· Similar to the book One Thousand White Women, The Blue Tattoo deals with the story of two girls Olive Oatman, 14, and Mary Oatman, 10, who lived with tribes of Indians in the 's. The Olive and Mary became tribal slaves for the Yavapai, but after a /5. · 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 4/5(13). In 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 /5(K).
The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (Women in the West) by Margot Mifflin PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad In Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. In 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. Ms Mifflin answers these questions and sheds some light on the culture of the times in the s, thoroughly researching the family history and the survivors' lives. Olive Oatman was years old, traveling west with her family toward a Mormon Zion when the wagon train was attacked, her family massacred, and she and her sister were taken into.
The Blue Tattoo is the first book to examine her life from her childhood in Illinois including the massacre, her captivity, and her return to white society - to her later years as a wealthy banker's wife in Texas."--BOOK JACKET. Bodies of Subversion "In this provocative work full of intriguing female characters from tattoo history, Margot Mifflin. In 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. Olive Oatman's gripping tale comes to life in THE BLUE TATTOO as Margot Mifflin takes us on her family's doomed westward journey. Oatman's subsequent years with the Mohave followed by her return to white society--where she was treated as a curiosity--are fascinating. Mifflin demonstrates that from the time of Oatman's abduction to the present, the question has been, who has taken ownership of her story and for what purposes.
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