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Life on the Mainland. Artist's impression of the Lone Woman playing with the Nidever children in Santa Barbara. Illustration by Michael Ward. Karana’s tale in Island of the Blue Dolphins ends when she sails from the island to the California mainland. The real Lone Woman also left San Nicolas Island after 18 years of isolation.
Nov 16, 2016 · O’Dell’s book tells the Robinson Crusoe-like tale of Karana, left behind on the Island of the Blue Dolphins when her tribe migrates to the mainland. Against a tribal taboo prohibiting women from making weapons, Karana makes spears, arrows, even a harpoon. For friendship, she tames a wild dog.
Jul 22, 2019 · Island of the Blue Dolphins is a work of historical fiction based on the life of an American Indian woman who spent 18 years in isolation on San Nicolas Island, one of eight Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California. In the book she's named Karana.
Dec 4, 2017 · It tells the story of Karana, a young Nicoleño girl left behind on a remote island off the coast of southern California. Karana, only 12 years old at the book’s beginning, turns out to be adept...
Jan 10, 2022 · According to the National Park Service, the character of Karana is based on a woman who has been known variously as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a " wild woman ," and, after her conditional baptism by local priests in Santa Barbara, Calif., Juana Maria.
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Nov 16, 2018 · The Lone Woman was the model for Karana in Island of the Blue Dolphins. DATE OF BIRTH: About 1800. PLACE OF BIRTH: San Nicolas Island, Alta California, New Spain. DATE OF DEATH: October 19, 1853. PLACE OF BURIAL: Mission Santa Barbara, California, USA. Bibliography. Cronin, Blaise P. “Juana Maria.” Priestly Studies 12, 2 (1944): 68–75.
