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Family Drama
19th
century
American Settlement /Native American
Based on the
memoirs of a Hudson Bay Company fur trader, this novel centres around two
people, Buffalo Stone Woman, a captured slave to a Native tribe, and Donald Thomas
who is seventeen years old and who is sent, because of his linguistic skills, to
live among the Native Pikani tribe in the Rocky Mountains in order to develop
trade. There, he discovers Isobel, a Mexican landowner’s daughter who was
captured many years previously by the tribe – and known now as Buffalo Stone
Woman. Inevitably, a relationship grows between the two of them, which creates
difficulties for the trade partnership which he is supposed to be seeking and
encouraging.
Some of the
scenes are graphic and unsettling, the Native names can be difficult to get your
head around (I merely skipped over them) but Ms Williams writes with great skill,
confidence and what appears to be highly detailed research. Her understanding
of the differences between the two cultures is handled with dexterity, and
makes this a recommended, very enjoyable read.
© Ellen Hill
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