Chapter 17: Becca's Loom Summary

Alvin travels with Ta-Kumsaw, and at each tribe is asked to relate the story of the massacre again and again, inciting all who hear it to join Ta-Kumsaw's cause even though he knows it is wrong. Still, it is his duty to keep Ta-Kumsaw alive, and he does. Finally summer comes. They arrived at a White man's town that Alvin doesn't recognize, but to his surprise, everyone seems to know Ta-Kumsaw, although they all call him Ike.

Ta-Kumsaw leads him to a house, opens the door and walks in. Ta-Kumsaw says hello to someone named Becca, sounding every bit like an Englishman. Alvin is introduced to the white woman who says she has seen his thread in her loom for some time, and stories of him are widely told. Speaking like every bit an English gentleman, Ta-Kumsaw and Becca...