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A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison

Author : James E. Seaver
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806148918
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison written by James E. Seaver and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jemison was one of the most famous white captives who, after being captured by Indians, chose to stay and live among her captors. In the midst of the Seven Years War(1758), at about age fifteen, Jemison was taken from her western Pennsylvania home by a Shawnee and French raiding party. Her family was killed, but Mary was traded to two Seneca sisters who adopted her to replace a slain brother. She lived to survive two Indian husbands, the births of eight children, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the canal era in upstate New York. In 1833 she died at about age ninety.

Indian Captive

Author : Lois Lenski
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453227520
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Indian Captive written by Lois Lenski and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-12-27 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Honor book inspired by the true story of a girl captured by a Shawnee war party in Colonial America and traded to a Seneca tribe. When twelve-year-old Mary Jemison and her family are captured by Shawnee raiders, she’s sure they’ll all be killed. Instead, Mary is separated from her siblings and traded to two Seneca sisters, who adopt her and make her one of their own. Mary misses her home, but the tribe is kind to her. She learns to plant crops, make clay pots, and sew moccasins, just as the other members do. Slowly, Mary realizes that the Indians are not the monsters she believed them to be. When Mary is given the chance to return to her world, will she want to leave the tribe that has become her family? This Newbery Honor book is based on the true story of Mary Jemison, the pioneer known as the “White Woman of the Genesee.” This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Lenski including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

Living with the Senecas

Author : Susan Bivin Aller
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0822587785
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Living with the Senecas written by Susan Bivin Aller and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jemison was born in 1743 as her parents emigrated from Ireland to Pennsylvania. When she was fifteen years old, a group of raiding Shawnee Indians and French soldiers captured her and her family. She was the only one to survive. For seventy-five years, she lived among the Seneca Indians who adopted her. She outlived two husbands and bore eight children. She witnessed two wars and a revolution. Even though she could have returned to the white world, she chose to remain with the Senecas and became a loyal and respected member of her tribe.

Captured by Indians

Author : James Everett Seaver
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780208023681
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Captured by Indians written by James Everett Seaver and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the life of Mary Jemison, who after her capture by the Shawnee was adopted into a Seneca family and lived voluntarily with the Indians for the rest of her life, as she would have told it to her biographer.

Mary Jemison: Native American Captive

Author : E. F. Abbott
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250080320
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Mary Jemison: Native American Captive written by E. F. Abbott and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when everything you know is suddenly ripped away? This is the fate of Mary Jemison, a fifteen-year-old frontier girl living in Pennsylvania in 1758. How does Mary find the will to carry on? During the French and Indian War, Mary is captured by a band of French and Shawnee warriors and led deep into the woods. After her family is killed, Mary is traded to the Seneca and taken in by two sisters. Renamed Dehgewanus, she finds her place among the Seneca and embarks on a new way of life. But when given the choice, will Mary return to the world she once knew or remain with her adopted family? Based on a True Story books are exciting historical fiction about real children who lived through extraordinary times in American History. This title has Common Core connections.

Mary Jemison

Author : Rayna M. Gangi
Publisher : Clear Light Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780940666580
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (665 download)

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Download or read book Mary Jemison written by Rayna M. Gangi and published by Clear Light Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mary Jemison

Author : Rayna M. Gangi
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781548183530
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Mary Jemison written by Rayna M. Gangi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jemison is the true story of a Scot-Irish girl captured by the Shawnee and French and gifted to two sisters of the Seneca nation. This version of the true story is the only one sanctioned by the Seneca Nation as being true and includes an epilogue by Peter Jemison, Mary's great grand nephew. Mary Jemison is a classic story of a legendary woman.

The White

Author : Deborah Larsen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307429601
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The White written by Deborah Larsen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1758, when Mary Jemison is about sixteen, a Shawnee raiding party captures her Irish family near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Mary is the only one not killed and scalped. She is instead given to two Seneca sisters to replace their brother who was killed by whites. Emerging slowly from shock, Mary--now named Two-Falling-Voices--begins to make her home in Seneca culture and the wild landscape. She goes on to marry a Delaware, then a Seneca, and, though she contemplates it several times, never rejoins white society. Larsen alludes beautifully to the way Mary apprehends the brutality of both the white colonists and the native tribes; and how, open-eyed and independent, she thrives as a genuine American.

White Captives

Author : June Namias
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807876097
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book White Captives written by June Namias and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2005-10-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: White Captives offers a new perspective of Indian-white coexistence on the American frontier through analysis of historical, anthropological, political, and literary materials. --> Namias shows that visual, literary, and historical accounts of the capture of Euro-Americans by Indians are commentaries on the uncertain boundaries of gender, race, and culture during the colonial Indian Wars, the American Revolution, and the Civil War. She compares the experiences and representations of male and female captives over time and on successive frontiers and examines the narratives of captives Jane McCrea, Mary Jemison, and Sarah Wakefield.

The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by the Indians

Author : Mary Jemison
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780761410102
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Diary of Mary Jemison, Captured by the Indians written by Mary Jemison and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2002-01-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mae C. Jemison

Author : Kristin Thiel
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502627523
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (26 download)

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Book Synopsis Mae C. Jemison by : Kristin Thiel

Download or read book Mae C. Jemison written by Kristin Thiel and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people dream of traveling to the stars. Selected for the NASA Astronaut Corps, Dr. Mae C. Jemison made that journey and became the first African American woman in space. Yet Jamison's incredible accomplishments do not begin and end there. This book details her history and life as a scientist, doctor, astronaut, teacher, dancer, activist, and entrepreneur who continues to be an inspiration today.

The Ransom of Mercy Carter

Author : Caroline B. Cooney
Publisher : Delacorte Press
ISBN 13 : 0375899235
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)

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Download or read book The Ransom of Mercy Carter written by Caroline B. Cooney and published by Delacorte Press. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deerfield, Massachusetts is one of the most remote, and therefore dangerous, settlements in the English colonies. In 1704 an Indian tribe attacks the town, and Mercy Carter becomes separated from the rest of her family, some of whom do not survive. Mercy and hundreds of other settlers are herded together and ordered by the Indians to start walking. The grueling journey -- three hundred miles north to a Kahnawake Indian village in Canada -- takes more than 40 days. At first Mercy's only hope is that the English government in Boston will send ransom for her and the other white settlers. But days turn into months and Mercy, who has become a Kahnawake daughter, thinks less and less of ransom, of Deerfield, and even of her "English" family. She slowly discovers that the "savages" have traditions and family life that soon become her own, and Mercy begins to wonder: If ransom comes, will she take it?

Native America

Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118714334
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (187 download)

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Download or read book Native America written by Michael Leroy Oberg and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-23 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at the center of the narrative. Presents an innovative approach to Native American history byplacing individual native communities and their experiences at thecenter of the study Following a first chapter that deals with creation myths, theremainder of the narrative is structured chronologically, coveringover 600 years from the point of first contact to the presentday Illustrates the great diversity in American Indian culture andemphasizes the importance of Native Americans in the history ofNorth America Provides an excellent survey for courses in Native Americanhistory Includes maps, photographs, a timeline, questions fordiscussion, and “A Closer Focus” textboxes that providebiographies of individuals and that elaborate on the text, exposing students to issues of race, class, and gender

Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy

Author : Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy written by Sarah Emma Evelyn Edmonds and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the hundreds of women who, in disguise, enlisted to serve as men during the Civil War, only Sarah Edmonds is known to have written a memoir recounting her experiences. As "Franklin Thompson," she joined the 2nd Michigan Infantry Regiment in 1861, then fought in some of the bloodiest struggles of the Civil War, from the first battle of Bull Run to the Kentucky Campaign of 1863. This daring woman embarked upon dangerous missions into Confederate territory to gather information and to survey enemy positions, sometimes in the guise of a slave or Irish washerwoman, sometimes in Confederate uniform. Through her experiences as a "male nurse" and Union soldier, Edmonds depicts the horrors of Civil War hospitals and the simple pastimes of camp life. Throughout her impassioned account, first published in 1865, this enthralling storyteller reveals her courage, dedication to the Union, and resourcefulness in concealing her identity. Three years after her death, Edmonds's body was reinterred with military honors by her comrades, who recognized in her a "strong, healthy, and robust soldier, ever willing and ready for duty." The introduction and annotations by Elizabeth D. Leonard, a leading authority on Civil War women, support and amplify Edmonds's account. Challenging established views of the Civil War soldier, Memoirs of a Soldier, Nurse, and Spy is compelling reading, especially for those interested in the Civil War, women's history, American studies, and military history.

A Galaxy of Her Own

Author : Libby Jackson
Publisher : Century
ISBN 13 : 9781780898360
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (983 download)

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Download or read book A Galaxy of Her Own written by Libby Jackson and published by Century. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From small steps to giant leaps, A Galaxy of Her Own tells fifty stories of inspirational women who have been fundamental to the story of humans in space, from scientists to astronauts to some surprising roles in between. From Ada Lovelace in the nineteenth century, to the women behind the Apollo missions, from the astronauts breaking records on the International Space Station to those blazing the way in the race to get to Mars, A Galaxy of Her Own reveals extraordinary stories, champions unsung heroes and celebrates remarkable achievements from around the world. Written by Libby Jackson, a leading UK expert in human space flight, and illustrated with bold and beautiful artwork from the students of London College of Communication, this is a book to delight and inspire trailblazers of all ages. Packed full of both amazing female role models and mind-blowing secrets of space travel, A Galaxy of Her Own is guaranteed to make any reader reach for the stars.

The Taking of Jemima Boone

Author : Matthew Pearl
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062937812
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book The Taking of Jemima Boone written by Matthew Pearl and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front.” — Pulitzer Prize–winning author Stacy Schiff A Goodreads Most Anticipated Book In his first work of narrative nonfiction, Matthew Pearl, bestselling author of acclaimed novel The Dante Club, explores the little-known true story of the kidnapping of legendary pioneer Daniel Boone’s daughter and the dramatic aftermath that rippled across the nation. On a quiet midsummer day in 1776, weeks after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, thirteen-year-old Jemima Boone and her friends Betsy and Fanny Callaway disappear near the Kentucky settlement of Boonesboro, the echoes of their faraway screams lingering on the air. A Cherokee-Shawnee raiding party has taken the girls as the latest salvo in the blood feud between American Indians and the colonial settlers who have decimated native lands and resources. Hanging Maw, the raiders’ leader, recognizes one of the captives as Jemima Boone, daughter of Kentucky's most influential pioneers, and realizes she could be a valuable pawn in the battle to drive the colonists out of the contested Kentucky territory for good. With Daniel Boone and his posse in pursuit, Hanging Maw devises a plan that could ultimately bring greater peace both to the tribes and the colonists. But after the girls find clever ways to create a trail of clues, the raiding party is ambushed by Boone and the rescuers in a battle with reverberations that nobody could predict. As Matthew Pearl reveals, the exciting story of Jemima Boone’s kidnapping vividly illuminates the early days of America’s westward expansion, and the violent and tragic clashes across cultural lines that ensue. In this enthralling narrative in the tradition of Candice Millard and David Grann, Matthew Pearl unearths a forgotten and dramatic series of events from early in the Revolutionary War that opens a window into America’s transition from colony to nation, with the heavy moral costs incurred amid shocking new alliances and betrayals.

Indian Nations of Wisconsin

Author : Patty Loew
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205943
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Indian Nations of Wisconsin written by Patty Loew and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican, Ho-Chunk, and Brothertown Indians. Author Patty Loew focuses on oral tradition—stories, songs, the recorded words of Indian treaty negotiators, and interviews—along with other untapped Native sources, such as tribal newspapers, to present a distinctly different view of history. Lavishly illustrated with maps and photographs, Indian Nations of Wisconsin is indispensable to anyone interested in the region's history and its Native peoples. The first edition of Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal, won the Wisconsin Library Association's 2002 Outstanding Book Award.