Weetamoo, heart of the Pocassets
By: by Patricia Clark Smith.
Series: The royal diaries
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: Pocasset Indians -- Juvenile fiction.; Pocasset Indians -- Fiction.; Indians of North America -- Massachusetts -- Fiction.; Diaries -- Fiction.; Massachusetts -- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691 -- Fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.; Fiction.
Description: 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.