Jane Gibbs Author:Anne E. Neuberger Jane DeBow Gibbs was a little girl who lived long ago in New York State. But a family of strangers took her from her home and carried her hundreds of miles away to the far-off frontier beyond the Mississippi River, to a place that one-day would be called Minnesota. — There she lived in two worlds: the world of the Dakota people, and the world of ... more »the soldiers and missionaries who lived among them. Her Dakota friends named her Zitkadan Usawin, "Little Bird That Was Caught", because they knew she truly was a "little bird" who had been "caught" and taken away by a strange family.
Jane learned to answer to two names, to speak two languages, to call two families her own. She went to school with Dakota children, and she played their games. But Jane also shared the fear the Dakota knew as they faced an attack by their enemies.
Although she had lost her own family, Jane had twice the adventures most people have. This is the story of those adventures. It is based on a true story about real people, and about events that really happened.« less