Hobomok and Other Writings on Indians by Lydia Maria Child

This book collects both Child's romance, Hobomok, and a variety of short stories and other pieces on Native Americans. Hobomok is really intriguing; the plot is straight forward sentimental (the heroine's father opposes a love match with an Episcopalian. After a ship wreck, the heroine marries Hobomok [a Native American] and has a child, but when the Episcopalian comes back, Hobomok retreats into the wilderness for his wife to marry her first love). Despite the conventional plot, I was really interested in several aspects of the story: Mary Conant (the heroine) uses witchcraft to discover who her husband will be early in the story, there's doubling going on between the Episcopalian and Hobomok, and there's an intriguing and unsettled frame narrative that gives the novel an historical air. The other stories were fairly well-done; and some of them were quite moving.