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I just wrapped up a revisit of a children’s book from the fifth grade. The novel is called The Sign of the Beaver , published in 1982 and written by Elizabeth George Speare. The story features a boy, Matt, left to his own devices in the Maine wilderness while his father travels south to pick up Matt’s mother and sister. The story is a modern Robinsonade in the vein of My Side of the Mountain (Jean George) in that, rather than a shipwreck, the Crusoe figure’s remote situation is entered into in-part voluntar
Matt does not survive and thrive by his white man’s grit and cunning like in some of the older stories. No, he learns to live in the wilderness with the help of the local Indians that had been secretly watching him from the forest. Attean, the grandson of the chief, visits Matt every day to learn to read “the white man’s signs.”
“White man come more and more to Indian land. White man not make treaty with pipe. White man make signs on paper, signs Indian not know. Indian put mark on paper to show him friend of white man. Then white man take land. Attean learn to read white man’s signs. Attean not give away hunting grounds.”