HERMAN LEHMANN


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Herman Lehmann

I learned to hate my own people and their effeminate ways.
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Lehmann was captured by the Apache when he was 11 and brought up as an Apache brave. He went on raiding and war parties, killed and scalped other whites, and represents a good example of the physiological conditioning that young people are susceptible to if brought up in other cultures. Also it shows that values and cultural characteristics are learned and not products of birth and genes.

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  • Born: June 5, 1859
  • Died: February 2, 1932
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Herman Lehmann was captured as a child by Native Americans. He lived first among the Apache and then the Comanche but eventually returned to his family later in life. The phenomenon of a white child raised by Indians made him a notable figure in the United States. He published his autobiography, Nine Years Among the Indians in 1927.