Malian’s Song (Vermont Folklife Center Children’s Book Series)

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Young Malian lives contentedly along with her parents and extended circle of relatives in an Abenaki village near Montréal within the mid-eighteenth century. One night, Malian’s life changes unexpectedly. Silently, her father carries her off to the woods, blanket and all, and orders her to run to their tribe’s winter camp. Malian obeys, but not before she turns to observe her father slip back to the village in the course of the trees. She never sees him again.

Malian’s Song is according to the real story of a deliberate attack by English Major Robert Rogers on Québec’s St. Francis Abenaki community in 1759. Malian’s account of “Rogers’s Raid,” passed down through generations of Abenaki oral tradition, reveals that many Abenaki folks survived the attack that destroyed their village, in direct contrast to Rogers’ journal accounts. Jeanne Brink, a descendant of Malian living in Vermont, told the Vermont Folklife Center the little-known Abenaki version of the brutal attack. On this first Abenaki and English picture book, preeminent Abenaki historian Marge Bruchac and illustrator William Maughan portray Malian’s story of a folks’s strength and fortitude within the face of unspeakable loss.

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