Children Indian Captives
Author: Roy D. Holt
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relates the experiences of boys and girls from Texas and the Southwest who are taken captive by Indians of the Great Plains.
Author: Roy D. Holt
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 112
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Relates the experiences of boys and girls from Texas and the Southwest who are taken captive by Indians of the Great Plains.
Author: Lois Lenski
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-12-27
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1453227520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.
Author: Scott Zesch
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 1429910119
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family. That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch's The Captured paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity. "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus Reviews
Author: Herman Lehmann
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 286
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Hugh D. Corwin
Publisher:
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781258452742
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 269
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fictionalized account of Mary Jemison who was captured by the Seneca Indians as a child and lived with them all her life.
Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1998-11-01
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780140436716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Enthralling generations of readers, the narrative of capture by Native Americans is arguably the first American literary form dominated by the experiences of women. The ten selections in this anthology span the early history of this country (1682-1892) and range in literary style from fact-based narrations to largely fictional, spellbinding adventure stories. The women are variously victimized, triumphant, or, in the case of Mary Jemison, permantently transculturated. This collection includes well known pieces such as Mary Rowlandson's "A True History" (1682), Cotton Mather's version of Hannah Dunstan's infamous captivity and escape (after scalping her captors!), and the "Panther Captivity", as well as lesser known texts. As Derounian-Stodola demonstrates in the introduction, the stories also raise questions about the motives of their (often male) narrators and promoters, who in many cases embellish melodrama to heighten anti-British and anti-Indian propaganda, shape the tales for ecclesiastical purposes, or romanticize them to exploit the growing popularity of sentimental fiction in order to boost sales. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author: Marilyn Seguin
Publisher: Branden Publishing Company
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 91
ISBN-13: 9780828319522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Details the kidnapping, captivity, and return of an Ohio girl by Delaware Indians in the eighteenth century.
Author: Sarah F. Wakefield
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-01-28
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0806148977
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Dakota War (1862) was a searing event in Minnesota history as well as a signal event in the lives of Dakota people. Sarah F. Wakefield was caught up in this revolt. A young doctor’s wife and the mother of two small children, Wakefield published her unusual account of the war and her captivity shortly after the hanging of thirty-eight Dakotas accused of participation in the "Sioux uprising." Among those hanged were Chaska (We-Chank-Wash-ta-don-pee), a Mdewakanton Dakota who had protected her and her children during the upheaval. In a distinctive and compelling voice, Wakefield blames the government for the war and then relates her and her family’s ordeal, as well as Chaska’s and his family’s help and ultimate sacrifice. This is the first fully annotated modern edition of Six Weeks in the Sioux Tepees. June Namias’s extensive introduction and notes describe the historical and ethnographic background of Dakota-white relations in Minnesota and place Wakefield’s narrative in the context of other captivity narratives.
Author: Evan Haefeli
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 408
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An account that explores the raid from the conflicting viewpoints of the raiders, both French-Canadian and Native American, and the Deerfield villagers.