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An engraving depicting Native Americans returning captured white colonists to their families under the direction of Henry Bouquet upon the conclusion of Pontiac's War. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Captives in American Indian Wars could expect to be treated differently depending on the identity of their captors and the conflict they were involved in.
The Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier. St. Martin's Press. La Vere, David (2005). Life among the Texas Indians: The WPA Narratives. TAMU Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-528-8. Chebahtah, William; Minor, Nancy McGown (2007). Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann. Univ. of Nebraska Press.
The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid Native Americans ever mounted on white cities in what is now the United States. [3] It followed the Council House Fight, in which Republic of Texas officials attempted to capture and take prisoner 33 Comanche chiefs and their wives, who had earlier promised to deliver 13 white captives they had kidnapped. [4]
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...
40 white settlers attacked the sleeping village of the Nasomah Indians at the mouth of the Coquille River in Oregon, killing 15 men and 1 woman. 16 [213] 1854: February 15: Chetco River Massacre: Oregon: Nine white settlers attacked a friendly Indian village on the Chetco River in Oregon, massacring 26 men and a few women. Most of the Indians ...
In 1857, a pastor named Royal Byron Stratton sought out Olive and Lorenzo Oatman. He co-wrote a book about the Oatman Massacre and the girls' captivity titled Life among the Indians: or, The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache & Mohave Indians. [22] It was a bestseller for that era, at 30,000 copies. [22]
Cynthia Ann Parker, Naduah, Narua, or Preloch [7] (Comanche: Na'ura, IPA, lit. ' Was found '; [8] October 28, 1827 [nb 1] – March 1871), [1] was a woman who was captured, aged around nine, by a Comanche band during the Fort Parker massacre in 1836, where several of her relatives were killed.
The White massacre was an engagement between American settlers and a band of Utes and Jicarilla Apaches that occurred in northeastern New Mexico on October 28, 1849. [1] It became notable for the Indians' kidnapping of Mrs. Ann White, who was subsequently killed during an Army rescue attempt a few weeks later.