Loma, is on one of thirteen Hopi children kidnapped by Spanish soldiers
and sold into slavery in 1832. Purchased by Big Jim, a beaver
trapper and taken into the wintery mountains, Loma refuses to kill other
than for food and ends up saving the
life of the trapper, they had become good friends. Upon their return
to Santa Fe New Mexico, they learn that the governor of Santa Fe has
issued the return of the Hopi children do to the persistence of Wickvaya,
whos wife had been kidnapped too. The soldiers that had stolen the
children were whipped and drug through the town, as punishment for their
actions. And the children where taken home.
Thoughts: The book was well written, it kept my interest and made
me want to find out the rest of the story. With a Historical
Background, glossary and Bibliography the book seems to be authentic and
accurate, but is written in a way that you feel more sympathetic to the
Slave Owner/Trapper, Big Jim, than you do for the Hopi children that were
stolen from their homes & parents. Ethnocentric in concept.
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