Trapped in the deadly conflict between two cultures, a young native girl struggles to survive.In 1850, on the great Columbia River, a ten-year-old Nez Perce girl’s life is changed forever. Stolen and made a mistshimus—a slave—to the Chinook, Little Mouse struggles to escape only to be caught and beaten. Tracked and returned a third time, the chief of the local band, Tyee Running Blade, says he will kill her on her next attempt. She knows defeat at last and...

Two Blankets, kidnapped as a girl and required to live as a slave by the Chinook, must cast her own future as a whiteman’s wife when her adopted tribe is forced to move to the reservation.Kidnapped at age ten from her native tribe of Nez Perce by the Chinook and forced to live as a mistshimus, a slave in their stratified society, Girl-With-No-Name has earned a place of some respect and even a name among her new tribe.Now, Two Blankets must...

Outcast by the Natives who raised her and abused in the world of the Whiteman, Two Blankets struggles to make her own way.Kidnapped by the Chinook on the great Columbia River in the 1850s, a young Nez Perce girl has finally earned a place in the tribe’s society, as well as a name—Two Blankets. After the Chinook are forcibly removed to a reservation, though, Two Blankets faces a new struggle: finding a place for herself in the rough and rowdy, all-white com...