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Mary Musgrove was born in the Creek Indian "Wind Clan" with the Creek name Coosaponakeesa in Coweta Town along the Ockmulgee River. She was the daughter of a Creek Native American woman and Edward Griffin, [1] a trader from Charles Town in the Province of Carolina, of English descent. Her mother died when Mary was three years old and, soon ...
It is thought he was born between 1822 and 1826, and died February 6, 1922. Some sources place his birth as early as 1787. He was an American Chippewa Native American. His extreme age was noted in the 1918 French annual periodical Almanach Vernot , for the day 6th September, where his name was reported as "Fleche Rapide" or "Rapid Arrow". It ...
A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (also known as The Sovereignty and Goodness of God) is a 1682 memoir written by Mary (White) Rowlandson, a married English colonist and mother who was captured in 1675 in an attack by Native Americans during King Philip's War. She was held by them for ransom for 11 weeks and 5 ...
En route to French-controlled Fort Duquesne (present-day Pittsburgh), the Shawnee killed Mary's mother, father, and siblings, and ritually scalped them. Mary later learned that it was a Seneca custom, when one of their own was killed or taken prisoner in battle, to take an enemy as prisoner or to take their scalp in a mourning ritual.
[Native Americans], without doubt, like the subjects of any other foreign Government, be naturalized by the authority of Congress, and become citizens of a State, and of the United States; and if an individual should leave his nation or tribe, and take up his abode among the white population, he would be entitled to all the rights and ...
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.
Mary TallMountain was born on June 19, 1918, in Nulato, Alaska, to a mother of Russian and Native American heritage, and a father of Irish-Scottish descent, who was an American soldier. [6] She was born to the Athabascan tribe, which is believed to be one of the original tribes that came over to Alaska via land bridge from Asia. [3]
John Hoar (1622 – April 2, 1704) was a militia leader and liaison with Native Americans in colonial Massachusetts during King Philip's War. He is best known for securing the release of Mary Rowlandson from Nipmuc captivity at Redemption Rock .