Three-hundred starving Cheyenne men, women and children, forcibly resettled in the barren wastelands of Oklahoma, set out on a desperate 1500-mile trek back to their Yellowstone homeland. A true-life story.

"The engagement at Sand Creek is one of the most controversial events recorded during the Indian Wars of the 1800's. The controversy arose regarding whether the Indians assembled at Sand Creek were under US government protection or whether they were a hostile Indian camp accused of carrying out raids on the settlements, during the summer of 1864. Chivington's troops included the Third Colorado Cavalry and units of the First Colorado Cavalry, plus...

"Strongheart is the final installment to the One Thousand White Women trilogy, a novel about fierce women who are full of heart and the power to survive. In 1873, a Cheyenne chief offers President Grant the opportunity to exchange one thousand horses forone thousand white women, in order to marry them with his warriors and create a lasting peace. These women, "recruited" by force in the penitentiaries and asylums of the country, gradually integrate...

Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby and risk their lives to bring the infant to safety; Captain Nathan Brittles takes out his last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack; two young drifters guide a Mormon wagon train tothe San Juan Valley, encountering many challenges on the journey; lack of supplies imperative to their survival drives the Cheyenne tribe to embark on a 1,500-mile journey back to their ancestral...

Retells the Cheyenne legend in which a girl and her seven chosen brothers become the Big Dipper.

"9 March 1876. My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...