Mary Jemison People Native Americans Indigenous

Mary Jemison, or Dehgewanus, was not born Indian. She was a white teenager when she was captured by the Shawnee, but a Seneca family ransomed her and raised her as their own, and she lived with her adopted people all her life.

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• Mary Jemison - Story of the white woman who was captured by the Seneca Indians and lived with them her whole life.
• Mary Jemison, Captivity Narrative from the 1750s - Excerpts from the Seneca adoptee's narrated autobiography.
• A Glimpse of Mary Jemison - Biography of the white child adopted into the Seneca tribe. mary jemison With pictures and links.

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