Yourowquains: A Wyandot Indian Queen : The Story of Caty

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Historical biography of Caty Sage a five year old white girl kidnapped from her home in Elk Creek Virginia in 1792. She was carried on horseback to a Cherokee Indian camp at Trade Tennessee where she was traded by her kidnappers to a Cherokee tribe. Four days after her capture she was taken on a grueling 600 mile trek north which included a wold canoe ride down the New and Kanawha Rivers. In Ohio she was adopted by Wyandot Indians and named "Yourowquains." At seventeen she married Tarhe Chief of the Wyandots. At age twenty-eight she became Tarhes widow. Under an 1817 treaty with the U.S. Government Caty received a large tract of Ohio land. She later married Tauyaurontoyou a noble Wyandot warrior and leader who too became a chief. Tauyaurontoyou became a licensed Methodist minister and famous preacher under his translated name "Between-the-Logs." Following the death of Between-the-Logs Caty married an Indian warrior named Frost. Two years later she was again widowed. In 1843 Caty and her Wyandot Tribe were driven out of Ohio by relentless U.S. Government pressure urged on by land-hungry whites. She and her fellow Wyandots traveled in wagons across Ohio and by steamboats from Ohio to Kansas. In Kansas Caty build a new life among many hardships. Trauma had erased her childhood memory but after a life as an Indian with much persecution by whites one day in 1848 fate put her face-to-face with a brother she had never met. At last "Yourowquains" learned her own identity; and her aged mother learned her little golden-haired daughters fate.