![]() Apes was evidently born "in the woods" in Massachusetts, his father "a half-breed who joined the natives and married a descendant of King Philip". The 1914 Hubbard Sale said, "The author was an Indian Preacher of the Pequod Tribe, who espoused the cause of the Indians." His leadership of the tribe ended the crudest forms of exploitation by the Massachusetts government and predatory whites. Designed especially for classroom use, this book brings together the best-known works of the nineteenth-century Indian writer William Apess. "If all the statements of the author, who claims to be a lineal descendant of the tribe, which suffered such murderous slaughter at the hands of Captains Church and Underhill, are true, there is a long score of wrongs to be settled with the State of Massachusetts." Field 43. In A Son of the Forest and The Experiences of Five Christian Indians, Apess established his conversion to Methodism as the key event between his previous, debauched life of wandering and his current life of political activism with a spiritual bent. Title: A Son of the Forest: The Experience of William Apes, a Native of the Forest. He describes his participation in the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain (after he ran away from indenture servitude) and his conversion to. Let the children of the Pilgrims blush, while the son of the forest drops a tear and groans over the fate of his murdered and departed fathers. ![]() The Experience of William Apes, A Native of the Forest. In A Son of the Forest, he narrates about being born in a tent in the woods of Colrain, Massachusetts, to a Pequot mother and a mixed-blood (white and Pequot) father who later separated.
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