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In 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who tattooed her face and raised her as their own. She was fully assimilated and perfectly happy when, at nineteen, she was ransomed back to white society. She became an i

Mohave Indians. --- Yavapai Indians. --- Apache Indians. --- Indian captivities --- Aha-Makav Indians --- AhaMakav Indians --- Mojave Indians --- People By The River --- People Who Live Along The Water --- Pipa Aha Macav --- Indians of North America --- Yuman Indians --- Apache Mohave Indians --- Mohave Apache Indians --- Tonto Indians --- Tulkepa Indians --- Tulkepaia Indians --- Yampai Indians --- Yampio Indians --- Yavapai Apache Indians --- Yavape Indians --- Yavape Kutcan Indians --- Yavipai Indians --- Diné Indians (Apache) --- Athapascan Indians --- Oatman, Olive Ann --- Oatman, Olive Ann. --- Captivity, 1851. --- Captivity.