captivities

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.

A brief biography of Mary Jemison, the daughter of Irish immigrants who arrived in America in 1743, was captured by a Shawnee war party at the age of twelve, and was subsequently given to the Seneca tribe with whom she chose to remain the rest of her life.

In 1758, at the age of sixteen, Mary Jemison is taken by a Shawnee raiding party and gradually becomes integrated into her new family and culture.

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.

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.

When her family is massacred by Lenape Indians in 1643, nine-year-old Susanna, daughter of Anne Hutchinson, is captured and raised as a Lenape.

In 1704, Mohawk Indians attack the frontier village of Deerfield, Massachusetts, kidnapping over 100 residents, including seven-year-old Eunice Williams. Based on a true story.