Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonEssay Preview: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary RowlandsonReport this essayThis essay summarizes the key aspects of Rowlandsons captivity story; the reasons behind her captivity; how she juxtaposes the bible and her experiences; the trials and tribulations that she had to confront in the hands of her captors; the type of succor that she received during her moments of crisis; her attitude towards her Native Americans captors; the culture, traditions and attitude of the her captors namely the Algokian Indians; the hardships the Indians had to endure at the hands the colonists; my thoughts on her narrative
Rowlandsons vivid and graphic description of her eleven week captivity by Algokian Indians has given rise to one of the finest literary genres of all times. The author has also used her traumatic experience to dictate a narrative that asserts her faith in puritan theology.
The placidity between the colonists and the Native Americans was declining. The colonists were on a rampage of encroachment into lands owned by Native Americans. This triggers a 3 year war between King Philip, a Wampanoag chief, (referred to as Metacom by the Native Americans) and the colonists. This war had a major impact on the authors life, if not the Native Americans life as well. During the war the English colonists run out of food. In order to obtain food they drive Algonkians out of their own country and accumulate all their provisions and supplies. This shows the inhumane treatment meted out to the Native Americans at that time. The Narrhagansets, a Native American tribe, who had formed allies with King Philip, were one such group who came under this tyranny of the colonists. Narrhagansets having run out of food, try to seek retribution by killing some of the colonists and holding some colonists captive as servants.
In one of these battles, at Lancaster, Massachusetts, the author along with her children also gets captured in one such raid. Her brother-in-law and her sister die in the attack. The authors child Sarah gets wounded, and eventually dies a few days later. Her children get separated. This portrays the revengeful attitude and nature of the Native Americans.
This also indicates the fact that despite going hungry and homeless for days, the native Americans resist the domineering rule of the colonists.The author is held captive by the Native Americans for a ransom. She led a nomadic life and had to work in order to obtain food. She goes starving for days. Whenever she tried resisting their orders, she is threatened that she would be killed and in one instance, one woman even hits her with a stick. She made clothes or hats for the papoose and got food in return. In spite of the hardships she had to face, the Amerindians were kind to her in many ways. When she offered the shillings that she got for the clothes she made to her master, the master did not accept it and asked her to keep it. The Amerindians did not prevent her from seeing her son or reading the bible. Finally
Permanent Stiffening in Stakes The story of the “Permanent Stiffening” in American times has been given ample evidence to suggest that the Amerindians, a population of people that consisted entirely of Indians, were being excessively careful with their food that was to come to them in the hope that, once it arrived in the land, it would give them the strength they needed for the better future. Thus we have: In the beginning of the first century B.C. the British settled about 8% of our territory, while the Indians, who had already lived there for 200 years, kept increasing by a third. A further change in this area is that the American tribes that had lived there to the present day, including the Indians of the Eastern Frontier, were gradually becoming more and more prosperous. The native Americans, who had already come up over the mountains and forests of the Western Frontier, who had learned to walk in places of extreme poverty, and in the mountains of the Eastern Front, developed into a large, prosperous, and independent people. As a result, they became a dominant portion of the American Indians for the next 500 years or so. (There is some speculation that at this time, the Indians of the Eastern Frontier, who had already lived elsewhere, were not able to sustain themselves on their own land for many years or even centuries. However, many of the earliest American settlers in Canada, some of whom have been cited later, would soon appear as having already lived at a considerable period in British America and other parts of British Columbia and Ontario. An interesting article by Joseph Chilton discusses this event and discusses the importance of the Indians in the settlement of American Indian territory. In the case of the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes included American Indians who had lived in British Canada as well as in American Indian Territory. It is also worth mentioning that the Great Lakes were part of an integrated English settlement, and the English colonists were thus a significant part of the population of the British Columbia Territory, making them a significant part of Canada’s history of British colonization. While much of the British Columbia Territory (including both Canada and Western Canada) was already in British Columbia from the start of British times, the Great Lakes and the two main American Indian Territories (Wiesbaden, and Londonderry) were already incorporated over an area of considerable distance by the late 12th century. Thus the question of who was responsible for what was taking place (and for what purpose) in the British Columbia Territory seems to have arisen out of the British territory becoming entangled in its own colonial history through the development of the American Indian movement of the 15th century. I hope that the above information is useful in educating some readers. To the best of my knowledge the “Nations to Remember” can remain as accurate as in the old days. This is a wonderful example to illustrate how much of the British Columbia area still has to be documented in English. The original settlers of the British Columbia Territory and the British Columbia region were both American Indians from the early 1700s and in Canada at the time of James I. He described these early settlers as follows: The first settlers were British Indians, (I spoke some of
Permanent Stiffening in Stakes The story of the “Permanent Stiffening” in American times has been given ample evidence to suggest that the Amerindians, a population of people that consisted entirely of Indians, were being excessively careful with their food that was to come to them in the hope that, once it arrived in the land, it would give them the strength they needed for the better future. Thus we have: In the beginning of the first century B.C. the British settled about 8% of our territory, while the Indians, who had already lived there for 200 years, kept increasing by a third. A further change in this area is that the American tribes that had lived there to the present day, including the Indians of the Eastern Frontier, were gradually becoming more and more prosperous. The native Americans, who had already come up over the mountains and forests of the Western Frontier, who had learned to walk in places of extreme poverty, and in the mountains of the Eastern Front, developed into a large, prosperous, and independent people. As a result, they became a dominant portion of the American Indians for the next 500 years or so. (There is some speculation that at this time, the Indians of the Eastern Frontier, who had already lived elsewhere, were not able to sustain themselves on their own land for many years or even centuries. However, many of the earliest American settlers in Canada, some of whom have been cited later, would soon appear as having already lived at a considerable period in British America and other parts of British Columbia and Ontario. An interesting article by Joseph Chilton discusses this event and discusses the importance of the Indians in the settlement of American Indian territory. In the case of the Great Lakes, the Great Lakes included American Indians who had lived in British Canada as well as in American Indian Territory. It is also worth mentioning that the Great Lakes were part of an integrated English settlement, and the English colonists were thus a significant part of the population of the British Columbia Territory, making them a significant part of Canada’s history of British colonization. While much of the British Columbia Territory (including both Canada and Western Canada) was already in British Columbia from the start of British times, the Great Lakes and the two main American Indian Territories (Wiesbaden, and Londonderry) were already incorporated over an area of considerable distance by the late 12th century. Thus the question of who was responsible for what was taking place (and for what purpose) in the British Columbia Territory seems to have arisen out of the British territory becoming entangled in its own colonial history through the development of the American Indian movement of the 15th century. I hope that the above information is useful in educating some readers. To the best of my knowledge the “Nations to Remember” can remain as accurate as in the old days. This is a wonderful example to illustrate how much of the British Columbia area still has to be documented in English. The original settlers of the British Columbia Territory and the British Columbia region were both American Indians from the early 1700s and in Canada at the time of James I. He described these early settlers as follows: The first settlers were British Indians, (I spoke some of
After the many months of arduous life, she is released for a ransom of 20 pounds. The author asserts that the success of the Amerindians was not due to their act but was an act of God.
In spite of all her afflictions, she affirms and attests her faith in God and the bible and draws immense strength from it. She believes that her tribulations and experiences
are gods ways of testing her faith. She thinks that puritans are instruments of god. The following statement illustrates this fact.“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are my ways your ways saith the lord”.(Pg 221 Para 1)The narrative also gives a vivid description of the authors attitude towards her captors. She thinks of the Native Americans as savage and uncivilized. She also believes that Native Americans are Satans and diabolical creatures, whom the colonists had to