In 1851, thirteen-year-old Olive Oatman and her Mormon family traveled west toward Zion as pioneers. But within ten years, her life had drastically changed as she became a white Indian with a chin tattoo, struggling to find her place between two cultures. "The Blue Tattoo" recounts the gripping tale of this forgotten heroine of America's frontier. After her family was brutally killed by Yavapai Indians, Oatman lived as a slave for a year before being traded to the Mohave, who marked her with a distinctive facial tattoo and raised her as one of their own. She was fully immersed in their way of life and content until the age of nineteen, when she was finally ransomed back to white society. Considered a celebrity, she paid a high price for fame and carried the scars of her tumultuous childhood for the rest of her life.