The History of Maria Kittle - Essay Example

The brutality includes a tomahawk to a pregnant woman’s head.  Maria’s baby’s brains smashed to bits.  Anna, Maria’s daughter is killed in the fire set to their home.  The dead were scalped and stripped.  The brutality was over the top.             Although Bleeker intends to get over her daughters’ death by the writing of another tragedy, in reality, she only put fuel on the anti-Native American propaganda.

  The theme and values taught in this story are being Christian is right, natives are savages, and whites are better than Native Americans.  This allowed the whites, including Bleeker, to feel better about taking Native American land.  If Native Americans were bad, savage, and illiterate, then they did not deserve land as the white man did.             Finally, whites were portrayed as God-fearing, hard-working, and family orientated.

  The whites loved and were basically depicted as right.  Native Americans were depicted as savages; bloodthirsty, baby-killing, savages.  The Native Americans were seen as fighting just to kill, not individuals trying to protect their families and land.  This story, like others of Indian Captivity Narratives, was biased against Native Americans.