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  • ...oah was born a Susquehannock Indian but he was captured during a war and [[adopted]] into the Oneida tribe. He rose to become one of their two paramount chief ...r tribes. The adoptee was usually intended to take the place of a specific dead person, often a war casualty, and in some societies had to become completel
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  • ...Ten-sqúat-a-way.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Ten-sqúat-a-way, Painted in 1830 by George Catlin.'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...774) before they were born and their mother left them in 1779 to be raised by relatives, including older brothers and sisters (one of whom was the future
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  • ...e. He ran away and lived on the streets for a while, until he was taken in by a Miss Janey, who ran a café where he worked and where he slept on the flo Then after a series of dead-end jobs he took a job in a hat shop, where he met Admiral Perry, a custome
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  • ...maid, then a librarian and substitute (relief) teacher in [[Florida]]. But by the time she suffered a stroke in 1959 she was impoverished and when she di [[Category: Adopted Persons]]
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  • She was [[adopted]] by a Lakota family to replace a dead daughter (see also [[Shenandoah]]), but also retained her place in her birt ...ister of Crashing Thunder: The Autobiography of a Winnebago Indian, edited by Nancy Oestreich Lurie. (Ann Arbor: University of [[Michigan]] Press, 1961)
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