Nonfiction / Poetry
100 pages
5 Stars
Like many European girls and women, Eunice Williams found a life worth living with the Indians who abducted her and refused to return to the strangled life of a female in colonial America. The amount of research Ms. Lauradunn accomplished shows in this collection of chronological poems as told by Eunice beautifully imagined by Lauradunn.
We are taken from the horrific abduction to the realization that the Natives not only allowed, but encouraged, singing and dancing and joy in all its manifestations; that women were respected and the head of the family. As an Indian she was a woman of means with a loving husband. As a European woman in the colonies, she would be little more than a drudge in a world of drudge.
When, as an adult, she returned to her family to visit, they could not understand why she wouldn’t stay. Here, in her own words as imagined by Lauradunn, you will understand.
I’ve read this book more than once and will read it several times in the future. I have read other books about Eunice Williams with this book being at the top of my favored stack. If you enjoy good writing, history, poetry, this is a must read.
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