I see from the description that Cynthia Ann Parker, after being kidnapped, "grew to love her captors" and it was tragic that they tried to bring her back to live among the bad, evil whites.
That kind of narrative really gets my goat. There's a book about the captured girl with the blue face tattoo that uses the same kind of narrative - "oh, it's fine, she grew to love her captors, she liked living among them, how terrible to take her back to her own people." This from a book written recently! They're talking about a traumatized child, who watched her own family be slaughtered, beaten for trying to escape, raped, and finally gives up and begins to identify with her captors. She has trouble integrating after years of captivity and they just pretend it must be because Indians were better than whites. They would never say that about a child who was kidnapped and kept captive by a white person, they would have compassion for them, talk about Stockholm Syndrome, the need for therapy to process the trauma. It's not okay to kidnap children just because you have brown skin and live in a tepee.
I see from the description that Cynthia Ann Parker, after being kidnapped, "grew to love her captors" and it was tragic that they tried to bring her back to live among the bad, evil whites.
That kind of narrative really gets my goat. There's a book about the captured girl with the blue face tattoo that uses the same kind of narrative - "oh, it's fine, she grew to love her captors, she liked living among them, how terrible to take her back to her own people." This from a book written recently! They're talking about a traumatized child, who watched her own family be slaughtered, beaten for trying to escape, raped, and finally gives up and begins to identify with her captors. She has trouble integrating after years of captivity and they just pretend it must be because Indians were better than whites. They would never say that about a child who was kidnapped and kept captive by a white person, they would have compassion for them, talk about Stockholm Syndrome, the need for therapy to process the trauma. It's not okay to kidnap children just because you have brown skin and live in a tepee.