Reviewed By: Woodstock - RAM
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Friday The Arapaho Boy: A True Story from History
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
Marc Simmons
Class/Genre: Non-Fiction Western Juvenile Young Reader Historical
University of New Mexico Press, 2004, 53 pages
FRIDAY is a marvelously illustrated biography of a famous leader of the Arapahoe, who were the first human inhabitants of the great plains immediately East of the Rocky Mountains.
As a young boy, Black-Spot was a victim of his own curiosity as he wandered the open plains near his tribe's camp. A white trapper found him lost, frightened, and hungry. From then on the young Arapahoe was a companion of the compassionate white - eventually arriving in territorial Saint Louis and gaining the benefit of a superb education.
Returning to the plains as one of the earliest bilingual Arapahoe, the young man became a respected tribal leader and warrior chief.
Published for an readership to be found in elementary schools, this is an excellent introduction to the occasional positive results of interaction between the whites expanding into the territory of the many tribes of plains dwelling nations and the peoples native to the area.
Marvelous illustrations accompany the text. Many of the landscapes included in the book portray landmarks familiar to this reader - and it's easy to imagine what scenes visible from my kitchen window might have looked like more than a century ago.
Woodstock - RAM
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