Weetamoo: Heart of the Pocassets, Massachusetts - Rhode Island, 1653
by Patricia Clark Smith
Category: Juvenile Fiction

The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.