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Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets — Patricia Clark Smith
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Published:
Aug-2003 (Hardcover) -
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Main Genre:
Historical -
Time Period:
17th Century -
Pages:
208 -
Age Level:
08-12 -
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NEEPUNNA KEESWOSH
MOON WHEN CORN IS RIPE
[LATE AUGUST, 1653]
METTAPOISET
He [Father] laid his hand gently on my shoulder and told me that if I, Weetamoo, am to become sachem of us Pocassets after him, and prove a good leader, I must learn to walk more carefully through the world.
I shook my hair out of my eyes and stared up at him in surprise. I said he surely could not mean that I was poor at tracking game or at passing unseen through the woods. He knows I can follow almost any trail, and he has seen for himself how I can edge my way near enough to a doe and her pair of speckled fawns to hear their three separate breaths. Did he not teach me all these skills himself, I spluttered, and was I not better at it than any boy or girl in our village?
MOON WHEN CORN IS RIPE
[LATE AUGUST, 1653]
METTAPOISET
He [Father] laid his hand gently on my shoulder and told me that if I, Weetamoo, am to become sachem of us Pocassets after him, and prove a good leader, I must learn to walk more carefully through the world.
I shook my hair out of my eyes and stared up at him in surprise. I said he surely could not mean that I was poor at tracking game or at passing unseen through the woods. He knows I can follow almost any trail, and he has seen for himself how I can edge my way near enough to a doe and her pair of speckled fawns to hear their three separate breaths. Did he not teach me all these skills himself, I spluttered, and was I not better at it than any boy or girl in our village?
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