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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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.
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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman
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.
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.
Margot Mifflin is an author, journalist, and professor who writes about women's history and the arts. The author of Bodies of Subversion and The Blue Tattoo, she has written for the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, salon.com, the Believer, the New Yorker, and many other publications.
Kaipo Schwab is an actor, director, and producer who has worked at the Roundabout, the Public Theater, Second Stage, Hartford Stage, and Cincinnati Playhouse. Kaipo's film and television credits include Anesthesia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Law & Order, Rescue Me, and Orange Is the New Black. He lives in New York City.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations viii
Acknowledgments ix
Prologue: Emigrant Song 1
1 Quicksand 9
2 Indian Country 17
3 "How Little We Thought What Was Before Us" 22
4 A Year with the Yavapais 44
5 Lorenzo's Tale 53
6 Becoming Mohave 64
7 Deeper 82
8 "There Is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away" 92
9 Journey to Yuma 100
10 Hell's Outpost 109
11 Rewriting History in Gassburg, Oregon 126
12 Captive Audiences 146
13 "We Met as Friends, Giving the Left Hand in Friendship" 173
