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The Blue Tattoo

by Margot Mifflin

The biography of Olive Oatman (1837–1903), who was orphaned when her Mormon pioneer family was killed by Yavapai Indians, enslaved by her captors, traded to Mohave Indians who tattooed her face and raised her as their own, and then ransomed back to white society.

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