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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 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]
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.
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.
The Indian group also captured Alder's neighbor, Mrs. Martin, and her young child. The group travelled north, passing present-day Chillicothe, Ohio, on the way to a Mingo village on the north side of the Mad River, somewhere near present-day Logan County, Ohio. During the trip, the Indians killed and scalped Martin's child, whom they found ...
[2]: p. 130 They killed all the old men, captured the horse herds, took the women and children captive and reduced the camp to rubble. [5]: p. 26 On the way back to Powder River, a disagreement started between the Cheyenne and the Lakota over the division of the more than 100 captives. During the heated discussion, an unknown number of Crow ...
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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.