indian captivities

Having been taken as a child in 1836 and raised by Comanche Indians, thirty-four-year-old Cynthia Ann Parker is forcibly returned to her white relatives, where she longs for her Indian life. Her only friend is her twelve-year-old cousin Lucy. A skillful novel that examines how individual identity is determined by cultural and social structures, and what happens when these are drastically altered. Based on a true story.

An account of the Murder of her Father and his Family; her sufferings; her marriage to two Indians; her troubles with her Children; barbarities of the Indians in the French and Revolutionary Wars; the life of her last Husband, &c; and many Historical Facts never before published. Carefully taken from her own words, Nov. 29th, 1823.

A Quaker girl's diary reflects her experiences growing up in the Delaware River Valley of Pennsylvania and her capture by Lenape Indians in 1763.

A biography of the pioneer woman who as a child was captured and raised by the Comanche Indians.

Presents a performance of Mary Rowlandson's account of her experiences after being captured by hostile Narragansett Indians in 1675 from her village in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and held for ransom as a British political prisoner.

After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.

In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.

After being captured by a group of Delaware Indians and given to their leader as a replacement for his dead granddaughter, twelve-year-old Mary Campbell is forced to travel west with them to Ohio.