SOLVED. YA book about a girl taken by native Americans [s]

[Hannah]

Hi, so I read this book about 10 years ago but I can't seem to find it. Here's what I remember about it:

It's set sometime between the 16-18th century in the New England, probably before the America Revolution.

Young while girl is kidnapped, along with a white woman and her baby. The infant is later killed (and scalped), and the woman is taken to a French Canadian trader because a she doesn't integrate into the tribe (obviously she is horrified and sad they killed her baby).

The girl is adopted by a family who lost a daughter. She later saves the tribes crops during a heavy storm by digging trenches with her bare hands, which leads her to be given her Native name (something to do with corn).

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Sarah]

Calico Captive maybe? It has a baby and they wind up in Montreal.

or The Ransom of Mercy Carter ?

or I Am Regina

...I had no idea there were so any books about girls being kidnapped in pre-Revolution US!

[Holly]

Try this list Hannah: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... There are a ton of books like this out there.

@Sarah: yeah, crazy how many there are, right? The whole genre is creepy & racist, really.

[Hannah]

Thanks to you both! The books was on the list , it was the Beaded Mocassins by Lynda Durrant.

That list IS disturbingly long, but it definitely a genre of its own, the Romanticism of the Native way of life. Off the top of my head I can think of When the Legends Die, and the last Mohican. I guess all these stories are set pre-revolution because after that the native Americans were systemically killed, relocated, and/or "integrated."

I read this book when I was a kid, and I still remember it because it wasn't black and white, and the author didn't do the whole "noble savage" trope. There were good guys and bad guys. Now that I have the title, I hope this books is as good as I remember,

Holly wrote: "Try this list Hannah: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/2... There are a ton of books like this out there.

@Sarah: yeah, crazy how many there are, right? The w..."

[Kris]

The Beaded Moccasins by Lynda Durrant for the GR link.