Crooked river
by Shelley Pearsall
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When twelve-year old Rebecca Carter's father brings a Native American accused of murder into their 1812 Ohio settlement town, Rebecca, witnessing the town's reaction to the Indian, struggles with the idea that an innocent man may be convicted and sentenced to death.
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Family life, Fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, Historical Fiction, History, Indians of North America, Juvenile fiction, Ojibwa Indians, Trials (Murder), Trials (Homicide), Native Americans, Historical fiction, Children's fiction, Indians of north america, ojibway indians, fiction, Family life, fiction, Ohio, fiction, Frontier and pioneer life, fiction, Trials, fictionPlaces
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Crooked river
2005, Knopf, Distributed by Random House
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The year is 1812. A white trapper is murdered. And a young Chippewa Indian stands accused. Captured and shackled in leg irons and chains, Indian John awaits his trial in a settler's loft. In a world of crude frontier justice where evidence is often overlooked in favor of vengeance, he struggles to make sense of the white man's court. His young lawyer faces the wrath of a settlement hungry to see the Indian hang. And 13-year-old Rebecca Carver, terrified by the captive Indian right in her home, must decide for herself what--and who--is right. At stake is a life. Inspired by a true story, Crooked River takes a probing look at prejudice and early American justice.From the Hardcover edition.
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