Posted on 09/02/2023 3:12:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Hold up.
Please research Olive Oatman before you post this as a joke or a flippant response.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_Oatman
I am drinking a Margarita right now in honor of Jimmy Buffett.
I don’t plan anything interesting afterword.
He brother was left for dead, but managed to survive. He never forgot his missing little sisters, and when he was able to gather enough funds, he started searching for them. Eventually he succeeded, but only Olive had survived the horrible treatment, near starvation and multiple rapes.
As I recall, seven of the family of ten were killed on the spot.
The father said they didn't need a gun, because if they treated the Indians well, they would not be attacked.
Just ignore the backstory. People get tattoos for stupid reasons and regret them later. I certainly regretted the only one I got during my Navy days and was happy to have it lasered off 30 years ago. I think it’s great that she now can have those mistakes removed.
That sounds refreshing. I haven’t had a margarita in a long time.
Lighten up, cow.
Sounds like the story of Mary Jemison who was kidnapped by Indians in PA when she was a little girl after they killed her family. They took her to Western NY State and she lived with them for decades
When we visit Letchworth State Park we go see the cabin where she lived.
“I’ve tried applying for jobs in the mental health care field just as an advocate,“
…that’s because you ARE a mental health care case! Boob!
apparantly someone also forced her to work at a Tattoo parlor....
Pretty standard woke young female behavior - no accountability. Their anxiety, emotions and foibles are someone else’s fault, usually a man’s.
Absolutely uncalled for response. She gave you the benefit of the doubt, and was polite with her response. You proved that you are unworthy of receiving that benefit of the doubt.
To make a long story just plain weird...
According to the Wikipedia she did not get the tattoos until traded to the Mohave where all had such tattoos to identify them to their forebears when they entered the spirit world at death. It was for her, a sign of assimilation.
Many captive girls, especially if older than ten or so chose to remain with the Indians because they knew they would be ostracized if they went back among the white people. Read about Cynthia Ann Parker and the Comanches. There were several more such, especially in the 1700s farther east. Young girls and sometimes young boys were often taken specifically as adoptees because some tribes had a less than replacement birthrate and supplemented their population with young captives who became assimilated. Some captive boys grew up to be war chiefs in America and the West and in Canada.
Memo to wannabees - the tattoo/bodymod cult is a bunch of self-hating sociopaths. Do not associate with them, AT ALL.
Thousands of otherwise normal kids have had their job prospects destroyed for the rest of their lives by letting their guard down around these mental cases.
Ditto.
Sounds like a re-write of history, which Wikipedia does a lot of. She did not say so, in the book which was written about her, with her assistance.
If she was "assimilated", they were willing to give her up.
In most Indian tribes, women were mere chattel.
Here is a different version. It is clear, she was better treated by the Mohave, than by her original captors.
I read the book about her, written a few years after she was rescued. As I recall, she was treated as a slave by the Mohaves, and was mostly on the edge of starvation. Her sister died of starvation. The Indians who killed most of her family were said to consist of outcasts of an several other tribes.
As I recall, she was 19 when she was rescued. She died in 1903.
Why don’t you leave this forum and head over to some hateful democrat forum, you foolish child.
that girl had an incredible story- cant remember her name now
nm- i see later responses discussed her case and name
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