A White Woman Describes the American Revolution from a Seneca Perspective
Mary Jemison, a white woman captured by Indians on the Pennsylvania frontier during the Seven Years' War and adopted into the Seneca tribe, recounts her experience of the American War for Independence from a Native American perspective. The Senecas, [...]
Item Type: Oral History
Historical Era: Revolution and New Nation (1751-1815)
Black Hawk Remembers Village Life Along the Mississippi
Black Hawk was a Sauk Indian who lived in a village at the junction of the Rock and Mississippi Rivers in Illinois. After the Louisiana Purchase, Sauk and other tribal leaders signed a treaty that ceded Indian lands east of the Mississippi River to [...]
Tags: Native Americans
Item Type: Oral History