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  • ...ather and Cheyenne stepmother. In 1868 he and his stepmother were captured by white soldiers, part of General Custer's troops, for whom his own father ha ...hite captive and consequently separated from his stepmother to be fostered by a white family of ranchers. He soon escaped, however, and embarked on a lif
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  • Henry Jackson and Pitt River Charley were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • Jumping Bull was an Assiniboine boy, captured by Sitting Bull during a battle. Sitting Bull [[adopted]] the child as his bro ...e suppression of which was the motive for the massacre of Native Americans by US soldiers at Wounded Knee, where he and Sitting Bull were both killed.
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  • Mo Keen was a Mexican captured by the Kiowa people as a small boy. He grew up as a Kiowa, and his status as a [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • [[Henry Jackson]] and [[Pitt River Charley]] were captured as boys by the Klamath and Modoc people before 1864. They remained with their captors [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...ck Indian but he was captured during a war and [[adopted]] into the Oneida tribe. He rose to become one of their two paramount chiefs during the American Re ...completely acculturated or be killed. Such adoptees were often adults when captured, but could be small children (see [[Captives]]).
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  • Ystumllyn was kidnapped about 1746 in Africa by a member of the wealthy Wynne family of Ystumllyn, apparently as some kind ...ght from London, but he himself remembered his capture while chasing fowls by a stream in Africa. He was claimed to be without language and uncivilized,
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  • ...reate his own wife. In the late 1760s he [[adopted]] two unrelated orphans or foundlings, whom he named Sabrina Sidney and Lucretia, then aged 11 and 12. The Life of Alexander Pushkin, edited by Betram A. Fitzgerald, Jr. (Dix Hills: Fitzgerald Pub. Co., 1972) (Golden Le
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  • ...awea-statue-bismarck-nd-2004.jpg |410x579px|thumb|'''Statue of Sacagawea—by sculptor Leonard Crunelle'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...oup of boys and girls, including her brother and sister, who were captured by the Hidatsa people, enslaved, and became acculturated.
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  • ...ntioned a number of times in the Bible without criticism and was practiced by just about every culture which had the opportunity, was powerful enough, an ...there are examples in this list of slaves who were eventually [[adopted]] by their owners. But in most cases slavery was degrading psychologically and p
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  • ...ived with his mother, was attacked by a party from the Te Arawa tribe, led by Pango. Pango kidnapped Te Waharoa and took him back to the Rorotua area whe ...after the death of his principal wife, Rangi Te Wiwini, and was succeeded by his son, Te Arahi.
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  • ...ment to subjugate his people. When he was about five his mother was killed by soldiers on a patrol, which turned his father into an implacable enemy of t ...is people, including his father and siblings, grandfather, uncle and aunt, by white soldiers and their Pima and Maricopa scouts. He was then taken to Ft.
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  • ...body given a decent Inuit burial. He returned, defeated, to Greenland, but by now he had become too acculturated to successfully make a complete transiti ...ik, the [[New York]] Eskimo. (Royalton: Steerforth Press, 2000). "Forward" by Kevin Spacey also available at: www.steerforth.com/supplementary/give_me_my
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  • ...ather, who was unable to afford to educate the brilliant boy, and fostered by a better-off family. ...ican rights (he founded the Society of American Indians), he was sidelined by the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1901 he returned to the Yavapai people, fo
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  • ...the contemporary accounts are full of rumors, legends and deliberate lies by the adults involved; the version which follows is based on a recent biograp ...intended victims. In the rout that followed the young Ngatau was captured by a Maori ally of the whites.
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