Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians (3/7) by Fanny Kelly

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Level: C2 Advanced
Title: Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux Indians
Script: On request only
Author: Fanny Kelly
Reader: LibriVox - Tricia G
Accent: American English
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00:05 Chapter 9
20:22 Chapter 10
28:47 Chapter 11
39:52 Chapter 12
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Synopsis:
In 1864 the Kelly wagon train, a party of six persons, departed Geneva, Kansas bound for Idaho, " with high wrought hopes and pleasant anticipations of a romantic and delightful journey across the plains " Unaware of the rising hostilities between Indians and settlers, the party chose to turn down the offer to join a larger train and instead continued on their way West content in their own company. It was a decision they would regret.
At the end of a "hot and oppressive day" they were confronted by a band of two hundred and fifty Indians, who after making more demands upon the company turned and began the massacre that would end the carrying away of Fanny Kelly and her daughter, Mary. Fanny Kelly's Captivity coincided with General Sully's campaign against the Santee Sioux, and although she did not realize it, she was witness to the last days of the free roaming way of life with the Sioux is both fascinating and harrowing. She describes, in detail, daily life in an Indian camp and notes customs that differed greatly from her own status among the tribe was constantly being reversed from captive drudge to honored guest.
First published in the nineteenth century, the modern reader will find much that is interesting in Narrative of My Captivity Among the Sioux , not least because Fanny Kelly tells her story with the accepted hostility toward the Indian that was common in her day, hostility that has led to stereotyping and misunderstandings that still exist today.
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@GTMemes Год назад

I'm always amazed how differently American people spoke Just 100 -150 years ago Compared to today

@karlhoy7395 Год назад

What a brave and resourcefull white woman,.......In the later chapters of her book there is no doubt that she has formed a respect for the Lakota band she travelled with,albiet at the razor edge of her lifes end, she is still A HUMAN BEING..........Caught between two fires. If she had been a captive in earlier times of the Lakota Timeline ,no doubt she would have told of their kindness to all the two legged nations. Unfortunatly she was a a captive white woman in a time when the Plains People feared so much for the loss of their way of life they returned to the redundand belief that to sacrifice her to the creator was a good thing,which it is not, plains cultures were cruel beyond our understanding but cruelty was not a concept that was undersood by them in the same way as Christians understandig of it , But Sullys troops were not true christians...........and the Lakota....simply were NOT Christians ,yet their thought pattern about WAKAN TANKA was as close you could get to christaniy in those days.......Did not protestant hate catholic ......did not Muslim and Christian wage war and defile their own gods preachings for centuries and did not all the breakaway Christians despise each other, Methodist, prespeterian, and Mormons, whom the USA fought a cruel war without mercy. MERCY that he Lakota captors of Miss Kelly even came to appreciate. Yes sir, I hope this Lady is in a splended heaven somewhere,well beyond the terrible time she endured because of Manifest Destiny.