Jennie begins detective work when she arrives at the ranch owned by her uncle, a full-blooded American Indian, and learns that a bomb has exploded in the stables.
Presents a collection of five short stories featuring "American Girl" Kaya, a Nez Perc? Indian whose hunting and gathering tribe moves with the seasons.
Recounts the events of the four month trek in 1877 when Chief Joseph led the Nez Perc? Indians from their ancestral homes in Oregon to the Canadian border.
In the late nineteenth century, a young Nez Perc? girl relates how her people were driven off their land by the U.S. Army and forced to retreat north until their eventual surrender.
When a settler's young daughter learns that soldiers will force the Nez Perc? off the nearby land, she uses a doll to warn her Indian friend of the impending danger.