Disappointed...

[bunnyjadwiga]

So, I'm reading 1491 by Charles Mann... I got started because they are doing a First Year Seminar with it (Title: "Archaeology and Sustainability") which I did the library session for.
Last night, my dreams were interrupted, repeatedly, by the words Naugasett and Massachusett (the New England tribes) floating through them.

So, when I came in this morning I looked up the story of Tisquantum again. (Did you know that the practice of burying fish with the hills of corn hasn't been documented in any local tribe, and that he probably picked the idea up from spending time in England?) Unfortunately, it appears he and his compatriots were originally kidnapped and taken to Spain in 1605.

There goes my plan to convince someone to adopt a Pauxtet alternate persona... *sigh*

Yes, I do wish some serious people would research personas from American tribes that had serious kidnapping incidents before 1600-- there appear to have been quite a few. Tisquantum himself appears to have travelled more in Europe than many English or Frenchmen of his age.

Comments

[loosecanon.livejournal.com]

There are people working at Plimoth who can speak far more informedly than most on this topic. I camped with a bunch of them a number of years ago, they were very neat people.
It might be worth checking in with them if you want to pursue this curiosity.
and Hugs, because it's a day for hugging people.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

Sir Ix has an Aztec persona much like this - kidnapped and living in Spain.

[mistresshuette.livejournal.com]

I know that the Spanish brought a lot of native Americans back to Spain and treated them like side-show freaks. But these would have been natives from Mexico and South America. I am interested in your use of the word "kidnapped" in place of "abducted". Abducting means to carry off by force, while kidnapping has the same meaning but usually with the demand for ransom. I don't think that natives were held for ransom. In my viewpoint, I think it would be better and perhaps more accurate to say that they were abducted. I am sure that the Spanish felt that these were "captives". But this is just viewpoint terminology. Like Americans say "Our Revolution" and British say "Your Rebellion".