The Indian squaw brought the young white female captive to the brave where he sat in his lodge. He was only dressed in his breech clothe as the fire in the fire pit easily kept the room warm.
“Is she was married?” he asked the squaw in his own dialect. The older woman would be his interpreter.
The squaw posed the question to the young girl in English, “Are you married?”
“Not anymore,” she replied. “My husband died during the winter from a fever and I was returning home.”
The squaw replied back to the brave, “She is a widow.”
“Ask her if she is worth keeping or should I kill her now?” replied the brave. “Does she wish to be my personal slave or should I give her to the men and women of the tribe?”
The squaw smiled as she turned to the girl. “You are very lucky,” she translated. “You are to be allowed to determine your own fate. You may become this brave’s personal slave, a slave of the entire camp, or you may choose death. What do you choose?”
“I want to live,” stammered the girl. “I wish to be his slave.”
“Absolute obedience will be expected from you at all times or you will be beaten,” replied the squaw. “Any hesitation on your part will be considered a crime, and you will be punished.”
“I understand,” she replied.
“She wishes to be your slave,” the squaw told the brave.
“I will allow her the opportunity to be pleasing to me,” he answered. “However, if she fails to please me, she will be beaten and given to the camp.”
“You must please him completely, or you will be beaten and made a camp slave,” the squaw translated back to the girl.
“Please, I will please him any way he desires,” the captive replied.
“Strip.”
The captive looked at the brave in surprise. “You just spoke in English,” she exclaimed!
“It would not be in your best interest if I have to repeat my command,” he replied. The girl hurried to remove her clothing until she was standing naked in front of him. She turned a bright shade of red as watched him survey her large breasts and rounded hips. Even her late husband had never seen her naked like this.
“Kneel with your legs spread and your hands on your knees,” he then commanded her. “You will always assume this position when I enter the lodge. You will, also, always be naked when you are in the lodge unless I tell you to dress.”
“I will take this woman as my slave,” he told the squaw.