Mary Jemison

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction,  Indian captivities,  Seneca Indians,  White Women,  Women, White,  Fiction, biographical,  Fiction, historical, general,  New york (state), fiction,  Indians of north america, fiction,  History

People: Mary Jemison (1743-1833)

Places: Genesee River Valley (Pa. and N.Y.),  New York (State)