Indian captive

Indian Captive: The Story of Mary Jemison is a children's novel by the American writer and illustrator Lois Lenski, published in 1941.

The book retells the life of a real captive, and it follows her from the farm where she was born to the villages where she ends up living, first in southern Ohio and later on the Genesee River in what is now western New York. Mary is given the name Corn Tassel when she arrives, makes friends among the Seneca girls, and gradually learns the skills that the settlement needs, which is what makes the novel's question difficult: she is treated with kindness by people who took her, and the home she was taken from no longer exists for her to return to. Lenski illustrated the book herself, and her drawings of the village and its work are part of the story.

It was a Newbery Honor book in 1942, and it is one of the author's long series of novels about children in different parts of the United States.