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The Light in the Forest 1953

By Conrad Richter

  • Delaware Indians, Delaware Indians in fiction, Fiction, Group identity

A white boy, captured by Native Americans, grows to his teens as an Indian, is then forced by treaty to return to his white family. Needless to say, he has a tremendously difficult time adjusting. Emotional conflicts arise from all sides, leading to a climactic ending.

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