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Synopsis
In this third "Tree Tall" novel, an Indian boy in nineteenth-century Oregon who has become a Christian, discovers that the power of God in his life is stronger than the power of traditional spirits.
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Grade 4-6 Tree Tall is an Indian boy living in western Oregon in the mid 19th Century. His family has been forced to move to a reservation and accept control by the white men. The story centers around a trip to the traditional salmon fishing place on the Columbia River. Tree Tall is to stay behind with others to insure the tribe's return. However, when his grandmother secretly accompanies the fishing party, he sets out with some soldiers to find her. The trip and his successful effort to save his grandmother's life are well described. Tree Tall is well drawn, but other characters are less developed. Evans does a good job of showing the high price paid by Indians in lives and freedoms when whites arrived. Tree Tall, in an earlier book, had been converted to Christianity, and the true theme here is his efforts and desire to live as a Christian. His strongest motivation behind his search for his grandmother is to tell her about Jesus and convince her to give up her Indian spirits. The evangelical message within this adventure story will surprise and bother some readers. Like many stories written from a conservative religious viewpoint, it comes close to crossing the line from storytelling to proselytizing. Jane Gardner Connor, formerly at South Carolina State Lib . , Columbia
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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