Project Gutenberg 2024-12-16 Public domain in the USA. 179 Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia) 1810 1886 Stephens, Ann Sophia Winterbotham Slick, Jonathan The Indian queen $aUnited Kingdom :$bGeorge Routledge and Sons, $c1861, pubdate 1864. Beadle's American library, no. 43. Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The Indian Queen" by Ann S. Stephens is a historical novel likely written in the mid-19th century. The story is set in the early days of American Indian tribes and follows the complex character of Mahaska, a half-white, half-Indian woman who rises to power among the Seneca tribe. Her struggle for acceptance and authority, juxtaposed with her ruthless ambition to avenge perceived wrongs and dominate the tribe, serves as the core tension of the narrative. At the start of the novel, we are introduced to a council of the Iroquois tribes gathered around a council-fire beside Seneca Lake, where Mahaska stands as a powerful figure, attempting to assert her influence despite opposition from some traditional chiefs. As tensions rise, her ambition is further fueled by the desire to wage war against the Delawares, a neighboring tribe. Following a daring act of retribution against an enemy who disrespected her, Mahaska emerges as both prophet and queen, but her brutal rise to power complicates her relationship with her husband, Gi-en-gwa-tah, and sets the stage for conflict as she weaves a darker plot to shift her tribe's allegiances from the French to the English. The opening chapters immerse the reader in the fierce dynamic of power struggles, supernatural belief, and personal transformation in a deeply historical context. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/04315123.1698.emory.edu 20210126150818stephens 1861 GB Reading ease score: 81.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Indians of North America -- Fiction Indian women -- Fiction Dime novels Québec (Province) -- Fiction Racially mixed children -- Fiction PS Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Novels Category: American Literature 359827 2025-07-29T14:15:44.133876 text/html 334895 2024-12-15T23:33:33 text/html 576052 2025-07-29T14:15:52.549798 application/epub+zip 575088 2025-07-29T14:15:46.169854 application/epub+zip 387509 2025-07-29T14:15:45.008834 application/epub+zip 1406883 2025-07-29T14:15:56.754755 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1374812 2025-07-29T14:15:51.724823 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 288660 2025-07-29T14:15:42.911826 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 268788 2024-12-15T23:33:33 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17346 2025-07-29T14:15:56.907762 application/rdf+xml 35819 2025-07-29T14:15:45.233853 image/jpeg 4999 2025-07-29T14:15:45.120842 image/jpeg 1363338 2025-07-29T14:15:44.180833 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia