native american captivities

A biography of the Shawnee Indian chief Blue Jacket, who fought against the American colonists.

Analzyes Indian captivity narratives written between 1550 and 1900, discussing the mythology of such narratives, their historical value, and images of Native Americans and of women in the literature; and examining Mary Rowlandson's "True History, " of 1682.

John Cameron Butler, kidnapped by the Lenne Indians when he was only four years old, is returned to his white family eleven years later and struggles to fit in to the unfamiliar culture.

In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold on to memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.

When his little brother is carried off by raiding Comanches, fourteen-year-old Lige disguises himself as an Indian and joins a former slave in a bold rescue attempt.

Chronicles the life of Olive Oatman, an Illinois Mormon who was abducted, along with her younger sister, by Native Americans when she was thirteen-years-old.

Tells the story of Olive Oatman, a twelve-year-old girl who was captured along with her little sister by Apache Indians in 1851 after they killed the rest of her family, and was held in captivity for five years before being freed.

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.

With his father and brother serving in the Confederate Army and the rest of his family murdered in a Comanche raid of their west Texas farm, 13-year-old Lewallen seeks to free himself and his younger sister from their Indian captivity.