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Yourowquains: A Wyandot Indian Queen: The Story of Caty Sage

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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.

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!