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A 10 page paper which examines the experiences and life of Mary Jemison as it involves the Seneca Indians. Bibliography lists 5 sources. A 2 page annotated bibliography is also included.
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one of living in two worlds, and ultimately preferring the Native life she learned and loved. She was a woman who was embraced by her native culture, and a woman
who obtained social standing and respect among the Seneca Indians. Abducted at the age of 15 she was quickly embraced and brought into the native world, a world that she
apparently loved and associated far more than she would with the white world, choosing to live on a reservation at the end, dying with her native people. The following paper
examines the life and experiences of Mary Jemison. Background Mary was born on board a ship that was going to the
United States across the Atlantic Ocean (Cook; Breslin). She was born in 1743 (Cook; Breslin). "[A]lthough she was not aware of it, she was joining her parents and brothers and
sisters on a voyage to the New World" (Cook; Breslin). They arrived in Philadelphia and joined up with many other Scotch-Irish immigrants on the frontiers of America (Cook; Breslin).
The Jemisons along with many other immigrants, were ultimately sent further and further into the wilderness in order to tame it and make
a living on their own. It offered very inexpensive land and freedom although it was a very harsh life and a life full of dangers (Cook; Breslin). "Thomas Jemison took
his family to the Marsh Creek settlement near South Mountain (not far from present day Gettysburg PA), raised a cabin, and began to build a new life" (Cook; Breslin).
Like the other families that lived in such communities, life was hard but simple and good, although also dangerous due to Natives and animals.
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