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The Kidnapped Girls

This photograph has a shocking backstory. As history writes it, the woman shown here was one of two European girls that were kidnapped and gifted to a Native American chief. He raised them so well as if they were his own kids, and the pair grew up as part of the tribe. The face tattoos are meant to show their rite of passage, and their initiation into the community. We can only have the imagination of what the experience must have felt like.

The Kidnapped Girls