• Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians

  • By: Fanny Kelly
  • Narrated by: Ginger Walton
  • Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
  • 4.1 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians

By: Fanny Kelly
Narrated by: Ginger Walton
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Publisher's Summary

Fanny Kelly (1845-1904) was a North American pioneer captured by the Sioux and held captive for five months. Her ill-fated party was attacked by chief Ottawa on the Oregon Trail. She escaped when Sihasapa people took her to Fort Sully.

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Interesting story. The author did not get into the details of how she was treated on a day to day basis and her chores

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A Walk in a Pioneer Woman’s Shoes

Some of this book’s reviews criticize the formal language, bland delivery, and terms like savage used repeatedly to describe the Native Americans. If you read it, keep in mind that this is a narrative not a story for entertainment. It is history as she saw it at that time. For the period that it was written, it is totally appropriate. Mrs. Kelly endured events and situations that she mostly likely could never imagine before they happened. She suffered much grief and stress. The things she witnessed were likely much more brutal than her descriptions can convey. Due to conventions of the time, there are topics she cannot cover in detail. I highly recommend this if you can walk in Mrs. Kelly’s shoes as you read it. Perhaps picture yourself captured by a group you consider terrorists. You are in a country not known to you, taken captive by those with different beliefs from your own, starved, terrified, beaten, and removed from all you know after you watched the families in your group be murdered. Read this open to feeling as Mrs. Kelly did as you absorb her experience. My comments here have nothing to do with the wrongs committed during the settlement of this country and everything to do with just listening and learning from the experiences of others.

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  • 09-19-21

Bias

Author seemed to exeragerate. Didn't flow. Just couldn't stand the repetitive language. Gave it up.

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hard to listen to

it was either written with too many commas or read poorly. very hard to listen to with irregular pauses in sentences

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  • 10-11-21

worked for me

The narrator was fine, story was informative and interesting. All I was looking for, personally.

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  • Anonymous User
  • 12-03-21

Overall it was well written

It was a well written story of a terrible experience for a woman to endure.

But I still couldn’t help cringe at the racist terms used and general racist attitude she had of the Indians, who she called “savages and brutes” constantly.

The story definitely shows the attitude of white people during that time period towards the Native Americans.

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I am so sorry what happened to the Native American people.