Historical biography of Caty Sage, a five year old white girl, kidnapped from her home in Elk Creek, Virginia in 1792. She was carried on horseback to a Cherokee Indian camp at Trade, Tennessee, where she was traded by her kidnappers to a Cherokee tribe. Four days after her capture, she was taken on a grueling 600 mile trek north which included a wold canoe ride down the New and Kanawha Rivers. In Ohio she was adopted by Wyandot Indians and named "Yourowquains." At seventeen she married Tarhe, Chief of the Wyandots. At age twenty-eight she became Tarhe's widow. Under an 1817 treaty with the U.S. Government, Caty received a large tract of Ohio land. She later married Tauyaurontoyou, a noble Wyandot warrior and leader who too became a chief. Tauyaurontoyou became a licensed Methodist minister and famous preacher under his translated name, "Between-the-Logs." Following the death of Between-the-Logs, Caty married an Indian warrior named Frost. Two years later she was again widowed. In 1843 Caty and her Wyandot Tribe were driven out of Ohio by relentless U.S. Government pressure urged on by land-hungry whites. She and her fellow Wyandots traveled in wagons across Ohio and by steamboats from Ohio to Kansas. In Kansas, Caty build a new life among many hardships. Trauma had erased her childhood memory, but after a life as an Indian with much persecution by whites, one day in 1848 fate put her face-to-face with a brother she had never met. At last "Yourowquains" learned her own identity; and her aged mother learned her little golden-haired daughter's fate.
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Bill Bland, who died in November 1997, was a retired electrical engineer. At the time he wrote this book, he maintained residences in both Durham and Pittsboro, North Carolina and in Elk Creek, Virginia.
After spending his young adult years in the West Virginia coalfields as a heavy equipment mechanic, Bill decided to make a career change. He attended the Valley Vocational Technical School at Fishersville, Virginia, and began a thirty-five year career in electronics.
He worked for the University of Virginia at Charlottesville for ten years on U.S. Government research projects.
He then joined IBM at the Kennedy Space Center, designing equipment required to check-out and launch Saturn/Apollo, the space vehicle that took Americans to the moon.
Later Bill transferred to the Research Triangle Park in North Carolina, where he completed his engineering career designing and technically supporting computer-related products.
Bill prepared for his "after retirement" career by taking writing courses at Duke University, and by participating in a writer's group he helped form in Chapel Hill.
In addition to writing, Bill enjoyed traveling, taking pictures, operating his amateur radio station, and flying airplanes as a private pilot.
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Yourowquains one of the best books about Wyandot Indians,
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This review is from: Yourowquains: A Wyandot Indian Queen: The Story of Caty Sage (Hardcover)
Yourowquains: A Wyandot Indian Queen is one of the best books I have read about the Wyandot Indians and centers on the period of Wyandot history from the late 1700's to the late 1800's. This thoroughly researched book tells the story of Caty Sage, a white girl who was kidnapped from her home by horse thieves and came to be adopted into the Wyandot Nation. Yourowquains (her Wyandot name) was married to three different Wyandot Chiefs during her lifetime and moved with the tribe from Ohio/Michigan to Kansas. I would recommend this book as an important addition to any library with an emphasis on Native American history. The book includes many photographs, maps and illustrations giving the reader a vivid understanding of this period of history when the U.S. Government sought to divide the Wyandot people.
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A tale well-spun by an author willing to do intensive research.,
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This review is from: Yourowquains: A Wyandot Indian Queen: The Story of Caty Sage (Hardcover)
I became aware of the 1792 kidnapping of five year old Caty Sage during a short visit to Elk Creek, Virginia in Fall 2009 (see customer image above).
Hoping to learn more, I located the book YOUROWQUAINS by Bill Bland in our local library, and dove in. It is a well-written story of the life of this little girl who would become a Wyandot Indian Queen. Caty's Father died never knowing what happened to his little girl - her Mother lived long enough to learn that she was alive, and where she was, through a strange coincidence of Caty's Brother finding her in Kansas 56 years after her disappearance from Elk Creek. An interesting side-story involves the Christianization of the Wyandot Indians in what has been acknowledged as the first officially recognized Methodist Church Mission in America. For details, see the book. JohnC BTW, I ordered a "good condition" used copy of this book for my permanent collection through an Amazon 3rd-party supplier; however, the book had not arrived within Amazon.com period for filing for refund. I regret that I had to cancel order and request refund. I should have read the supplier's recent" feedback" before ordering, as I believe it would have put me on notice of possible trouble with the order. I will order this book from a different vendor, and will definitely look at their "feedback" record from other Amazon customers. LATEST NEWS: Received Amazon refund, NO PROBLEM, then ordered again from collegehillbooks and received a good, clean, like-new copy of YOUROWQUAINS in three days! Thank You Very Much!
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