| 词条 | Narcissa Whitman |
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|name=Narcissa Whitman |image= How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon scan p. 119.png |image_size = |caption= |birth_date= March 14, 1808 |birth_place= Prattsburgh, New York, U.S. |death_date= {{death date and age|1847|11|29|1808|3|14|mf=y}} |death_place=Waiilatpu, Washington, U.S. |occupation= Missionary |spouse= Marcus Whitman }}Narcissa Prentiss Whitman (March 14, 1808 – November 29, 1847) was an American missionary in the Oregon Country of what would become the state of Washington. On their way to found the Protestant Whitman Mission in 1836 with her husband, Marcus, near modern-day Walla Walla, Washington, she and Eliza Hart Spalding (wife of Henry Spalding) became the first documented European-American women to cross the Rocky Mountains.[1] Early lifeNarcissa Prentiss was born in Prattsburgh, New York, on March 14, 1808.[2] She was the third of nine children of Judge Stephen and Clarissa Prentiss.[3] She was the oldest of the five girls, followed by Clarissa, Mary Ann, Jane, and Harriet.[3] She also had four brothers.[4] Like many young women of the era, she became caught up in the Second Great Awakening. She decided that her true calling was to become a missionary, and was accepted for missionary service in March 1835.[4] She was educated at the Franklin Academy in Prattsburgh before her marriage to Dr. Marcus Whitman on February 18, 1836 in Angelica, New York.[3] Her birthplace in Prattsburgh is open to the public as the Narcissa Prentiss House.[5] Journey westShortly after their wedding, the Whitmans along with the also recently married Henry and Eliza Spalding headed west for the Oregon Country in March 1836 to begin their missionary activities amongst the natives.[3] The journey was by sleigh, canal barge, wagon, river sternwheeler, horseback, and foot.[3] The founder of Ogden, Utah, Miles Goodyear, traveled with them until Fort Hall.[3] On September 1, 1836, they arrived at Fort Walla Walla, a Hudson's Bay Company outpost near present-day Walla Walla, Washington.[3] They then traveled on to Fort Vancouver where they were hosted by Dr. John McLoughlin before returning to the Walla Walla area to build their mission.[3] Whitman and Spalding were the first white women to cross the Rocky Mountains and live in the area. She was something of a novel addition to the community for the local Native Americans, the Cayuse.[6] Whitman MissionThe Whitman Mission began to take shape in 1837, eventually growing into a major stopping point along the Oregon Trail.[3] Methodist missionary Jason Lee would stop off in 1838 at the mission on his way east to gather reinforcements in the United States for his mission in the Willamette Valley.[3] Then, in 1840, mountain man Joseph Meek, whom the Whitmans met on their journey to the area, stopped off on his way to the Willamette Valley.[3] Built at Waiilatpu, the settlement was about six miles (10 km) from Fort Walla Walla and along the Walla Walla River.[3] At the mission, Whitman gave Bible classes to the native population, as well as teaching them Western domestic chores that were unknown to the Native Americans.[3] Besides the missionary goals of converting the natives, she also ran the household.[3] Her daily activities included cooking, washing and ironing clothes, churning butter, making candles and soap, and baking.[3] On March 14, 1837, on her twenty-ninth birthday, Whitman gave birth to the first white American born in Oregon Country.[3] She named her Alice Clarissa after her grandmothers, and she would be their only natural child.[3] Unfortunately, she drowned in the Walla Walla River on June 23, 1839 at age two.[3] Unattended for only a few moments, she had gone down to the river bank to fill her cup with water and fell in.[3] Though her body was found shortly after, all attempts to revive her failed.[3] However, other children came to the mission, including the Sager orphans, to whom Whitman became a second mother.[4] Just before winter, in late 1842, Marcus traveled back east to recruit more missionaries for the mission.[3] During the time he was away, Whitman traveled west and visited other outposts in the territory including Fort Vancouver, Jason Lee’s Methodist Mission near present-day Salem, Oregon, and another mission near Astoria, Oregon.[3] Marcus returned with his nephew, Perrin, from his trip east in 1843.[3] Whitman massacre{{Main|Whitman massacre}}Throughout their time in Oregon Country, the Whitmans encountered trouble with the native tribes.[3] The Cayuse and the Nez Percé tribes were suspicious of the activities and the encroachment of the Americans.[3] As early as 1841, Tiloukaikt had tried to force them to leave Waiilatpu and the ancestral homeland.[3] In 1847, a measles epidemic broke out among the native population.[3] Spread to the natives by contact with whites (often indirectly, preceding actual contact), the native population lacked immunity to the disease and it spread quickly.[3] The American populations had some limited immunity to measles which meant a lower mortality rate than the natives.[3] This discrepancy stirred discontent among the natives who felt Marcus was only curing the white people while letting Indian children die.[3] The resentment concerning all the different issues boiled over on November 29, 1847, when Tiloukaikt and others attacked the mission killing both the Whitmans.[3] This event would be remembered as the Whitman massacre, in which eleven others were killed, including young brothers John and Francis Sager, and many more taken hostage.[2] LikenessAccording to author O. W. Nixon, who published a portrait of Whitman drawn after her death: {{quote|No authentic picture of Mrs. Whitman is in existence. This portrait of her has been drawn under the supervision of a gentleman familiar with her appearance and with suggestions from members of her family. It is considered a good likeness of her."|source={{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/MN41568ucmf_2#page/n189/mode/2up |title=Marcus Whitman, M. D.: Pioneer and Martyr |last=Drury |first=Clifford Merrill |publisher=Caxton Printers |year=1937 |location=Caldwell, Idaho |pages=128}}}}ReferencesCitations{{page numbers needed|date=August 2018}}1. ^{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/whitman_narcissa_1808_1847_/#.W4g5EcInZhE |title=Narcissa Whitman (1808-1847) |encyclopedia=The Oregon Encyclopedia |publisher=Oregon Historical Society |access-date=2018-08-30 |df=mdy-all}} 2. ^1 {{cite web | last = | first = | title = Biography of Narcissa Whitman | work = Whitman Mission NHS - History & Culture | publisher = National Park Service | date = | url = http://www.nps.gov/archive/whmi/history/narcbio.htm | accessdate = 2006-11-21 }} 3. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Allen, Opal Sweazea. Narcissa Whitman: An Historical Biography. Binfords & Mort, 1959. 4. ^1 2 {{cite web | url = http://www.nps.gov/whmi/historyculture/narcissa-biography.htm | work = Whitman Mission National Historic Site | title = Biography of Narcissa Whitman | publisher = US National Park Service | accessdate = 2007-11-07}} 5. ^Applebee, Lenora J., Around Prattsburgh, Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing (2012), pp. 12, 13, 16. 6. ^Nash, Gary, The American People, 6th concise ed., New York: Pearson Longman, p. 387. Bibliography
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