Olive Ann Oatman (September 7, 1837Â â March 21, 1903) was a White American woman who was enslaved and later released by Native Americans in the Mojave Desert region when she was a teenager.[1] She later lectured about her experiences. On March 18, 1851, while emigrating from Illinois to the confluence of the Colorado River and the Gila River (in modern-day Yuma, Arizona), her family was attacked b


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