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A fact based story as told through the eyes of
Hidden Doe, a Mesquakie girl from Iowa. Hidden Doe transforms from young
girl, training to be an herbalist (medicine person), to a woman during the
1840’s. The settlers and
the U.S. Government force her people from their lands along the Iowa River
to a reservation in Kansas, where her people face malnutrition, small pox,
alcoholism and depression at the hands of the U.S. Agents and policies.
Great Bear, one of the leaders of the Mesquakie, organizes the
people in order to buy back their Iowa homelands with money’s paid to
them by the government for the lands originally taken, for settlers and
mining claims. Bright Eagle negotiates the 80 acre land deal and earns the
love and respect of Hidden Doe.
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