The Girl Who Lived with the Indians
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“Have you ever thought about writing the story of your life?” She asked. We were sitting on our cots that were side by side. “What do you mean the story of my life?” “I speak the Shoshone language. I’m a writer, I have written a few articles about the Indians. Right now I’m writing about life on the Reservation. I did understand some of what you and White Wolf were saying to one another. Just from what I could understand, you have lived a very unusual life considering the fact that you lived many years with the Indians, before you were returned to live with your people” “I have lived an unusual life, I suppose, never really knowing for sure what I am. Sometimes I feel Indian and then I realize, I don’t always understand or agree with their culture. I have read many novels, that’s sort of a hobby with me. I do not have the knowledge to word a novel.” “That’s it, you should write it in your voice, as it happened. I think, you spent your most formative years with the Indians, that’s why it is hard for you to adjust to either culture. Did I understand that you have had two white husbands and you are now married to a Chief? And this, White Wolf, who is he?” Evidently, she had been trying to put this all together. “Yes, I have had two white husbands. They both died. Now, I’m married to a Comanche Chief. We grew up together, that’s a story, when the Soldiers took me away, I didn't get to see him again for many years. We still loved each other, but we were apart many years, there were problems.” I could explain forever. “So are you still married to him and he also, has another wife?” She frowned. “That is one part of the Indian culture that I don’t agree with. My husband has two other wives besides me. I’m his legal wife in our courts, but he has two other wives. White Wolf has two wives and me.” I had to add that part, after repeating this out loud, I realized how this would sound to an average white person
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Sally rescued by the Comanche Indians, given the name Yack’e-pete, finds herself adopted into a culture that lived in harmony with nature, honored the spirit, didn’t believe in a punishing God, did not cover their nakedness and practiced polygamy. As a young maiden she falls in love with and is promised to Blue Sky, her Indian brother. When the soldiers find her, they insist on returning her to her white civilization. Forced back into her white world, she is always referred to as, “the girl who lived with the Indians.” She will never give up her love for her Comanche people, her wild free spirit and her Indian ways.
She falls in love with and marries Martin a rancher, whom she will always love deeply, but Blue Sky is still her heart’s love. Believing as her people that sex is a natural act shared between a woman and man, sometimes with feelings of love, sometimes with only the need for peace and comfort. She will try to divide her heart between the men she loves, but her heart cannot divide or subtract, it can only add and multiply. She believes, as the Indians that our life is decided by destiny, that we cannot fight it. It will lead us down a path that was decided before our birth into this world. We make choices but fate might turn it all around and lead us where we are to go.
This is a historical romance based on true events; one woman torn between two cultures must follow her heart to determine whether her choices will decide her destiny.
About the Author
HAMPIE ROBERTS was born and raised in Oklahoma, but traveled to many countries while her husband served in the military. An avid reader who enjoys studying anthropology and Indian culture, she currently lives in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where she manages a popular retro restaurant. This is her first book.