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To: Alouette
A woman who went dhimmi and became an Indian is more exciting than a woman who overcame her captors and made good her escape?

I don't think so, but maybe I'm prejudiced having grown up in Haverhill and been surrounded by historic images of Dustin and the Colonial era.

Some historic houses from the 17th century still have what were known as "Indian shutters" that slid closed over the windows leaving only a slit for musket fire and Powder House Hill, the local repository for arms and ammo, complete with the actual Powder House is right behind the house I grew up in.

Most of the movies about our history, with few exceptions (Last of the Mohicans), are of the Western Indians when the reality is that the fight against the Eastern tribes lasted a heck of a lot longer and the odds against the Colonists were a lot higher than the odds against the Western settlers.

Metesky - HHS - Class of '62

Haverhill, Massachusetts, the town too tough to die.

107 posted on 08/25/2006 5:16:49 AM PDT by metesky ("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
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To: metesky
Metesky, Hanna my type of woman, I drive by her statue a couple of times a day.

During King Phillips war 40% of the population, English, were murdered by the peaceful, nature loving Indians and the frogs. I will admit that even as low a creature as a frog was disgusted by the native americans treatment of their captives.

Old Hanna reminds me of my Grand Mother who could nail a rabbit at 20 yards with a .22 at 73. She lost family during the Indian wars in the 1870's and didn't think well of them, or what was left of certain members of her family.

What ever happened to that Italian fellow, the Faux Indian, who shed a tear.

145 posted on 08/29/2006 5:28:23 PM PDT by Little Bill (A 37%'r, a Red Spot on a Blue State, rats are evil.)
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