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Slave of the Sioux- The Fanny Kelly Captivity Narrative, 1864 (Annotated) Fanny Kelly , Richard MacPherson (Editor) Unquestionably the most vivid and horrifying account of a woman held captive by Indians is that of Fanny Kelly, who, as part of an intrepid band of emigrants on their way to in 1864 with her husband and young daughter was captured by the Sioux in a brutal and deadly massacre, spending the next 6 months enslaved by various factions of the Oglala & Brule tribes.

This is her own story in her own words, as she witnesses savagery after savagery, hoping only to stay alive to reunite with her beloved child and husband. A real-life abduction story that to our modern ears sounds almost manufactured, this edition, with illustrations & photographs never in any other edition, plus new chapters on other Sioux depravities of that time, like the macabre "Scalp Dance", will enlighten as well as horrify. If you only read one captivity narrative this is the one to read.

Slave of the Sioux- The Fanny Kelly Captivity Narrative, 1864 (Annotated) Details

Date : Published November 9th 2011 (first published August 25th 1871) ISBN : Author : Fanny Kelly , Richard MacPherson (Editor) Format : Kindle Edition 188 pages Genre : History, Nonfiction, Biography, Autobiography, Memoir, Westerns

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Whitney says

I am working on my senior thesis and my topic is Native American and white relations in the 19th century in the western United States. This was an interesting captivity narrative to read. You really have to take everything Fanny says with a grain of salt. She is very dramatic in her descriptions of the Native Americans and I doubt many things that she says. However, this book will help me in my research because it shows how the image that white people created of Native Americans and how this image negatively portrayed a group of people.

``Laurie Henderson says

Definitely not for the squeamish!

Ericka says

This book is a most fascinating treatise (also a very saddening one) on an Indian attack of a small pioneer caravan entering territory and then one woman's experience's with the Indians throughout that territory until her rescue at a US Calvary fort in current day SW South Dakota. Sorry that was so long winded, but that happens after reading something like this. The writing is beautiful and deliberate, but very correct and extremely florid. It was, however, fascinating, to read all the descriptions and be able to see, in my minds eye, what she was seeing. I live in Wyoming and the last time I made a trip to Casper I made sure I paid attention to the places in that area where the original attack occurred. The attack and the Fort her husband managed to make it to were in the areas of Glenrock and Douglas. There are still signs for the remains of the fort. That area is very hilly with lots of creeks with trees along them. An area just ripe for the picking. Later she says she's with the Sioux along Powder River. We cross Powder River at the town of Powder River (very small) to get to Casper and that area is very open with few trees. She also describes being in a battle up north. Up there, along the Big Horns, there are vast plains where the Indians liked to camp (as shown by the Battle of the Little Big Horn) because it gave them water, space, food, and protection. The base camp for the tribe she was with was in southern . Eventually the US Calvary put enough pressure on the Sioux tribes they decided to pretend to give her back at a fort in South Dakota. She was able to alert the Calvary so they were able to rescue her. All the hows and whys? You need to read her book. It's too good to pass up for 99 cents.

Koleesa says

A fascinating tale of Mrs. Kelly's captivity among the Sioux Indians. Most interesting to me was her unwavering faith in the Goodness and Kind Providence of God. Despite her circumstantial she continued to trust the Lord and pray for deliverance. I have read other books pertaining to the Sioux nation and found most of her cultural observations to be quite accurate. Well worth the read!

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Judy says

This is like reading a history book. Fanny Kelly tells her story, but you also get the feeling a lot she's does not tell. Due to the time some things were not talked about. Would recommend for anyone interested in how the West was settled

John says

True adventure of an early sojourner on the the new that led through the great plains, and over some of the most forbidding mountain ranges in the world, all while endevouring to deal with the then free and untamed Native American Indian tribes at the height of their strength. Pretty well presentd for being an account born amongst the purple prose common of the 1800's, the author and face of the book, Fanny Kelley, presents her remarkable tale in uncvontrived humility with astute insight. Kelly was an indomitable and brave member of the dauntless spirit of Americana that we all hope has been passed from such as her on to us. A role model for all, particularly women and girls, pioneers such as Kelly's words and acts of and those of her peers of are often bypassed today, to the loss of all. A trip worth taking.

JFB

Jessika says

I have always been fascinated by Native Americans, particularly the Sioux, and even more particularly the Oglala (or the Lakota) tribe. I took a class two years ago in college that was taught by an excellent anthropologist who spent a year or two living with the Oglala tribe, and I was completely hooked and knew I had to find out more. They're such a beautiful people to me. I even did a research final about the Oglala customs this past semester.

So when, about a year ago, I was browsing the bookshelves at a local antique store, and this title caught my eye. I thought, "Great! I'll get to read about the customs and learn more about the Oglala Sioux!"

This was just way too hard and painful for me to get through. Let me defend myself. I'm usually pretty open- minded when it comes to books; I can suspend my disbelief like no other, and I can place myself in the other person's shoes, no matter what their situation. Heck, I recently read the journal of a Confederate lady who talks about the barbaric Union soldiers and how much of a monster Lincoln was, but even then, I loved the story she had to tell just because it was amazing to me to be able to put myself in a particular time in history.

This was just ridiculous.

First of all, I had to re-read the prologue, directly after reading it the first time, because I felt like I just slogged through it and didn't retain a thing.

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Then, upon getting to the actual narrative, I endured for most of 250 pages the whining and complaining of Fanny Kelly. Okay, I get it--it's rough to get torn away from your loved ones and be shoved into a completely different way of life and have to travel almost non-stop on foot for five months.

I could have dealt with all of this if it weren't for the fact that she uses the word "savage" at least five times a sentence. I understand that it was just a part of the racism of the time, but to me, the Native Americans are a beautiful people who live a simple life, and I don't appreciate reading about how they are "barbarians" and "savages" and "uncivilized" and "childlike in mentality" and "vicious" and everything else. On top of all of that, she goes on about the "superiority" of the white race and how "gentle and benevolent" the white soldiers are and how "if only the Indians could be introduced to God above, they might learn to be civilized." UGH!

Let's talk for just a minute, Fanny Kelly. How about this for your "admirable" white soldiers--they decimated an entire population of people, murdering and raping their people, pillaging their villages, and taking the land that wasn't their to take by force. Sure, the Native Americans aren't saints, but turn the tables, and you'll see that your people were just as bad, if not worse.

Okay.

Rant done.

I don't believe in complete and total book bashing, so there were a few things that I enjoyed about this book and they were the reason why it got two stars.

I enjoyed her reflections about nature and her surrounding environment. I really could picture the scenes she described and she was pretty eloquent in describing them. I also really enjoyed the chapter about Native American customs. Finally, what I had wanted to read all along.

Overall, though, this book was a waste of my time and a waste of a week in reading.

Carla says

Didn't enjoy the writing style. First hand account by a woman of a wagon train on their way from to Idaho who was captured and held for many months by the Sioux Indians. She had some fairly hard held beliefs of Indians prior to her departure. She tells of everyday life as a captive. While she talks about the atrocities, most of the book contained pretty basic day by day boring things. How she starts to understand the native language on her second day is rather weird. I found the book rather odd and boring. Wouldn't recommend.

Toni Miranda says

One of the WORST books I have ever read! This was supposedly a true story - bah! If this is true she should have become an interpreter - she supposedly knew Exactly what the chief was saying to her - in HIS language on her second day of captivity - wow what skill!! Then she was supposedly held for over five months - yet there are NO details of anything that happened to her. All she does is describe the scenery and lament about being "tortured" - yet there are only two or three specific incidences that document any of her time in captivity. For someone with such great language skills she sure had a lousy memory! This seems like it was nothing more than a bunch of lies to create more hatred toward the Indians at that time and for her to

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Mon Maryum says

Narrative of My Captivity by Fanny Kelly

I am finished with this one too. I also wrote a review on a book by an Indian warrior- CLICK HERE TO SEE REVIEW.

It was obvious that this person wasn't a writer but her writing did flowed nicely (even though the sentences were very simple)- and this is why this book gets two stars. The problem with such simple writing is that, instead of describing what 'torture' or 'violently attacked me'' were (except only once where she mentioned an Indian burning her hand by pressing a hot-object on her hand when she threw something of theirs' in anger), it becomes difficult to relate to her. And instead of clearly telling us what 'mutilated' meant every time she mentioned the word, it was a hazy image in my mind. But after reading Geronimo's tale, I realized that it was how Indians cut the skin of the scalp of dead warriors after they win a battle (as a prize, I am guessing?). Geronimo mentions that the ones who mutilate dead bodies that aren't from a battle they won are another sector of small Indians who weren't part of the Apache group. But non-fiction books with simple, flowy writing like this keeps your interest.

And comparing this to Geronimo's tale. I found some that she indeed hasn't mentioned anything about being sexually harassed, which Geronimo said the Indians don't do unlike what was done to their captured women.

I think it is best to read books like this in contrast to another book from another different perspective.

It seemed hypocritical when she called Indians the people who took over without any intention of sharing the land, when, that sounds oddly familiar to what happened to the Indians. She has also called her people the 'superior', 'civilized' "EMIGRANTS" while uneducated, uncultured Indians are these savages who, as it is sounding like, are taking over her land?

The only person I rooted for in this book was Fanny's daughter who (view spoiler).

Kevin LaBrie says

I found this book a quick read. Honest and to the point, the author smashes the ' honorable Indian' stereotype and lays the people bare for what they were, human, scared and surviving.

Randolph says

These things are always difficult to review. From a literary standpoint it is no masterpiece but the narrative content itself is so compelling we forgive the awkwardness of the author, so I tend to look at these primarily in a historical context and then look at how effective the narrator is at getting the feel of the experience across. The general caveat here is that there is little corroborating evidence for what Kelly says her day to day life was like in captivity other than other accounts of different captivities. The very sameness of many of these accounts should caution a reader to question what was the motivation of the author in writing the book

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Outside the general plan of the tribe's movement Kelly notes two types of incidents, every day type things, and exceptional occurrences. The special occurrences stand out more vividly and would appear to be less capable of exaggeration because they were seen by many and are easily corroborated or oppositely, not easily hid. However, for Kelly's day to day treatment which ranged from gentle and kind to torture and threat, we don't have any way of knowing what is true from what is livened up to make the narrative more compelling. It may all be true, but we know that Kelly had an iron in the fire as far as restitution from the Indian Annuities, as they are called, and making her story more compelling would do much in a direction to get Congress to see her grievance more favorably.

Now I'm not discounting that being taken hostage by a hostile native people and being used as a slave, having your child murdered, and being abused daily in numerous ways isn't enough, I'm just looking at the more spectacular claims.

Kelly's book makes for lively reading. She clearly has insight and sympathy for the Indians' motivation and condition but she comes across as a staunch Manifest Destinyer: "this is gonna happen so just get used to it." She sees no moral dilemma in taking Indian lands that are clearly left wasted and fallow by the nomads. This probably is what the majority of white Americans felt. The Indians weren't putting the land to good use, so what was the problem? Cultural sensitivity wasn't even thought about at this time.

In the end, the eye for an eye mentality leaves everyone savage and claims that the Indians previously were a gentler race or just learned barbarity from the white man when accounts of Indian on Indian depredation from this and earlier times are taken into account just shows how beastly we are to each other without provocation. We don't need any training.

A good first hand look into another ugly chapter of US history.

Sharon Zink says

The worst thing about this book is the Victorian writing style. This woman is no writer. Still, the story is interesting. If I had been her, once I could see that I would probably survive, I would have tried to learn new things and take advantage of the unique advantage of living among the Indians. She could have done better. She didn't need to concentrate on her deprivations to the exclusion of everything else.

Julia says

Very intriguing true story written by a young pioneer mother whose family was slaughtered by the Sioux Indians as they traveled west. She and her daughter were taken captive, the daughter was lost, and Fanny herself suffered much at their hands. Through it all she marveled at the beauty of nature and the providence of God. She was saved by the cavalry after 5 months.

Yann says

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Un indien Oglagla en 1899

Ce livre est un témoignage qui nous transporte dans l'Ouest américain suivre les terribles aventures Fanny Kelly, une jeune fille de dix-neuf ans. Le 12 juillet 1864 dans le Wyoming, le convoi avec lequel elle se rend au Nord-Est des États-Unis tombe sur une bande de sauvages menaçants, les Sioux Oglagla. Ils plusieurs dizaines à entourer le petit groupe, arrogants, provocateurs, enhardis par le nombre. Ils commencent à se servir dans le chariot sous l’œil impuissant des propriétaires; puis, après s'être bien amusé à effrayer leurs proies, s'emploient à massacrer tout le monde. Seul son mari parvient à s'enfuir: elle est capturée avec sa toute petite fille, et sont toutes deux réduites en esclavage.

Au milieu des Indiens, la vie d'esclave est loin d'être une sinécure, mais elle trouve au fond d'elle même les ressources pour surmonter cette épreuve et ne pas sombrer dans le désespoir. Les femmes sont traitées comme des bêtes de somme, tandis que les hommes sont habitués à la guerre, à la violence, et ont pour coutume de s'habituer à mépriser la douleur depuis l'âge le plus tendre. Elle adoucit quelque peu son sort en prodiguant à ses ravisseurs les dehors d'une bonne volonté et d'un empressement constant, évidemment simulé. Cela lui épargne bien des coups et des cris, mais non pas de terribles frayeurs; car ces rudes guerriers passent en un clin d'œil de l'enjouement le plus puéril et détendu à la cruauté furieuse la plus extrême, et ce pour les motifs les plus légers. Elle ne manque pas non plus de les écouter et donne un témoignage de premier ordre de leur mentalité et de leurs état d'esprit par rapport à l'arrivée toujours croissante de nouveaux arrivants sur des terres où la solitude commence à se raréfier.

Je ne dévoile rien de plus des nombreuses péripéties aventureuses passionnantes qu'elle relate. Le courage et la ténacité de cette jeune fille est épatant. C'était une lecture saisissante, captivante, et édifiante en tout point.

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