Two Blankets

<p><em><strong>Trapped in the deadly conflict between two cultures a young native girl struggles to survive.</strong></em></p><p>In 1850 on the great Columbia River a ten-year-old Nez Perce girl’s life is changed forever. Stolen and made a mistshimus—a slave—to the Chinook Little Mouse struggles to escape only to be caught and beaten. Tracked and returned a third time the chief of the local band Tyee Running Blade says he will kill her on her next attempt. She knows defeat at last and becomes Girl-With-No-Name for as a mistshimus she has no right to any property—not even a name.</p><p>When she becomes a woman her favors are sold to the Tyee’s son Standing Bear. Unfortunately they develop an affection for each other something forbidden to a mistshimus and noble-born. She is cut from shoulder to wrist as punishment and sold to a white man Marshall Johnston to be his wife. So begin her struggles with a white man who does not care for her and a tribe for respect earning a place in the history of the Chinook and her own name—Two Blankets.</p><p>Two Blankets is a true heroine you can believe in. With only the weapons she possesses her cleverness integrity and honesty can she hope to prevail against a tribe which owns her a husband who abuses her and the oncoming flood of settlers to whom she is only an obstacle.</p>