Royal Diaries: Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts - Rhode Island, 1653

Title: Royal Diaries: Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts - Rhode Island, 1653
Author: Patricia Clark Clark-Smith Smith
ISBN: 0439129109
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Published: 2003
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition, First Printing
Number of Pages: 208
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: In her first book for The Royal Diaries, Patricia Clark Smith introduces the teenage Weetamoo, who will succeed her father to become chief of the Pocassets in seventeenth-century New England.

It is 1654 in New England, native land of Algonquin tribes, among them the Pocasset, Wampanoag, and Narrangansett people. The pilgrims -- called Coat-men by the Wampanoag -- have settled here in the natives' territory at Patuxit, a place that the Pilgrims have renamed Plymouth. Weetamoo's father, Corbitant, is sachem, or chief, of the Pocassets. He is mistrustful of the colonists and imparts his beliefs about them to his daughter, who is next in line to become chief. Weetamoo must learn the fundamental values and disciplines of a true Pocasset chief, but she must also be prepared for