The Light in the Forest

Details Author Reviews Description When John Cameron Butler was a four year-old child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier. Adopted by the great warrior Cuyloga, and renamed, True Son comes to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, sign a treaty with the white men and agree to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now True Son must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them. A beautifully written, sensitively told story of a white boy brought up by Indians, The Light in the Forest is a beloved American classic. When John Cameron Butler was a four year-old child, he was captured in a raid on the Pennsylvania frontier. Adopted by the great warrior Cuyloga, and renamed, True Son comes to think of himself as fully Indian. But eleven years later his tribe, the Lenni Lenape, sign a treaty with the white men and agree to return their captives, including fifteen-year-old True Son. Now True Son must go back to the family he has forgotten, whose language is no longer his, and whose dress and behavior are as strange to him as the ways of the forest are to them.... Read More

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