James Axtell's research on French and English white captives entering Indian villages reported women and children throwing things and hitting the captives with “ax handles, tomahawks, hoop poles, clubs, and switches” as they ran the ...
James E. Seaver June Namias ... Dougherty that he lefthis command, stept forward and shot the Indian atthe firstfire. Another took the flag, andhad no sooner got it erected than Dougherty dropt himas he had the first.
Arthur C. Parker , “ Iroquois Uses of Maize and Other Food Plants , " in William N. Fenton , Parker on the Iroquois , 18 . 44. Fenton , Parker on the Iroquois , 19–20 , citing Journals of the Military Expedition of Major General John ...
Written by James Seaver, Mary's tale covers her 70-plus years living among Iroquois through many of the most vital years of the Iroquois Confederacy.
The film Dance with Wolves shows how some whites, at the time of the first European contacts with American Indians, chose not to return to their own culture. Mary Jemison...
When she was in her teens, she was captured in what is now Adams County, Pennsylvania, from her home along Marsh Creek, and later chose to remain a Seneca. This fascinating book tells her story.
She was adopted and incorporated into the Senecas. Mary tells the story of how she lived among her captors and how she became a prominent figure in their community.
Written by James Seaver, Mary's tale covers her 70-plus years living among Iroquois through many of the most vital years of the Iroquois Confederacy.
A NARRATIVE OF THE LIFE OF MRS.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.
Conscious of the impacts of Seaver’s editorial hand, this edition foregrounds Jemison’s voice while also recentering Indigenous perspectives through an informative introduction and an illuminating selection of contextual materials.
Few great men have passed from the stage of action, who have not left in the history of their lives indelible marks of ambition or folly, which produced insurmountable reverses, and rendered the whole a mere caricature, that can be examined ...
A Narrative of The Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison