Del Hardy, the white soldier who speaks Lenni Lenape and is guarding the freed captives, does not think he will return from this dangerous journey toward Fort Pitt. The savages know this part of the country well and abound in it. He refers to Indians as devils, savages, and Injuns, as if they are not human beings as his culture is. Del believes the rescue of these white prisoners of the Indians is a freeing of them.
True Son sees freedom in a much different light. The frontier settlements, like the one they are traveling toward, is not seen by True Son as freedom, but as repression or restrictive. He does not want this freedom, but prefers the Indian way of life where sleeping under the stars and living outside provides his freedom.
True Son sees freedom in a much different light. The frontier settlements, like the one they are traveling toward, is not seen by True Son as freedom, but as repression or restrictive. He does not want this freedom, but prefers the Indian way of life where sleeping under the stars and living outside provides his freedom.
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