ShortHand: Olive Oatman
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The sight of a white woman with a traditional blue Mojave mouth tattoo caused quite a stir when she returned to town in 1856. Olive Oatman had been missing for almost five years after most of her family was slaughtered by Yavapai Native Americans. And at first, she told her fellow settlers that she had been treated well and raised as part of a Mojave tribe. But she later told a very different story; one of brutality and unkindness.
So, what’s the truth? How did a 19-year-old white woman end up with a face tattoo meant to help her find fellow Mojave in the afterlife?
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