019 |
|---|---|
| Illustrationen | Dave Kobrenski |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker |
| Schlagworte | American colonial history • colonists • Indians • King Philip's War • Mary Rowlandson • native American's • Puritans • Weetamoo |
| ISBN-10 | 1-948380-20-X / 194838020X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-948380-20-1 / 9781948380201 |
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