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Category Archives: Captivity
The Cultural Work of Pop-Fiction
The four volume Twilight Saga by Stephanie Miller Today, young people love serial fiction about vampires and the dystopian future. In the 19th century, young Americans consumed dime novels about the frontiers of that day: the American West; “exotic” locales … Continue reading
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Many Hands, Many Voices: Writing, Editing, and Publishing Indian Captivity Narratives
by Zabelle Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock “Captivity narratives are tricky texts” says my friend and colleague Christopher Castiglia who teaches at Penn State University and who published the book Bound and Determined: Captivity, Culture-Crossing, and White Womanhood … Continue reading
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Eliza Huggins: “We thank you for the trouble you… have had with Josephine’s narrative.”
“Adventures Among the Indians: Narrative of the Captivity and Rescue of Mrs. Sophia Josephine Huggins,” as reprinted in the St. Paul Weekly Press February 12, 1863, page 3. In Rescuing Josephine Huggins, I opened the story of a new collection … Continue reading
What’s Pocahontas Got To Do With It?
The subjects of Zabelle Stodola’s talk, “Mary Schwandt and Maggie Brass (Snana): A Minnesota Pocahontas Story?” Kris Wiley of the Traverse des Sioux Library System has been coordinating a summer-long speaker series on the Dakota War which culminated Friday August 24, … Continue reading
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Dakota War Captives at Camp Release
On September 26, 1862, Col. Henry H. Sibley (1811-1891) accepted the release of 269 captives held for six weeks during Minnesota’s U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The captives and their Dakota protectors had named the place Camp Lookout while they waited … Continue reading
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A Thrilling Narrative of Indian Captivity: Dispatches from the Dakota War of 1862 