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Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear (Paperback)
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Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear (Paperback)
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Loot Price R521
Discovery Miles 5 210
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In the spring of 1885, the names Theresa Delaney and Theresa
Gowanlock captured the attention and imagination not only of
Canadian, but also of American and overseas readers. After their
husbands were killed by Plains Cree, the two women were among
eighty hostages held for two months. During their captivity,
horrendous rumours circulated as to the indignities they were
suffering; Delaney and Gowanlock emerged from their ordeal safely,
however, to declare that none of the rumours were true, that they
had been treated well under the circumstances, and that they had
been zealously protected by several Metis families. This was not
the central message advanced in the published account, however,
which was released five months later. In Two Months in the Camp of
Big Bear, the accounts of the women were made to conform to the
literary conventions of the Indian captivity narrative,
capitalizing upon existing sets of images, symbols, and
representations. A complicated story was simplified, heroes and
villains were created, and this imaginative narrative became part
of the formidable written and visual legacy of the events of 1885
that is narrow and one-sided.
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