This book is an excellent first hand account of Indian life in the 1700s in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary and spy for General Washington in the Ohio country during the Revolutionary war. He goes into great detail about everyday Indian life and how they interacted with other tribes as well as the early settlers. He writes as a reporter of Indian life, what he say & heard between 1762 and 1813 during his extensive travels in early Ohio country (including Marietta, Gallipolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Pittsburgh and the Moravian Indian towns in Tuscarawas County, Ohio)

Excellent book, not completely for American child abuse related problems.
An extreme case of "well intentioned" child abuse. Gives an insight to many questio about European child rearing. The methods described here are of limited aplicability towards understanding child abuse because it describes gadgets not used in this country where parents are more likely to be blamed for over indulgence and children are more often neglected than disciplined.
This is a book about abuse through over-discipline, which is still prevalent in some circles in northen Europe, mainly Germany, Austria, The Netherlands, Luxemburg, Flemish Belgium, and German Switzerland.
However, it gives a clear idea of what happens when a child is deprived of his/her own personality and not allowed to express him/herself, whatever the method used to get complete control over his spirit. It is a case of extreme autoritarian parenting. Discipline taken to the extreme

Briefly, this book is amazing. It is inexplicable (or, perhaps, telling) that it is out of print. The concept of images and transforms is penetrating and valuable, and the book is a fascinating read for both specialists and interested laypeople. Until this book returns to print, students of trauma should either obtain the book used or take a copy out of the library (and photocopy it!). It is essential reading on trauma.