The bad guys are the soldiers who round up the Potawatomi people to forcibly move them from their homeland. In this case, it is the Potawatomi who are losing their land. Whelan's book takes the side of Native people who are losing their land. I'm glad to see the note but wish Whelan had provided a list of those accounts. On August 17, over 500 Potawatomis embarked on a forced migration to Kansas, leaving their homelands behind forever. Army, under Brigadier General Hugh Brady, rounded up the Potawatomi from their homes and villages. Throughout the summer of that year, soldiers of the U.S. 63):īased, in part, on various accounts of the removal of the Potawatomi Indians from Indiana and southern Michigan in 1840. In the author's note, Whelan tells us that although the story is fiction, it is (p. The main characters in the story are Libby (the white girl) and Fawn (the Native girl). It is regarded as a "first chapter book" (for children who want to read chapter books on their own). Danielle wrote to ask me about Gloria Whelan's Night of the Full Moon.
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