Olive Oatman’s Real-Life Horror Story

Olive Oatman was one of the only survivors of a gruesome tragedy that destroyed her family. Captured by an Indigenous tribe, she witnessed the unthinkable. Sadly, her tragic losses created a twisted ripple effect-her memories haunting her right to the bitter end.
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[@lynnboyd33]

Such a very sad story. Of course, most of us have at least seen photos of Olive Oatman, but many like myself, never knew the entire story. It's no wonder, that she had such a horrific time mentally, as she grew older. This was a really amazing piece of history, and so well told. Thank you so very much for filling in the rest of her story.

[@debmerrifield5426]

at the age of 70, i have loved the old west for many years. ..i have read about olive, found the tats horrible, but until she was rescued, i believe she had a indian husband and 2 children. and found it hard to leave them...this poor woman lost her family as a young woman and then 1 more time lost another family she had grown to love. one can only imagine the heartache she endured....i hope she has found peace in death.

[@desratlinda8639]

@@debmerrifield5426 So she had an entire family with the Indians??

[@debmerrifield5426]

@@desratlinda8639 yes, she had a indian husband and if memory serves me right (i"m70, lol) , she had 2 sons with him.....this was not the tribe that murdered her family and stole her and her little sister.....another tribe meant up with the 1st tribe and they traded things with that tribe, so as to get olive and her sister. this second tribe were very good to her and sissy, and she was grateful and if given the choice, she would have probably stayed with the tribe.....her little sister, somewhere during that time got deathly ill and passed on.

[@honey-feeney9800]

PTSD isn’t a new condition . I can’t imagine that she was able to cope .

[@gurinderdeep5149]

Feom a indian peraon pppppllllzzz. They are AMERICANS or pre americans , native americans. Or daym THEY HAVE NAMES OF THIER OWN!!! how savage . Sheesh man . Anyways all love ans understading to the universe and its ppl.

[@SlimKeith11]

THat was very well done and with great sensitivity towards Olive. This is no a sensationalistic video, meant to inflame/excite people. It's a historical accounting. Well done.

[@ryewhiskey9286]

I disagree. The story is revisionist history that panders to a population segment that considers themselves entitled to race-based special rights, a continuous flow of taxpayer money, and who are immune to responsibility for their criminal actions. The story ignores historical context and realities, and paints her brutal and savage slave owners and rapists as somehow victims... really?!?!

[@Mr.K-2605]

Such traumatic memories can leave scars not only on the body, but also on the soul. Olive's story really made me reflect on my mental strength and indelible pain.

[@tanisabenulic2861]

She left two sons behind, what kind of mother does that. And also, if Israel has the right to defend itself so did the Native Americans.

[@brendaboudinot6431]

A woman of that time knew her mixed children would not be accepted. It's shameful white people feel so superior, they're not. God created each and every one.

[@HighNoon-g9z]

@@tanisabenulic2861FYI, it was discovered that white Europeans lived in NA (now USA) 10,000 years until the Siberan indians came down from the artic and slaughtered and tookover the white people's land. Would you call these "Native Americans" colonizers and genociders of white people?

[@cidquakenbush302]

​@@tanisabenulic2861WTF?? 😮 You're wayy off track. 😂

The things these people went through are unimaginable to us. It was such a hard life.

[@janrees4887]

There are people going through just as much trauma today. People living in poverty who are trafficked by their own families out of desperation.

[@NaimaG12]

This is very true. History repeating itself is wild.

[@SueMetz1]

And not to mention the ongoing trauma carried by First Nations people at having your land & livelihood stolen by gun & bible wielding colonisers! 😢

[@debbiebursley4778]

So many untrue things have been said about Olive's life. I remember my paternal grandmother talking about her with another family member. I was very young at the time but wished I had paid attention. My grandmother was an Oatman and was a cousin of Olive. I am in my seventies so I had better start tracking my ancestry and see what I can find while I can.

[@nadiasiddiqi6695]

If Olive had Mawi children and a husband, you are probably related to them too.

[@TawnyMartin-di1xd]

I hear that! I am really interested in my heritage too.

[@erinriddle9729]

Hello! My great great grandmother was an oatman. My grandmother talked about this at length as we grew up. ❤

[@rose8662]

@@erinriddle9729 Is there anything your grandmother said that you would be willing to share? This is so fascinating.

[@Malliecat22]

​@erinriddle9729 my maiden name is Oatman from Wisconsin. I've always wondered if I was related.

[@Elizarge]

I’m a relative of Indian Billy Ice both him and his sister were kidnapped by Native Americans. They were from Holland but family legend was we were Native American. We now know he was raised by them and fought beside them with his red hair.

[@rhondaenglish4022]

Survival mode. Like PTSD. Precious child. Her story is very Precious,many children had no choice,but to survive. Prayers for all nations children. Thankyou.

[@Hava744]

I read the story last year . Very thought provoking. You told it beautifully.

[@jee911]

Black pilled on odysee tells the Oatman edition really good

[@michelelambertselston1929]

Fabulous story. However tragic, what really stands out is the kindness of the rescuers from the other tribe and the willingness of these people to part with much valued items. Horses, blankets, etc. They valued her life. I enjoyed this historical account as it had redemptive qualities.

[@monicakennedy5234]

i wonder if her beautiful eyes 'spoke' to them .. they look like they might have been blue ?

[@erinriddle9729]

She is actually an ancestor of mine. I remember hearing the story at a very early age and we had written journal entries (etc) from this time. Amazing when the book came out. The writer talked a bit with my great grandmother about this. Amazing story

[@sharonmitchell7304]

Her story should be made into a movie.

[@Cassandra20208]

They won’t because she was white and they were Indians and they can’t tell the truth about historic events

[@lauricesavoy7565]

Yes!! Great idea!

[@foofookachoo1136]

I loved this story. I didn’t love what happened to this family, but I like how it was wrote, and how this person narrated it. Keep them coming!!

[@anothercheryladventure9387]

Heard this story before with not a real ending. She had a daughter and happiness in the end. Thank you. ❤

[@darkangel_1978]

Reminds me of the book Ride the Wind, by Lucia St. Clair-Robson. She wrote the story about a girl named Cynthia Ann Parker, and her family. Most of her family was massacred, save for a few family members. She grew up with the Comanche, and married the future leader of her tribe. It's based on a true story. It's a really good book.

[@gailcaldwell1512]

It is a fantastic book! Historic and tragic. So it had to be a real story.

[@nancyvillines4552]

I have that book. It's my all time favorite book ❤ Her son was the last Chief of the tribe.

[@darkangel_1978]

@@nancyvillines4552 Did you ever read the book Walk in My Soul ? That was a good one, as well. The author is from my hometown.

[@nancyvillines4552]

@@darkangel_1978 I haven't. I'll check it out though. Thanks for the referral.

[@darkangel_1978]

@@nancyvillines4552 you're welcome. I think you'll like it.

[@Rainwatercolor]

Thanks so much... over 20 years ago I went to Oatman, AZ it was east of where I lived in a vacation home in AZ. I never new the story of the Oatman family. I wish I had. I clearly remember visiting there, an the sweet little burros that meandered thru the streets. It was a tiny, quaint little tourist attraction.

[@Merrymaid]

Knew*

[@rncine]

@@Merrymaid Oh stop, this isn’t an English class 😆

[@ericag4908]

​@@rncineI mean this is basic English. I'd rather be corrected and know how to spell something simple versus never know because snowflakes like you exist.

[@Swelte]

I had no idea about this story. Thanks for sharing!

[@Ziggimomspal68]

Been to the town of Oatman, bought the book about her story. Amazing.

[@lynettetaravella2578]

Same here. I live in Laughlin, NV (A small town in Southern NV that's 40-45 minutes away from Oatman) with my 2 kids.

[@Ziggimomspal68]

@@lynettetaravella2578 my husband & I used to go Laughlin a lot, rent a houseboat on Lake Mojave

[@lizzg1124]

Me too! And how about the place down below the mountain before you head up called sidewinder real cool shop

[@michellep9999]

Great story. Please do one on Cynthia Ann Parker and Nocona. Their son Quanah Parker was the last Comanche war chief.

[@MrDellasc]

In 2018 at a New Years Eve party, I met one of Cynthia Parker’s descendants. He had a tattoo of Quanah Parker on his arm, and we had a fascinating discussion about his ancestors. Hopefully they’ll do a documentary on them.

[@windwalker763]

She was buried in the West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Grayson County, Texas. Sherman is about an hour's drive north of Dallas. The cemetery is near the intersection of hwy 56 and I-75.

[@--Skip--]

I-75 does not run through Texas. It runs North-South, from Detroit, MI, to the tip of South Florida.

[@pearl6803]

we get got a highway 75 here in north texas @@--Skip--

[@dreed1058]

I live north of Ft. Worth , will add this as a must see!! Thank you🎉❤!!

[@lucretiatravis9697]

**She IS buried in Sherman, Texas in West Hill Cemetery . I've been to her gravesite. **

[@R3stingBishFac3Barbi3]

@@--Skip--Its hilarious when people are confidently wrong. 😂 Yes, there absolutely is an I-75 that goes through Texas (passing Sherman) and in to Oklahoma.

[@terribeauchamp7266]

Olive was very pretty. Such a sad story. Hope she is at peace.

[@lorrainemurray4689]

😂😂😂 I'm sorry I didn't see it..The beautiful part.

[@CherylSimser]

I thought she was a naturally beautiful woman also.

[@clairecarscallen]

I think she was stunningly beautiful.​@@lorrainemurray4689

[@FishesAndLoaves997]

Rest in Peace Olive and family.

[@eelihzuhbeth]

she turned on the ppl who saved her. this is in no way beautiful.

[@beck1365]

I would love to hear the Indigenous side of this whole story.

[@Lynnie-o6r]

You think the indigenous are innocent? Really? Your history teachers must have been coaches

[@beck1365]

@ did I say that? Nope, you’re making assumptions based on nothing. I just appreciate learning history from alternate perspectives.

[@stephaniegilcher4577]

They killed the parents and their 4 children. Another one survived because the killers thought he was dead. 2 girls were abducted. They were traumatized and one of the girls starved to death later on. The other girl had depressions and trauma for the rest of her life. You wanna hear the other side of the story? Why?

[@emmavaughn9935]

@@stephaniegilcher4577 AN indigenous tribe did that. You acting like all tribes were the same is a reflection on you.

[@stephaniegilcher4577]

@@emmavaughn9935 where did I say that??

[@bradbell3744]

8 minutes in you show a photo of Alfred L. Kroeber. In the photo he is standing next to Ishi. The story of Ishi is fascinating for those that are unfamiliar with it. At least two books were written about him.

[@rodneyhirsch2340]

Amazing, this is all based on facts not made up fantasy. True west magazine has articles on her. Thanks for not stretching truth for a story.

[@DiAn-ud8dy]

😂but the opposite way tho, she was part of the tribe

[@Giggles56]

I eard this story about six months ago on another channel. I was amazed to find out the meaning of oatman town. Only knew about the Burro's out there that are a tourist attraction. I appreciate getting to know the historic layer of the town.

[@alisonabbott91]

This is so awesome as I live in Buckeye and this is not to far from where you are describing! Small world.

[@CalmPupsandNatureSounds]

Sad but really interesting. Well done! Thanks for sharing.

[@rncine]

Thank you so much for her story, never heard of her 👍

[@geraldahnert5409]

An overall good presentation but a few corrections, The Oatman family did not invade Yavapai Territory. This area was within the friendly Pima-Maricopa domain. The Yavapai that attacked them was a raiding party 65 miles from their village. According to Lieutenant Whipple, who in 1849, was sent to study the Mohave tribe, he reported that the tattoos on a triable woman's chin was the sign of a married woman.

[@lizzg1124]

They were on a wagon train out of Illinois heading to the West Coast. That's when the massacre happened. As far as the tattoo....Mohave belief is that any man or woman without a tattoo on the face would be refused entrance to Sil'aid, the land of the dead. Their belief was so strong that black paint would be rubbed on the tattoo marks of the dead so they were more visible on judgment day.

[@LibbySlaughter101]

I think it would be naive to believe an attractive girl of marriagable age (14 when captured) would not have been 'claimed' as a wife for one of the tribe.

[@John-ul4hv]

Tragic events, a really good presentation

[@bankrolldame]

This is WILD. Such a crazy outsider life for that time

[@WapajeaWalksOnWater]

The lies she told about her Movavi family, probably played a big part in her depression. She would not have been safe among Anglo-Saxons, had she told the truth, about how civilized and loving, her Native family was, and she knew this.

[@lanafalana1]

😂

[@barbarella.artist]

But it also caused the harm and murders of the Movavi people … people were so outraged by the book they started hunting them She should have been depression - these people treated her like family - saved her from a life of slavery and torture Only to sell them up for her own $$$$ Sure she didn’t have to say she loved them - but she should have kept her mouth shut and said nothing 😮 Like …. Going on tour to spread these damaging lies about the movavi people .. disgusting

[@kellydukepoo2450]

That was my thought!

[@cathwalsh9921]

@@barbarella.artistyes. I’m disappointed if that’s true.

[@jeffreyflynn5746]

Smh 🙄 ya because no native Americans have ever been cruel or done anything harmful...

[@WVgrl59]

"The first scholarly biography of Olive Oatman, The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman (2009), debunks a number of myths that have circulated about her over the past century and a half."

[@jenniferlopez1073]

It's a good book, enlightening

[@LightoftheMoon]

If you are meaning the one by Margo Mifflin, it's the best. The Mojave tribe (CRIT, Parker Arizona) allowed her to do some of her meticulous research in their historical library archives that are closed to the general public.

[@dkirk5814]

Intriguing story. A strong and unhappy woman. I wonder what happened to the tribes. Thanks for this video and fantastic narration.

[@marymelquist7478]

There were 22 different tribes in AZ 😮

[@kristineapodaca3173]

I think we can fill in the blanks

[@SadieWagstaff]

What do you think happened to them. Those barbarians happened to them, that's what.

[@jaredmoore2708]

They were forced onto reservations.....and now after 140 years they have assimilated or are still on the res

[@jaredmoore2708]

Or working at casinos

[@ttr1360]

A truly amazing and TRUE story/ event....rest in peace Olive

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

I have heard this story from, Faces Of The Forgotten! Thank you for the post! ✌🏼😊

[@Factinate]

Glad you enjoyed it! It really is a wild story.

[@yvettevitacaponigro]

@@Factinate 👍🏻✌🏼😊

[@kathypeyser8507]

Very touching and sad.

[@crystaldunphy196]

I swear I read a book based on this as a little girl. Loved the narrators telling of this story.

[@Nicolesid1]

I lived not too far from Oatman, AZ and seeing the pictures of her watching all over was slightly unsettling and very sad to know her connect to the town.

[@vintage6346]

I am a distant cousin to some of Olive Oatman's relatives. I would need to subscribe to ancestry to figure out exactly how this is so.

[@BeroeanPickets]

There are lot of videos and writings on this story. I wasn't even aware of it until now. It would be interesting to know how you are connected to her.

[@KateRandolph-yz8ef]

My husband and his family is also related to Olive Oatman.

[@vintage6346]

@@KateRandolph-yz8ef Then, please say "hello" to your husband, my cousin, for me. :)

[@Fogo234]

Hi. July 30 Sun. From western Canada 🇨🇦. I found 23 and me easier to use then ancestry Because people comment easier on it. And. I can see the map easier I find ancestry. Good as a scholarly type of research. Start slow. I don’t do it often as ill with an ill husband but it is rewarding to help others find their connection. .and the medical information from found 1st 2 nd third cousins is helpful. I traced my grandmothers out of wedlock child who did not know how I was connected.

[@DiAn-ud8dy]

😂 doesnt bothers you that it wasnt tell as it happend

[@jenniferbreaux7385]

Not only did she lose one family, she lost two. Im sure she missed her Mojave family for the rest of her life.

[@darthvaderoftheredpill5196]

Lol No she didnt. The mojave were animals.

[@lynnmoses3563]

@@darthvaderoftheredpill5196 Not to her they werent....

[@cidquakenbush302]

Especially her 2 children

[@cidquakenbush302]

She could've just left and rejoined them, but didn't

[@shivranishankar]

Beautifully told of her life. Amazing history. Sad that she had a break down but then shocks,traumas, heart ache experiences, many guilty thoughts may have tormented her which - perhaps wasn't even her faults, regrets tormented her and finally brought her to her hard fall. She had a break down. Looking at her endurance, her inner strength she is a survivor. She was a strong woman, She was kind and generous as well. I am glad to know she been here in this world and so thank you for telling me of her existence. 🙏 💕♥️💕🌻🌞

[@pinkyflee6382]

This was fascinating! Thank you for sharing.

[@Factinate]

Our pleasure!

[@sonjagraves7183]

Most every single time there is a tragic event, it began with warnings from others who knew the area ( such as in the Donner party as well). The leading men refuse to listen.

[@herogibson]

yeah. people also tell you you shouldn't speed and you should always wear your seat belt. don't eat so much sugar or salt. don't smoke. people don't listen to people because they also tell you the earth is flat, the world will end in year ????, and if you put your tooth under your pillow a magical fairy will take it and leave you money while you sleep. when people give you advice you got two choices. use it or don't. you can use the advice and your intuition and experience to try to make an educated decision, but you're never going to know for sure until you see it with your own eyes.

[@coyotedust]

One account I read was when she was rescued the soldiers took her to Fort Yuma in her native dress as they didn't have women's clothing on them reportedly. She was shockingly dressed as a Moabe woman, stripped naked from the waist up, wearing only a skirt. Her breasts bared and her face tattooed with blue ink, wearing wild wind whept hair. She looked every bit as a native Moabe.

[@Mr.K-2605]

The photos help me relate to the situation at that time

[@GrannyLinn]

Truly fascinating.

[@SewardWriter]

Poor Olive, and her poor adoptive family. If there's an afterlife, I hope they're together again in a land of plenty.

[@BayonetRed]

No adoptive, she had Stockholm Syndrome

[@amandabogun9597]

I really wish they would make a movie about this. Like a good movie not a cheap one ya know. So interesting.

[@meganpodesta9197]

So sad. I feel for the tribe-family that did all they could for her,despite the possible consequences. 😢

[@Merrymaid]

She shouldn't have been abducted in the first place.

[@babyIwelcomethepressure]

OBVIOUSLY. The Mojave tribe were unbelievably kind to her though, considering white people were brutally murdering their kind every single day and helping her could mean death for them. Or a book lying and slandering them.​@@Merrymaid

[@JayPea-zu7ue]

@@Merrymaidand the Oatman father shouldn't have been so pig headed and taken his family where he was warned to avoid.

[@kathymccarthy5264]

​@JayPea-zu7ue of course the non-white people can do no wrong.

[@constantinamacheras7990]

Especially at her young age She was a victim of severe abuse and trauma… that overshadowed her entire life… We will never know the absolute truth of what and why things happened the way they did… Maybe if she didn’t go back to the white society the whites would have attacked the tribe… If she had kids she knew if she too k them with they would have been treated exceptionally badly… I am sure her mind was extremely vulnerable as her heart due to so much grief and she was probably seriously influenced to turn against her captors in order to be restored to the white community. As a white woman I have been treated very badly for my companionship with Indians… treated badly by whites and that was still going on till even this current decade. If we don’t walk in someone else’s moccassins we can never really know.

[@logiciskey7]

I have read this before and other books on the Indian tribes like Massacre, and Slave of the Sioux, very harrowing. I would have liked Olive Oatman to eventually go back to the tribe, but now it didn't happen that way. Thanks for the video.

[@SwedeProof]

So beautifully and respectfully done. And I love the way you say book. (buk? beuk?)

[@Speckledlillie]

Great narrator!

[@PhyllisKranich]

Years ago a read a book called Walks Far Women. It was about a white child captured by Native Americans, excellent book. Plus the book about the life of Cynthia Ann Parker, Quannah Parker’s mother, also very good reading.

[@GinaDAuria]

They made Walks Far Woman into a movie with Raquel Welch. It was pretty good

[@lissainlenoir]

I also watched that mivie decades ago. But I thought she was a native of a tribe different than the one she married into, not a white woman?

[@maryduhon9769]

Had she been allowed to remain with the natice americans im sure she would have lived a happy amd fulfilled life

[@spideranansi929]

Wasnt she basically a slave to them?

[@Merrymaid]

Not being abducted to begin with would have been happier

[@spideranansi929]

Maybe her life was better before she was forcefully abducted from her home.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

Historically it has been shown that groups like olives father were known for their brutally oppressive altitude towards their own family members. Daughters were treated as slaves towards their male relitives. Fathers saw them as their properties to do with as they will and this behaviour was also held by other males in the family. The fact that she had a full week in which she could have approached the white traders for help but didn't rather she chose to remain with this second tribe to whom it appears that she was consideredas a full member, that she accepted the tattoos etc speaks volumes. a had been living in a society that has fully accepted her to the extent they broke one of their own taboo's by allowing her to bury her sister which was against their believes and practices speaks so clearly. When she returned to do called civilised society she suffered public humiliation and distribution solely based on fact she had said facial markings. 8hoW he had been living an independent life in the tribe owning her own property etc now she was trapped by social expectations and hated it. No one asked how she wanted to live they simply believed she was wanting to live in white society, her behaviour when those trappers were with tribe shows us she had no interest in returning with them. OliVE is a prime example that no not everyone wants to live like a pack eat for society some prefer to be seen as the eagle flying high flying free just being themselves.

[@joyful_tanya]

​@@amsodoneworkingnow1978well said.

[@justelleslife507]

My uncle Bill Oatman (by marriage) was the great-nephew of Olive Oatman, she was the sister of his grandfather Royal Oatman, I learned about this story from Bill's son Steve Oatman.

[@hebneh]

Some years ago I read an article about white children who ended up living with Native Americans, and was surprised that most of them not only adapted but liked their experiences.

[@dianeshelton9592]

Why on earth were you surprised. They were loved lived a life where they rode horses and didn’t have to go to school. It was a lovely life .

[@hebneh]

@@dianeshelton9592 The kids ended up where they were because their parents and / or siblings had been killed in a battle. They then were in a totally unfamiliar culture, unable to understand or communicate with anyone. This is the most traumatic thing that any child could undergo, and it would be terribly difficult to adjust to. That they were able to do that is remarkable, regardless of how they lived afterwards.

[@StevenBishop-c9r]

She should have stayed with her adoptive family...the people who loved her

[@ryewhiskey9286]

Sorry, but slave owners are NOT adoptive parents. Try passing that wacko notion off on the ancesters of black slaves. Moreover, this account is a sanitized version of the true story that tries to paint the brutal savage as almost human 🙄

[@suzanneoshannessy7666]

Yes l agree

[@lillydragon2525]

She was endangering them by staying. The 2ed tribe that she was with, treated her as one of them. If this is the true story.

[@ryewhiskey9286]

@@lillydragon2525 If you kidnapped a neighbor's child, even if you treated them well, whatever your definition of well is, still doesn't absolve you of your heinous crime. Both Indian tribes, or whatever colloquial or current PC term you wish to use, acted for their own selfish best interests, and the concepts of freedom of choice or human rights were beyond their comprehension. Defending their actions is the epitome of hypocrisy!

[@KathrynFrank-m8h]

@@ryewhiskey9286 You call them a brutal savages but they are % human, not almost. There is no such thing.

[@ShaneWirangi-i3k]

What a beautiful story, God bless her and her family

[@LoveVanillaRose]

Thank you 💖🙏

[@kimbarling4213]

Character portrayed in the streaming tv series in the beginning of 2010s HELL ON WHEELS

[@LaurieValdez-zk3dy]

It's not easy being a lady or young girl. This definitely is too Sad 😔

[@ApachetewabAz]

Always be proud of who u are!!!! I tattooed on my forearm I'm never ashamed of my tribe..... I stand proud every day!!!!

[@heidibee501]

I had heard of her but this filled in details. Truthfully l am disappointed that she turned on the people who saved her. If her book had portrayed that part of her life accurately it would have been just as interesting, but it would also have had heart. It seems even back then people enjoyed the fruits of victimhood. I wonder if she really did have children. Sad if she did, and abandoned them so completely.

[@ArachnerdGC]

Or maybe she left her adopted tribe and children behind because she knew the danger she posed to them. White women being with Native Americans at that time was seen as un-Christian and sinful and sooner or later someone was going to "rescue" her and murder as many of her tribe as they could. That may also be why she "turned" on them in her collaboration with the author of the book about her supposed life with the tribe. She may have feared the retribution of "good Christians" who would have disapproved of her love of her tribe.

[@WVgrl59]

​@@ArachnerdGCexactly. When she married the adopted a little girl named her Mary anne. Her brother got married but all the children died. The last one was a 4-year-old and then he's not on the census again. So, something got him.

[@rileycoyote8275]

​@@ArachnerdGCAny excuse to insult Christians, and wave hateful bigotry against Christianity eh? Must be comfy in that glass house, eh? Has it ever occurred to you that just because a person claims to be a Christian, doesn't mean that they are perfect or infallible. Anymore than a Muslim is perfect or infallible. Every single person in this world, regardless of their faith or lack thereof, is fallible and capable of evil, cruelty, hate, crime and immorality. Including _you_.

[@logiciskey7]

It could have had a worse ending with her lying about the tribe keeping her as prisoner, the white men could have slaughtered the tribe, so glad that didn't happen

[@ryewhiskey9286]

Maybe blame Stockholm syndrome, but she was kidnapped and sold for a couple of horses. Sorry, but she is a victim and escaped from fear and brainwashing. Her slave owners are just that and pretending anything else is stupid

[@AngelCatBaby]

Olive should have been granted and given her own rights to stay with whoever she choose since she was held by the Mojave people and treated kindly, instead of bringing her back to western society. Trauma such as this does have a lasting impact on children many years later. BUT … women in those days were NOT ALLOWED NOR GIVEN the right to choose anything, even who they should marry…this was all done by family members who wanted to their daughters to marry who they thought would take care of them, stay home and raise babies…another form of servitude, and many times woman were terrified, beaten and forced into sexual violence regardless of how old they were…age 14 was the normal age to get your daughter married off so there was less to feed and to clothe them…or even for selfish reasons, money, trade goods, etc. The reason I know this…MY OWN GRANDMOTHER in the early 1900s. This is one reason women wanted the right to vote and formed the Suffrage Movement in the 1920s. They wanted their voices heard and the right to choose. They wanted to choose their own candidates instead of choosing those by their husbands/men (even afterwards, women were told to vote the way men did). My mother was in this group for the right to vote, she fought for it. From what I see of today’s textbooks, they do NOT teach enough of history and only color-coat the surface, but not explain it properly the reasons nor the whys or even how it happened. I’m glad I grew up and was given the education i had, learning more about history and humanity’s past than what I seem to be seeing in today’s educational world of technological progress. Remembering the past is to trying to understand and doing better tomorrow, and towards the future. 👍🤔🦬

[@marietgagliardi]

I wonder if they thought she was being held against her will

[@gailcaldwell1512]

Some of The “movie clips” in this video are actually shots of the Kevin Costner movie, “Dances with Wolves”.

[@mrs.h4484]

100's of 1000's of people found themselves in the same situation. Even today this still goes on in some countries.

[@Earnshawfully]

So fascinating. The massacre was a terrible trauma, and yet I can't see her life as nothing but horror. She experienced living with a completely different culture and she very likely experienced feeling embraced by it, nurtured and loved. I say this especially as the Mojave woman who rescued her from the first tribe accompanied her back to the white settlement. Her story reminds me of one of my favourite books, The unredeemed Captive by John Demos. Well worth a read for a really considered examination of this type of experience.

[@Patsik]

That's some story. Never heard of her before until today. Can this be found on Netflix or anywhere else?

[@sultanciarra11]

Thank you for this video.

[@Phoenixkb222]

She looks TRAUMATISED

[@FBmachinegun]

Great story....

[@AntonioRocha-s2h]

What a story. This could be put into a serie or a great movie with Martin Scorcese or another good director. People all over the world would gain knowledge of life stages.

[@BayonetRed]

The victim's race is wrong, can't be seen making a movie where whites are victims, that's not allowed anymore.

[@DonnaMull]

it's amazing how sympathetic people were to the horrors of this woman's life, but as i was watching it occurred to me the exact same thing happened to countless numbers of Africans and other enslaved people of the time who received no sympathy at all.

[@EndTheWokeMindVirus]

The fact there was a large underground railroad and abolitionist movement is evidence that sympathy, sensitivity and help did exist.

[@herogibson]

no sympathy for african slaves? im not even sure what to do with that. i dare anyone to come up with a more demonstrably inaccurate statement.

[@SadieWagstaff]

Say it again, Donna. Amen!

[@melissacollins9937]

There were a lot of northern abolitionists and lawyers who felt otherwise. You have a very skewed view of history to support black victimhood

[@dinkohrvat344]

what happened to her sons ?? Surely she tried to trace them or they revealed identity of their mother? Any body know ??

[@IshmaelMKhan]

How do we know this is the true story ? Did she retract the things she said about the Mojave’s?

[@Rose-ne6xq]

The tattoo on Ms Olivia's face was to show her elevated status as a doctor for her adopted people.

[@nickthurlow4456]

Thanks for that Rose , didn't know that 👍

[@BayonetRed]

Sounds like she had Stockholm Syndrome

[@Merrymaid]

​@nickthurlow4456 Wrong. Read Captivity of the Oatman Girls

[@sharonjones8497]

In Maui tribe, a woman gets tattooed when she has given birth.

[@BayonetRed]

@@sharonjones8497 I don't give a fuq about some savage tribe

[@vblackwell3347]

With all parties being dead & long gone, we will never have access to the facts re this situation. It was tragic no matter how it's looked at.

[@54321-p]

Such great losses at such an age. Her family and then, her Mohave family. No wonder she sunk into depression.

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

Heartbreaking

[@Joy-TheLazyCatLady2]

Why couldn't the whites leave Olive be? She had made a life by that time and was happy. It should have been her choice. Lorenzo could have just visited her. What a sad story. RIP people. RIP Olive. RIP all.

[@BayonetRed]

Why couldn't the Indians leave her be?

[@TheKimykali]

Well, women back in those days were looked upon almost as property and they wanted "their" woman back, plus they probably thought they were "saving" her from sub-human savages as Natives were viewed as at that time.

[@beckywheeler9372]

Olive is a relative of mine 💕

[@lizzg1124]

I'm surprised he did not mention the fact that there is a town in Arizona called "Oatman Arizona" It is a really cool place

[@Jennx7080]

I’m surprised her father didn’t know or wasn’t told to trade or gift something to the tribes for encroaching on their land

[@dheredia2789]

I live near Oatman and they do have the history on her!

[@lisar317]

Such a sad story. She was ultimately used by everyone except her original family and the Mohave Indians. But I think she made the best decisions she could at the time. She was a young girl and had already been through so much.

[@kevinjdoherty2940]

I hope that someday someone does a story on Hannah Dustin who was also kidnapped by the Indians on the east coast. She was with hostile Indians and she escaped. With scalps and a boy.

[@annied1827]

She didn't take the boy, she planned to but he woke up and ran away, an injured woman also ran away, but yes she did take the scalps for proof and to get the reward 😊

[@ellanina801]

Scalped in your own land 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

[@tarbhnathrac]

Did Olive's brother ever marry and have children? The question of whether Olive had a native american family could possibly be resolved with dna testing if he had.

[@WVgrl59]

"After about two years, Lorenzo grew tired of retelling his traumatic story and moved on. He married and began a new life in Minnesota as a farmer. By all reports, Olive was a good public speaker, and she seemed to enjoy the lecture circuit. For nearly six years, she made a very good living traveling around the country lecturing about her experiences." "Lorenzo and Edna had four children, but only one survived. One son, Denver, was listed in the 1870 census Arendahl, Fillmore CO., MN, at age four, but was not mentioned again." Apparently, neither had children or ones that survived to adulthood.

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

I heard he was married and had 4 kids at least and maybe a couple more that died young.

[@WVgrl59]

They seem to have died.

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

@@WVgrl59 At least one lived to 1945.

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

@@WVgrl59 Lorenzo had a son named Royal Fairchild Oatman (1882-1945) with Harriet Rants (1886-1960), one child William (1919-1998) for him at least.

[@eh-i1841]

I wish she could have stayed with the Mohave,where she was happy ,loved and cared for.It’s so sad.The Mohave people were so kind.

[@reginawhitlock4227]

She was so beautiful

[@pyrettablaze0414]

What a gift it must have been to be accepted by those Native Americans. Kinda like Dances with Wolves….. Such a Beautiful People ❤

[@Tawadeb]

Taken as slaves?????

[@marisamartin3664]

Wasn't she a slave left after they slaughtered her family?

[@mirianakovachevic748]

She was probably popular with men.

[@Jerseyboondocks]

How is that a gift when they murdered her family in front of her and then took her as a slave against her will? She was raped too

[@gigiarmany]

romanticizing indigenous people...oh well

[@tr7b410]

There is an interesting episode on the series: The Ghost Inside my Child that shows the reincarnation of Olive Oatman,new name Olivia with memories of her past life as Olive.

[@Hatbox948]

Really? I don't believe in reincarnation, but still find those vids interesting. I'll see if I can find it.

[@tr7b410]

@Hatbox948 You might also find the narrative of a young man who was a fighter pilot in WW2 James Lenninger who was named James Houston in his past life. He remembered his shipmates names,the name of his Air craft carrier-Nitomo & his sisters name, who he was reunited with after he asked her several questions about their family, only her brother was privileged to know. I was born in a U.S. Army hospital in Paris France to a career military NCO. We moved to our next duty assignment in Ft Benning Georgia,then on to Sandia Base, New Mexico. And yes,I joined the military as well=USAF.When overseas at my base in Germany my buddy & I caught a hop into Spain and rented a car.When we were driving thru the south of France I knew exactly what roads to take to get to the coast & it felt like HOME. We never left the area in Paris for the 2 years we lived there. I could go on about my 34 years of meditation practice=making up for lost time and my other mystical Kundalini awakening experiences,but I won't bore you. As a footnote according to spiritual savant Sri Yukeswars , the Holy Science narrates how the Yugas act as our spiritual evolutionary steering mechanism.We are currently on an ascending spiritual evolutionary trajectory for the next 10k years. We will be seeing more people with these psychic abilities & the amount of information being downloaded into the conscious minds of NDE experiencers is now into the unprecedented stage. Just another tool for confirming how things are changing-SPIRITUALLY. SPEAKING.

[@ekrupa2010]

That's what brought me here! I just watched it. Very intriguing.

[@tr7b410]

@@ekrupa2010 Sometimes TRUTH is stranger than fiction. Look for future generations to possess an even more expanded state of consciousness.See spiritual savant Sri Yukeswars book The Holy Science narrates how the Yugas act as our spiritual evolutionary steering mechanism.We are currently on an ascending spiritual evolutionary trajectory for the next 10k years having just left the KALI YUGA/ Spiritual dark age into the Dwarpara yuga age of subtle energies circa 1893. Hit the video icon for some interesting lectures from Ananda.

[@katefish3754]

Loved this video loved the narrator

[@gingergirl8797]

Why were scenes from "Dances With Wolves" shown. The Sioux obviously were.not Mojave. The information was good but the.footage shown tainted it.

[@MCS7000]

Get a life.

[@vicshrily]

Mojavi or Yavapai??

[@Pam-bx2mm]

Too bad her father did not heed the warning

[@megancrisante5719]

Did anyone else happen to notice the ghost in the photo at 8:30??!! Clearly visible 😮 I'm open to a different interpretation......

[@00LittleChick]

"Hell on wheels" has a similar character

[@CBD0000]

What is the name of this narrator? Please give him credit in the description.

[@mirianakovachevic748]

She must have done horrible things to survive. Sometimes life is just not that worth but she was too young to understand.

[@hebneh]

This story makes me think of the thousands of Native American kids who were forced into government “boarding schools” to “civilize” them, where they were treated horribly and abusively.

[@absinthemindedJ]

I've read books on this subject that made me cry.

[@enryiggins2878]

Yes. Heartbreaking.

[@snicole042]

That’s not true stop making stuff up. It was an honor to be chosen for those schools and they took it very seriously. Netflix adaptations aren’t real life. They most certainly aren’t historically accurate.