1743-1833

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.

Tells the story of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old girl who was kidnapped by the Seneca Indians and adopted into their tribe, becoming the wife of a warrior chief, and experiencing the tragedies and triumphs of life in the eighteenth-century Seneca nation.

Twelve-year-old Mary Jemison took her peaceful days on her family's farm in eastern Pennsylvania for granted. But on a spring day in 1758, something happned that changed her life forever. A band of warriors invaded the house and took the Jemison family captive.

Presents stories of the people and events of the Genesee River Valley in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

A biography, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.

Mary Jemison's account of her life with the Senca Indians as told to upstate New York doctor James Everett Seaver in 1824.

A fictional retelling of the experiences of twelve-year-old Mary Jemison, who after being captured by a Shawnee war party during the French and Indian War, is rescued and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters with whom she ultimately chooses to stay.

The experiences, based on her own account, of Mary Jemison who was captured by a Shawnee war party when she was twelve and subsequently rescued and adopted by the Seneca with whom she chose to remain the rest of her long life.

A biography of Mary Jemison who, at the age of fifteen in 1758, was taken from her family by the Shawnee Indians and subsequently adopted by two Seneca sisters. Later, when she was free to leave, Jemison chose to remain and live her life as an Indian.