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Empire of the Summer Moon Book Report

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Empire of the Summer Moon Book Report

   Added on 2021-06-14

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Running head: A HISTORY BOOK REPORTA HISTORY BOOK REPORTName of the student:Name of the University:Author note:
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1A HISTORY BOOK REPORTThe story Empire of the Summer Moon is all about the up and downs of Comancheempire, the most powerful nation of North America (Gwynne). The author S.C.Gwynne encirclesthe story with the social economical and political changes faced by the Comanches and thePlains Indians during the hype done by the national government. The author has tried to state thestory from liberal prospective. According to the Comanches, scalping and gang raping was acommon fact and for the white men, murder of natives was a normal incident. The Author’sthesis for the story is that, in order to give value to the cultural customs, causing death isunacceptable.The story Empire of the summer Moon encompasses the lives of Comanches, about theiractions, reason behind such actions and their cultural values (Gwynne). The story starts with abrief explanation about the territory Comancheria and ends with the accomplishment ofMackenzie and Custer to Quanah `parker. The main characters of the story are Cynthia AnnParker and her older son Quanah Parker. Cynthia lived in the border of Texas along with herfamily. Indian problems were tormenting the settlers during that time. One day some Indiansattacked their fort and killed her uncle. They have taken Cynthia along with her brother, twoaunts and two cousins. There a tribal family adopted Cynthia and she was grown up as a memberof that family. Later she married a worrier named Peta Nocona. Meanwhile some white peopleoffered Cynthia to return but she refused. Thus, her husband kept her out of sight whenever anywhite person visit there. Then the Indian camp was attacked and Pota Nocona was killed. Afterthe battle the two sons of Cynthia were separated from her and she was captured by whitesoldiers along with her infant daughter. She introduced herself as white woman to the soldiers tosave her and her daughter from being killed. It was abominable for Cynthia to live with the whitepeople. She decided to settle somewhere else, thus moved with some family members. Yet she
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