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Almost 200 years earlier, Duston had been kidnapped by Native Americans from her home in Haverhill, Massachusetts, and placed with a Native American family. In the dead of night, she picked up a tomahawk and bludgeoned six sleeping children and four sleeping adults to death....”
And? Your point here is what, she should have remained a captive gotten into a “fair fight” to win back her freedom?
Go away.
No.
The author wants her to win a fair fight and become chief of the tribe and stops the killing of buffalo and lead the tribe to worship mother earth.