Hobomok is a novel by author and human rights campaigner Lydia Maria Child. It relates the marriage of a white American woman, Mary Conant, to a Native American

First published in 1824, Hobomok is the story of an upper-class white woman who marries an Indian chief, has a child, then leaves him--with the child--for anoth

This definitive biography restores to the public an eloquent writer and reformer who embodied the best of the American democratic heritage.

Although spectral Indians appear with startling frequency in US literary works, until now the implications of describing them as ghosts have not been thoroughly