{"id":2289,"date":"2014-12-19T15:48:55","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T20:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2015-08-17T12:48:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T16:48:29","slug":"197g-boy-captured-by-native-americans-in-colonial-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/197g-boy-captured-by-native-americans-in-colonial-america\/","title":{"rendered":"197G: Boy captured by Native Americans in Colonial America (Solved)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to read this as a kid so I&#8217;m assuming was published pre-1980. At the beginning the setting is the American Colonies during the French &amp; Indian War and it describes a Native American messenger running between tribes with a bead belt (belt contains a message in the beadwork).<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember how it happens but the main character (pre-teen\/young teen boy) is captured, goes through the gauntlet of the tribe and is then adopted. One of the scenes I remember is of his new father shaving\/plucking his scalp to give him a mohawk.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the book the American Revolution has started and the boy has linked back up with his family (brother &amp; sister?) and is on raft going down a river. I think they were headed to a fort, there may have been a scene that described the fort occupants melting metal for bullets.<\/p>\n<p>The copy I had may have had a tortoise on the outside cover (no just jacket).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to read this as a kid so I&#8217;m assuming was published pre-1980. At the beginning the setting is the American Colonies during the French &amp; Indian War and it describes a Native American messenger running between tribes with a bead belt (belt contains a message in the beadwork). I don&#8217;t remember how it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,18,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2911,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w1.loganberrybooks.com\/stumpthebookseller\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}