The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman Books a well known Diné textile

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The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman Books a well known Diné textileIn 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. Orphaned when her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave to her captors for a year before being traded to the Mohaves, who tattooed her face and