{"product_id":"wynema-a-child-of-the-forest-9781513271910","title":"Wynema: A Child of the Forest","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWynema: A Child of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e (1891) is a novel by Muscogee American writer Sophia Alice Callahan. Published when the author was only 23 years old, \u003ci\u003eWynema: A Child of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is the first novel written by an American Indian woman. Although it gained little, if any, attention upon publication, the novel was rediscovered and reprinted in 1997. \u003ci\u003eWynema: A Child of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential record of the Massacre at Wounded Knee and the subsequent Lakota Ghost Dance movement, a work of fiction which looks at the suffering of American Indians through the eyes of an assimilated Muscogee woman, a character not unlike Callahan herself.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWynema is a young Muscogee girl. Raised in Indian Territory, she is educated in English and becomes a teacher at a local mission school. There, she befriends a white coworker, whose brother she eventually marries. In time, the couple gives birth to a child and begins to raise their family. However, following the Massacre at Wounded Knee, and horrified by stories of orphaned Lakota children left to fend for themselves, Wynema and her husband decide to expand their family by adopting a young Lakota girl. Through this family narrative, Callahan examines the assimilation of American Indians into Western culture while providing a critical comparison of Christianity and the Ghost Dance religion. In its description of the events at Wounded Knee, the novel portrays heroic Lakota women risking their lives to save children from the onslaught of American soldiers, a circumstance unreported in the press's presentation of the Massacre. \u003ci\u003eWynema: A Child of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is an important and vastly unknown novel from the first woman novelist of American Indian heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Sophia Alice Callahan's \u003ci\u003eWynema: A Child of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e is a classic of American Indian literature reimagined for modern readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mint Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/23\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781513271910\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs","brand":"Sophia Alice Callahan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39462468092085,"sku":"9781513271910","price":5.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cd6f9c38-2f8e-4faa-bd1c-47850243b4a0.jpg?v=1615920208","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wynema-a-child-of-the-forest-9781513271910","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}