Capture and life with the Indians changed Mary Rowlandson. She would
             never again take anything for granted, and she became much more spiritual
             after her ordeal with the Indians. Her capture was a frightening nightmare
             that ended with the reuniting of her family, but she nearly starved to
             death before she returned, and she was treated little better than an animal
             most of the time. Her story is a story of courage and devotion to God, and
             it illustrates the underlying strength that lives in all of us. Rowlandson
             discovered many things during her captivity - that she wanted to live, that
             she dearly loved her family, and that she was a survivor. She also saw the
             Indians as nothing but savages, even though they spared her life. She
             wrote, "I was with the enemy eleven weeks and five days, and not one week
             passed without the fury of the enemy, and some desolation by fire and sword
             upon one place or other" (Rowlandson). Her captivity resulted from the
             colonization of native lands, resulting in the revolution of the native
             tribes, who resented the white man and their blind disregard for what the
             Indians considered their own. It is difficult to blame the Indians for
             fighting back, and while Rowlandson's ordeal was certainly frightening and
             horrible, her capture is simply a result of the Indians fighting for their
             way of life and their culture, which would ultimately disappear as the
             Zitkala-Sa's narratives show the other side of the coin. She is a
             Sioux woman who writes of her childhood, and a life and culture lost to the
             colonialism of the white man in the Great Plains. Both ordeals are caused
             by colonialism, with quite different results. Zitkala-Sa's mother laments,
             "'We were once very happy. But the paleface has stolen our lands and
             driven us hither. Having defrauded us of our land, the paleface forced us
             away'" (Zitkala-Sa and Fisher 10). She writes of a happ
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