#hobomok

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not sure who owned this book before me, but your highlights have been very helpful!

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Hobomok (1824)

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The sorrow that can be exhausted, however keen it may be, has something of luxury in it, compared with grief when her fountains are all sealed, and her stormy waters are dashing and foaming within the soul.

Hobomok, Lydia Maria Child

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His father was seldom spoken of; and by degrees his Indian appellation was silently omitted.

Hobomok

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Had I been treated with moderation, perhaps I might never have been so hasty as to declare my religious opinions…But I have been spurned, goaded, trampled on, as a heretic—and worse than all, I have been doomed to hear everything blasphemed which I held most sacred.

Charles Brown, Hobomok

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Hobomok cover & Lydia Marie Child

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Hobomok

In Hobomok by Lydia Marie Child, young Mary Conant disobeys her father, practices witchcraft, and marries a Native American man, Hobomok, with whom she has a child. Her rebelliousness frames womanhood in a light much different from tradition.

Mary had thought her true love had died, but when he returns, Hobomok senses Mary would rather be with him and leaves her to do as she wishes. While Hobomok’s sacrifice depicts him as noble and generous, it also seems to foreshadow how the Native American culture will be wiped out. For example, Mary and Hobomok’s son loses his heritage and grows up with a white identity.