12 Years Later:
Chief Thorawaneken Running Horse's Village:
Amadahy Running horse was walking back from the river with her mother, Buffalo Woman, when a rider came up fast. She and her mother moved out of the way as the rider rode past, straight to her father's typee. Her father was Chief Running Horse and she was his oldest daughter. She had replaced his daughter when she was four and had grown into a lovely woman. She would be married first, but her father was letting her go on a journey first. She would be taking her brothers with her to keep her out of trouble, seeing as they had fought in the war& lived to tell about it.
In the 12 years she had lived with Chief Running Horse and his wife buffalo Woman, she had thought about her real father only twice. But every year on her birthday, she would get a longing to go find him. She was a beautiful woman, slimly built. She had muscles no other Indian woman could dream of. Maybe it was because she belonged to a Sioux Indian, her real father. But nobody ever knew why she looked the way she did. Her long black hair was streaked with gold and silver. Her teeth were clear & pure white. Her skin was just like theirs, but with more complexions. She wore a deerskin dress with beads dangling from the sleeves and skirt. Her deerskin boots matched the bracelets and necklaces that decorated her body. Her eyes were a Tuscan brown & hands were slender. Of all the boys she had grown up with, only one wanted to marry her. But once she found her real father, would he let her go back to living with her adoptive family? Or would he make sure she grew up in civilization with a white family?
Her four brothers, two older, two younger then her had become great warriors. In the years since she joined the Running Horse family, they had managed to get her into so much trouble, but they also managed to get into to trouble as well. They had fun poking at each other & getting each other into trouble, but all that changed when she became a woman. Now she was getting the chance to go back to find her real father, a chance no other captive had ever been given. Maybe it was because her father was an Indian and not a white person. Most of the white captives had been given back to their white families after the treaties had been signed. But in Chief Running Horse's village, many of the white captives refused to go back to their white families because they knew that they would never be able to see their Indian family again. So despite what the treaty said, the white captives didn't go back their white families. And she loved that her friends hadn't gone back because that meant that they could help her get ready for her journey as well as her wedding.
Now all she had to do was get her real father to realize she was the little girl he'd lost all those years ago…
