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  2. Captivity narrative - Wikipedia

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    Pote also wrote about being tortured. Ritual torture of war captives was common among Native American tribes, who used it as a kind of passage. [13] Henry Grace was taken captive by the Mi'kmaq near Fort Cumberland during Father Le Loutre's War. His narrative was entitled, The History of the Life and Sufferings of Henry Grace (Boston, 1764). [14]

  3. Mary Campbell (colonial settler) - Wikipedia

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    Mary Campbell (later Mary Campbell Willford) was an American colonial settler who was known for her abduction by Native Americans during the French and Indian War being the first white child to travel to the Western Reserve. Born in 1747 or 1748, Campbell was taken captive by the Lenape tribe at the age of ten in 1758.

  4. Mary Jemison - Wikipedia

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    Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison (1941) is a fictional version of Jemison's story for all readers, written and illustrated by Lois Lenski. In this novel, Jemison is given the name: "Little Woman of Great Courage." by her willingness to give up the life of a white woman to become an Indian woman at the end of the book.

  5. Captives in American Indian Wars - Wikipedia

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    During the American Indian Wars, indigenous peoples and European colonists alike frequently became captives of hostile parties. Depending on the specific instances in which they were captured, they could either be held as prisoners of war , abducted as a means of hostage diplomacy , used as countervalue targets, enslaved , or apprehended for ...

  6. Fanny Kelly - Wikipedia

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    Fanny Kelly (c. 1845–1904 [1]) was a North American pioneer woman captured by the Sioux and freed five months later. She later wrote a book about her experiences called Narrative of My Captivity among the Sioux Indians in 1871.

  7. Elizabeth Hanson (captive of Native Americans) - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Meader Hanson (September 17, 1684—c.1737) was a colonial Anglo-American woman from Dover, New Hampshire, who survived Native American Abenaki capture and captivity in the year 1725 alongside four of her children. [1] Five months after capture, a French family ransomed Elizabeth and her two children in Canada.

  8. Mother of Austin Tice, the American journalist taken captive ...

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    The mother of American journalist Austin Tice, who was taken captive during a reporting trip to Syria in August 2012, voiced hope that upheaval in Syria would lead to freedom for her son.. Debra ...

  9. Cynthia Ann Parker - Wikipedia

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    [26] [27] Natalie Wood and her younger sister, Lana Wood, portray the captive woman at different ages. In The Hanging Tree (1957), a collection of short stories by Western writer Dorothy M. Johnson, the story "Lost Sister" is a fictional account of Parker's forced return to and difficulties in European-American society.

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