Although lacking the urbane ease of Aztec or the teeth-grinding
scholarship of Hanta Yo, this fact-based saga about a white child
raised as a Comanche (1839-1870) does have plenty of blood and
dust, whoop and holler, gruesome slaughter and smoke-hole coziness
- plus a right-minded stance on the unjust decimation of an Indian
nation. In 1836 Comanches and other tribes raid Parker's Fort in
East Texas - murdering, raping, collecting scalps, and carrying
away Cynthia Ann Parker (nine), her brother Frank (six), and their
adult cousin Rachel. . . who'll die after being set free. But
Cynthia and John are adopted by the Wasp and Honey Eater bands of
the Comanches - and soon the children, now "Naduah" and "Bear Cub,"
are devoted to their new families and the kind of freedom they
never had with their Bible-toting white relations. Naduah eagerly
absorbs Comanche ways and mores, from the curing of buffalo hide to
ritual dances; she acquires a pony and a pet pronghorn; and, above
all, she is drawn to her former captor and future mate, Wanderer,
whose true home (of the Antelope People) is on the Staked Plains.
As for Bear Cub, his "grandfather," Old Owl, is forced to return
him to the whites - but Bear Cub will eventually return, wise in
both worlds. There are massacres (the whites encroach on Indian
land), tortures and cruelties on both sides. And eventually Naduah,
now mother of two, will withdraw with Wanderer to the Staked
Plains. But death awaits both - at the hands of Naduah's own,
original people. Shrieking warfare, buffalo hunts, floods and cold,
stubble-chinned Texas talk among lone Rangers, an historical celeb
or two, and dancing around the old scalp pole: sanguinary adventure
in a stout historical frame. (Kirkus Reviews)
In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman. It is also the story of a proud and innocent people whose lives pulsed with the very heartbeat of the land. It is the story of a way of life that is gone forever....
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