Mary Jemison, or Dehgewanus, was not born Indian. She was a white teenager when she was captured by the Shawnee, but a Seneca family ransomed her and raised her as their own, and she lived with her adopted people all her life.
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- A Glimpse of Mary Jemison Biography of the white child adopted into the Seneca tribe. With pictures and links.
- Mary Jemison, Captivity Narrative from the 1750s Excerpts from the Seneca adoptee's narrated autobiography.