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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,... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Two-Voices-Falling: Mary Jemison's Seneca name
- Light Bear: The Seneca man whose death was symbolically avenged by Mary's kidnapping
- Thomas Jemison: Mary's father before she became Two-Voices-Falling
- Jane Jemison: Mary's mother before she was captured; she later named one of her children after her
- Sheninjee: Mary's first husband, a man from the Delaware tribe
- Hiokatoo: Mary's second husband, a member of the Seneca tribe
- Little Beard: A very fierce Seneca chief
- Cleopha: A freed slave who lived with her brother, Simon
- Simon: A freed slave who was so affected by his experiences as a slave that he no longer spoke
- Branch: Mary's Seneca sister
- Slight-Wind: Mary's other Seneca sister
- Great Dusk-Owl: Gave the sermon at the graves of two close relatives of Mary's
- Black Coals: Mary's Seneca brother
- Bending Tree: The mother of Slight-Wind and Branch, Mary was never sure how to think of her -- mother? Adoptive mother? My sisters' mother?
First Sentence edit
MARY had loved the family axe as a glittering extension of her own arm.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Fictionalized Versions. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Deborah Larsen (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 9/9/2003
ISBN: 9780375712890
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Country: USA
Publication Date: 9/9/2003
ISBN: 9780375712890
Page Count: 240
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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