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Overview
This powerful, fact-based story is seen through the eyes of Hidden Doe, a Native American girl who comes of age during the 1840s, when the U.S. government forces her people to leave their homeland in Iowa and to make the bitter journey to a Kansas reservation.During this painful time, Hidden Doe is counseled in the ways of her people by the elders of the tribe and she struggles to preserve her heritage until she can find a way to return home.
A young Mesquakie Indian girl grows to adulthood at a time when her people are forced to move from their home in Iowa to a reservation in Kansas and encouraged to adopt the white culture.
Synopsis
This powerful, fact-based story is seen through the eyes of Hidden Doe, a Native American girl who comes of age during the 1840s, when the U.S. government forces her people to leave their homeland in Iowa and to make the bitter journey to a Kansas reservation.
During this painful time, Hidden Doe is counseled in the ways of her people by the elders of the tribe and she struggles to preserve her heritage until she can find a way to return home.