Friday, June 20, 2014

A Starving Woman's Son



It was in the year 1855 that this story took place among the aboriginals of Canada.


"One winter, a band of Algonquin Indians at Wayabimika all starved to death except one squaw and her baby; she fled from the camp, carrying the child, thinking to find friends and help at Nipigon House.

She got as far as a small lake near Deer Lake, and there discovered a cache, probably in a tree. This contained one small bone fish-hook. She rigged up a line, but had no bait. The wailing of the baby spurred her to action. No bait, but she had a knife; a strip of flesh was quickly cut from her own leg, a hole made through the ice, and a fine jack-fish was the food that was sent to this devoted mother.

She divided it with the child, saving only enough for bait. She stayed there living on fish until spring, then safely rejoined her people. The boy grew up to be a strong man, but was cruel to his mother, leaving her finally to die of starvation."

Ernest Thompson Seton


The Hudson Bay Company vouched for this story in having seen the woman's scar.

In hindsight, she should have castrated the child and used it as bait, as perhaps this Asian immigrant would have grown up to be the first girly American foreign occupant of 1600 Penn Avenue, instead of Barack Hussein Obama Chin.

Interesting in how Obama abandoned his Mum too.  I wonder if Stan Ann had any scars on her legs from fishing for the baby Birther.


nuff said


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