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The trope has its roots in a [[OlderThanPrint much older mediaeval one]] where virtuous European Christians were kidnapped by Muslim corsairs and offered to convert to Islam over the course of their captivity. Unlike the later American version, this would virtually never end with the protagonist joining the natives. Per the dogmatic religious mores of Europe at the time, the [[AnAesop aesop]] of those stories was the nobility of persevering through suffering to hold to your beliefs.
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The trope has its roots in a [[OlderThanPrint much older mediaeval medieval one]] where virtuous European Christians were kidnapped by Muslim corsairs and offered to convert to Islam over the course of their captivity. Unlike the later American version, this would virtually never end with the protagonist joining the natives. Per the dogmatic religious mores of Europe at the time, the [[AnAesop aesop]] of those stories was the nobility of persevering through suffering to hold to your beliefs.
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* ''A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson : containing an account of her sufferings during four years with the Indians and French.'' is exactly what it says in the OverlyLongTitle.
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* ''A narrative of the captivity of Mrs. Johnson : containing an account of her sufferings during four years with the Indians and French.'' is exactly what it says in the OverlyLongTitle.its lengthy title.
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* Discussed in ''Series/{{Dickinson}}'' when Lavinia, a young lady in 19th-century Massachussetts, starts fantasizing about getting abducted by Indians and becoming their princess to show up a man she liked who rejected her.
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* Subverted in ''Literature/WhenTheWorldIsAllOnFire'': The main character, a Native American, takes the white girl home to her family when he catches her trying to rob a store.
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* Subverted in ''Literature/WhenTheWorldIsAllOnFire'': ''Literature/WhenThisWorldIsAllOnFire'': The main character, a Native American, takes the white girl home to her family when he catches her trying to rob a store.
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* A modern example: Lucia St. Clair Robson's romance ''Literature/RideTheWind'' is a popular example.
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* Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper later played it several ways in ''The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish'' (1829). First there is an inversion, where Conanchet, a Narraganset boy captured by Connecticut Puritans, resists all efforts to turn him into one of them and escapes. Later, Puritan children Ruth Heathcote and Whittal Ring are assimilated into the tribe after being captured in a raid by the Narragansetts. Ruth as Narra-mattah becomes the wife of Conanchet and the mother of his son. She only returns to her white family after the death of her husband. [[spoiler: There is no happy end for her either.]]
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* Creator/JamesFenimoreCooper later played it several ways in ''The Wept of Wish-ton-Wish'' ''Literature/TheWeptOfWishTonWish'' (1829). First there is an inversion, where Conanchet, a Narraganset boy captured by Connecticut Puritans, resists all efforts to turn him into one of them and escapes. Later, Puritan children Ruth Heathcote and Whittal Ring are assimilated into the tribe after being captured in a raid by the Narragansetts. Ruth as Narra-mattah becomes the wife of Conanchet and the mother of his son. She only returns to her white family after the death of her husband. [[spoiler: There is no happy end for her either.]]
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* ''Literature/{{The Town|1950}}'': This book is the third in a trilogy about life on the Ohio frontier called "The Awakening Land". In the first book, protagonist Sayward's little sister Sulie disappears in the forest. Decades later in book 3, Sayward finds out what happened: Sulie was kidnapped by the Lenape (Delaware) tribe. Sayward meets her sister, now a fully assimilated Lenape who speaks YouNoTakeCandle English and refuses to admit that she is the long-lost Sulie Luckett. Sayward can't decide whether or not it was better to find out, or whether or not it would have been better for Sulie to die in the woods as a child.
