hannah duston returns the favor.she -- the woman was helping to nurse her in bed and recovered from the birth and when they arrived in this island in new hampshire with the people who had taken her captive sheet, hannah duston along with the other woman with her and a teenage boy who had been captured separately that three of them decided to unite in free themselves which is understandable but slightly less understandable to contemporary and they decided to kill and scalp 10 native americans including men women and children and returned with the scalp as bounty and in fact not only returned with the scalp is proof of what they had done but the authorities and legislatures pay them for scalps which is what they did. this was not only celebrated at the time and it was rewarded with money from the massachusetts government. hannah duston is celebrated and she has the statue erected for her and it was defaced this summer a reminder that women are -- in past as well as men. i wanted to touch upon in the final example how t