The Seneca Brave Analysis

they were grateful for the first winter in their new camp. The Seneca came to help them cut poles for the longhouse and strip bark. Ahmeya and Mahonoy gathered bittersweet vines along with the others the women and men used as lashing. With so many hands helping out it wasn't long before Mahonoy and Ahmeya had a new roof over their heads. The Lenape were welcomed whole heartedly by their Seneca Indian friends, though the Lenape were considered a lower status than they, in the Iroquois Nation. The Seneca brought them food and offered to share their apple orchards with them. Some of their braves offered to show the Lenape men how to go lake fishing, because the Lenape were mostly used to fishing creeks and rivers.
It didn't take long for Ahmeya, Mahonoy and the rest to settle in. Some of them, like Mahonoy, and Shomachsom had to move before. They had been pushed north or west more than once since the white man …show more content…
When he didn't show up at all the first week, she became discouraged. By the end of the second week she had lost all hope of ever seeing him again. She was disappointed, but decided not to fantasize about the brave anymore and just keep herself busy with work. The men of her longhouse had gone to the lake fishing and brought home a catch of large fish. Mahonoy and Ahmeya were busy cutting off fish heads and gutting the carcasses. It was preparation needed for drying the strips of fish on racks in the sun. Ahmeya was dirty with fish blood and fish scales stuck to her hands and arms, and smelly from the work. She hung a raw filleted side of fish on the drying platform. When she reached for another she looked up and saw the brave standing there. He had been watching her at her work. She jumped back and her thoughts started racing. She had the confusing feeling of wanting to run again, and yet stay close to him at the same time. "Hè Ahmeya" he said looking