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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.
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.
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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]
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.
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.
Olive was born the third of seven children to Royce Boise Oatman (1809-1851) and Mary Ann Sperry Oatman (1813-1851) in La Harpe, Hancock County, Illinois. [1] In 1839, her parents left the Methodist church and joined The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) under the leadership of Joseph Smith. [1]
Mary Rowlandson, née White, later Mary Talcott (c. 1637 – January 5, 1711), was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans [1] [2] in 1676 during King Philip's War and held for 11 weeks before being ransomed.