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Olive Oatman (1837-1903) was an American pioneer whose family was massacred by Native Americans in 1851, leading to her and her sister Mary Ann’s capture; she spent five years with the Mojave tribe, receiving a distinctive blue chin tattoo, before being rescued, becoming a sensation lecturing on her ordeal, marrying, and living the rest of her life with the indelible mark of her captivity.
Olive Oatman, white American woman celebrated in her time for her captivity and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she teenager, was born on September 7, 1837 and died on March 20, 1903.
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Born on September 07, 1837 (1837 - 1903) Olive OatmanWhite American woman celebrated in her time for her captivity and later release by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she teenager |
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Olive Oatman Moves in With Mr. Rogers
It happened on November 6, 1857
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Olive Oatman’s Story First Mentions in The Press
It happened on April 5, 1856
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