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- catalog abstract ""I was born a white at sea on the way to the New World ... But I was taken by those whom we called Indians. Nearly speechless for a time, I was beset by terrors." This is the voice of Mary Jemison, who, in 1758, at the age of sixteen, was taken by a Shawnee raiding party from her home near what would become Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this intimate reimagining of her life story, Mary endures the brutal scalpings of her parents and siblings and is given to two Seneca sisters who treat her as their own-a symbolic replacement for the brother they lost to the white colonists. Renamed Two-Falling-Voices, she gradually becomes integrated into her new family, learning to assist with the hunt and to cultivate corn. She marries a Delaware warrior, raises a family in her adoptive culture, becomes friends with two former slaves, and eventually, remarkably, fulfills her lifelong dream "to own land bordered by sky, as my mother and father had once purchased woods and fields which were dappled with changing light."".
- catalog contributor b12560211.
- catalog coverage "Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""I was born a white at sea on the way to the New World ... But I was taken by those whom we called Indians. Nearly speechless for a time, I was beset by terrors." This is the voice of Mary Jemison, who, in 1758, at the age of sixteen, was taken by a Shawnee raiding party from her home near what would become Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this intimate reimagining of her life story, Mary endures the brutal scalpings of her parents and siblings and is given to two Seneca sisters who treat her as their own-a symbolic replacement for the brother they lost to the white colonists. Renamed Two-Falling-Voices, she gradually becomes integrated into her new family, learning to assist with the hunt and to cultivate corn. She marries a Delaware warrior, raises a family in her adoptive culture, becomes friends with two former slaves, and eventually, remarkably, fulfills her lifelong dream "to own land bordered by sky, as my mother and father had once purchased woods and fields which were dappled with changing light."".
- catalog description "Prefatory Note -- I. Buchanan Valley, 1758 -- II. The Ohio Valley, 1758-1762 -- III. The Genesee Valley, 1763-1833 -- Acknowledgments.".
- catalog extent "xii, 219 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "White.".
- catalog identifier "0375413596".
- catalog identifier "0375712895 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "White.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : A.A. Knopf,".
- catalog relation "White.".
- catalog spatial "Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Indian captivities Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Jemison, Mary, 1743-1833 Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3562.A729 W47 2002".
- catalog subject "Seneca Indians Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women pioneers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Women, White Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Prefatory Note -- I. Buchanan Valley, 1758 -- II. The Ohio Valley, 1758-1762 -- III. The Genesee Valley, 1763-1833 -- Acknowledgments.".
- catalog title "The white : a novel / by Deborah Larsen.".
- catalog type "Biographical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".