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A Woman of the People
Written by Benjamin Capps
Narrated by Ruth Ann Phimister
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Captured by the Comanches at the age of nine, Helen dreams of escape for more than fourteen years yet, when the time comes to choose freedom she discovers no choice exists as she has become absorbed in the Comanche culture.
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Reviews for A Woman of the People
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a re-read for me, after opening a box of long-stored paperbacks. I remembered that I had liked it (years and years ago), but not really anything about the story.Not everything can stand a re-read, but I still really enjoyed this story. The main character (Helen, later renamed Tejanita) is a woman who was kidnapped by Comanches as a child. At first she hates the people who killed her family and captured herself and her little sister, but over the many years of her captivity she grows to care for her adopted family and respect the ways of the Comanches, or as they call themselves, the People.The trope of the captured white woman has been done to death, but Capps never strays into the awful romantic noble savage stereotype. He consistently portrays the girls (later women) and the Indians as real people with their own believable personalities. Family members squabble, laugh, and help each other. The Indians are sometimes cruel, sometimes kind, and always believable representatives of their life and times. Helen/Tejanita goes from being a frightened, angry child to a mature woman struggling with her identity.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5recommended for: interests: Native Americans, children, historical fiction - for ages about 9 & upThis was one of my favorite books the year I was 13. (My very favorite - from age 12 on - was probably To Kill A Mockingbird.) The book was a Christmas present that year. I reread it multiple times, and have reread it periodically over the years. It was unique for its time, of telling a story about Native Americans where they weren’t portrayed as perfect or as evil, but simply as human beings. I still have my original very worn copy. Just checked and it is in print and that's great because it’s a terrific story. It’s about a nine year old girl and her five year old sister and how, after their family is killed by members of a tribe of Comanche Indians, they’re kidnapped and adopted as members by different families in the tribe. The story is told from the older girl’s viewpoint. It’s a real epic as her story, and that of the tribe, is followed well into her early adulthood. Both the characters and plot are very well developed in this book.It’s the book that sparked my interest in Native American history.