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<\/a>One bitter cold day I could find no room to sit down before the fire. I went out, and could not tell what to do, but I went in to another wigwam, where they were also sitting round the fire, but the squaw laid a skin for me, and bid me sit down, and gave me some ground nuts, and bade me come again; and told me they would buy me10<\/a><\/sup>11<\/a><\/sup>, if they were able, and yet these were strangers to me that I never saw before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Thanks to Project Gutenberg<\/em> for providing the digitized version of this text free of charge. To be delighted or glad, rejoice. (OED). ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Any of several types of dwelling used by certain eastern North American Indian peoples consisting of a framework of wooden poles, typically with a domed or conical roof and covered with bark, hides, or reed mats. (OED). ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> A North American Indian woman or wife. Now generally considered offensive<\/em>. (OED). ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Mary Rowlandson is afraid of and troubled by food theft, as she had corn stolen from her in the Seventh Remove. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Baked, or roast bear recipes are present in early American cook books, such as Miss Corson’s Practical American Cookery and Household Management<\/em>, by Juliet Corson, 1885. https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books\/about\/Miss_Corson_s_Practical_American_Cookery.html?id=QQbbiptULZcC&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Ground nuts, also called Indian potatoes, are underground tubers, similar to potatoes, but classified as legumes. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Rowlandson’s dramatization of eating bear and her change in taste denote her fears of becoming similar to her Indigenous captors. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Sentence structure changed by editor for clarification. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Image sourced from https:\/\/northernwoodlands.org\/outside_story\/article\/groundnuts<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Some captives in American-Indian wars were adopted into the captor’s tribe, or enslaved. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Captives_in_American_Indian_Wars<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li> Rowlandson is an American captive of King Phillip’s War, also known as the First Indian War. The war took place in southern New England from 1675-1676. https:\/\/www.history.com\/topics\/native-american-history\/king-philips-war<\/a> ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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