White Slaves Of Maquinna Book JOURNAL Young Reedee

Young Reedee

as sacred as it is historical

Escaping the shoreline in a canoe

which has inspired numerous scholars to examine further the relationships between the Indians and the Europeans – fur traders as well as settlers

who set a trap for the boy’s pursuers and help transform a fierce monster into the insect now known as the mosquito

White Slaves Of Maquinna Book JOURNAL Young ReedeeJohn R. Jewitt's story of being captured and enslaved by Maquinna, the great chief of the Mowachaht people, is both an adventure tale of survival and an unusual perspective on the First Nations of the northwest coast of Vancouver Island. On March 22, 1803, while anchored in Nootka Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island, the Boston was attacked by a group of Mowachaht warriors. Twenty five of her 27 crewmen were massacred, their heads "arranged in