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  • Lehmann was captured aged 11 by two Apaches, Billy Chiwat and Pinero, and lived with the Apaches until 1879 ...: The Story of the Captivity and Life of a Texan Among the Indians, edited by J. Marvin Hunter. (Albuquerque: University of [[New Mexico]] Press, 1993)
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  • ...crew members had gone ashore in a small boat and the rest of the men were captured eaten. He escaped because he happened to touch the chief's cloak, and thus ...ellent warrior, and became a chief himself. In 1822 he was part of a Maori group who boarded an Australian ship, the Snapper, and was brought to Australia w
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  • ...and of Crete about 1640. In 1645 [[Turkey]] invaded the island and she was captured and sent back to Istanbul. When she was older she became the favorite membe [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...aken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until after the war, w
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  • ...re separated out and educated to become members of the Ruling Institution, or bureaucrats. ...eenth century the Janissaries had become extremely powerful and could make or depose Sultans at will. Moslems also began to be admitted as Janissaries, a
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  • ...d on Culhwch and his companions (knights of King [[Arthur]]'s Round Table) by the giant Ysbaddaden Bencawr in order for Culhwch to win the hand of Olwen. Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales, edited by Meic Stephens. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
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  • ...e remained in [[Tonga]] for four years before being rescued, being tutored by one of his adoptive father's wives. [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...aken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until after the war, w
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  • ...tely acculturated, eventually became a chief himself, before being rescued or escaping. ...ow O'Connell got to Ponape originally, there is no doubt about the tattoos or the extent of his knowledge of the island.
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  • ...venge the kidnapping several years earlier of Ngatau Omahuru (William Fox) by white soldiers and their Maori mercenaries. Weeks of massive searches faile ...sh again until she was a mature woman, and did not know she wasn't a Maori by birth, although she was conscious of looking different from other Maori.
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  • ...s_Pryderi.jpeg |410x579px|thumb|'''Gwydion kills Pryderi in single combat. By Edward Wallcousins'''<br />Source: Wikipedia.org.}} ...Pwyll and Rhiannon, but he disappeared immediately after his birth, taken by a mysterious power to the court of Teyrnon Twrf Liant, where he was named G
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  • ...ource says the Mohawks), who killed the other boys, and he was [[adopted]] by a family which had lost three sons in wars (the couple also had a surviving ...ation with a very large cargo of furs, which were confiscated in Montréal by the government because they had been obtained without a license. This turne
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  • Slocum was a white child captured by [[Delaware]] Indians in [[Pennsylvania]] in 1778. A [[Delaware]] couple [[a ...white people, was happy in her life, and refused to leave her [[adopted]] tribe and family.
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or [[Shoah]], in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire ...aken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until after the war, w
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  • Valero is a white Brazilian who was abducted in 1932 by Yanoami Indians. She lived with them for 22 years until she escaped back to Rejected by her family after she escaped, she returned to the Yanoami, and in 1997 she
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  • ...universities, but in the 1750s, after his patroness' death, he was forced by racists to return to Africa. The Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenbe [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]]
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  • Davis was captured by whites as a child in 1812 and raised in [[Alabama]]. He helped translate St [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ..., more often as slaves, and sometimes also [[adopted]] into the victorious tribe. ...but a high proportion of these were later [[adopted]] into the Nuer tribe by a formal ceremony and became totally integrated into the society and kinshi
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  • ...ors. He spent the next few years as a merchant seaman, and was [[adopted]] by a French ship captain named Bemeau, whose name he took. He became a ship's [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...oe]] was an Algonquian Indian, captured as a youth by the British (in 1636 or 1637). He became a servant of a British officer, Richard Collicot, where he [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...nnocks and Shoshones and turned over to white soldiers. He was [[adopted]] by a white couple and sent to a military academy where he was an outstanding s [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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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: [http://www.steerforth.com/supplementary/gi
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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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