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Synopsis
The true historical eye witness accounts of the horrors of the Sioux wars of 1862 in Minnesota, creates the background to this novel.When Emalia and her family move into a German community in Minnesota, she never dreamed she would be making friends with the Sioux. However, when the Sioux turn against her family and their neighbors she knows there is no escape.Becoming the slave of Odakotah, the man Emalia thought she once loved, opens her eyes to the cruelty of the Sioux people she thought she could trust. When she manages to escape and a friendly Pawnee scout for the U.S. Cavalry offers to help her, Emalia being once bitten and twice shy, no longer trusts Indians.