by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 23, 2018 | Indian Captive, Lois Lenski, Mary Jemison, Newberry Award, Seneca
Mary Jemison was captured by Seneca Indians in 1758. Her parents and most of her siblings were killed, and for some time she tried to resist her captors and find a way back to place and family. But, eventually, she stayed, stayed to marry two Indian men, to have...
by Rich Wandschneider | Nov 17, 2017 | Mary Jemison, noble savage
Alvin Josephy wrote and spoke frequently about the Indian story being left out of the standard American history of school textbooks and the academy. He said that amateur historians–“history buffs”–and novelists kept the story of Indians and the West alive...
